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Brickcrazy wrote:

Han Solo Affair (2002)

My first introduction to brickfilms. Always stuck with me as one of my favorites.

I second this, Han Solo Affair was the first brickfilm that I ever saw as a child.


I would also like to suggest:

Odoriferous (2013)
That's the Way it Goes! (2014)
Paint. (2015)

I concur with the others on the Han Solo Affair, and second the other 3 that Pongowl mentioned mini/yes

In addition, these are some of my all time favourites that aren't on the list, there are others but I've tried to narrow it down to years where there are not a lot of brick films already there:

2003 - Good Company: Redux, The White Ninja, Zero Gravity Rebellion
2006 - Material Possessions, Mirrored Perspective
2008 - Jane's Brain, Attack on the Second Amendment, Pierre & Luigi
2010 - Love's Labour, Malheur, Sssssss.
2011 - Marooned, Once Upon A Saturday Afternoon, Pancake Island, Pizza Ninja
2012 - Perfect?
2014 - Teleporter Trouble

Also I think there should be at least one of the Clone Halloweens by Fancy Pants, and one of the parts of the Abduction series by Jonathan Vaughan. Obviously I'm not expecting you to add all of these, but they were just a few that I think definitely deserve to be on the list. Then again, if I put all of the films I think should be on there then there would be hundreds mini/lol

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I personally consider Virus to be one of the greatest brickfilms ever made, so I would recommend that.  Also How to Not Rob a Bank, The Nightly News at Nine and The Call of Farqunglu would be great additions.

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@Dragon Brick Studios wow, now that is quite a list haha. I don't think I can realistically include every single brickfilm you have mentioned, as the project already is nearing half an hour worth of content, although I'd like to maybe include one film from each year that you have requested. Every day I keep thinking about all the brickfilms that I love that won't be included on the list. I've been trying to include an average of around 5 films per year, but I have easily surpassed that in most cases.

@Onedouglas I would agree on you with Virus. I love that one, and I'll put that on the list, and I have also decided to include a clip from the Nightly News at Nine series.

I think I may have to just close the deadline for requests slightly early. I could easily dedicate another half hour's worth of brickfilms that  I love, but I'll have to cut it here. I'm probably going to have to cut some of the brickfilms I had originally included in order to make room for some more of the requests.

Within the next couple of days, I'll post a fully updated list of all the brickfilms.

Thank you all so much for showing your support and helping me out on this project. I really appreciate it all and I can't wait to share it with you all mini/smile

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I've decided to rethink how I am going to split this up, as Part 2 was turning out to be too long. So instead, I am changing Part 1 from 1973-2006, to 1973-2008, so you will be getting more content for Part 1, which will come out tomorrow!

I am still editing Part 2, but the first part is complete, and without further ado, here is the complete list of Brickfilms featuring in Part 1:

1970s BRICKFILMS

Journey to The Moon
Lego City

1980s BRICKFILMS

Lego Wars
Kipper
Lift-Off!
Lego Sport Champion Series
The Magic Portal

1990s BRICKFILMS

Fast Forward
The Western Rip Off
Twelve Bucks
Corporal Dan Revelations
The Mysterious Secret Treasure of the Lost Pyramid

2000s BRICKFILMS

2000

LeGorso
Dino Cop
Brain Damage
Jewel Quest

2001

One: A Space Odyssey
Also Thwacked Zarathustra
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Barber of Seville
The Gauntlet

2002

Mystery of BoB
Mummy
The Han Solo Affair
BIRDS
Good Company

2003

The Letter
Out of Time
The White Ninja
Taco Trouble
All in a Day's Work
Batman: Revenge

2004

The Hand of Fate
The Citizen of the Year
The Peril of Doc Ock
Star Wars: The Great Disturbance
Aladibababad
Totentanz

2005

Monsters from the ID
Bricks in Love
Frankenstein
Cleaning Time: The Janitorial Contingency
His Master's Plan
Robota

2006

Faithless
Beast
Grace
Feel Great
Mirrored Persepctive

2007

America: Outlawed
Little Guys
The Artist
The Day Brickfilms.com Crashed
Abduction
Hastings

2008

Pirates
Jane's Brain
Remake
30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure
Unrenewable

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Smashing list there William! mini/bigsmile

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Part 1 is now out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWWHE1WuDeY

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Here is the second part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDksImRngp8

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1st) Sounds great! A well approach to show our history mini/sunnies

2nd)

Dyland wrote:

YA GOTTA HAVE SOME MICHAEL HICKOX!!!

I agree with Dyland, because Michael's works are real pieces of smooth animation.

3rd) To mention, "The Lego Movie" isn't a brickfilm (I mean Stop-motion); It's a 3D one.

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On the first one that goes up to 2017, should The LEGO Movie (and TLBM and TLNM) count as brickfilms? They're all CGI.

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A brickfilm is any film, whether stop motion or CGI, that uses Lego bricks. As defined by Wikipedia, a brickfilm is: "a film made using Lego bricks, or other similar plastic construction toys. They are usually created with stop motion animation though computer-generated imagery (CGI), traditional animation, and live action films featuring plastic construction toys (or representations of them) are also usually considered brickfilms."

There are some brickfilmers that mostly specialise in CGI Brickfilms (watch Lechnology's filmography for an example), and they still count as Brickfilms.

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Huh... I didn't know that. Cool! mini/bigsmile

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Me neither.
Thank you William, for improving our knowledge!

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Would you also consider LDD videos as brickfilms since the application does use the same traditional style of stop-motion animation

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I think that would count as a somewhat form of CGI. Now, I'm just curious, has anyone done any extensive animating with LDD? That doesn't sound easy.

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About what is called a Brickfilm, I think William has explained that very well.

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Now, I'm just curious, has anyone done any extensive animating with LDD?

Yes, I did, but it wasn't extensive. I created a very simple and short tutorial about building a royal seat maybe 7 years ago!
However, I think it's just a foolish approach to create Brickfilms using LDD, because there's no built-in render engine and importing the .lxf file to something like 3Ds Max or Blender have some problems (like missing parts).
We should ask people who do CGI Brickfilms to know what technique they use.

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Yes, I did, but it wasn't extensive. I created a very simple and short tutorial about building a royal seat maybe 7 years ago!

And I thought stop-motion required patience! Any chance there's a link to that video?

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thistof wrote:

Any chance there's a link to that video?

I didn't upload it anywhere, and I think I have deleted the video, because in the folder I have, only frames are remaining; but if you want, I can put frames together (like mosaics) and upload it, just for you mini/wink

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