Hi all, I'm new!

Me (dad, 42) and my family (kids 12, 10 and 7 yo) recently came back from a summer holiday to Denmark, where we (among other things) visited Lego House. In one of the attractions there, you can make your own little brick film. Of course we already knew the basic concept, but actually creating something like that by yourself got all of us up to a level of enthusiasm that lasted until we got back home.

So the next Sunday, we just started. Zero preparation or advance planning. Kitchen table top, smartphone on a little tripod, LEGOs and our imaginations was all we had. In a good 5 hours, we had shot around 400 pictures, 300 of which made it into our first production (posted on this forum, see link below), 25 seconds of animation @12fps. In the weekday evenings that followed, I learned the basics of video editing (in Cinelerra-GG) to be able to add a title sequence, credits and background music.

Considering that we did not know anything about making stopmotion animation just over a week ago, I think we did quite well for our first attempt at it. In the meanwhile, we already learned a lot from making this one, and for the next time, we will surely be trying a bit harder on continuity, timing, and constant image quality for an even smoother end result.

Please check out our first film if you feel like it, I'm quite proud of what we have so far and look forward to getting deeper into this very broad and creative hobby!

https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic … le-part-1/

Thanks and see you around,
Matt

Last edited by Stomogo Productions (August 31, 2021 (03:46pm))

Hi Stopmogo and The Brick Director! Glad to have you!

(Belated) welcome to the forums!

Goodbye, BiM

It's been a rough year.  As you know, my brother died, and my father is not doing well.  I took some time off from work to be with the family.  I've been thinking about it and am considering dedicating some of that time towards.  finishing Holding Our Own 4.

I log in to check for any messages from other members, which I do once in a while.  I connect under my original username, and get this message:

"Bricks In motion forum:
You are banned from this forum.  The administrator or moderator that banned you left the following message:
'This is a permaban that should have happened a long time ago, as the last one should not have been lifted.'"

I'm not surprised by anything these days, but I didn't expect this.  This was a cowardly act by whomever did this anonymously.  I never was banned from the BiM forums before this.  No private message was provided to explain the reason for this ban.  In fact, I was even banned from reading my private messages!  My only guess is that I'm being canceled from the trans-mob for standing in defense of RioForce.  It's an ironic self-fulfillment: RioForce posts a video showing unhinged bigots shouting someone down.  One of the shouters appears to be a man dressed as a woman, interperted by some to be a trans activist.  The trans--activists then act out the video and become an unhinged mob demanding to cancel RioForce.  It was uncivilized, unfair treatment, and showed an ugly side to the self-proclaimed, "Friendly community".  I was ahead of the curve in being the victim of BiM's systemic cancel culture.  Apparently, I'm still being singled out for reasons beyond me other than years of pent-up hate and bigotry from the admins and moderators.

Who did ban me without reason?  Will you have the courage to say so?  The cards are in your hands.  The BiM admins have been on a power trip for years, and know I can't defend myself, so at least be a man about it.  Ohh!  I said, "be a man", which could offend men pretending to be women?  Not sorry; I'm going to do what the social justice extremists tell everyone else to do but don't do themselves, and "follow the science".  Is the reason for this new ban a double jeopardy for the inappropriate word on Discord years ago: the word that one of my children, whose age is in the single digits, is learning about in school?  If so, I accepted that long ago, although people have posted much worse things without consequence?  I accepted the excessive punishment, a permanent band, but don't accept the double standard.  Skewed justice all the moreso proves that the admins' issue isn't decency; they single people out and engage in petty, personal vendettas, for daring to think differently.  This institutionalized hatred includes alienating people with absurd and baseless accusations of racism.  (Remember comrades, when you need to silence someone you hate, call them a racist!)  They excpected me to cower, but I didn't, so they stepped up their efforts.  In the few minutes this remains posted before the admins remove this rather than address it or post a defense, this is a warning to the lower-ranking members.  If they don't like the way you think, or you're too devout in your religious beliefs, you have no home here, and may God bless you if you become their target too.

It's a sin that what could be an open, friendly, tolerant community is one that's been on the cutting edge of toxicity, long before even the corporate fascists such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, appointed themselves "Ministry of Truth" censoring and demonizing "inaccurate/misleading information" according to their own stilted, subjective standards.  My advice is for people to leave toxic communities, including the pseudo-"platforms" of Facebook, Twitter, etc., and "news" sources that are more into peddling hate and division than what happened todaY: CNN, NPR, the New York Times, etc.  These goliaths make their money dividing people and getting us to hate each other.  BiM does the same thing.  Get away from these places, and seek places of love, acceptance, and positivity.  Find places that renounce hatred and intolerance.  Boldly reject them.  I'm done with BiM.  I'v ebeen so for a while, anyway, but I profess it aloud now.  I shake the sand from my sandals, and move on.

It's been a learning experience, though.  I learned, based on the unjjust actions from BiM, how *not* to run a Discord server.  I began my own for a popular Fantasy RPG (not Dungeon & Dragons).  It's now almost at 750 members, and I treat them with respect.  I don't apply double standards.  I don't treat members differently based on their personal views, and I definitely don't badmouth them, ban them behind their back, try to embarrass them to satisfy my own insecurities, act superior while going on power trips, abuse my power, or treat them with disrespect.  I knew not to do this anyway, but the discrimination I experienced from BiM helped my to really put things into perspective.  I'd never want any of my members to experience what I went through.

If you are the one who banned me from the forums, at least you can explain yourself by emailing me at... EDIT: never mind.  There's no excuse.  I'm already cancelled, banned from the forum without explanation, and you lied about it.  You made yourself heard already.  There's no excuse worth hearing.  The entire admin staff should be ashamed for not just condoning it, but endorsing it.  Sorry for the sockpuppetry, but... EDIT: Not sorry.  It's just an expression because my mother taught me to be polite.  Harsh as my words are, I refuse to stoop to your level.  Well, I'm done, so you can go back to your living out your double standard, condescending and belittling me behind my back on a server I can't access, in order to feed your need to feel superior.

Last edited by Proton (October 4, 2021 (03:46pm))

Wow I didn't know that about bricks in motion.
This is unexpected

Looks like there is no response to this. I’ve banned the Proton sock account for ban evasion, and any future sock accounts by HoldingOurOwn will also be banned promptly, regardless of any phony “staff can’t delete this or they’re hiding something” messages.

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Hi all! I am very new to this challenging but extremely interesting stop motion art.

I have kind of interesting background. I've been interested of photography for a long time. Then other area I would like to explore is film making. On that area I do not have any prior experience.

However as having a daytime job and then during evening being a family dad for two kids there are some time constraints to do anything extra. My older boy mentioned one day that he would like to have a popular Youtube channel but he does not want to put any effort for that.

Somehow I then thought that it would be a nice challenge to try to create YT channel. And then I accidentally saw some quality lego stop motion videos. At that moment I realized that I could actually combine my existing experience with still photos and my desire to explore film making by doing lego stop motions!

And here I am. As of writing this I have done 3 episodes of Lego City Police challenges which includes coffee burglar and Bank's broken security camera. Plus then some concepts and test videos. Looking forward to create new content!

hi Im PloopusProductions 2008 i remember when i was a younger i watched a lot of old brickfilms which most likely inspired me to make brickfilms on YouTube. i make a lot of stuff based on my original character named Ploopy and sometimes i do DC content as well

my Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6Zi5 … CW6iFrE53g

Hi I am doggy lover
I first got into brickfilms watching Michael Hickox films.
I have not made any yet but I will!