Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
A place to discuss, share, and create stop motion films.
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So, STAR has ended. What do you guys think/feel? It's been four months since it was announced.
Oh, BTW, I don't have my recording because it was 108GB.
-Don
It was really good, I hope it is earlier to benefit us europeans next time.
Well,I don't mind,that's a huge file.
After viewing some films,It was good.
Sorry, deleted it. It was 6-7 hours of just endless recording.
-Don
I wish I had gotten a chance to finish my film for it, but at least it has gotten me working on a brickfilm again. There's a lot of good entries, it's going to be tough to judge.
I miss it. 
I hope that future "big" contests will give more lead time. 3 months is not very long when you're talking about making a short film of any substance, and stop-motion can be so slow, needs tons of time. Why not 6 or 9 months?
Personally, I doubt I'll be able to do any more contests, too hard on a marriage, though I do intend to keep brickfilming, just on my own time-table.
I learned tons from the experience, too much for this post. I might try to jot it all down while it's fresh in my mind though.
Aftermath-wise, it's a little hard to get back to real life. working hours on the film was grueling but in some weird way also exciting. Doing the dishes is just a little more dull now than it was before. 
I also have tons on my "to do" list that I kept putting off until after the contest that's going to keep me busy for a while.
Oh, and I shaved my beard, back to a goatee. I couldn't waste time shaving when I was working on my entry.
I hope that future "big" contests will give more lead time. 3 months is not very long when you're talking about making a short film of any substance, and stop-motion can be so slow, needs tons of time. Why not 6 or 9 months?
I agree, STAR was not originally intended to be a big contest, just something to get the community back to life after I became admin, but people almost universally demanded I remove the 3 minute time max time limit. The prizes also improved when ManVan agreed to donate a first prize, so in the end it was a fairly large contest. But once prizes / funding for future contests are worked out I would like to announce the next summer contest quite a bit earlier next year, if not late this year.
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