Re: Brickfilm Wiki

Genzarata wrote:

When you're commenting on your own piece of work, it's difficult not to become personal or include your thoughts and feelings - especially if it is a particularly good film deserving to be in the Wiki in the first place. Besides, what constitutes a 'classic' or 'good' film? It would no doubt be best to start with those that have won awards, for example - as you say - Robota, and perhaps some brickfilms that have been recognised with an annual Bricks In Motion Award, then continue on from there.

I agree with the last part of your comment, I was thinking of that too (about the prizes). I agree it's hard to define a classic, but I meant films that were praised by everybody: The Magic Portal is known as the first brickfilm (although there were others that came first), Robota won many awards, and The Citizen of the Year had, for a while, a festivity dedicated to it by the community (septemberfest, for those who don't know), and the three are often regarded as "best brickfilms of all time".
About the first part, of course nobody should be allowed to write "This is the best brickfilm ever made and it was me who thought of that", but if there's a shot that used some kind of special effects or interesting technique of animation, obviously a creators know much better than a fan how that was done. That's what I'm talking about.
I think it's not difficult at all to be objective: a film page includes the story, something about the production, awards (if it won any) and could include some reviews (and certainly the director isn't the one who wrote them), I don't see in what section one could write his thoughts and feelings. It's not commenting a film, it's saying what's it about and how was it done.

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That should be left to YouTube or wherever the creator decides to publicize his film. We don't need to have a wikia page about the film written by the creator, along with a YT or other page about it.

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I went ahead and created the equipment page.

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Don't forget battle of the brick.

Also, not sure if fancypants is part of BiM, but I know Michael Hicox isn't, and both should be accredited for their undoubtedly amazing work. We shouldn't leave out animators who are amazing, just because they can't win BiM awards.

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http://bit.ly/P7RyJphttp://bit.ly/RNU0XLhttp://bit.ly/QxKGsdhttp://bit.ly/TC5hw7http://bit.ly/QzxQr7

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Fancypants is definitely a member of BiM, you just don't see him around because he's on a two year mission for his church. In fact, he started the animation challenge, among other things.

Anyways, that's a good point, but I think people are saying that films that have won awards are a good place to start when looking for a way to define great or classic Brickfilms, although the list shouldn't be limited to only those which have. Yes?

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I was just  thinking - technically, LEGO actually has the title for longest brickfilm, with the several Bionicle movies, and Clutch Powers.

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Mighty Wanderer wrote:

That should be left to YouTube or wherever the creator decides to publicize his film. We don't need to have a wikia page about the film written by the creator, along with a YT or other page about it.

Uhm...what? I'm not sure I understand, what does "publicity" has to do with this? Wether the page is written by the director or not, the content remains the same.
Also, I'm not saying the director HAS to write the page, I say the director should be allowed to do it or make changes to the already existing page

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That's not at all what I meant. I'll just stay out of this discussion from now on.

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Sorry, I just wanted to understand what was that you meant (seemed to me that you didn't understand what I meant either). But yeah, let's end it here.

I forgot about the bionicle movies, you're right.

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KAB Productions wrote:

Also, not sure if fancypants is part of BiM, but I know Michael Hicox isn't, and both should be accredited for their undoubtedly amazing work. We shouldn't leave out animators who are amazing, just because they can't win BiM awards.

Define amazing. Your opinion of an 'amazing brickfilmer' will differ to mine, and vice versa. I don't think it's a wise idea to start putting up loads of brickfilmers based solely on opinion. Besides, if you try to be impartial, and include as many brickfilmers as you can, bear in mind the numerous accounts on YouTube and elsewhere that have one uploaded video filmed at 3FPS.

I don't make Brickfilms. I trade virtual hats.

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Just putting it out there, both have 40,000+ subscribers on YouTube, and tens of millions views. Tell me one brickfilmer who doesn't make a great video, but is as well known in the community as these 2. Ok, maybe not 'amazing', but none the less, well known greats of the brickfilming world.

EDIT: I'll be back to editing the wiki soon, but I'm busy setting up the KAB Productions blog currently, so I have my hands full as far as writing and editing goes.

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Well, actually I've never heard of Michael Hicox until a few days ago. And his brickfilms don't seem that amazing to me.

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MPfist0 wrote:

Well, actually I've never heard of Michael Hicox until a few days ago. And his brickfilms don't seem that amazing to me.

I have heard of him, and personally I like his films, but your point is an important one in that you can't judge someone based on subscribers and view counts (*cough*ForrestFire*cough* - by the way, would you consider him 'amazing'?).

I don't make Brickfilms. I trade virtual hats.

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Bump.

We really need to get some more activity on the wiki, I've been the only editor in the last month! mini/eek

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Did some editing on it today mini/smile

BTW could Mr Rundown or someone with the power consider adding to his first post the address for the wiki that as a result of this topic ended up being created: brickfilming.wikia.com

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legomoviemaker1 wrote:

Did some editing on it today mini/smile

BTW could Mr Rundown or someone with the power consider adding to his first post the address for the wiki that as a result of this topic ended up being created: brickfilming.wikia.com

Okay.

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Nevermind.

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Double post

I was just doing some searching around and found out who made the 3-hour brickfilm. mini/bigsmile It was a Brickfilms.com member called "Selavast." The 3-hour brickfilm was too large to put on the Internet, so he gave some people DVDs with the film on it. Other than that information, I can't find anything else regarding Selavast or his brickfilm.

Another brickfilmer also tried to recreate the whole Star Wars: Episode IV in LEGO, but only got 53 minutes through the movie. Here's the site: http://www.lswproject.com/

Edit:
He references his 3 1/2 hour brickfilm here, in an old Brickfilms.com thread. This is getting interesting... maybe his brickfilm was about pirates?

Edit2:
http://brickfilms.com/topic/where-can-i … music-for/  2 long brickfilms? Whew!

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It's a great idea (which is in progress), but may I add my two cents? I'll take that as a yes... mini/bigsmile I think, whilst still focussing on adding content to the wiki, you guys who are really involved should try to change (if possible!) the background of drab olive/sandy green to something more enticing and attractive. Otherwise, you are all doing a great job from what I can see!

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Feel free to contribute as much or as little as you like mini/smile and yeah that background needs changing...

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