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!
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I have Maya and Bricksmith, and I always wanted to be able to make a LEGO animation. I have tried making the models straight into Maya, and failed miserably, and I'm now wondering if I can get a Bricksmith model into Maya and animate it that way.
Anyone know if I can or can't?
As far as I know, you can't go straight from Bricksmith to Maya. You have to use a converter. So far, the only mainstream (and thus an active support community) 3D modelling program that supports Ldraw models (which I assume Bricksmith uses) is pre-2.5x versions of Blender. From there, you can export to a format that Maya supports.
I'm pretty sure that bricksmith is the mac version of Ldraw. Nice tutorial too 
I was kinda hoping you'd answer, because your animations are awesome 
I wish I could animate like you, but that must take a long time!
It has taken years, yes, and it'll take some more. Unless you want to make a profession out of it, then committing a lot of time will get you to that professional level in less than a year.
Funny enough, I am very interested in making a profession out of animation, and I'm starting a uni degree on animation next year 
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