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I now present the idea I've had for probably a year now...
Angels Unawares
It's a story about... Well... Angels...
It's based on a short by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and my main goal for this film to get it into my schools film festival, which I have won in the past. My goal is to win it again... Not a bad challenge.
Last edited by Binding Brick (January 26, 2013 (07:49pm))
Quick Update: I've just ordered 750 Lego pieces for $50.00 on ebay. Should be here on the 3rd or 4th of January. I also began scripting today. Hopefully it will be done by Wednesday.
Quick Update: I just finished scripting the film. It's 10 pages, consists of 6 scenes. And I am currently working on finding voice actors.
One Voice Actor is Confirmed: Brick7
Sounds interesting, I hope to hear more as you advance into production and I would love to see some set pics if you'r willing to upload them
Sounds interesting, I hope to hear more as you advance into production and I would love to see some set pics if you'r willing to upload them
I certainly will be uploading pictures, I'm just waiting for an order of lego to come in, so I can decide where to start building sets.
Voice acting is fun, but I need to know what the is about and what I'd need to say before I make any sort of choice.
Voice acting is fun, but I need to know what the is about and what I'd need to say before I make any sort of choice.
I need you to completely rephrase that.
We have another voice actor done with his lines: Sméagol
Brick7
Also waiting for lines from Jargon.
And waiting for a response from 2 others.
Hopefully I'll be done with voices by the end of the weekend.
The Lego is here! Now I'm just going to go through it and see what I need from Bricklink.
Also there is a Casting Call on the Audio Forum for those interested.
Last edited by Binding Brick (January 5, 2013 (03:14pm))
Triple Post!
I'm prepared to film a few shots now. Finished with my first set.
Basically I spent my entire weekend building and tearing down the same set. Making minor changes each time. But I think I finally got it right.
I just started to animate a quick scene, only to find out that I'm still missing the lines of one of the characters.
Okay, new progress is made.
$18.90 for 43 items on Bricklink.com has been completed.
A purchase of $18.99 on Ebay for 100 Tan Lego 2x4 bricks.
Progress is looking very, very good. 
I've got all voices in except the main character! And no blame to my voice actor for the main role. He got it yesterday! Finding someone to do it was very difficult at this time.
Tomorrow I'm going to start animation. However I will need 2 or 3 lines from my main character, so animation may not start tomorrow, he told me that he is on a tight schedule.
More Lego should come tomorrow! I found myself very hung up over major tests this week. But I got to the weekend with no homework so that should help. I've also been in contact with the films director at my school and he said that the film festival has been moved backwards. So that is fantastic for me. Yay. More than six weeks to make the film! Anyways, I think I may be done buying Lego for this film. I got a lot of necessary bricks...
Urgent Message! I need an effects artist to create a lightning storm that is around 20 seconds long, plus one other piece of work. Please reply if you can do it!
I could try and do it for you, but I'm still kind of learning VFX so there's a good amount of trial and error involved. You can check out what I can do so far by clicking on my signature and checking out some of my test videos.
I think I'm going to animate on Saturday afternoon and night, same on sunday because I don't have school on Monday and it's my birthday! So yeah. Basically progress is being made.
So last night I counted up my seconds and I found that I've finished 40 seconds of animation. Not bad so far. I'm hopefully going to finish scene 3 this weekend, which is a day longer due to MLK day. When I've finished that scene 3 and the beginning of scene 4, I'll try my best to finish the first scene which involves rain and thunder flash, interesting camera movements and expressions.
Other than that, here's another frame.
So yes, I have recently been working on more film. I now have about a minute and a half of animation. If you add in the opening title sequence I have about 3 minutes. Not bad. The month is about to end and hopefully I will be done with my next scene.
I have a new semester on Monday, where I will find myself in much more difficult classes, so I think that any animation will be left to the weekends.
However, my weekends are being slashed in half. I have a new coach and apparently I will now have games on Saturday's and practices on Sunday's. It's not that bad, however it does take 3 or 4 hours out of my day.
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