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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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Either way. If you'll be posting a lot, it may be best to have a separate topic. If only occasionally, then here's fine.
Just let a mod know if you want it moved.
well, moving it here might be the best solution... how do I tell it to a mod?
Mod edit: Just like that. 
Although sending a PM to anybody with a 'Moderator' tag, or using the 'Report' button also work.
I've just quoted the topic here, and will delete the other thread in just a sec.
I decided to put this here, not really sure on where to put this topic... it's both post-production and production.
When I read the darkness and light contest theme, I for some reason reminded a short story by asimov, "Nightfall", featuring a world where due to the light of multiple suns night comes after around two-thousand years, and could imagine a specific scene with the music of Bach's BWV 639 piece, that was the theme music in Tarkovskij's 'Solaris'.
Then I made up the plot to the story, wich is focused on a Young man that awaits the night and in the meantime fights down his fear against the dark. The movie is set in a slightly ancient/fantasy setting, very different from the original Asimov story.
The aim of the movie is to be interesting from a visual point of view, with its suggestive scenes featuring an always decreasing number of suns, so always decreasing light, and philosphical in its meaning.Here I show a preliminary picture of a main scene of the film:
The official plot description: In a world where days last thousands of years, a young man tasked with an important mission awaits for the arriving night, fighting his own fear against the dark, and thinking about the true meaning of darkness.
I would really like to enter this contest, but this theme is so good I'm going to struggle to formulate an idea! 
EDIT: Oh. Turns out it was easier than I thought! Time to get to work.
Last edited by Binding Brick (June 15, 2015 (02:51pm))
Does anyone know a good way of doing an Explosion without CGI or anything?
I have finished my script, and now I have sent it to a few people for final editing. It should be done very soon!
Does anyone know a good way of doing an Explosion without CGI or anything?
I'm assuming that you want to make an explosion in stopmotion. Fiberfill is a material made of cotton that is white in colour and looks like clouds but can also be used in explosion blast. A little bit of additional CGI to make it look like it's glowing can be helpful but not entirely nessecary.
An alternative is building one out of bricks frame by frame. It just requires lots of bricks of the same colour and can be built with or without depth (the third dimension).
Examples of fiber fill being used in stopmotion is in AnkiDRIVE Antics by ForrestFire101 and some Robot Chicken episodes.
Tims Videos wrote:Does anyone know a good way of doing an Explosion without CGI or anything?
I'm assuming that you want to make an explosion in stopmotion. Fiberfill is a material made of cotton that is white in colour and looks like clouds but can also be used in explosion blast. A little bit of additional CGI to make it look like it's glowing can be helpful but not entirely nessecary.
An alternative is building one out of bricks frame by frame. It just requires lots of bricks of the same colour and can be built with or without depth (the third dimension).
Examples of fiber fill being used in stopmotion is in AnkiDRIVE Antics by ForrestFire101 and some Robot Chicken episodes.
Another good example of brick built explosions are from Rivvm m's The Mystic Dwarf, which used yellow, red, and orange bricks with a flashlight to make a very convincing explosion:
http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/to … tic-dwarf/
Also, this topic seems to have some very good examples:
The topic you linked to doesn't show any pictures for me. It looks like all of the pictures don't exist at the host website anymore. Am I the only one seeing this or does everyone else see the pictures?
Right now have the script mostly complete. I have been recording voice overs and editing the audio, and drawing storyboards.
I suppose this is a topic for general production updates on entries to this contest? A great idea.
I finished my script and shot list a few days ago, and began shooting today. The set I'm starting with is a very small, cramped room (not for the minifigures, but for my fingers). For every shot, I have to turn on the studio lights, turn off the set lighting, remove the set ceiling, pull out the character, adjust his pose, put him back, replace the ceiling, turn on the set lights, turn off the studio lights, and capture the frame.
Sometimes one of the little light bulbs in the ceiling falls off when I'm putting the ceiling back, but I'm about to fix that with some putty.
One week has passed with no progress. I just stopped writing. I usually have phases when making films. Some days, I'm productive. Some days, I just sleep. Writing should be finished tomorrow, and a casting call later.
One week has passed with no progress. I just stopped writing. I usually have phases when making films. Some days, I'm productive. Some days, I just sleep. Writing should be finished tomorrow, and a casting call later.
Honestly, I haven't made progress either. I'm in the middle of making a new video so if I try doing this, it will be in a month or two. 
I like that this contest just happens to go quite well with the film I'm making right now. Although I doubt I could finish it in time to be an entrant.
One week has passed with no progress. I just stopped writing. I usually have phases when making films. Some days, I'm productive. Some days, I just sleep. Writing should be finished tomorrow, and a casting call later.
Over the past week I've been remarkably productive, although these shots are complicated and short, but progress is progress. I feel that I owe much of that progress to watching this popular video. Sometimes if I really don't want to do a shot I just watch that and then I take it anyway and feel really good about it.
Same thing happened with me, as far as the contest fitting my project. Actually, I had just written the first draft of the script when I found out about the contest. If I keep making steady progress, I can finish it before the contest deadline, but it's hard to say if that will happen. Didn't do any work today, because it was too hot in the studio. Hard to get air conditioning in there.
I'm stuck in a rut with my script, but noticing that it's already the 3rd week of June (after watching Squid's motivational video ), I see that I need to get on the ball. I think I'll try to finish up my script tomorrow and build a set or two.
Nice work Aquamorph! I should try out some lighting with smaller lights sometime. Also, I just finished the outline for my script, but it's still kind of broken up and needs some work. It would be appreciated if maybe one or two people read it over and gave suggestions... The outline is about 1 page long on 1.5 spacing. If you're interested let me know!
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