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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Wow! Much better than my image. The quality is superb along with fantastic set design! I can really tell your a thorough individual!
Thanks. Glad you liked it. 
I can really tell your a thorough individual!
Yeah, I'm a perfectionist in most everything I do. I especially do my best with animating (or, I have been lately).
Here are a couple of ungraded frames from A Very Istari Halloween!
There is a background in the second pic, and you can see it better in the graded shot, but m'afraid I don't have time to upload that right now.
And can anyone tell me which is better - iStopMotion or DragonFrame? Which is cheaper, too?
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iStopmotion is like $50 and works very well with most webcams and some DSLRs. I used iStopmotion 2 for a few years now and it always worked fine, but it doesn't support the Rebel t3i. It has basic controls and is oriented more for younger children.
DragonFrame is totally epic and amazing and does everything. It supports DSLR beautifully, I filmed Perpetual Twilight with the Rebel t3i using the DragonFrame trial. One thing about that is the way it saves the files, it saves the images all separately and then you can export now or later, all the settings for the t3i worked manually through DragonFrame, no other apps or plug-ins were required. BUT...DragonFrame is $295.
I assume you're on Mac, iStopmotion is only for Mac and DragonFrame is Mac and Windows.
From my experience, iStopmotion 2 (they're on 3 now) worked well for the most part. The built in greenscreen function was lame and you can't change the frame rate after you start the program, which in DragonFrame you choose a frame rate when you export and can view them all. iStopmotion crashed every so often, usually not saving the last 5 frames or so, I never could tell why it crashed.
I would say to do the trial version of both, DragonFrame has a 30-day trial for free without any ugly watermarks or whatnot. I'm not sure about iStopmotion, but I think it has a free trial.
I hope some of this helps!
I feel weird that the shark has persh hands showing. They would look better as grey hands, or maybe just gloves.
I feel weird that the shark has persh hands showing. They would look better as grey hands, or maybe just gloves.
It's actually Radagast, trying on a Halloween costume. Guess I should have said. 
He's making a really bad joke at Saruman's expense. All will become clear soon...
And thanks for the tips JonnDthunDer! I'll have a look at both, and see if there's a cheaper student version of DragonFrame.
If only MonkeyJam worked on Mac...
I like the look of that frame, Legocloniac477. Not too much to say about it, but I'm sure the finished film will explain all.
I really like the framing of that shot Legocloniac, nice work! The depth of field and vivid colours really make it great, I can't wait to see what it's in!
Thanks guys!
A frame from the Intro sequence I just finished. It's for my Transformers stop-motion series coming in 2014.
That looks really cool, Larry! It looks more like CGI than a stopmotion frame. But, good anyhow.
By the way, it's great to have you back on the forums again!
That looks really cool, Larry! It looks more like CGI than a stopmotion frame. But, good anyhow.
By the way, it's great to have you back on the forums again!
Thank you! And yeah it's good to be back! I have been way too busy studying filmmaking at the Uni (fresher here 
), I kinda abandoned brickfilming and you guys 
but yeah all my Lego is back at home and all I have is an Optimus Prime action figure here and a webcam so I figured I'd make a series (I'll order some new characters for the show this weekend) since it doesn't require much set building (similar to Nightslash2020's aka TFX Productions creations).
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The amount of set design and detail you have in your sets are just astronomical Fun Sucker. You need to make a tutorial on how to get amazing detail in such small spaces!
I love you.
This better be what I think it is.
I just peed.
Did Crawme finally break out?
That guy on the right is very sexy
Hm, too much yellow. Maybe tone it down with a stripe of a different color on the wall. Or some props maybe.
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