Re: Frame from Your Upcoming Film
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The fire and guy running from it looks awesome (though not sure how it'd would like when animated), but the ninja guy disturbs the frame.
That looks absolutely fantastic! I like the angle, and I love the bricksplotion. Did you just shine a torch onto it from above, or did you find a way to get the light to come from inside the bricks? Like taking out a section of the wall, and shining a torch through it.
I also love your choice of fire for the explosion. Where did you get those dome bricks from, they look really good there.
This shot will look super awesome if you add camera shake. Great frame ANP! Is that for 'How to Not Rob A bank'?
Thanks, Film Fire. 
The dome pieces come from the 2001 LEGO space theme Life on the Red Planet. They had these little rocks where they kept power crystals, I find them very useful for in-shot bricksplosions.
Before shooting them, I just get a all of my transparent orange bricks (which can be very easy to find using a black light), then I put them in a pile so I'd have them all at hand and arrange the in what I think would be the best thing possibly for my frame. After that, I shine some red torches on it. My brightest was shined from the top held by my brother, and I held some extra but less bright ones from other angles to enhance it slightly.
Just going to the store and buying a couple of random interesting torches is a good idea. Especially for you since you plan on always doing only in-shot effects.
the ninja guy disturbs the frame.
I agree, he looks a little weird here. But when the shot is going he doesn't look quite as out of place as he raises his arm and turns to shield himself from the bricksplosion.
This shot will look super awesome if you add camera shake. Great frame ANP! Is that for 'How to Not Rob A bank'?
There's not much of a shake here actually, and I don't do Post-Production shakes. He he
It's not for 'Bank' but an upcoming short which will be up this week, hopefully.
Maybe even today.
Still finishing off some masking and some gun flares, then I'll see how long sound editing takes.
Last edited by Squid (August 1, 2011 (06:38pm))
How did you do that?
It looks absolutely awesome! 
Wow ANP that looks so pro!
experementing with film looks, hows this look for a Batman:
Looks pretty nice, but dust your set some before every shot.
The ridiculous quality makes it rather visible.
Well, it looks pretty good. But I just would've chosen a more cinematic shot to post. Get's people more excited.
P.S. TO THE NUIMOBILE!!
theres some other shots over here:
http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/po … 6/#p233246
I don't have a very "cinematic" shoot yet because this is in the first five seconds of the first scene...
For some reason the other photo's won't load for me, all except for just the same one you posted on here...? 
Darn internet must be messing up again. 
Anyways, I guess that's a very good reason not to have a very cinematic shot though, ain't it? 
The only real problem I see with it though is the way the focus is. I mean I love it when brickfilms play around with focus, but for some reason the way that one guy is in the row more to the right around what's not focused messes with my eyes for some reason the way it covers him mostly.
P.S. TO THE NUIMOBILE!!
Last edited by The BIONICLE Hero (August 1, 2011 (05:19pm))
You know, Alfa, I don't think it's really entirely completely necessary to upload super, super high-res pictures. They shrink when they appear here anyway.
Waiting a few seconds to see them is a bit annoying.
Perhaps you should have a low-res, then just put a link to a high-res version for those who wish to see it.
I just forget to re-size them...
I deffinately agree that would be a good idea. But that's mostly because my router messes up ALL THE TIME... It sometimes takes the longest to load a page that it shouldn't take more than a few seconds on the computer I'm on...
P.S. TO THE NUIMOBILE!!
That shot would look a bit better with some letterbox, that always makes stuf more cinematic.
Not true.
You can have great cinematography at any aspect ratio.
Flizzet wrote:That shot would look a bit better with some letterbox, that always makes stuf more cinematic.
Not true.
You can have great cinematography at any aspect ratio.
True. What matters is the angle and lights, sets help, but doesn't have very much to do with aspect ratios. It can even be a square and still be cinematic.
But if you just have a brightly colored picture in just a tiny box when you're doing a fight scene and it's supposed to be nighttime or something, then you just have another average photo in the middle of nowhere with no idea what's going on, and letterbox can make stuff look a BIT better, that's just my opinion OK, don't start being all like "NONONONONOPEITTYNO 
" and start doing this stupid new + - mark just because I might have messed up on what I was TRYING to say, I like letterbox in a film a lot more because it looks like a cinema in a sort of way, MY opinion okay, MINE.
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