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So, the other day I found out that the voice actress for Sombra from Overwatch and I happen to share the same birthday (June 15th).  On a whim, I tweeted to her about this... and she responded!

I am now a Sombra main...

this one really keeps me up at night too

Yeah seeing that bugs me too. While I'm by no means a professional, for a start not many brickfilmers get that much money from their work, and secondly 'fancy brickfilming' is just getting good by practising, there is no other way of saying it. I'm sure all those people there could be really good if they kept at it, and besides, the really good ones that I saw for the Ninjago contests related very well to the contest. Calling it 'good morals' is a bad analogy too, because they seem to forget that with these sort of contests like for the lego movie, Ninjago movie etc. they are being shown to the entire world in cinemas. TLG aren't going to want low-quality stuff in their movies, even if they didn't make it. I'm going to be honest lots of the entries for the most recent contest weren't that great, and while I haven't seen who the winners are, I know that Lego will have made the right choice.

lol that entitled attitude.

first "people go get money." Nobody gets money. They earn it. And contests can be a part of earning it. Second, "where there is all the people (like me) who get no money from my brickfilms on my channel," um, nobody make money from youtube adsense. Get good at making videos and get sponsors, or, more likely, clients and make the videos they want you to. Or, just get good and then win contests! Third, "are not allowed to win," everyone has the same chance of winning. Better skills enhance the likelihood of winning (well, in a normal contest it would, but ReBrick gives out simi-vague contest prompts then picks lame videos anyway).

Plus, not everyone who makes a good video is a "professional." Few people make brickfilms as their profession, and if they do, they may be employed by The LEGO Group, therefore being ineligible to enter (though, that doesn't explain how Brotherhood gets away with it by "collaborating" with Bricks Brought to Life, but anywayyy...)

I think it's kind of a morbidly funny look at reality. People complain about not having skills instead of working toward improving their skills and getting better. rip world

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"Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." - 1 Corinthians 10:31b

I think it's funny that there are people out there who are looking at the rebrick contests as a sign of who the best brickfilmers are. As Squash said, the consistency is non-existent. For the LEGO Movie contest Brotherhood workshop wins, after having done tons of contract work for LEGO (and he and Pagonomation get mentioned in the credits, while the other 7 animators who's work was used don't, but that's not really on LEGO, I don't think) and then the winners of the Batman contest were frankly rather weak; I saw many entries that were leagues above those picked as winners, including several by members of this site. I honestly don't intend to enter any of them unless I happen to have a really good idea that I would make anyway; I just don't see the point.

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They keep using this word "professional", yet I do not think it means what they think it means...

In all seriousness, I highly doubt that the animators they are refering to can be considered "professional".  As far as I'm aware almost every  brickfilmer here has some sort of day job even if they've made money with their films. Truly professional brickfilming is extremely niche and difficult.  You either have get commissioned by the LEGO Group (and I'm not sure you could even consistently rely on them for steady work) or have an extremely large YouTube audience to support you via ad revenue etc--to my mind, only Forrestfire, Brotherhood Workshop, maybe Michael Hickox and Keshen are big enough to be able to sustain that way.  Even then, the sheer amount of labour required relative to the amount of content produced means you'd be far better off using a different medium if you seriously wanted to make money off YouTube.

In any case, even if a brickfilmer is in some capacity "professional" their entry in itself cannot really be considered as such since they're not actually getting paid to make it, so the point is moot.  I agree it's generally healthier to focus on improving your own skills and getting better next time instead of complaining about the system.  Ive never had time to enter the ReBrick contests, but one of my favourite aspects about contests I've entered is how much of a learning experience they've been for me, even if my entry itself didn't rank highly. Griping about others will ultimately get you nowhere.

The results for that contest came out today. I find Rebrick results can sometimes be questionable, but I think this one is a quality lineup. There are five more winners than advertised, too.

I do not envy the job of the admin who has to answer every question there.