Comments on: Time and time again

By: BWJC

BWJC — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:36:44 +0000

Heh, funny you should bring up Nathan getting back into brickfilming.
This is a nice site, I’m glad Nate recommended it, things like this post are great, publicizing up and coming brickfilmers.

By: David Pickett

David Pickett — Wed, 01 May 2013 02:01:43 +0000

Thanks for leaving a comment. Your animation stands out from the crowd, and that’s exactly what we have this blog for 🙂

By: David Pagano

David Pagano — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:39:33 +0000

I never had a chance to check out “LEGO: The Time Machine” until just now, and I have to say, it’s pretty great! As Sir Glub mentioned, the story line and pacing of the film is engaging enough to keep your attention in spite of the more basic stop-motion craft skills.

And the sets are great! I love the future scene (obviously).

Personally, I’d rather have a film keep my attention at less than 100% animation quality than see a super-slick movie with a lame, boring story — and the former is what we’ve got here. Well done.

By: FlyingMinifig

FlyingMinifig — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:55:51 +0000

Wow, I’m certainly honored that you featured this on your blog!

I had seen both “The Magic Portal” and “GO MINIMAN GO” prior to making this, and the latter, in particular, did probably serve as a big inspiration though I tried to give my film a different focus. I made this for a contest, the theme of which was “Back to the Future”, which is why I chose this idea.

Looking over it now, I see several areas for improvement, but given the time span (I had just over a month to make this) and my general inexperience with stop-motion I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. I did end up re-shooting the Egypt scene as it was extremely flickery, but I’m not sure why it ended up still having loads of flicker despite my best efforts.

Incidentally, I had originally considered using different snippets of music for different scenes (for example, the Egypt scene was supposed to have the Slavonic March, and the pirate/explorer scene the Ride of the Valkyries), and Also Sprach Zarathustra was supposed to be used for the climax, but unfortunately I ran out of time and had to go with a single piece of music.

I certainly intend to continue brickfilming, though at this moment I’m extremely busy. Still, I’ve got several story ideas and am working on scripting, and I hope to work on some projects over the summer!

By: sirglub

sirglub — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:53:18 +0000

No problem! I really like this blog and what you and David are doing on here!

By: David Pickett

David Pickett — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:40:27 +0000

I’m with you on the desire for a more structured approach to teaching brickfilming skills. It’s something David and I have talked about a lot and one of the reasons we started this blog. Definitely keep us informed about your progress on your BrickFilm Workshop. We’d love to cover it here!

By: MonsieurCaron

MonsieurCaron — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:25:18 +0000

As a History teacher and a brickfilmer, I love Go Miniman Go. It’s awesome. The Time machine is good too, but need to learn and practice some technics. I think the brickfilmer community need an online class or something to share the basis. I know, there are come post on forums, video and blogs… but they are sometime hard to find or understand.

People spend so much time on their brickfilm, it’s sad when it come out with lightflicker or shaky cam when it’s an easy thing to fix… if you know about it. I’m working on a BrickFilm Workshop, but it will be in French (as it is not easy for me to write in English). BrickSet had put a lots of reviews about LEGO sets together, maybe the new BrickAnimator can pull together all the ressources about brickfilm in one place? 🙂

The time machine commands a lot of respect and I wish they continue brickfilming, they can only improve with time, experiences and… some advice 🙂

By: David Pickett

David Pickett — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:27:58 +0000

Definitely. I’d be curious to know if this animator saw “The Magic Portal” or if it was a coincidence.

By: David Pickett

David Pickett — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:27:03 +0000

I appreciate you being a regular commenter 🙂 Once we reveal our new name and logo (should be ready by June), we’re planning to do a big promotional push to bring in more people.

By: sirglub

sirglub — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:11:46 +0000

I feel like we’re the only ones that comment on this blog. Sad, isn’t it for such a good blog?

By: Minilife TV

Minilife TV — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:32:54 +0000

The activated time machine at the beginning and end reminded me of “The Magic Portal.” Looks like a lot of great effort was put into the sets for this. It’ll be nice to see how they develop as a brickfilmer.

By: sirglub

sirglub — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:28:12 +0000

When I started watching “LEGO:The time machine” the only thing I could think of was how bad the quality was, but it still kept my attention and I ended up enjoying it!