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Bricks of War brings Gears of War 3 to life in epic LEGO animation

Andrew — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:21:26 +0000

When I haven’t been working, sleeping, building, or blogging, most of my waking hours over the past month have been spent playing Gears of War 3. My favorite things often inspire LEGO creations, a tendency I seem to share with LEGO stop-motion animator Kooberz Studios (aka Alex Kobbs), whose “Bricks of War” is going viral — for good reason!

It’s hard to miss Marcus’ Hammer of Dawn taking out the Corpser, but watch for some cool details like aiming the frag grenade and a Retro Lancer execution.

The making-of film itself has some excellent stop-motion sequences:

Time-lapse video: Building 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van

Andrew — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:23:53 +0000

I spent a good chunk of Saturday and Sunday at BrickCon building 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van, assisted toward the end by an able young spacer (I build slowly — really slowly — savoring the build, or something). Marshall Matlock has managed to squeeze the build into a minute and a half.

CGI Train

gambort — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:46:40 +0000

Ben Beneke is one of the greats of LEGO train building, with even his old steamers still standing out as some of the best. I’d been wondering what had happened to Ben recently (he usually posts at least one new train a year) but apparently he’s been spending time making excellent animations using LDraw and POVray. An animation like this is really hard to do in POVray. I know, I’ve tried.

Country-style buildin’

Nannan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:40:17 +0000

David Pagano (Paganomation) posted an stop-motion Lego music video about country-style building. This will surely get you out of a building block and inspire you to do some building on top of your building!

Breaking and entering with LEGO

Thanel — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:53:45 +0000

I have an odd interest in the intersection of crime and LEGO, so I’m thrilled by this clip from the 1979 Danish film The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders (Olsen-banden overgiver sig aldrig) featuring a LEGO assisted commercial burglary.

Thanks for the tip, Joel!

Printed Circuit video clip made entirely from LEGO

gambort — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:19:49 +0000

Stop-motion filmmaker and AFOL Chris Salt (0ldScratch) has created an entirely brick-animated video clip for one of the latest tracks by Printed Circuit. This is some of the smoothest brick animation I’ve seen and the use of the M-Tron torsos is brilliant.

Suggested by Pete Reid and my apologies to Pete, Chris and our readers for taking so very long to finally get it posted.

See? Timeless and universal.

Caylin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:16:14 +0000

There’s something just…happy about this advertisement. Made by Temujin Doran, the posting on Vimeo states it “uses pieces from the stash my brother and I used to play with when we were younger, so perhaps it looks a bit dated compared with modern day Lego. Dated, but still great.”

Build Anything from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

via Gizmodo

And you thought actors could be moody.

Caylin — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:35:11 +0000

We’ve all heard it, right? Actors declining roles for “creative differences”…right. Creative differences. On the actor’s part? After this fantastic brickfilm from mobiledeli, I’m personally more inclined to say it was the director with the issues. This one certainly has them.

You can find more fantastic brickfilms at Bricks in Motion!

Micro StarCraft multiplayer map celebrates release of StarCraft II

Andrew — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:07 +0000

This stop-motion video by Alex Kobbs captures so many classic moments from StarCraft that I don’t know which is my favorite.

My copy of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is in the mail, and Alex’s video just heightens the anticipation.

Metamorphosis, a stop motion animation

Nannan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:54:36 +0000

David Pickett (fallentomato) presents his best brickfilms animation showing Lego bricks morphing into different objects. Each change from one object to another consists of many brick-built transition states that are shown for only a fraction of a second, and the results are well worth it. Check out more descriptions and behind-the-scenes info about the video on David’s website.

Experimenting with live action Lego films

Nannan — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:29:47 +0000

We’ve all seen some pretty good stop-motion animations with Lego, but the method is not without its limitations. Tyler Clites and Jordan Schwartz recently experimented with making short clips of live action Lego films featuring their Oasis Mech and Anubis Statues respectively. You can read more about each creator’s thoughts by following the links below each video.

Helmet Cam Replay – KIA

Mummification Chamber

The Nightly News at Nine – a brickfilm by David Pickett

Nannan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:50:48 +0000

We don’t feature enough videos from the talented community of brickfilmers, so I was happy to be introduced to a brickfilm project by David Pickett (fallentomato) at Brickworld called The Nightly News at Nine (NNN). NNN captures “the zany adventures of a TV News team who live in a fantastical world made of plastic bricks.” The first chapter was recently released on DVD, and David was kind enough to give me a copy to take a look.

Fortunately, all contents of the DVD except for the commentary can be viewed for free. Below is the 24 minute video of the first episode of NNN. If you enjoyed our post of David’s Anti-Green Commercial, you’ll appreciate the same quality of animation, humor, and voice acting that went into this video. My only complaint is the lack of facial animations on the minifigs, but the variety of their motions and gestures does well to compensate.

NNN – Chapter One – New Beginnings from David Pickett on Vimeo.

You can learn more about the production of the video or watch the other features of the DVD. If you want to purchase the DVD for $8 and show your support for the series, you can do so here. Meanwhile, here’s a trailer for the next episode, and I look forward to seeing it!

Robert Green’s fumbling failure immortalized in LEGO

Andrew — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:01:14 +0000

I’ve been catching a few minutes of the World Cup every morning before heading into work, but watched the complete US-England game over the weekend. Naturally, there’s a LEGO version.

This video by Fabian Moritz has gone viral at this point, but for those of you whose friends and family haven’t forwarded this to you yet, enjoy!

See dozens more on Fabian’s site. (English audio version from The Guardian.)

The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told

Nannan — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:38:29 +0000

dzine123 brings us the full story of the Star Wars Trilogy condensed into ~2 minutes as told by a kid with one heck of a LEGO collection :)

EDIT: Regardless of the voice talent, this was actually created by LEGO, not “a kid with one heck of a LEGO collection.”

Power Miners are male chauvinist pigs

Josh — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:50:28 +0000

In this video by Chris Salt, the Power Miners do not shine in their attitudes towards the women in their midst. However, the animation is smooth, the jerk gets what’s coming to him, and there are singing rock monsters. What more could you ask for?