Chris Wunz and his coworkers at Valley Video Services in La Grande, Oregon put together this funny LEGO Star Wars animation, called Planet TR-57: Planet TR-57: Pilot from Valley Video Services on Vimeo. Planet TR-57 debuted at BrickFest 2009, where the team also held a stop-motion animation workshop, or Animate-a-thon. Stay tuned to PlanetTR57.com for Continue reading →
There’s something inherently funny about advertising a sold-out product, as Peter Edwards does with a hand car from Big Ben Bricks in this video: The video features a fantastic Technic bridge long enough to span a LEGO Amazon:
This awesome video is making the rounds on the ‘net, but for those who haven’t seen it yet, check out David Gunstensen‘s stop-motion movie of minifigs building the Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon: Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo. As originally featured on Gizmodo.
Jesus Diaz has just announced winners in the Gizmodo GO MINIMAN GO Video Contest. Head on over to check out the top five entries, including the winning brick-flick by David Boddy: For those of you wondering when we’ll announce winners in our own GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest, we’re almost there! Look for an announcement Continue reading →
For those of your rightfully envious of all our great prizes and giveaways for Zombie Apocafest 2008 at BrickCon next month, there are even better prizes to be won for our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest. Remember, the contest is open to everyone over the age of 18 worldwide. Here are just a few of Continue reading →
David Pagano, Nate Burr and myself were all recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm to celebrate the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday. This is my contribution, 30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure. How many historical figures/events can you name? Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for more videos and a contest (details Continue reading →
David Pagano, along with Nate Burr and myself, were recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm celebrating the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday. David’s brickfilm is a romp through time and space, celebrating the best of the LEGO sets and minifigures over the past 30 years: Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for Continue reading →
Nate “Blunty” Burr, along with David Pagano and myself, was asked to make a brickfilm to celebrate the 30th birthday of the LEGO minifigure. Nate delivers in typical Blunty3000 style, with his satirical brickfilm, Living in Meatspace: Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for more videos and a contest (details coming soon to a blog near you!)
The music video for Radiohead’s “House of Cards” from In Rainbows (naturally available from ) just seemed to be begging for the LEGO treatment. Ian Mackinnon obliges with this strange and gorgeous rendition (with a hat-tip to reader wb): Ian used the 3D plotting data from the original video to do his time-lapse LEGO interpretation Continue reading →
Nickelodeon and LEGO are teaming up to host the “Built by Me” LEGO movie contest as part of the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. For your 2-minute (or less) movie animated with LEGO, you could win up to $25,000. w00t! Although Nicktoons is a kids’ network, I’ve taken a look at the rules, and the contest Continue reading →
Sjaak Alvarez recently posted a third installment in his ongoing series “It’s hard to be a Stormtrooper”. Watch for the hilarious cameo at the end: Sjaak animates each of his videos himself, using 3ds max 2009 and final Render 2.0. Very cool.
BBC DJs Adam and Joe are hosting a “Video Wars” contest in which listeners create music videos for a pair of silly songs by Adam and Joe. Chris Salt of Oblong Pictures gets in on the action with a LEGO version of “Jane’s Brain”:
I woke up this morning to find out from YouTube user kidrobotcp that The Daily Telegraph has featured an article about brickfilmers. You can read the article here. Also check out the brickfilms mentioned in the article: The Letter by James Maduzia The Crucible – Trailer & Night of the Tater by Nikolas Jaeger Continue reading →
For the life of me, I still can’t get any video to embed, so I guess you’ll have to just click the link for now. D’oh! EDIT (AB): Embedded. :)
Brickfilmers and Brickfilms.com continues to get more exposure. The Wall Street Journal has just published an article about brickfilming and includes interviews from Michael Green, Joshua Leasure, Robinson Wood, David Pagano, Zach Macias, Lewis Chen and myself, Nathan Wells. Purists should be pleased by my single quote. ;) The article. In addition to the article, Continue reading →