Tag Archives: Movies

Films and the cinema provide a lot of great inspiration for LEGO builders all over the world. You’ll find LEGO models inspired by everything from Mad Max to Toy Story here.

Ohmu from Nausicaa by Big-X

Danny Rice presents a wonderful little ohmu from Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind:

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The Word: Vignette

Behold the awesomeness that is Stephen Colbert (vignette by me):

(YouTube video for all you sleepyheads who go to bed before 11:30.)

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Smile! You’re on Candid Mindstorms Camera!

Check out these two funny videos of the new Mindstorms NXT robots. Thanks to LEGO Ambassador Nelson Yrizarry for pointing them out.

http://5x5m.com/files/mindstorms/

EDIT (AB): Okay, the auto-play is just too annoying. (Sorry LEGO, choose a different video hosting service next time.) I’m swapping the videos for a link to the page where you can watch both of them. Both hilarious, by the way.

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BitFlick Mania!

Have you picked up your 2007 mosaic sets yet (6162 and 6163)? The dragon is awesome. My new mosaic (clear base plates!!!), plus an e-mail from RichardAM, reminded me that I failed to blog BitFlicks. Here’s their first — and still my favorite — LEGO+CGI animation:

Via Destructoid.

(And let’s try post labels. We’ll see if we prefer them to Technorati tags…)

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News: My minifigs on THE 9 on Yahoo!

My gallery of musical minifigs on Brickshelf was recently featured on THE 9 on Yahoo! (they’re at number 8):

Check out the gallery on Brickshelf, but I’ve been keeping the photoset on Flickr a bit more up to date. Sweet!

Thanks to Azaghal from Classic-Castle.com for letting me know! I totally missed this, and didn’t even notice that the Brickshelf folder had suddenly shot up to 150,000 hits.

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Moko and Katsuhiro Otomo’s FREEDOM Project

Moko recently posted a cool little vehicle Lukas called “bike-ish”:

What’s not in Moko’s Brickshelf caption is that this is based on a hover-bike currently featured in a Nissin Cup Noodles ad (in Japan, of course) that uses footage from a new project called FREEDOM by Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo. Here’s a six-minute clip from YouTube:

You can also watch more footage on the official FREEDOM site.

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LEGO Terminator endoskull – “Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?”

Brickshelfer robbed has made a very cool terminator head. This nice montage really does it justice:

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Support your Empire today!

Acclaimed brickfilmer Brendan Henry has just released a jaw-dropping new film: Triumph of the Empire, a LEGO Star Wars film in the style of WWII propaganda films. The film features amazing CGI animation of LEGO models created in Ldraw, excellent facial animation and good narration. Watch it now!

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Lukas’ Canti the Robot from FLCL

Apparently there’s this show called FLCL that Lukas watches. I’m usually asleep by 1:30 in the morning, so I haven’t seen it.

Anyhoo, I guess robots and other stuff pop out of this kid’s head:

Weird. But it’s a cool robot, Lukas! Nice use of BrickFA arms and T-pipe thingies.

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RIP Steve Irwin, 1962-2006

This past weekend brought sad news about the death of Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin. As Bruce blogged over on VignetteBricks, the LEGO world has responded with several fantastic tributes for this great conservationist, family man, and entertainer.

Melody Brown:

rogueyoda:

k-hatch:

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Project Divinity wants YOU!

Here ye, here ye! A group of brickfilmers, including Lewis Chen, award-winning director of the film Repent, Zach Macias, 3rd place winner in the Fame, Infamy and Glory contest, and myself, 2nd place winner in the Fame, Infamy and Glory contest, have gotten together and begun a community project code-named Project Divinity. We are seeking better-than-average stop-motion animators, digial model builders (good with Ldraw), and voice talents. For more information, please go here, or check out the Project Divinity website. Those especially interested in voice acting should check out this thread.

Here is a synopsis:

Joel is a shy young man. When his student film becomes a success, he defies his parents’ wish for him to become a lawyer and pursues his dreams in film making. With the inspiration of a mysterious woman, he rises to fame in the film industry. But then, at the peak of his career, Joel’s life goes awry when he suddenly loses inspiration. With his job on the line, Joel must go on a world-wide journey of a lifetime to regain that to him was so precious.

This is your chance to be a part of a monumental project, so don’t hesitate if interested!

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Who you gonna call?

Okay, so it’s gotta couple of non-official stickers on it. Sue me. But c’mon, it’s the Ecto 1, everybody!

(Click the image for more pics from MisterZumbi.)

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