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BrickfilmLEGO movies are movies made using LEGO bricks for the scenery and LEGO figures as 'actors'. Some LEGO movies are spoofs of scenes from famous movies. A short list of LEGO movie titles: But there are hundreds more that can be found at brickfilms.com A somewhat different type of LEGO movie was used for The White Stripes' music clip of "Fell in Love with a Girl", in which there was no tridimensionality and no figurines, but in which the LEGO bricks themselves formed a flat surface where the patterns recreating motion appeared. The music clip was directed by Michel Gondry.
History of Brickfilms.com Taken from Brickfilms.com History page. "The BrickFilms grand opening was celebrated on December 16th, 2000. It started out as a small site with 3 or 4 pages, hosted on TopCities. The directory contained a few films that Jason, the founder of BrickFilms, had seen on the internet. The original film directory was one page, sorted by film length. It had few films, even though Jason was very diligent about adding animations whenever a director submitted one. Every few days, you could pop in and see a new flick. BrickFilms was just getting started, however... there was much, much more to come. It was almost a month later, on January 11th 2001, that BrickFilms had its first interview added to the resources page: Marc Atkin, creator of 2001: A LEGO Odyssey. Four days later, BrickFilms was mentioned in The New York Times. We were finally getting some recognition! This same month, LEGO Studios, which would hit store shelves in the US in December 2000, was released worldwide. Studios brought many fresh new directors to the community. Few of the brickfilmers on this site use the LEGO Studios Filmmaker Set because of its poor quality camera and software, and because there are much better alternatives in both areas. Most new users are encouraged to switch if they've already got Studios, which has been discontinued by The LEGO Company. They, too, must have realized it was a mistake. You can read a cynicism of LEGO Studios, written by Jared Gilbert, here. On March 8th, 2001, BrickFilms.topcities.com became BrickFilms.com. Perhaps more important, though, is that our hobby had its first run-in with The LEGO Company; Tony Mines, co-creator of All of the Dead and ONE: A Space Odyssey, was told by the LEGO Company that he could NOT sell the films he had created, despite the fact that the films didn't mention LEGO anywhere in the movie. Ironically, Tony and Tim of Spite your Face productions now animate brickfilms specifically for The LEGO Company. We still don't exactly know whether it's legal for us to sell our creations or not, and a number of related discussions have risen in the forums. On April 12th, 2001, BrickFilms added a new interview with Andrew Thornberry, director of The Lego Chainsaw Massacre. While Thornberry filmed with LEGO Studios, the quality of his films is unaffected for most; many call it their favorite brickfilm ever. July 24th marked the first new member to the BrickFilms staff! Jared "Legogod" Gilbert joined, helping with film reviews, site updates, and other important stuff. On July 30th, BrickFilms.com announced the Classical Movie Contest. Complete with prizes, the contest was described as follows: - "The general theme of this contest relates to pieces of "classical" music. All entries should be centered around a piece of classical music, which I will define as anything written for an orchestra, quartet, or similar arrangement. This can be anything from a very old J.S. Bach piece to a more modern piece by Aaron Copland. No electric guitars, jazz, rock, rap, or musicals please. It will be the judgment of the BrickFilms staff as to whether your piece is acceptable (if you think it's classical, it probably is, so don't worry). Ideally this will free up copyright issues on the films as well."
The results were announced on October 18th. The winner of the Classical Move Contest was "The Barber of Seville" by YellowHead Studios (Stefan Van Zwam). You can see the contest page with category winners and detailed reviews here. ecember 12th, 2001: BrickFilms.com announced its second contest, The Historical Fiction Contest: - "The subject of this contest is Historical Fiction. We will define this loosely as the story of an event in human history that is loosely based on a real occurance. You are free to make the stories as historically accurate as possible, but it is not required for this contest. The film may be about a specific event (i.e. the first Moon landing), or a general movement, revolution, occurance, or story. The only thing that will not be accepted as subject matter is something that could NEVER have happened (i.e. the first Moon landing, but aliens invade and kill the crew). However, feel free to bring up alternate time lines of events (i.e. the Russians and the USA both land on the Moon at the same time.)"
December 16th, 2001: BrickFilms Birthday! BrickFilms was one year old, and to celebrate, they posted a highly enjoyable interview with Jay Silver, director of The Gauntlet. December 25th, 2001: Another New York Times article was posted. February 11th, 2002: Jay Silver joined the BrickFilms.com staff as its graphics artist. April 1st, 2002: The Historical Fiction Contest winners were announced. An awards show was even animated to accompany it! The overall winner of this contest was Nick Maniatis' "A (Very) Brief History of the Bushranger 'Ned Kelly'". On April 21st, 2002, Robert "mrgraff" Graff joined the staff as the maintainer of the FAQ. Graff had been a member since December of the previous year, and was chosen to hold this respected position when he demonstrated a great understanding of film conversions. His work built a great deal upon the original FAQ created by Scott (Anonymosity of OCAP), which served as a wonderful foundation. July 30th, 2002: Nick Maniatis became part of BrickFilms.com, helping with directory updates. He's now part of the Review Panel. On December 5th, 2002, the BrickFilms team announced that a complete site redesign was underway. A screenshot of the new site was later released, and boy did we drool! Jay Silver had created a stunning set of graphics for the new BrickFilms interface, and you could vaguely tell from the shot that BrickFilms would be changing vastly. Features such as a searchable directory, film rating, and more made us ooh and ah! 0n March 27th, 2003, WeirdEars joined the new BrickFilms forums. He had been a member of the old ezBoard forums, and would later be hailed as "the most annoying person ever to type brickfilms.com". Hold on, scratch that. He always WAS well-known for his spammer-like nature. He will never be forgotten (unfortunately)... May 29th, 2003 was a surprising and sad day for BrickFilms. Jason announced that he no longer had time to maintain the site, and that within two weeks it would either be sold or disappear to Davy Jones' locker. That day in the forums, he made a long post explaining the situation. So there was good news! If someone purchased the site, they could keep it alive, even give us that awesome new design. The problem was, who here could buy it? That question was answered shortly, for on June 5th, Jason was back with anxiously awaited news. After much negotiating, he had chosen a new owner for the site, and that person was... Josh "RevMen" Leasure! He quickly began work, many major changes being made in the first few weeks. On June 11th, Josh called out to all who were interested in joing a "Review Panel". It would consist of no more than 5 people, all of whom had to be responsible and capable of writing with good English skills. He was flooded with applications, and announced that he would try to pick out the panel members when the emails began to slow. June 18th, 2003: Doug "Shootin Bricks" James, a member since February 2001, becomes the official Community Project Organizer of BrickFilms. This same day, the Community Project Forum was created. June 19th, 2003: RevMen officially revealed the new Review Panel. Based on participation, post quality, and proper English and grammar, he chose the following people: - Nick Maniatis (Hali)
- Chris Salt (Buxton)
- James Janicelli (The Janitor)
- Stefan Van Zwam (wandrer2)
Everyone sat, waiting eagerly (but patiently) for the new look of BrickFilms.com. Josh proved to everyone that he was every bit as good a site administrator as Jason had been. Quietly, the RevMen and his team worked. After much anticipation, the new site opened on August 4th, 2003. Ten days later, the Words of Wisdom Contest was announced. It was the first BrickFilms event held by Josh, and the guidelines were simple: Depict whatever wise words you wanted in an animation. August 17th, 2003: Thomas Foote reported to us in the forums that he had received an email from Tjeerd Kamps' father bearing sad news - Tjeerd had passed away. Tjeerd was a well-known individual around BrickFilms with a wonderful sense of humor and high ambitions. His spirit will always live on here at BrickFilms, and his spot here is much deserved and dedicated to his memory. September 15th, 2003 - More bad news: It was a day like any other. Around noon, though, something went terribly wrong. Both of the server drives that held BrickFilms (the main site and the backup) crashed. Because they were on a RAID array, we lost everything from the past two weeks: forums posts, films submissions, reviews, ratings, and more. To most of us, two weeks is a short amount of time. For a large site like ours, it's an eternity. Fortunately, the community and its members recovered quickly. Z even had backup of September 14th, including films, reviews, ratings, and directors. The forum data was still lost, however. Everything considered, it wasn't so bad after all. We were all very grateful when on September 24th, Stefan released his new JAVA chat, which he had been working on for quite a while. It was slick, very slick. Unlike the old PHP chat, this had immediate response time. In the PHP chat, you had to sit and wait for a few seconds as the chat window refreshed. The amount of time and work Stefan put in was worth it, and he still makes improvements every now and then! On October 4th, the ballots were in. The overall winner of the Words of Wisdom Contest was James Maduzia with Zero Gravity Rebellion! Oct 14th, 2003: Brickshelf.com, after having a humongous amount of bandwidth taken from it due to our films, decided that enough was enough and disabled all video files. Hundreds of directors everywhere were suddenly without a means of hosting their films. For a while, everything was in a state of crisis and productivity dwindled, as you can see in the 'offical announcement'. ;) January 3rd, 2004: Logan was added to the Review Panel for his "constant blabbering" about films. Logan's well thought-out and comprehensive film reviews gave him his spot here at BrickFilms. " External links - http://www.brickfilms.com
- http://geocities.com/tomchukfilms
- http://www.bluntmation.com
- http://www.oblongpictures.co.uk/
* http://www.revmen.com
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