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Round 3 of Waffle's Contest for Best....?

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Question: if you produce a film, what would it be about and how would you film it?

First off, I'm a big fan of stop-motion. It's a special method of filming, that allows you to bring just everything to life, like toys, action figures. dolls, your socks and of course Lego! You simply take a photo of your object (e.g. a minifig) and move it with every next step a little (e.g. its legs to make it walk). After this procedure a stop-motion software will make a film out of all the photos.

All you need is some creativity and little setup, including a little scene, a very good camera with macro and probably the most important thing, the lighting: It's better to the filming at night or in a dark room. Otherwise you will get a different lighting in every scene (caused by the sun). Lamps do the same job and don't move.

There is no limit of ideas! Using Stop-motion you won't need much money to get special effects. Actually the old films, like King Kong from 1933, used stop-motion to bring their creatures alive.

It takes at least 15 photos per second to get smooth movements and therefore a lot of patience as well. That's the reason, why I'd probably need a huge team to organize all required stuff. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a good example, what you can achieve with this method.

Another thing I love is old sci-fi movies.I find it impressive when those huge spaceships float across the screen. So, if I made a sci-fi movie, I wouldn't use any cgi for spaceships or other vehicles. IMO it looks much more authentic and realistic to use actual models filmed with stop-motion.

The original SW movies were made with actual models and that's one of the reasons, why I like them much better than the new trilogy. Other good examples are Alien or 2001.

But to be honest, I wouldn't refuse to make a Dragonball movie, since I'm a big fan of the original books from the 80s by Akira Toriyama. Everything after that like Dragonball Z is cr@p, though (IMO)

So, that's how I would make a film :)

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Lego Builders

January 18, 2012

Nice to see people who are interested in animations on MOCpages! -LB Senior

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Tom Simon

August 29, 2010

Cute. Good lighting advice.

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Firn !

August 25, 2010

Hat mir richtig gut gefallen. Herzlichen Gl�ckwunsch zum Geburtstag �brigens (wann auch immer der ist) XD.

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Flare .

August 16, 2010

Great work!

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Waffles .

August 13, 2010

Nice little build here, that house is awesome. I'm of a mind to do a stop motion video. Now for the judging. For creativity, I award you a score of 9 out of ten. This was because I didn't expect stop motion to be your choice, and I liked it. For quality, I give you an 8 out of ten. There were some nice little creations in there, but I would have liked a little more to the build. What really would have loaded you with points would have been to make an actual stop motion, but that would have taken a long time. Thank you for competing in the Contest For Best... It's been my pleasure to judge entries from great builders like you. Final score: 17 out of 20. ~Waff

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Aidan Wilson

August 8, 2010

This is cool! i really like the house :) come look at my mocs please

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Louis K.

August 1, 2010

Quoting Yuri Fassio By the time this page loaded, i forgot which MOC I was commenting on (the title isn't helping). However, if I decided to comment, it must be VERY cool!

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Yuri Fassio

August 1, 2010

By the time this page loaded, i forgot which MOC I was commenting on (the title isn't helping). However, if I decided to comment, it must be VERY cool!

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A minute ago in the store across the road

August 1, 2010

Go stop-motion! I also make those films but mine has less quality - 'bout 8 frames per second.

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El Barto !

July 31, 2010

Nice work. I agree with what you say. SW, Alien, 2001, they still look great. There has to be cinematography and directing to go with special effects. And that ship is really cool!