Parker W Young puts a nice twist on the classic brick animation trope of one character struggling against a stubborn inanimate object (e.g. The Dandelion) with “A Lego Christmas.” This is an entry in RepellingSpider‘s Christmas in a Minute Contest. You can see the other entries here. Wishing everyone a …
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WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS VIOLENT BRICK ANIMATIONS I saw “Gollum does Gangnam Style in LEGO” by Hampster Productions earlier today and had several thoughts: Gollum’s arm animation is impressive. Excessive violence is not an appropriate response to something that annoys you. Oh wait, didn’t I do this same concept back …
[Read more]Michael Hickox is something of a phenomenon. With nearly 60,000 YouTube subscribers he is certainly one of the most popular brick animators out there today.
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Seeing this Nyan Cat creation by Mr.Attacki that incorporates motors and other technical bits to bring it to life reminded me of another impressive creation in this vein by NeXTSTORM: While this doesn’t fit the traditional definition of what we’d consider a brick animation (there’s no stop motion involved), it’s …
[Read more]This 4-way split screen video shows the different layers that went into Insomniac’s “Houdini” music video that we featured previously. That’s a lot of work on display. Do you like seeing this kind of breakdown of the components of a video, or does it ruin the magic for you?
[Read more]In stark contrast to my recent rant about problems with online video contests, I am very pleased with the voting system over at Eurobricks. The rules make it very clear that votes should be based on the quality of the animations (which means the judges actually need to watch all …
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