Last week marked one of the major brickfilming competitions that are held almost every year within the community. BRAWL challenges animators to create an entire short animation in only week or less. These events always bring about some really quality entries. One of my favorite this year was this clever …
[Read more]A year ago today, the very first episode of Minilife TV was released on YouTube. Since then, they have released an episode every Friday (with some breaks between seasons) for a total of 39 episodes. It would take over 3 hours to watch them all back to back (which I …
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We’re very excited to announce the second annual Brickworld Film Festival! The Brickworld Film Festival is part of Brickworld Chicago, one of the largest conventions of LEGO fans in the world. Last year, we invited attendees to submit their brick animations (or live-action brick flicks) and screened the 14 entries to an enthusiastic audience of over 100 …
[Read more]Last weekend, Bricks in Motion hosted the tenth annual(ish) Twenty-four Hour Animation Contest (THAC). Making a brick animation in any amount of time is an impressive accomplishment, doing so in a 24 hour period is a super-human feat.
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Some of you may be familiar with the website Brickfilms.com. Once upon a time, it was the center of the brick animation community. Then there was internet drama, and a big chunk of the community moved to BricksinMotion.com; though there are all sorts of splinter groups these days. To borrow …
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