Interviews
Vivor Productions - February 15, 2014
Q: What influenced you to make brickfilms?
A: Well, I really liked the brickfilmers on Youtube, and also some of my friends did it...and I wanted to make movies, and brickfilm movies were easy to make
Q: What, in your opinion, is your best brickfilm?
A: Well, actually, my best brickfilm is probably...Westward III, because I got a lot of new music that I put in and sound effects. I think that I did it much better than [my] other brickfilms.
Q: What's your favorite brickfilm?
A: My favorite brickfilm is probably this one called "The Lego Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman Movie". It's by forrestfire101.
Q: What software do you use [for your videos]?
A: Well, I film with Stop Motion Studio with my iPod, but then I upload it onto my computer and use iMovie to edit it.
Q: What software do you use for your music?
A: Garageband, and then...I download it into iMovie.
RANDOM QUESTION
Q: What's your favorite band?
A: Probably the Beatles.
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A: Well, I really liked the brickfilmers on Youtube, and also some of my friends did it...and I wanted to make movies, and brickfilm movies were easy to make
Q: What, in your opinion, is your best brickfilm?
A: Well, actually, my best brickfilm is probably...Westward III, because I got a lot of new music that I put in and sound effects. I think that I did it much better than [my] other brickfilms.
Q: What's your favorite brickfilm?
A: My favorite brickfilm is probably this one called "The Lego Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman Movie". It's by forrestfire101.
Q: What software do you use [for your videos]?
A: Well, I film with Stop Motion Studio with my iPod, but then I upload it onto my computer and use iMovie to edit it.
Q: What software do you use for your music?
A: Garageband, and then...I download it into iMovie.
RANDOM QUESTION
Q: What's your favorite band?
A: Probably the Beatles.
Channel
TruIllusion Studios - February 17, 2014
Q: What inspired you to start brickfilming?
A: Well, actually, I wasn't really allowed on Youtube until I was 11, so once I got looking on Youtube I saw the amount of brickfilms that were on there, and I just thought that it was really cool, so I started when I was about 12. It was really forrestfire101's videos that inspired me to get start
Q: What's your favorite brickfilm?
A: It would have to be his [forrestfire101's] "Justice League" one, like, just the animation that he did in that alone is crazy, and then, with the comedic writing in that, too, it's just one of the best out there.
Q: What in your opinion is your best brickfilm?
A:Well, the one I spent the most time on was.."The Avengers Meet Superman". Um, yeah, I'd say that one's my best one.
Q: What software do you use?
A: First of all, I use a Nikon D50 100 for frame capture and the software I use for that is Dragon Frame...for video editing now, I used the trial of Sony Vegas Pro,but that expired, so now I'm just using Sony's Movie Studio Platinum.
Q: What do you think is the worst brickfilm you've ever seen?
A: I don't know. Some of the ones I made when I was starting out are pretty bad in terms of, just, there wasn't a narrative to any of them, and the animation wasn't really good either, but it's kind of expected when you're just beginning out.
Q: How long does it usually take you to make a brickfilm?
A: To film "The Avengers Meet Superman" it took about a month of filming and that was every day and I was filming alone. To write the script it took me two weeks to write the script..and editing usually takes me about a week or so.
Q: Where do you see yourself in the future?
A:Well, once I start earning more money on youtube...I want to upgrade my software a lot, like get After Effects and Sony Vegas Pro and just update my space...but in the future I really want to be a director...like an actual film director.
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A: Well, actually, I wasn't really allowed on Youtube until I was 11, so once I got looking on Youtube I saw the amount of brickfilms that were on there, and I just thought that it was really cool, so I started when I was about 12. It was really forrestfire101's videos that inspired me to get start
Q: What's your favorite brickfilm?
A: It would have to be his [forrestfire101's] "Justice League" one, like, just the animation that he did in that alone is crazy, and then, with the comedic writing in that, too, it's just one of the best out there.
Q: What in your opinion is your best brickfilm?
A:Well, the one I spent the most time on was.."The Avengers Meet Superman". Um, yeah, I'd say that one's my best one.
Q: What software do you use?
A: First of all, I use a Nikon D50 100 for frame capture and the software I use for that is Dragon Frame...for video editing now, I used the trial of Sony Vegas Pro,but that expired, so now I'm just using Sony's Movie Studio Platinum.
Q: What do you think is the worst brickfilm you've ever seen?
A: I don't know. Some of the ones I made when I was starting out are pretty bad in terms of, just, there wasn't a narrative to any of them, and the animation wasn't really good either, but it's kind of expected when you're just beginning out.
Q: How long does it usually take you to make a brickfilm?
A: To film "The Avengers Meet Superman" it took about a month of filming and that was every day and I was filming alone. To write the script it took me two weeks to write the script..and editing usually takes me about a week or so.
Q: Where do you see yourself in the future?
A:Well, once I start earning more money on youtube...I want to upgrade my software a lot, like get After Effects and Sony Vegas Pro and just update my space...but in the future I really want to be a director...like an actual film director.
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Selavast - February 28, 2014
Q: What influenced you to start making brickfilms?
A: Often, sometimes an idea pops into my head,usually from... if i make a film I'm going to base it off a genre I'm naturally interested in. For "The Wars of Darkness", when I made that, it was because I was a huge LOTR fan and I just like fantasy movies in general.
Q: Besides "TWOD", have you made any other brickfilms?
A: Nothing nearly as extensive, mostly just small 10-20 second things just to test out different kinds of animation styles.
Q: How'd you come up with "TWOD"
A: Well, it's been a story that I've been stewing for, well, 10 years ago when I first thought about it and It was after watching The fellowship of the ring the two towers I used to play a game called Warcraft 2...so I always wanted to make a video similar to theirs, and what ended up happening with "TWOD" was pretty much everything I liked in terms of games, movies on TV, things like that, I just kind of compiled a script out of it.
Q: How long did it take you to make it?
A: The entire thing was completed...in about a year and a half. (With that straight time, I had a lot of time back then.)
Q: When you were making it, did it occur to you that the product would be 4 hours long?
A: I was actually going for 3 an a half, but I kept on thinking of new scenes and I kept going over my finished film thinking to myself that certain things weren't tied together plot wise so I made a bunch of extra scenes that could be called a "directors cut" and chucked them all in and that's what got me the final product.
Q: What camera and software did you use while you were making.
A: Steven Spielberg's Lego Studios. (laughs) The camera was atrocious, that's why the vid quality is so 1980s which it gave it a bit of a Terminator look...I would have preferred a crisper picture but at the same time I liked the animation software for Lego Studios. Every other software I tried using would not allow the kind of scope or length for the kind of film I wanted to make and do it as simply as Lego Studios did.
Q: How did you show your film back then? (Not many sites in 2004 could let you upload a 4 hour film)
A: I would come out here [brickfilms.com] and offer physical copies of dads and I'd mail them to people. And so there's actually some people on brickfilms who probably own the dvd copy of it...I even made my own loaded case and made it look as professional as possible.
Q: Have you made any brickfilms since?
A: I haven't really had the time. It's something I'd like to get back into but at the moment I'm currently unorganized for that because my actors are insubordinate for one thing. (laughs) And another thing is that it does take a long time. You can't have things like things like a job for that scope for a film...to make something like that, it took all of my devotion as far as my free time.
Q: How old were you when you made it?
A: 20
Q: Do you have any advice for brickfilmers today?
A: Stay with it, that's the best advice I can give, that if you actually want to see something done and your really interested in trying it, just see it out, be tenacious. Just make sure that you have something that you want to work on and want to invest the time into, and just share it and get depth from other people.
Q: Do you actually hold the record for the longest brickfilm?
A: I think I might, actually. I think I hold one of the records for the longest stop motion animations even compared to some hollywood...someone started a forum one time saying "This might be one of the longest stop motion animation film ever made", and I thought about it and I'm just like, "Yeah, if you combine both of the parts, technically, it might be." (chuckles) I tried throwing it up to the Guinness Book of World Records, but unfortunately they couldn't take anything art-related... I think they just wanted money or something.
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A: Often, sometimes an idea pops into my head,usually from... if i make a film I'm going to base it off a genre I'm naturally interested in. For "The Wars of Darkness", when I made that, it was because I was a huge LOTR fan and I just like fantasy movies in general.
Q: Besides "TWOD", have you made any other brickfilms?
A: Nothing nearly as extensive, mostly just small 10-20 second things just to test out different kinds of animation styles.
Q: How'd you come up with "TWOD"
A: Well, it's been a story that I've been stewing for, well, 10 years ago when I first thought about it and It was after watching The fellowship of the ring the two towers I used to play a game called Warcraft 2...so I always wanted to make a video similar to theirs, and what ended up happening with "TWOD" was pretty much everything I liked in terms of games, movies on TV, things like that, I just kind of compiled a script out of it.
Q: How long did it take you to make it?
A: The entire thing was completed...in about a year and a half. (With that straight time, I had a lot of time back then.)
Q: When you were making it, did it occur to you that the product would be 4 hours long?
A: I was actually going for 3 an a half, but I kept on thinking of new scenes and I kept going over my finished film thinking to myself that certain things weren't tied together plot wise so I made a bunch of extra scenes that could be called a "directors cut" and chucked them all in and that's what got me the final product.
Q: What camera and software did you use while you were making.
A: Steven Spielberg's Lego Studios. (laughs) The camera was atrocious, that's why the vid quality is so 1980s which it gave it a bit of a Terminator look...I would have preferred a crisper picture but at the same time I liked the animation software for Lego Studios. Every other software I tried using would not allow the kind of scope or length for the kind of film I wanted to make and do it as simply as Lego Studios did.
Q: How did you show your film back then? (Not many sites in 2004 could let you upload a 4 hour film)
A: I would come out here [brickfilms.com] and offer physical copies of dads and I'd mail them to people. And so there's actually some people on brickfilms who probably own the dvd copy of it...I even made my own loaded case and made it look as professional as possible.
Q: Have you made any brickfilms since?
A: I haven't really had the time. It's something I'd like to get back into but at the moment I'm currently unorganized for that because my actors are insubordinate for one thing. (laughs) And another thing is that it does take a long time. You can't have things like things like a job for that scope for a film...to make something like that, it took all of my devotion as far as my free time.
Q: How old were you when you made it?
A: 20
Q: Do you have any advice for brickfilmers today?
A: Stay with it, that's the best advice I can give, that if you actually want to see something done and your really interested in trying it, just see it out, be tenacious. Just make sure that you have something that you want to work on and want to invest the time into, and just share it and get depth from other people.
Q: Do you actually hold the record for the longest brickfilm?
A: I think I might, actually. I think I hold one of the records for the longest stop motion animations even compared to some hollywood...someone started a forum one time saying "This might be one of the longest stop motion animation film ever made", and I thought about it and I'm just like, "Yeah, if you combine both of the parts, technically, it might be." (chuckles) I tried throwing it up to the Guinness Book of World Records, but unfortunately they couldn't take anything art-related... I think they just wanted money or something.
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Onecras Films - June 7, 2014
Q: What influenced you to make brickfilms?
A: I think just seeing other people on Youtube, seeing what they had to make, that's the main reason of what inspired me.
Q: What, in your opinion, is your best brickfilm?
A: I've only made 2 right now, so I think my second one is my best one [Jedi Attack! - Ep. 2]
Q: How long does it take you to make a brickfilm?
A: Well, generally, with work and school and everything, it could be 2 weeks maybe to stretch my time out.
Q: What software and camera do you use?
A: Right now, I'm using a Canon Rebel T3 for my camera, and I'm using Sony Vegas Pro for my software.
Q: Do you have any advice for other brickfilmers?
A: Well, I guess for people like me who are starting, I would say take it slow, take your time, don't really try to rush your first one, and just listen to the people who give feedback and grow out with that.
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A: I think just seeing other people on Youtube, seeing what they had to make, that's the main reason of what inspired me.
Q: What, in your opinion, is your best brickfilm?
A: I've only made 2 right now, so I think my second one is my best one [Jedi Attack! - Ep. 2]
Q: How long does it take you to make a brickfilm?
A: Well, generally, with work and school and everything, it could be 2 weeks maybe to stretch my time out.
Q: What software and camera do you use?
A: Right now, I'm using a Canon Rebel T3 for my camera, and I'm using Sony Vegas Pro for my software.
Q: Do you have any advice for other brickfilmers?
A: Well, I guess for people like me who are starting, I would say take it slow, take your time, don't really try to rush your first one, and just listen to the people who give feedback and grow out with that.
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Anna C. - June 13, 2014
Q: What got you interested in brickfilms?
A: I've always watched stop motion animations before until I saw a video on Youtube. I don't remember what it was but it really struck a note on me and that's why I started to learn more on brickfilming.
Q: When are you going brickfilms?
A: (laughs) I don't know yet. I'm still collecting the sets and things like that.
Q: What attracted you to brickfilms.com?
A: I just searched and it was the forums that appeared first.
Q: How's your experience on the site?
A: I get to ask a lot of questions to a lot of people and it's nice. Since here nobody does brickfilms I can't ask for help from anyone.
Q: From what you've learned so far, what would your advice to brickfilmers be?
A: I think it's "never give up". Honestly, it's hard to find brick pieces here [where I live], so all I did at first was collect the software and things like that before I then started to upgrade my camera.
Q: What software do you use?
A: I have After Effects and...I think it was Cyberlink.
A: I've always watched stop motion animations before until I saw a video on Youtube. I don't remember what it was but it really struck a note on me and that's why I started to learn more on brickfilming.
Q: When are you going brickfilms?
A: (laughs) I don't know yet. I'm still collecting the sets and things like that.
Q: What attracted you to brickfilms.com?
A: I just searched and it was the forums that appeared first.
Q: How's your experience on the site?
A: I get to ask a lot of questions to a lot of people and it's nice. Since here nobody does brickfilms I can't ask for help from anyone.
Q: From what you've learned so far, what would your advice to brickfilmers be?
A: I think it's "never give up". Honestly, it's hard to find brick pieces here [where I live], so all I did at first was collect the software and things like that before I then started to upgrade my camera.
Q: What software do you use?
A: I have After Effects and...I think it was Cyberlink.