Brick Magic Festival for LEGO Fans in Raleigh, North Carolina USA, starts the First Annual BRICKFLIX FILM FESTIVAL. Top animator David Pagano will show a collection of international brickfilms at the historic Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC on Wednesday night, May 5!
David asked us to show three of our Movies: “Goethe - FOUND“, “MIMUS” and “The Most Stupid Video on YouTube Ever“. Sadly we can NOT be there. Read more about the whole Event on BRICKMAGIC.org
the german brickfilming-team “nichtgedreht” bashed it! And made “THE BEST FILM” and “THE BEST SET DESIGN” 2009 with their cool clip: “Alles ist die Noppe”
CONGRATULATION, GUYS!
Alles ist die Noppe from nichtgedreht on Vimeo.
Here are the results, as seen on bricksinmotion.com:
The 2009 Bricks in Motion Awards results have been announced. The winners are:
Best Animation
A Clone Halloween - Fancypants
Best Screenplay
Days of Our Pizza - Keshen
Best Cinematography
The River - Night Owl
Best Visual Effects
Picturesque - Nick Durron
Best Set Design
Alles ist die Noppe - nichtgedreht
Best Sound Design
The River - Night Owl
Best Original Score
The River - Night Owl
Best Vocal Performance
Keshen as Febrizzio in Days of Our Pizza
Best Ensemble Cast
It’s the Network
Best Series
Nightly News at Nine - Fallentomato
Viewers’ Choice
The River - Night Owl
Best Film
Alles ist die Noppe - nichtgedreht
Wow! Mario Baumgartner released his NEW Potter Brickfilm-Trailer. Good job, Mario!
The german “Brickfilm Festival - STEINEREI” meets the international Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart. Our friend Mathias Mertens, founder of “Steinerei”, will be in town, screen a bunch of Brickfilms and talk about the art of brickfilming. Let´s see how our Movie “MIMUS” will look like on the big screen of the Gloria Cinema, near Main Station Stuttgart.
Here is what the website of the FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM is saying about the event:
Selected productions from five years of Steinerei moderated by the founder of Steinerei Mathias Mertens and the brick film expert Karin Wehn.
A brick film is an animated film produced using bricks. And this more or less sums up the import of this genre – for films which are produced using Lego or other click brick toys possess a transnational charm which unites generations and to which almost no-one who has ever had studded bricks in their hand is immune. The German “Steinerei” festival has been held since 2005 and is the only independent festival for brick films worldwide. This annual competition has brought about an immense increase in both the creativity and quality of amateur productions. Anything is possible – from a walk through Legoland and spy thrillers to reflections on the character of cinema or 5 million years of human history.
playing around with Crazy Talk 6 - a really stupid Clip was the result.
Thanks a lot to “thefourmonkeys” beeing so fast sending us the voice-lines “in just seconds” 
it took a bit of experimenting. But finally it´s on youtube: our first 3D Lewo clip. Not an animated movie so far, but a short stereoscopic 3D walkthrough Legoland Germany. As it does not work the same like the 3D Cinema Movies right now on the screens, you can´t use your cinema-glasses. You need some anaglyph glasses or you can watch it cross-eyed or in paralell-mode. Clip the Clip and go to youtube to have al functions.
The Footage was shot with a Fuji Real 3D W1 camera, converted with Stereo Splicer in two single clips on our Mac and finalized with Quicktime, iMovie and Final Cut Studio. As this stupid Fuji Software does not really support OSX with the Stereo-Clips it shots we say “thankyou very much” to japanese programmer Junji Ikeda for creating Stereo Splicer and his very good and detailed tutorial how to make a Side-by-Side Clip on a Mac.
today is Sandra´s birthday. And fellow animator Mario Baumgartner from brick-potter.de made this nice little animation for her.
Thank you, mario - this is a nice present.
The words do say something like this:
March, 23: youth-TV-magazin “on3-suedwild” (produced for “Bayerischer Rundfunk”) will be in Guenzburg, Germany for a week to show what cool things go on and are in and around the bavarian town Guenzburg. “LEGOLAND Germany” is beside Guenzburg, so they will show at the first day of their visit a few things made with LEGO-Bricks. One aspect is “brickfilming” and we are asked to come to the TV-Show-Bus for an interview. Yep. We´ll be there…
Broadcasting will be on: March 23, 2010 - and the LIVE show is in between pm 16:30 up to 17:30, on br-alpha,
what can be seen digitally all over europe on Astra satellite and on most of the german cable networks.
It seems there is a live-sream too… check out this site and click “br-alpha” to watch it!
again, one of our animations is nominated for the “Bricks in Motion Award”, 2009.
“Total Eclipse of The Heart” (Only Men Aloud ft. Bonnie Tyler) is nominated in the following Categories:
- Best Cinematography
- Best Set Design
The other german brickfilmers in the list are:
“nichtgedreht” with their epic 2009 movie: “Alles ist die Noppe”.
Alles ist die Noppe from nichtgedreht on Vimeo.
See all the nominees here
The results will be announced in a live chat at a further date on bricksinmotion.com
Our friend and CEO of BOINX SOFTWARE, Oliver Breidenbach was invited to Macworld Expo 2010,
to show up and demonstrate their LIVE broadcasting and Podcast Software “BOINX TV” at the keynote of Guy Kawasaki.
He used our golego “iWash” clip, we made at the Apple Store Munich, inside his presentation. Very cool!
watch the clip on Macworld TV