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 “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.
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
New mysterious Apple product seen in Apple Store Munich.
Will this be the new product line in 2010 ?
We had the chance to “see” and film it while our 2 hour brickfilm workshop LIVE inside the Apple Store, Munich.
The workshop with me and Sandra was to show people, what brickfilming is and what we use for it. We were invited by Boinx Software (creators of iStopMotion) and Apple to this Artis-Serial called “Made on a MAC”. The workshop was cool, all the people very nice and the APPLE Store Munich was crowded. The people very interested in what we made and showed. First there was a overview about stopmotion and why LEGO bricks are so cool to animate. Then we made an animated short right inside the store.
Keep in mind that the first part of the Movie was made LIVE at the Apple Store in Munich (with a lot of people watching), so the light flickers and you can see the reflections of the audience at the brickish front of the Lego-made-Apple-Store. The second part of the Clip was made at home, one day prior to the event. We combined both parts, the Sound-Effects, the Music and Voices at the end of the brickfilm-show inside the Store.
You can watche the brickfilm commercial for the “iWash” we made (english & german version) - and there is a clip about the brickfilm-Show-Event.
english version:
german version:
clip about the LEGO FILM event at the Apple Store Munich, germany:
a huge dragon, swimming in front of the LEGO-Store (Downtown Disney), Orlando, FL, USA. Again it was a nice visit and the trunk of the car was fully loaded with a few brand-new LEGOSETS. Home again it was time to build them. And we made some animated time-laps clips, with the new bricks. In the same time, we were setting up a new Playlist on youtube for time-laps clips, we called it “golego SpeedBuilding” See it HERE
Sets 21000, 21001, 21002, 21004 - LEGO Architecture:
Set 7592 - CONSTRUCT-A-BUZZ
Set 7594 - WOODY´S ROUNDUP!
Set 10210 - IMPERIAL FLAGSHIP
Sets 7968 & 7971 - LEGO Racers
Our X-Mas Film 2009 was made for the “Christmas-Contest 2009″ by brick-cinema.com - The Film won second Place!
A spoof about something that happens every day, worldwide. And why should it not happen to this guy ? It´s in german, but if you click in the clip and it directs you to youtube, you´ll get english subtitles. Have fun!