Fleay, Lindsay. the Magic Portal. YouTube
Working on this article exposed me to lots of really cool and fun brickfilms, and I hope more and more people continue to use Legos to get their creative ideas out there on film. Anyone with the time and equipment can join in on the fun. You can alter the lighting by changing your brightness and contrast settings of the camera or software. Hurliger. "Lego Stop Motion Tutorial: How to Build a Nice Camera Tripod." YouTube. Lego also makes high-end architecture sets for famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House and London's Tower Bridge. You can build based on the instructions, or piece together whatever you like from one or more sets. Other elements, such as the voice acting and dialogue, can convey character emotion, as well. Claymation relies on, predictably, clay as the primary sculpting medium for the characters - think "Wallace and Gromit." Others, including "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and sequences with the titular character in the live-action 1933 film "King Kong," use poseable figures. Artic le was g enerated by GSA Con tent Generator DEMO.
The figures also have their faces painted on, so you have to get creative to make them appear expressive. The bricks and other construction pieces come in multiple colors and sizes, and you can buy the ones you need if you have your own special design in mind. Animation software also lets you tweak lighting and colors and add other special effects. The most common method of creating a brickfilm is stop-motion photography, but some filmmakers use other methods, like filming actual moving props and figures (held by wires, hands or the like), and some throw in other elements like live-action human actors, claymation and computer-generated imagery (CGI) for special effects. You can also find some pre-recorded sound effects online or in software packages. Since you're taking a series of still shots, you can try incrementally moving the camera toward whatever you want to zoom in on instead. Traditional live-action films are made up of still images, as well. The resulting series of still images is strung together and played in quick succession as a movie, creating the illusion that the characters and other objects are in motion. A film's speed is given in frames per second (fps), which is the number of still images that flash before your eyes in one second.
The camera (whether meant for capturing still or moving images) will just need to allow you to take still shots and export them for editing. Dedicated stop-motion software often allows you to connect your camera to your computer and run the software while you take your shots (although you might need to check your camera compatibility). As you can imagine, these take quite a while to stage and film, and likely even longer to get them looking the way you want. Of course, the more pictures you take for each movement, the smoother the end result. Even a one-minute, 24-fps film takes 1,440 pictures. Some even have two faces, one on the front and one on the back, only requiring a turn. You can use a fancy camera with expensive lenses, a webcam or even the camera on your cellphone. A camera with remote capture capabilities might help you avoid having to touch it constantly (reducing the likelihood of it accidentally moving out of place).
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There are plenty of online tutorials for lighting stop-motion, or specifically brickfilm shoots, to help you get started and avoid pitfalls. Its graphics are especially impressive given that it was shot and edited on film, and it no doubt inspired many later brickfilm makers. The kids used stop motion, props on wires and one live-action shot of a foot to depict a rocket launch, journey and moon landing. Autofocus will often change when you don't want it to, or focus on the wrong element in the shot. You will probably also want to keep doors to other rooms shut to keep out other household light. The head will turn, and the arms and legs will swing forward and backward, but that's about it. Not only do the sets give children (and adults) the ability to build lots of cool buildings and vehicles out of Lego bricks, connectors and other construction necessities, but they also come with appropriate props and minifigures. Mega Bloks has the rights to make building sets for several franchises including the video games "Halo," "Call of Duty" and "Assassin's Creed," as well as the Barbie and Hello Kitty toy franchises. There are sets for buildings from various localities and time periods, from Medieval castles to Wild West towns to modern city blocks, and vehicles of all sorts, from pirate ships to automobiles to spaceships.
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