When I make furniture for my videos I make it look interesting but not like just one color but I add alot of details.

Topic: Interior design

Look at a room in your house. Any room (except the attic). Look at the wall. And what’s at the bottom? A skirting. A long wooden panel painted a colour that is similar to the walk itself. Try and include these in your sets. Just a row of bricks that are a different colour at the bottom of the wall. Go watch a film by a good brickfilmer and check for the skirting.

P.S. I’ll sticky this when I find out how.

Topic: STORY

Brickfilming takes a lot of work. there are only a few “great” brickfilmers because of this — not everyone has the patience and willpower to actually finish something they started. If you plan to exert this much effort in making a project, I HIGHLY recommend that you write a strong, concise script before you begin, and / or (especially if there is limited dialog and lots of action) storyboard your entire film. If you can accomplish this pre-production work, your final project will look downright professional. It will also help keep you motivated, because you’ll know at every point in production how far along you really are.

-Nos

p.s. This was originally part of a PM I sent to T.G-Tom

“Leonardo812″ wrote: [quote="Hazzat"]

P.S. I’ll sticky this when I find out how.

No need. I did it for you.

-Leonardo[/quote]
Wow. I made a sticky-worthy topic!

What impresses everyone about Brickfilms is the fact that it’s LEGO people moving about, as opposed to usual film making methods such as live action or CGI animation. One thing I hate in movies is over-use of CGI. If there’s a big explosion, it’s more exciting to know that the explosion was actaully created, and wasn’t done on a computer. Where you can, you should do that with animations. I’m not suggesting that you create explosions and risk having your plastic models melt into nothing but a sludge, obviously that’s something you would have to use computers for, but the less CGI the better in my opinion.

I love to see that someone made the effort to create something special. You can tell if it was rushed.

Then again, when you see a brickfilm that looks like it was made by, say, an 8-year-old, you might find that it actually was. If I posted my 6-year-old’s brickfilm, people would likely say it sucks and has no plot, if they assumed it was made by someone much older. But, realizing that he’s 6, it actually shows quite a bit of care and patience. The plot is “silly guys on a construction site” Not a bad plot for a 6-year-old, but a rather lame plot for a 26-year-old.

I have no idea how old the average brickfilmer is (nowhere near as old as me, I’m sure), but I think it’s safe to assume that a whole lot of brickfilmers are pretty young. Frankly, I’m impressed by what I see most of the time. It took me months just to figure out the basics. I’m still trying to figure out some of it.

TOPIC: BACKGROUND:

For people who have been brickfilming awhile, this is obvious (and unheard of):
Nobody wants to see your bed in the background. If its an outdoor scene, create some sort of background. Paper, bricks, tilted up base plates, even computer generated backgrounds make all the difference.

By having background, it takes the viewer into the “brickfilm world” where they can imagine that set-ups are “real” and they appriciate the brickfilm more. If you have nromal things like furniture in the background, it takes you out of that sort of state of mind, making whatever animation going on seem that much less realistic.