hueybricks

good work, Queen are awesome.

I thought that was great, you have some really good ideas there and you have created a very good animation with sound effects that suit and have good timing with the action on screen. The only thing I would suggest is try to have more consistent lighting.

haha! Caveman minifigs would be sweet

Very nice, good work.

There is enough material in the Hobbit book to make a whole range of sets, dragons, dwarves, elves, castles, mines and treasure plus whatever else Peter Jackson is going to put in that isn't actually in the story. All of the other LotR merchandise seems to have dried up so I can see it being a real possibility.

Haha, that was great!

Hmmm, well i'll will go back and have another look at it. I'm still coming to terms with being a AFOL, the Mysterious Sphinx was my first big lego purchase as an adult and i decided that it had more potential in set building for brickfilming than the others. I was tossing up weather to get both the Cursed Cobra Statue and Duel in the Air which would have been $100 or just the Sphinx which was $100 on its own. I couldn't bring myself to blow $200 to get all 3 just yet. I did want the female minifig and the revlover that came with the cobra set so it probably won't take much for me to go and pick one up.

I don't know much about the adventure series, i just picked up my first one last night 7326 Mysterious Sphinx. I think all of the PQ line look really good apart from the Cobra Attack set. I would like to see them do something with the King Solomons Mines story, that would be sweet. As for snow and ice themes there are plenty of snowy mountainous areas that they could do a hunt for bigfoot/yeti theme.

I think that your clip is very good, it fits the tempo of the music well. Once you read a few books on animation and start to learn new techniques you will never watch a cartoon the same way again.

That was really good! I thought the scene of the band playing together just before the bus hits them was fantastic, your timing there was bang on. I'm new to stopmotion as well and haven't produced much yet but I can tell you a couple of things that have helped me. I noticed some light flicker though out your film and there are some things that you can do to reduce/eliminate this. What settings can you adjust manually on your camera? Everything that can be set to manual should be. The most important being white gain, if you can't adjust this then you most probably won't be able to get rid of the flicker entirely. The settings need to be exactly the same for each still. I don't know what you are using for lighting but I can tell you that you should never use natural light, it changes over time as clouds go over etc and will effect your shot, always use lamps to light your set. I use a logitech webcam9000, all of its settings including gain are adjustable manually. The beauty of using a webcam is that you don't have to touch the camera to take a still, it is done via the pc so there is no risk of bumping the camera. As for timing I can help you a little, in traditional animation they use keyframes where the animator will draw the initial character position then draw the character again as they want it to be seen at a particular time. They know what frame rate they are using (24fps for instance) so they know how many frames they need to get from the initial frame to the first keyframe. They call these the inbetweens. This doesn't translate perfectly over to stopmotion because you have to shoot in sequence but what I do is go way over the top and shoot way more frames than i need using very small movements between stills, so when you start compiling you can choose your keyframes and delete the inbetweens selectively to keep your animation fluid. I hope this is helpful to you. There is alot of information on animation out there, i have a couple of books that have really helped and there is alot on the net too.

I just watched yours, your idea to simulate smoke works really well, good job. I don't have any experience on macs, I use monkeyjam for frame capture but I import the stills into movie maker live in windows7 to compile. I think it does a better job than monkeyjam at producing clips. In movie maker live you can reduce the frame duration for each still down to .03sec. I use .04 which is approx 24fps. I'm still starting out and haven't decided if i'm going to get better software yet.

Haha! That looks great.

It will be interesting to see if any new sets based on the expanded universe appear after SWTOR is released. I think it will generate alot of interest among people who have only seen the motion pictures. I would expect that there will be alot of new characters introduced in it.

Here in New Zealand they have been $5 each at Toyworld, I had not heard of a price increase before i read this thread. I don't think I'd be getting any if the price goes up.

No sorry, I don't remember.