Mac vs PC: LEGO Brickfilming

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Mac vs PC: LEGO Brickfilming

Hey yeah! I’ve done this with my friend before! We Used clay in it too, for blood effects and stuff. I should do this again sometime.

Good article thanks!

hey chris you rock your my role model.
please pick me for the laptop give away. I have an ibook g4 which always lags and i really need a new laptop and my parents wont by me one. (Im a 12 year old in need :P)

Man, makes me wish I hadn’t given away my massive lego collection in high school when it wasn’t quite cool anymore. Just goes to show that stuff always comes back around…

I used to love playing with Legos when I was a kid. I’d love to do that sort of thing but I lack the patience and vision needed to see it through.

I don’t do it but I did find a really cool brickfilming video a couple days ago…its the lego version of Jamiriquai’s “Virtual Insanity”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1WeAID1It8

Stop motion takes a long time
and making it with legos in some cases takes even longer
He did a great job on it

Hey cool thing.. Do you have a tripod or something?? The camera doesn’t move at all.. Cool..

Never thought I could see a video like that here ^^

keep it up

I like it. I could stay up all night watching these videos. I watched a couple already on YouTube. I will have to check out more later. The lego people are cute.

Haha, that was hilarious! My friends and I made several “brickfilms” in the past, but the quality was never too good as we just used a camera to grab the shots. Looking back on it, Final Cut would have been alot better. I really enjoy “Hypotheticl Situations”. Cheers!

Gregg
http://www.tascrafts.com

I forgot about this until I just looked at it. Someone at school brickfilmed an English project a few years back. I think the teacher said it was at 25FPS. The show was 5 minutes long, and the 3 students say they took ~50 hours to do all of it. Sounds like they have practice.
LOL on what I think the Lego said, my sound wasn’t on all the way. But the movement looks exactly like it should be :D

I love the stop motion of the mac ad. my son who is only 12 is starting to do stop motion with his lego, and though his only last for a couple of seconds I fully understand the patience need.

It’s funny, I was just thinking about people doing LEGO Brickfilming. Well, I was watching a video on YouTube of it – it’s sometimes very amusing to watch what people have done with LEGO.

I used to never understand the hobby of doing LEGO brickfilming, but now that I’ve tried it (once, but I’ve still tried it), I can understand why people like doing it. It can be fun to do and sometimes a challenge, but that’s what I like.

The part where you mentioned about your Net friends doing their best to re-create the Chris Pirillo home office experience in LEGO is pretty cool. I used to love building things like thoe when I was a kid.

The video had me on the floor. So true.

That’s a great clip. Awesome work. I’ve seen similar things done with action figures as well, not to mention that there are -many- webcomics out there today which use lego as their media, though the comics are all still frame. My wife is a big fan of such things. I must admit that this was the first time I’ve seen it done with lego. It’s wonderful, and it ought to have seemed the next natural step to the things I had already seen. When I show my son the clip he is going to go nuts over it. He may perhaps have found a new hobby, and I have to say its one I can’t find flaw in.

There’s a error it should be: Continue or cancel
UAV does not ask to “allow” (wrong word)

Anyway, apple is right UAV is asking to much,
damn vista security is annoying.

I wonder when the first windows virus will be able to press Alt+C to continue and bypass vista “security feature” or in Microsoft terms the call the already a managements feature.

(Apple could say at some point “please enter password” but this happens lucky A LOT less.)

I love Legos! I am a strong believer that the promote logic development in children and they are just plain fun to play with. I still find them fascinating to this day. One of the best toys ever created in my opinion. Oh and that video, that was great and very creative.

lol that is good. I’ve always thought about doing a stop motion video, but I don’t have a very good program or ideas. I like the mac vs. pc though.

It’s about the 10th time I’ve hit the play button and my sides still hurt, Absolutely brilliant!, I’d say brickfilming could be mad fun once you get into it!

-Mark

Hi, i used to do this sort of stuff. I had a whole giant lego town that i built. So it was basically a city with everything you could possibly think of in. It had painted scenery and nice views of the countryside on the walls etc. O and yes it did have technology in it (lol) with a real running train and some lights and stuff. So yer back to the point of this little comment, i used to make entire lego films using my vast city of lego as a set. :) It was good fun and i really enjoyed it. So i encourage people out there to have a go at brickfilming, its gd fun lol.

Cya
MacAttack100

I think it’s a good hobby if you have nothing to do. If you practice harder, maybe you could do stuff like children cartoons. Yes, they need excellent scripting and it eats lots of time but It’s worth the time and effort.

in my experience mac working o desings are better than pc but i think if u can u recommend to get 1 mac and 1 pc

thats cool chris. with stop motion film you can do fake magic. you can even make it really real by fast forwarding it.

I guess I’d never try stop motion or any sort of animation like that. It involves too much and, like he said, it’s a bit too tedious. This one above with only the dolls was really well-done, voice and all.

But just building LEGO stuff with as many sets as you can muster up is such an incredible therapy — a great hobby and some light exercise to get busy with at the same time.

That’s cool.. Guess I have to break out the legos. Thanks for the link to the site. Not sure if I have time.. but it looks like a fun project. Take a current commercial and make your own lego action. Sweet.

I have tried to do this in the past after about 4 hours i realized i didn’t do it right and it didn’t look as good as i hoped i gave up and decided to leave it to the professionals

Legos! YAY! I have a set of those Lego Mindstormers.. and they are AWESOME! They let you build little robots and then program then with a USB cable… its really cool. Anyways, this lego post made me remember that.

That is really cool. My friends did Brickfilming for a school project, and I was just blow away by it.

I have made only about one lego video Hopefully this summer I will make a couple more.

i love legos

i THINK WE GET IT MAC YOUR WAY BETTER THAN PC

lol hilarouis that is true though i run a stupid windows viasta and it requires me to click allow or block all the time it doesent even save the answer

Haha the video was brilliant, very well made!

These video’s are O.k, but I do not like Apple commercials, because most of the time, all they are doing are criticizing Windows on things which is completely not true. I do not mind Apple as a company, but I do not like their marketing schemes.

The legowork on the other hand, is good. Even though its 15fps, it appears to be smooth.

The LEGO community is astonishing! LEGOs have deeply impacted modern society in a way that no other toy( that I know of) has done.( maybe the rubik’s cube)

Thats a pretty cool Video. I like the little story of the UAC.
I’ve always wondered how people make videos like that. They have to make each little change and film it to make it look good. I’ve never done anything but I can imagine the patience you need to have to make something. Good Job Lego Shark and Welcome to Live.Pirillo.com

I was watching the one about Creation, and thought it was very well done. at least he’s using Lego’s, it would be ALOT harder to mold with clay.

Cool, Looks good I always wanted to build a large city of legos and film it you could make a whole movie this way.
i found a Nero wolfe site called the wolfe pack and in the links is where someone was starting to recreate the Nero Wolfe’s Brownstone home/office but i cound only find the front entrance, how about some more of you legoies try to make it?
I wish I could Afford to buy legos. i have gathered some frames of a movie and want to rearrange them then put them together into some sort of movie with a decent frame rate the windows movie maker seems to be to slow frame wise.

WOW, that was really great! Brickfilming looks like a fun hobby, though I don’t think I could take the time to do 15 frames per second. Very creative and the characters actually look like their real counterparts! LEGOs are so awesome!

Thanks!

I think lego brick filming is very cool and that Mac PC video you had on the bottom was hilarious. Thanks for turning me on to this.

i tried to do something like this once, but i gave up it is very tedious work.

That video was nice & creative! Lego sure allows one to do a lot of interesting and unique things. Good job with this video Legobricker.

hehe, thats pretty cool. I think the idea of stopmotion animation in general is really cool, and something that just about anyone can do without alot of knowledge about how film and art works these days. The Lego stuff is fun too, since it makes the job of moving the limbs around much easier. Reminds me of Lego Star Wars :D

Wow I saw some junk brickfilming but that was actually pretty good. It seems that if you can get your pictures and timing all lined up properly then when you put everything together it actually produces a nice result. Sure takes a lot of patience so my respect for that.

Wow though, LEGOs…I used those when I was like a 7 year old. I wonder what it would be like using them now…weird…

As far as the Mac vs. PC commercials I completely agree with Tpavra. The schemes they use to manipulate their target audience is weak, and I lose respect for Apple. Personally attacking opponents in such a direct manner is pretty immature. I am surprised to not see any rebuttals from Microsoft…

That is great! I love stop-motion, I always find it so comical and so entertaining. Great job with this piece of artwork LegoShark.

30 years ago i showed my kids how to do animation with a Fairchild sound movie camera and Fisher-Price figures. what progress. tempus sure does fugit. what will be the next great advance? eeb

lol i remembered the first time LegoShark came into the chatroom. we were talking all about stop-motion animation. amazing how a 13 year old kid can do that… i feel unaccomplished.. lol jk.

i love doing this. i do this with my friend everyday. me make different movies with his webcam. i never tried it with legos though. ill give it a try now thanx

Wow, it must take a lot of work to come out with the end product. I love this type of animation, it is so creative. The video of the MAC vs PC done with Legos is great.

Wow, thanks for featuring me, Chris! As soon as I get done red-doing my editing studio, I will be doing your Bloopers :)

This looks pretty fun but by the looks of it very time consuming.

The original mac vs pc spots are also very ugly why making them out of lego?
These spots aren’t funny and one of the weakest things apple have ever done.
Apple is a company making adds that windows is bad but they never say that macs are god.
Apple also have to change his form of making his OS popular.

Lol, really nice video. I’m not a lego fun, but I sure like it, so really nice combination he did there lol, btw, I love mac :)

AaaH! This has been around for a while now, it seems it’s more than a fad.

Heck, who remembers The White Stripe’s music video with a ton of LEGO stop-motion, it looked amazing.

wish I wouldn’t have given away my lego collections when they weren’t quite cool anymore. Just goes to show that some stuff always comes back anyways.

I think that this is really good, for those who has much free time, it’s great to show people that you are creative and some people are really made for this kind of stuff, some things are really amazing, but seeing this video with all the badmouthing against Microsoft, sure windows has some flaws but it’s not a reason to diss it, i think that is really childish and i hate OS wars.

I used to make animations with Legos all the time. My friend and I even made a feature length movie a while back. It took us about 4 years though, so I doubt I’ll be doing anything that intensive again very soon. This definitely makes me want to get back into this though. Nicely done video LegoShark… even if I don’t agree with its message haha.

I LIKE LEGOS!
(sorry about that)
I never knew people did anything like this. It’s like the legos are really moving on their own (they have a life). I should try that sometime.

Great job with the brickfilm. I liked how you reenacted the apple commercial with the brickfilm using LEGOS. I’ve never tried, is it hard to do? Maybe i can try it one day or another. Thanks, and great clip

LOL! I love brick films, or any stop motion for that matter.

I remember trying to do stop-motion Myst (The old PC game) with legos and an old Fuji digital. It’s VERY difficult, especially when trying to keep the lighting consistent. Still fun, though.

Wow. 15 frames per second? That is alot of work! These kinds of videos are a blast to watch though. The gestures of a little LEGO man are sometimes better than a humans. The embedded video included in this blog post provides a good example.

I do not have the patience to do such a project, but it looks like those who do are doing a great job! keep up the great work, guys!

I rarely watch the stop motion videos on Youtube but still I find about a quarter of the ones I see interesting. And there is always robot chicken which is essentially stop motion and funny. The only foray I’ve made into stop motion is making gifs. A lot of the stop motions videos aren’t funny or interesting in content and that failing is not solved by having the content portrayed by legos or action figures. The stop motion I like would be funny if done my humans or cats with hats.

I’ve seen some of those videos indeed. I really like em and about every week I’ll just search for some new about PC vs Mac or similair. I knew there was some work involved but never conciously how much.

Gonna think alot more about the work involved in making a vid like this in the future. :)

Anything with Legos is entertaining, there was a spiderman 2 parody in the net that was hilarious. Did a search on lego movie in youtube and some of the were very interesting.

Vista is getting owned… Allow XD

BrickFilming is really fun. One of my friends once made a 30 minute show with just the lego. It took him well over a few months, and by the time it was done, we all realized that we have way tom much free time. It’s pretty fun nevertheless, a true test of patience.

Brickfilming sounds very tedious indeed. But I think its the end result that counts. It takes a lot of determination and definitely paitience to make a video like that. I love working with videos, and I think I am willing to take the challenge and eventually try somethng like this. All i need is a tub of lego :)

I tried to do Lego filming once. It didn’t work out very well , and I only got 5 frames per second. It was really, really choppy. I think LegoShark does a whole lot better than anyone else I have seen.

I think this type of filming is pretty cool, well it depends how it’s made and how well, but i think PC is better for brickfilming because you can always tune your PC up to your own expectations as for Mac you have to buy a new one or something right?

Oh guys… LEGO?! damn… grow up!!! use Playmobil!! ^^

The lego films are hilar. we do this kind of stuff – but need to try Brickfilming for better results. My kids are the ones who set it up and spend hours getting it right. I just get to watch.

i did this in a movie editing class in high school. And i love the the fact that they make fun of windows vista always asking you if it can do some thing i think the is the wrost thing they could have done.

So Chris, you should totally do a Youtube video completely in lego. The real question is what OS do lego-enthusiasts prefer?

great hobby and or talent! it must be really hard work but fun in the end of the day!

The clip was great… but I felt like I only watched three different movements the whole time! :) (not dissing… not dissing).

I’m actually attempting to use a program that puts the movements in (i.e. you move a hand and it creates the frames up to that point). I’m doing more of a south park style though… but it’s still fun to try.

It’s pretty sweet to see this stuff have personality though.

Kind Regards,
-Shaina

Cool movie!Very artistic way to compare these systems.I’ve never seen this type of presentation with lego people:)but I enjoyed it.Thank you!

I love people who make stopmo. They always have fascinated me at how much patience a person needs to have to create one. Ive seen the one you embedded before, its such a good one. If he did make a call for help bloopers vid, im sure we could give it a lot of support to drive up the views. Keep up the good work :)

Well Chris, i don’t know much about lego and all that, but ill try to find it now by using the links u provided
the next time u post about it , i think i can understand it well because i didn’t understand what is this now.

Gotta love stop motion and legos, so many great things have been created, and the time spent making them isn’t small. Props to all the people who make them keep up the funny work

pc is best than mac becuse it is faster !!! go pc

This is really cool. I have tried to make animations in Adobe Flash before but, I just not have the patients for it. I could not imagine how long this takes you have to build the set, Make the people, Move then and take pictures of them, upload the pics to your computer (which there is probably thousands of!), and last put them all together. Its cool, you just have to have the patients. :)

Legos must hate PC. Wonder how long it takes to make one of those?

I always wanted to do something like this but I haven’t owned a LEGO in years. I really think that they should be deemed the greatest toy of all time. Maybe you should do something like this with your Flip camera Chris?

Nice! I finally have a use for iStopMotion, a Mac application I got when I bought the MacHeist II bundle back in January. I have a lot of LEGO bricks around and, surely, I will have to learn a lot to do stop motion using the Mac’s iSight camera… but… once I do, I will let you guys know what I’ve done.

Brickfilming is cool until you do a sick video like the one above. Macs suck!

VISTA RULES!!!!

that is really funny apple should start to do these are commercials because they are so funny

My cousin was telling me about something he did with his little toy cars like this. Then we watched part of it, he was using the shoot frame feature, and it was cool looking because the cars just sorta moved on their own. I guess if I wanted to see that I could go to YouTube or something and search for car. Anyways, I want to try something like that someday.

I love stop-motion animation and I love Legos! What an unbeatable combination. ;0P Thanks for posting that funny video.

I remember also being you and staying up to play with legos. And now its on my computer.
good times good times.

i’ve been doing stop motion animation for about a year now. i only tried a leggo film once, but i’m just more of a clay person,….

I remember staying up to play with legos and now thankfully it is on my computer. THANK YOU Lego.

: )

Anthony (LegoShark) is actually who pointed me and I’ve been hooked on your blog and your videos ever since.

I, myself am also a “brickfilmer”. I’ve produced several films since I started when I was around 10 years old. LEGO is great because everyone knows about it, and most people even own some (in fact, there’s enough LEGO in the world for everyone on earth to own 52 bricks). I love seeing people’s reactions when they see the little figures move around on the screen.

Mac’s and PC’s are basically just as good right now for stop motion films. There is a new Mac software called Dragon Stop Motion that is supposedly a good program for Mac’s. I haven’t tried it since I only have a PC.

The best software for PC’s is Stop Motion Pro. It is actually used by Aardman Animations in the UK “Wallace and Gromit creators” and was made with their input. It’s available for regular consumers in different versions depending on functionality and price.

The most basic program out there for PC’s that is free is called Anasazi that you can get at http://www.animateclay.com.

There is also a free web based capture site at http://pagesperso-orange.fr/vallin/animation/onionskin/onionskin.html.

It really comes down to the available software and not the OS.

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In response to jorg pihelgas –

Absolutely not. Apple computers are multimedia power houses, and the applications that can be run on them surpass most if not all Stop- motion and Media Editing apps for PC. You don’t need to beef up your computer for stop- motion at all.