Star Wars vs. Harry Potter - BOTW #10

Hello, people. A new BOTW has finally dawned on us, and it happens to be the 10th! Bit of a milestone, but long may it review brickfilms.
This week, I was using a lot of the amazing site bricksinmotion.com to find out films. I strongly recommend you to find films that way too. Right, on to the judging!
3.TED-E - ZachMG. This film is great. It's realistic, has great sound effects and music, and the animation of the robot is fantastic. It's a very creative idea, but I find the ending sad (spoilers!), but I like the fact the plot line is a mix of realistic, emotional and humorous. ZachMG is an animator that isn't just well-known for his humour, but mainly his animation quality (not to say that his humour isn't hilarious anyway!)
2.Timelapse Test - obscec. This is a quick film, but it's amazing. The set design is fantastic, but the lighting is the thing that I was most impressed by. Take it from me, he controlled and animated the light. Not only is that a very unique technique, but it's very, very hard to master, and that is what obscec (well known brickfilmer CrazyEd's second channel) has done. The only problem is that it doesn't feature any sound whatsoever, I thought he could put some calm, chiming music in the background (Come on, it would work!)
1.Harry Potter Meets A Rancor - brickshowtv/BrotherhoodWorkshop. This is a great idea. It's clever, unique, and has a great use of special effects. I think that this is a really cool animation, and is another funny idea from BrotherhoodWorkshop's creative mind. Also, if you watched the Behind The Scenes Video, you'll notice that a lot of work was put into this film. Masking, greenscreening, VFX, graphic design, voice acting, natural set design, animating on clay, is there anything Kevin Ulrich can't do?
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Happy Easter! BOTW #2

Ok, right, this is the big one. Who's going to win Brickfilm of the week? We have had some good competition, what with EASTER 2013 on bricksinmotion.com this week. But let's start. So tense!
3. City Hall - MinilifeTV. The new episode of MinilifeTV is about a new building opening in MinilifeCity. Co-presenter Ian is in fact the mayor of the city, and he does a virtual tour of the new building with everyone working in it. It is rich with jokes, and I think the creators are fantastic, humorous storytellers. They could easily be authors if they wanted to. MinilifeTV is great, definitely worth subscribing to. and their weekly videos will mean they will always be in competition in this blog!
2. Easter Chicks - CrazyEdChannel. I didn't really get this video last post, but since then, I found the animation great, the background effect amazing, and the chicks adorable. The fact that they are so big is
just hilarious. Wait- I'm going off task. CrazyEd animates at 24fps, and has built up a large subscriber amount for his funny videos and clever animating tricks. Overall, CrazyEd may be one of the most talented brickfilmers out there.
1.Skyfall Shanghai Clip (WIP) - ZachMG. I know, maybe I'm over-reacting to this video. But it's so awesome! The fighting, special effects, lighting, are all flawless. I think the entire brickfilming community wants this film to be completed. We totally need more ZachMG videos. And this video needs to get more views!
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And finally, the top 5 most viewed videos this week
1. Skyfall Shanghai Clip (WIP) - ZachMG
2. Easter Chicks - CrazyEdChannel
3. City Hall - MinilifeTV
4. EGGS 2 (EASTER 2013 entry) - justkiddenanim8ion
5. A Space Egg - sfugity

May The Chocolate Be With You - BOTW #1

This week has been a pretty exciting week for brickfilmers, as the new EASTER 2013 animation challenge on bricksinmotion.com has been set. Also, April Fools Day inspired a couple animations. So I had a hard choice to decide this, but I came up with my favourite three.

MunchySquid's Replacement Montage is my first choice. Many people entered the Replacement animation contest, like TheFourMonkeys4, but Harrison Allen, who is the founder of AnnoyingNoisesInc., produced a unique entry that experimented with lighting as well as other cleverly used techniques.

ZachMG's Skyfall Clip is my second. ZachMG doesn't produce content often, but when it does come out, the quality is always immaculate (This has led his subscriber amount to 30,000!). He doesn't always participate in animation challenges, but he has his own website he participates to, MotionPXL.

TheFourMonkeys Easter Entry is my third and final. TheFourMonkeys like to enter animation challenges on bricksinmotion.com. They seem to make one video a week, which is hard and time consuming. But even though they have full time jobs, they still have time to spend on their passion, brickfilming!

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And finally, the top 5 brickfilms this week (counting through views)
1. EPIC MOVIE IN LEGO -  MADABOUTLEGO
2. Magnetic Iron Man- MonsieurCaron
3. Skyfall Shanghai Clip - ZachMG
4. I Told You - thefourmonkeys4
5. Episode 43 - Snowball's Party PART 2 - MinilifeTV