Although I don't speak 100% English, I like watching your videos, they always help me, I watch them with subtitles so I can understand, honestly your work is helping me a lot and I bet other people are too, thank you ;)
I have some questions 1. What’s your opinion on working with a green screen for brickfilms for space/ moon videos? 2. How can you make your set feel more like the moon? Can you use sand or something else? 3. How can you make a minifigure fat can you use clay or sticky tac? 4. Is it bad to record voices after animating?
Hi, here are my answers: 1. Personally I don't like working with green screens but I think it could be good for a space / moon video because you could use some awesome backgrounds by green screening. 2. Yes, you could use sand. If you make it into a black and white video then it won't matter that the sand is a sort of golden colour. Or you could make it look more grey with your lighting. Or you could use some kind of dust, like chalk dust or if you can find any kind of grey powder in your local craft shop. 3. Yes, you can. I have seen brickfilms where they have used a piece of clay to make the minifigure fat and it looked really good. Sticky tac probably won't look good because it won't be the right colour but clay could work. You need to match the colour really closely with the torso piece to make it look right. 4. It's fine to record the voices after animating. In my opinion, it actually doesn't matter that much which way round you do it, so long as you make sure that your thinking about how the animation and the audio will fit together.
Hey couple of final questions for right now 1. Is it Ok. To have 2 of the same characters with the same voice or does that mean that the person has Multiple Personality Disorder? 2. How can you show a TH-cam clip in your brickfilm and showing a character watching it legally? 3. Can you have the same voices or a character that another TH-camr uses? Or it’s that gonna be a problem? 4. How do you write a good abs decent Brickfilm Script on Celtext?
Sorry for the delay in replying. 1. Yes, it is okay, but it is better to have different voices if you can. It can get confusing when two characters have the same voice, especially if there is a scene with just the two of them talking to each other. 2. It's fine, if you download and use a short clip and show your character watching it, it is legal. You are unlikely to get copyright strike from it. Tips for not getting a copyright strike - make it a short clip, show it on a TV screen, turn down the audio 3. It's totally fine to have the same voices or characters as another TH-camr. If the other TH-camr created the characters then you should credit them, and probably ask their permission because that's just polite. 4. You can write a good brickfilm script on anything. I write mine on Microsoft Word, Notepad, in a notebook, and on the back of old envelopes.
(Answer to question number two) Gold Puffin has a video on this I think, and ya, I guess technically someone could find you for copy-right, but HIGHLY doubt it.And before you make your video with someone else's clip you could ask the person, and if they don't answer, you could at least put them in the credits.
I have some questions to ask you 1. how do you animate 2 minifigures moving a couch? 2. how do you animate a pizza or ice cream truck strike or hit a off road truck? 3. how do you animate a Live news broadcast from a news scene? 4. how do you animate a traffic stop with 2 characters talking and one is them in a car and the police officer minifigure is outside of the car? 5. how do you add a intersection Lego piece on a Lego Base plate? 6. how do you animate a rollover accident and make both vehicles involved on fire? 7. how do you animate a helicopter flying down and making a oil truck spill out oil? 8. how do you animate Lego ice being used to Freeze Lego Minifigures can you use blue paint? 9. how do you film inside of a Italian Restaurant and use white table cloths? 10. is it bad to have a 2 part Pilot video? 11. if you get a DSLR camera can you make your first brickfim using it?
Sorry that's a lot of questions. I really don't think I can give a full answer to all of them as it takes me so long answering comments these days. 1. Have one walk forwards and one walk backwards, like at the start of my Rise of the Zombies brickfilm where they're carrying the stretcher. 2. What a video of something like that happening in real life and then try to replicate. 3. There's nothing particular special about that. Just give a minifigure a microphone and have him as your reporter. 4. It really depends on how you want the shot to look - I can't go through all the options in a reply. 5. I don't know what that question means. Are you talking about a crossroads? Use blu-tack. Sorry, but that's as far as I'm going to go with answering because I don't have time to answer such a long list of questions especially when each one would be very compicated to answer properly.
Doing Lego stop motion like this has always interested me and something I want to have a go at in my spare time always great to be able to find help like this👍
Thank you gold puffin😊 That was very helpfull. What really helped is learning how to put your fingers in to move the set around. I also liked your technique of making the motorcycle go really fast. I will use these techniques in my stop motions!
I just came back to say thank you! Its been about a year and a half since I binged all your tutorials and now I have 265 subscribers! Thank you for all your help its been a fun journey so far and you've helped the whole way
Your 10 tips videos are always so good and the reason I found your channel in the first place. I know there are Brickfilm books out there but I wonder if you have enough content for a 'video book' of some sort? Maybe a video for a table of contents which then links to videos on specific information (something a little more 'guiding' than a playlist). I've begun to put generic card backgrounds into a folder (Brick wall, painted wall, pictures, doors etc) so they can be re-used.
Good idea, I could do with having a folder like that and I do think I need to start using card backgrounds sometimes because they sometimes look better than Lego. Thanks for the "video book" suggestion, I'll think about how I can do that.
The main thing I would say is to build the hospital and the waiting room with plenty of space inside it, because if everything is too close together you won't have enough space for minifigures to walk around. A waiting room is quite simple to make - you need lots of chairs, doors, a vending machine, a reception desk, and one or two tables. A Lego Wayne Manor is much more complicated, and it would be best to try to just make one room is you can otherwise it's going to take ages. Just look on Google images until you find a room in Wayne Manor that looks easy enough to build!
Very helpful! I’ll use these tips for our new videos to come! Great info 😊 I trust this information because you’re videos seem very high quality. Thanks.
What is the music in the middle of the video? P.S. Really love your vids keep up the great work. While you don't have all the materials that Alexander does, you make the most of it and it really shows. Good job! 👍
The way to know where the camera can see is to set the camera up on the stand and turn it on, and then start building the set, and mark out the edges of where the camera can see on your set whilst you are looking at the camera screen. Making the hospital and room good will take time and patience - it means you need to add details, but start with the basics like the walls and doors and chairs, then use Google to find images of hospital waiting rooms to see what kinds of details they might have and add whatever you can.
The way to know where the camera can see is to set the camera up on the stand and turn it on, and then start building the set, and mark out the edges of where the camera can see on your set whilst you are looking at the camera screen. Making the hospital and room good will take time and patience - it means you need to add details, but start with the basics like the walls and doors and chairs, then use Google to find images of hospital waiting rooms to see what kinds of details they might have and add whatever you can.
I have several questions 1. How do you feel about the program Stop Motion Explosion? I frequently use it, but some people wanted me to use Stop Motion Studio instead. But I've been using SME for a long time, is it a good program? 2. Is it bad to record voices before animating? 3. Is green screen good for when you can do stuff like Atlantis? 4. Where do you get your sound effects in?
1. I haven't used Stop Motion Explosion, but I have heard that it is very good. Stop Motion Studio is a good app, but if you are able to do what you want in SME then keep using it. 2. It is fine to record voices before animating - actually, it can be better because you can fit the animation to the voices. 3. Yes, green screen is good for Atlantis and stuff like that but you will need to practice and what some tutorials because green screening isn't easy, or at least it isn't easy to make it look really good. The lighting is the difficult part. 4. I get them from www.freesound.org and sometimes from the TH-cam audiolibrary
Hey last questions 1. How do you animate 2 people having a conversation in a 2 seater Lego car is it acceptable and Ok. To use the Over the Shoulder shot it seems like shooting 2 characters talking would be so hard and frustrating! 2. How do you loop voices to the characters in Audacity?
Hi, I'll try to answer 😁 1. I think the over the shoulder shot is acceptable but not as good as shooting from the front or sides. You can modify the car to help with those shots. If the two people having the conversation are sitting next to each other it's natural to shoot from the sides or an angled shot from in front e.g. 45 degrees. I don't understand the second question. All I do in audacity is record the audio and some basic editing like trimming. Sometimes I do other things like pitch shifting, boosting volume, etc too. Syncing the voices with the animation is the next step but I do that in Adobe Premiere.
And also for question 3 how can you make sure that the clay or sticky tac will stay on your minifigure and can you make it disappear without showing your hands can it be done in editing?
I don't exactly understand the rest of the question. Sticky tac is very very sticky and will not fall off your minifigure if you press it on firmly. Clay is not quite as sticky but might be fine - if it doesn't seem secure, you could use sticky tac under the clay to help make sure it is firmly stuck in place.
Another question what if you have a nighttime sequence as the opening scene of a brickfilm and you want to film a helicopter flying Thur the nighttime skies how do you do it? And also what would he the correct pronunciation this on Celtext or Google Docs “we start with a opening scene with Joker and his henchmen causing trouble in the skies or this Joker and his henchmen are causing trouble from up above. Please let me know thanks.
Hi, either of those ways of saying it are fine, although I would always say "the Joker" instead of "this joker" or just "joker". For a nighttime sequence, I recommend if you have any small lights that you can put inside the helicopter then do that. Use a dark background, and keep the shot dark with a single fairly weak light from above which needs to be white / silvery in tone (not yellowish if possible) so that it looks like moonlight.
I did an effect like that for an upcoming video. Basically, you film what you want on the screen download that as a video. Then you film the actual screen itself. I imported the video I wanted on the screen onto my project. You just have to crop it to fit.
For Wayne Manor, I kind of answered this in my replies to your other comments. It depends why you are building it and what action is going to take place there. My advice is to Google it, choose one room and build that. Making minifigures appear and disappear is the easiest thing ever in stop motion because all you have to do is take a photo with the minifigure and one without it.
Ok. Here’s another question could you have a theme song at the beginning of your brickfilm’s and also a title card and how do you animate a mini figure getting hit by a car and thrown in the air.
Hi, yes, it's always a good idea to have a theme song and a title card. My advice is to keep the intro short - like 10 seconds or less because most people like to get into the main part of the video quickly. If you want to animate a minifigure flying through the air after being hit by a car, there are two or three options. 1. Get the minifigure to fly through the air by using clay or "blu-tac" to stick it onto objects by the side of the road, like a lamppost, a tree, etc. But to do that you need to be really careful about getting the movement right and making sure the clay doesn't show up. 2. Use masking - do a TH-cam search for how to do masking in stop motion 3. Using editing software to cut around your minifigure and then just move it into the air in the editing. All of those ways will take a bit of practice / trial and error to get right. Another option is just never actually make the minifigure leave the ground - have it attached to the front of the car and then tumbling along the ground. Good luck!
These are really excellent tips for creating a Brickfilm set(s)! ·Of course choosing the proper colours is important lest it's deliberate in a film, and a set larger than in frame with dispersed detail is most ideal, especially in the 3 grounds to give it depth- Got it! Lights are also great features to illuminate parts of the focal image- coloured ones could help reflect the tone of a film very nicely =) ·It's convenient not to create an overly sophisticated building if it's only seen from one side, though reinforced stability is essential, and having openings like on your bird watching hut is a unique, helpful way of gaining access to certain parts of the shot. Thank you for these super helpful methods of making a brickfilm set Gold Puffin!
It's not actually Lego - it's Strictly Briks. I bought them on Amazon. I did a review of these baseplates which you'll find if you search for "Gold Puffin baseplates" and it has links to the products but not sure if they are still available at those links. But if you search for Strictly Briks on Amazon or Google shopping you will find them
That could look really good so long as you get the lighting right and make sure it doesn't look bad when the baseplate and the background meet - ideally you'll have some things built on your set so that join between the background and baseplate won't be seen.
I have an interesting idea for a way to get really cool shots on the creator barracuda ship. Since it can be easily split into three pieces, you could have a shot travel from the bow to the quarterdeck, going below the rigging.
This is really helpful, thank you! I make brickfilms, but set design is not one of my strong suits. If I make a city stop motion, I make 2 stud wide buildings.
Do you mean buying cheap Lego sets to use in your brickfilms? Or do you mean how to build a brickfilm set with very little money? Either way it's a good idea to buy a joblot of used Lego because you get so much more for your money - but make sure that you look closely at the photos on the advert/post because they often have a lot of fake Lego and also you want to be really sure that you're getting a good mixture of pieces that you'll actually use. Some joblots contain lots of Lego basic or common pieces that you may not necessarily want. Hope this helps. If you mean about buying cheap Lego sets then yeah I recommend it because it also more flexibility and creativity than spending all your money on one big set.
I love how he responds to comments - thx for all the help you give me and my Stop Motions 😁😁😁
You're welcome, thanks for the nice comment and good luck with your animations 😁
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@@GoldPuffin hi if I use lego classic building set can I make a good set?
Yes it depends a lot on what kind of set you want to make because classic might not have enough of the colours you need or the details
Although I don't speak 100% English, I like watching your videos, they always help me, I watch them with subtitles so I can understand, honestly your work is helping me a lot and I bet other people are too, thank you ;)
Wow, thank you! I'm so glad to hear that! :-) Thank you for the really nice comment!
I have some questions
1. What’s your opinion on working with a green screen for brickfilms for space/ moon videos?
2. How can you make your set feel more like the moon? Can you use sand or something else?
3. How can you make a minifigure fat can you use clay or sticky tac?
4. Is it bad to record voices after animating?
Hi, here are my answers:
1. Personally I don't like working with green screens but I think it could be good for a space / moon video because you could use some awesome backgrounds by green screening.
2. Yes, you could use sand. If you make it into a black and white video then it won't matter that the sand is a sort of golden colour. Or you could make it look more grey with your lighting. Or you could use some kind of dust, like chalk dust or if you can find any kind of grey powder in your local craft shop.
3. Yes, you can. I have seen brickfilms where they have used a piece of clay to make the minifigure fat and it looked really good. Sticky tac probably won't look good because it won't be the right colour but clay could work. You need to match the colour really closely with the torso piece to make it look right.
4. It's fine to record the voices after animating. In my opinion, it actually doesn't matter that much which way round you do it, so long as you make sure that your thinking about how the animation and the audio will fit together.
I use a green screen most of the time, you can use painted sand, you can use clay, and finally... I don't know I haven't done voices!
Thank you this was very informative! I definitely have to check out your other Lego stop motion tip videos.
Thanks for watching and I'm really glad it helped :-)
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@@Scifogon Hi!
Hey couple of final questions for right now
1. Is it Ok. To have 2 of the same characters with the same voice or does that mean that the person has Multiple Personality Disorder?
2. How can you show a TH-cam clip in your brickfilm and showing a character watching it legally?
3. Can you have the same voices or a character that another TH-camr uses? Or it’s that gonna be a problem?
4. How do you write a good abs decent Brickfilm Script on Celtext?
Sorry for the delay in replying.
1. Yes, it is okay, but it is better to have different voices if you can. It can get confusing when two characters have the same voice, especially if there is a scene with just the two of them talking to each other.
2. It's fine, if you download and use a short clip and show your character watching it, it is legal. You are unlikely to get copyright strike from it. Tips for not getting a copyright strike - make it a short clip, show it on a TV screen, turn down the audio
3. It's totally fine to have the same voices or characters as another TH-camr. If the other TH-camr created the characters then you should credit them, and probably ask their permission because that's just polite.
4. You can write a good brickfilm script on anything. I write mine on Microsoft Word, Notepad, in a notebook, and on the back of old envelopes.
(Answer to question number two) Gold Puffin has a video on this I think, and ya, I guess technically
someone could find you for copy-right, but HIGHLY doubt it.And before you make your video with
someone else's clip you could ask the person, and if they don't answer, you could at least put them
in the credits.
Thank you! I needed this video.
You're welcome, thanks for watching! :-)
I have some questions to ask you
1. how do you animate 2 minifigures moving a couch?
2. how do you animate a pizza or ice cream truck strike or hit a off road truck?
3. how do you animate a Live news broadcast from a news scene?
4. how do you animate a traffic stop with 2 characters talking and one is them in a car and the police officer minifigure is outside of the car?
5. how do you add a intersection Lego piece on a Lego Base plate?
6. how do you animate a rollover accident and make both vehicles involved on fire?
7. how do you animate a helicopter flying down and making a oil truck spill out oil?
8. how do you animate Lego ice being used to Freeze Lego Minifigures can you use blue paint?
9. how do you film inside of a Italian Restaurant and use white table cloths?
10. is it bad to have a 2 part Pilot video?
11. if you get a DSLR camera can you make your first brickfim using it?
Sorry that's a lot of questions. I really don't think I can give a full answer to all of them as it takes me so long answering comments these days.
1. Have one walk forwards and one walk backwards, like at the start of my Rise of the Zombies brickfilm where they're carrying the stretcher.
2. What a video of something like that happening in real life and then try to replicate.
3. There's nothing particular special about that. Just give a minifigure a microphone and have him as your reporter.
4. It really depends on how you want the shot to look - I can't go through all the options in a reply.
5. I don't know what that question means. Are you talking about a crossroads? Use blu-tack.
Sorry, but that's as far as I'm going to go with answering because I don't have time to answer such a long list of questions especially when each one would be very compicated to answer properly.
I don’t get why there’s so many long lists of questions in this comment section
Thanks, that was extremely helpful because I have just started on brickfilms. That will help me a lot.
Awesome, I'm so glad I could help! :-)
Phoenix if you post them I will check them out!
Nice another video, I havnt watched u long time because I wasnt at home sadly
Thanks for watching, it's good to have you back watching my videos and commenting :-)
Doing Lego stop motion like this has always interested me and something I want to have a go at in my spare time always great to be able to find help like this👍
I’m watching your videos for a while now and i just want to say, they’re real helpfull! Thx!
Happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!
Thank you gold puffin😊 That was very helpfull. What really helped is learning how to put your fingers in to move the set around. I also liked your technique of making the motorcycle go really fast. I will use these techniques in my stop motions!
You are so welcome! So glad it was helpful, hope you've been able to use some of them :-)
I just came back to say thank you! Its been about a year and a half since I binged all your tutorials and now I have 265 subscribers! Thank you for all your help its been a fun journey so far and you've helped the whole way
That is awesome! So glad to hear that! Congratulations and keep doing what you're doing :-)
Great tips in this video! Very informative and all very true when it comes to shooting stop motion.
Thanks for the nice comment :-) Of course you don't need any of these tips but it's nice of you to watch and comment anyway!
@@GoldPuffin Thanks GPLA but honestly, any tips are good tips when it comes to stop motion and set building. Always enjoy your videos.
I am not very good at my Stop Motion's, so I watched a few of these videos. Thank you so much!
Your 10 tips videos are always so good and the reason I found your channel in the first place.
I know there are Brickfilm books out there but I wonder if you have enough content for a 'video book' of some sort? Maybe a video for a table of contents which then links to videos on specific information (something a little more 'guiding' than a playlist).
I've begun to put generic card backgrounds into a folder (Brick wall, painted wall, pictures, doors etc) so they can be re-used.
Good idea, I could do with having a folder like that and I do think I need to start using card backgrounds sometimes because they sometimes look better than Lego. Thanks for the "video book" suggestion, I'll think about how I can do that.
I am starting a LEGO channel with some stop motion animations in it and this really helped! Thanks!
Awesome, I'm really glad it helped, and Lego stop motion is the best thing you can start a channel for so good luck and have fun!
Man this has helped me thank you so much I am currently starting this stop motion thingy
You're welcome, I'm glad I could help :-)
Imma start stop motion in a few days and I am happy I got these tips :)
Questions how would you film inside a hospital and make a hospital waiting room? And a lego Wayne manor?
The main thing I would say is to build the hospital and the waiting room with plenty of space inside it, because if everything is too close together you won't have enough space for minifigures to walk around. A waiting room is quite simple to make - you need lots of chairs, doors, a vending machine, a reception desk, and one or two tables. A Lego Wayne Manor is much more complicated, and it would be best to try to just make one room is you can otherwise it's going to take ages. Just look on Google images until you find a room in Wayne Manor that looks easy enough to build!
Thanks for all the tips this really helps
Very helpful video, I learned a few things. And the set collapsing on itself is sadly to relatable.
You're welcome, I'm really glad it was helpful :-) And yes, the set collapsing - one of the most frustrating things that can happen ever!
This is an awesome video. Thanks for all the tips.
You're welcome :-)
Duncan I see you at 3:24!
Oh yes, I need to carry on doing that thing!
Your vids really helped me on my first animation
I'm so glad to hear that and good luck with the future ones!
Thanks
This video needs more likes so underrated
Thank you so much :-)
Very helpful! I’ll use these tips for our new videos to come! Great info 😊 I trust this information because you’re videos seem very high quality. Thanks.
Thank you and good luck with your new videos! :-)
@@GoldPuffin Thank you for those kind words! Could you get us more subs?
I really like your intro and stop motion, just keep up the good work
Thank you so much!
very helpful
Thank you, I'm glad it helped!
Some really good tips there, thanks for sharing 👍
You're welcome and thanks for watching :-)
Whoa thanks so much this will rlly help!
Another awesome video! Thanks for the tips they are really usefull!
Thanks :-)
I’ve been getting into stop motion again but even more interested now, this channel definitely is great and I had to subscribed for sure haha👍🏼
Awesome tips, really good job
Thanks!! :-)
What is the music in the middle of the video?
P.S. Really love your vids keep up the great work. While you don't have all the materials that Alexander does, you make the most of it and it really shows. Good job! 👍
And also how would you make the hospital and room good? And where the camera can see?
The way to know where the camera can see is to set the camera up on the stand and turn it on, and then start building the set, and mark out the edges of where the camera can see on your set whilst you are looking at the camera screen. Making the hospital and room good will take time and patience - it means you need to add details, but start with the basics like the walls and doors and chairs, then use Google to find images of hospital waiting rooms to see what kinds of details they might have and add whatever you can.
The way to know where the camera can see is to set the camera up on the stand and turn it on, and then start building the set, and mark out the edges of where the camera can see on your set whilst you are looking at the camera screen. Making the hospital and room good will take time and patience - it means you need to add details, but start with the basics like the walls and doors and chairs, then use Google to find images of hospital waiting rooms to see what kinds of details they might have and add whatever you can.
Just been getting into stop motion again but even more interested now, this channel definitely is great and I had to subscribed for sure haha👍🏼
Thanks for these tips, helped me out!
You're welcome, thanks for watching and leaving a nice comment :-)
I watched so many Lego accounts and I honestly don't know if this is the best .
I have several questions
1. How do you feel about the program Stop Motion Explosion? I frequently use it, but some people wanted me to use Stop Motion Studio instead. But I've been using SME for a long time, is it a good program?
2. Is it bad to record voices before animating?
3. Is green screen good for when you can do stuff like Atlantis?
4. Where do you get your sound effects in?
1. I haven't used Stop Motion Explosion, but I have heard that it is very good. Stop Motion Studio is a good app, but if you are able to do what you want in SME then keep using it.
2. It is fine to record voices before animating - actually, it can be better because you can fit the animation to the voices.
3. Yes, green screen is good for Atlantis and stuff like that but you will need to practice and what some tutorials because green screening isn't easy, or at least it isn't easy to make it look really good. The lighting is the difficult part.
4. I get them from www.freesound.org and sometimes from the TH-cam audiolibrary
@@GoldPuffin i do not have many sets so my films are multi coloured is it still okay?
Yes that's ok!
@@GoldPuffin thanks
Hey last questions
1. How do you animate 2 people having a conversation in a 2 seater Lego car is it acceptable and Ok. To use the Over the Shoulder shot it seems like shooting 2 characters talking would be so hard and frustrating!
2. How do you loop voices to the characters in Audacity?
Hi, I'll try to answer 😁 1. I think the over the shoulder shot is acceptable but not as good as shooting from the front or sides. You can modify the car to help with those shots. If the two people having the conversation are sitting next to each other it's natural to shoot from the sides or an angled shot from in front e.g. 45 degrees.
I don't understand the second question. All I do in audacity is record the audio and some basic editing like trimming. Sometimes I do other things like pitch shifting, boosting volume, etc too. Syncing the voices with the animation is the next step but I do that in Adobe Premiere.
Gold Puffin so what you’re saying is two shoot at 90 degree angle?
Gold Puffin but if I shoot from the sides will that be noticeable in my Brickfilm or can I edit that out in post production?
Amazing video as always, Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for making this video it will really help me build my animation set!
Great video
Thanks! :-) Thanks for watching! :-)
Your tips are always the best!
Thanks I'm so glad you find them useful :-)
Thank you so much! I’m definitely going to use these useful tips! 👍👍
Great, I'm glad you found the tips useful :-) Thanks for the comment :-)
Gold Puffin
This is the video I made from your tips! th-cam.com/video/4VvHkkvHmL8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks, I took a look and it was nice :-)
And also for question 3 how can you make sure that the clay or sticky tac will stay on your minifigure and can you make it disappear without showing your hands can it be done in editing?
I don't exactly understand the rest of the question. Sticky tac is very very sticky and will not fall off your minifigure if you press it on firmly. Clay is not quite as sticky but might be fine - if it doesn't seem secure, you could use sticky tac under the clay to help make sure it is firmly stuck in place.
The best lego tipper
Thanks!! :-)
Thanks for your tips!
No problem! You're very welcome! :-)
@@GoldPuffin check my video's out if you want😉😁
Good advices! Thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Very helpful tutorial 👍 thanks
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting! 😅
Thx I’ll be sure to use these in my upcoming stop motions
Nice :-)
Nevermind these are the last 3 questions of 2019
1. How do you animate 2 batarang
Oops I don't think this was complete - I replied on your other comment
These videos are so helpful! Subscribed!
This channel helped me a lot especially the 10 things that noobs do
So glad I helped 😁
I love the ideas thank you, and i will work on my stop motion with your ideas. like the sets and other things.
These are some great tips dude! Very useful! 👍👍👍
THanks, I'm really glad it was helpful :-)
good video! very helpful
Glad it was helpful! I didn't realise you had commented on one of my videos 4 months ago! :-)
Another question what if you have a nighttime sequence as the opening scene of a brickfilm and you want to film a helicopter flying Thur the nighttime skies how do you do it? And also what would he the correct pronunciation this on Celtext or Google Docs “we start with a opening scene with Joker and his henchmen causing trouble in the skies or this Joker and his henchmen are causing trouble from up above. Please let me know thanks.
Hi, either of those ways of saying it are fine, although I would always say "the Joker" instead of "this joker" or just "joker". For a nighttime sequence, I recommend if you have any small lights that you can put inside the helicopter then do that. Use a dark background, and keep the shot dark with a single fairly weak light from above which needs to be white / silvery in tone (not yellowish if possible) so that it looks like moonlight.
Very helpful and awesome! Thanks!
You're welcome, I'm really glad it was helpful :-)
Thank you! Those kinds of video you do really great!
Thank you so much :-)
I have some questions!
1. How do you make something fly with a side view?
2. How to film a inside shot smoothly?
3. How to film a sinking ship?
Do I assume correctly that for the building at 1:53 you took it apart, and then reversed it?
No that one I was actually building it. You can see that I did it one way then changed my mind and did it a better way.
This was really helpful thanks 👍
You're welcome, and thanks for watching :-)
some very cool tips in your video, thanks for sharing these :-)
Thank you so much you imspired me so much
You are so welcome! :-D
I am a youtuber making stop motion I feel that your videos are helping me get better at my job
Thanks for these tips.
You're welcome, thanks for watching! :-)
Very helpful, thanks
You're welcome, I'm so glad it helped :-)
Building half a set is saving a lot of time every Brickfilmer should
True
Thank you! You have some parts where you have a video inside a video (7:10 for example). How do you do that? What software/feature?
I did an effect like that for an upcoming video. Basically, you film what you want on the screen download that as a video. Then you film the actual screen itself. I imported the video I wanted on the screen onto my project. You just have to crop it to fit.
Oh and I used adobe after effects, just comment here again if you want more help.
@@brickherostudios1070 I use openshot only, can't do that maybe I should consider using AE
Thanks
Lego Motion and More Does that software allow you to import videos into your project?
@@brickherostudios1070 yes I can only show it full size as far as I know.
Helpfull, thanks!
You're welcome, thanks for watching! :-)
That was very useful. Amazing content. Keep it up dude!
German Bricks
Glad it was useful! Thanks! :-)
OP
One of my favorite YTbrs!
Thank you! :-)
Hey puffin really liked the video helped me alot thank u
You teach me a very good lesson
Thank you! 😃
Thank you! 😃
you are so helpful and cool thats why you have many subs
Thanks so much! 😁
This really helped
Thanks for watching, I'm really glad it was helpful :-)
Your welcome
Love your channel
Thanks! :-)
This is really helpful.
WOW thanks for the tips ill definitely use this.
Awesome video!
Thank you! :-D
This starting to make sense. Since I might learn stop motion LEGO next.
Thanks for watching and I'm glad the video was useful for you. I can definitely recommend Lego Stop motion :-)
I always forget about #6, Thanks bro
You're welcome, thanks for watching :-)
The same goes for Wayne Manor? And also can you make a minifigure/ disappear/ reappear.
For Wayne Manor, I kind of answered this in my replies to your other comments. It depends why you are building it and what action is going to take place there. My advice is to Google it, choose one room and build that. Making minifigures appear and disappear is the easiest thing ever in stop motion because all you have to do is take a photo with the minifigure and one without it.
Ok. Here’s another question could you have a theme song at the beginning of your brickfilm’s and also a title card and how do you animate a mini figure getting hit by a car and thrown in the air.
Hi, yes, it's always a good idea to have a theme song and a title card. My advice is to keep the intro short - like 10 seconds or less because most people like to get into the main part of the video quickly. If you want to animate a minifigure flying through the air after being hit by a car, there are two or three options. 1. Get the minifigure to fly through the air by using clay or "blu-tac" to stick it onto objects by the side of the road, like a lamppost, a tree, etc. But to do that you need to be really careful about getting the movement right and making sure the clay doesn't show up. 2. Use masking - do a TH-cam search for how to do masking in stop motion 3. Using editing software to cut around your minifigure and then just move it into the air in the editing.
All of those ways will take a bit of practice / trial and error to get right. Another option is just never actually make the minifigure leave the ground - have it attached to the front of the car and then tumbling along the ground.
Good luck!
When I see the head office. I feel those workers are murders. 🗡🗡
Good point - I like that sinister interpretation
These are really excellent tips for creating a Brickfilm set(s)!
·Of course choosing the proper colours is important lest it's deliberate in a film, and a set larger than in frame with dispersed detail is most ideal, especially in the 3 grounds to give it depth- Got it! Lights are also great features to illuminate parts of the focal image- coloured ones could help reflect the tone of a film very nicely =)
·It's convenient not to create an overly sophisticated building if it's only seen from one side, though reinforced stability is essential, and having openings like on your bird watching hut is a unique, helpful way of gaining access to certain parts of the shot.
Thank you for these super helpful methods of making a brickfilm set Gold Puffin!
You're very welcome and thanks for the long and detailed comment, it sounds like you have a lot of experience in set building!
You're welcome too! And actually, not really! I've taken after you pretty much your expertise is the best and most useful I've seen =)
Your channel is great!
Thats really helps me! Thanks!
You're welcome, I'm glad it helped :-)
Wow this tips helped me a ton
Awesome
Thank you! :-)
one more question how do you animate a Lego character getting unfrozen from Lego ice pieces.
It's just the opposite of animating them getting frozen, so depending on how you decide to do that. I answered your other comment.
Thanks for the help
You're welcome!
4:39 what is that blue baseplate? I've been searching for it on bricklink all day, can you please tell me where to find so I can complete my set?
It's not actually Lego - it's Strictly Briks. I bought them on Amazon. I did a review of these baseplates which you'll find if you search for "Gold Puffin baseplates" and it has links to the products but not sure if they are still available at those links. But if you search for Strictly Briks on Amazon or Google shopping you will find them
@@GoldPuffin Found them cheaper on eBay, thanks!
Amazing - well done!
Is it okay if I print out (fairly detailed) photos and use them for my backdrops, or does the baseplate create too much of a contrast?
That could look really good so long as you get the lighting right and make sure it doesn't look bad when the baseplate and the background meet - ideally you'll have some things built on your set so that join between the background and baseplate won't be seen.
I love the tips
Thank you!! :-)
I have an interesting idea for a way to get really cool shots on the creator barracuda ship. Since it can be easily split into three pieces, you could have a shot travel from the bow to the quarterdeck, going below the rigging.
That sounds amazing! :-) I would love to do that (not sure I'll ever do it but it sounds so cool).
This is really helpful, thank you! I make brickfilms, but set design is not one of my strong suits. If I make a city stop motion, I make 2 stud wide buildings.
Yo gold puffin I have a question
What are your ideas about budget sets
Do you mean buying cheap Lego sets to use in your brickfilms? Or do you mean how to build a brickfilm set with very little money? Either way it's a good idea to buy a joblot of used Lego because you get so much more for your money - but make sure that you look closely at the photos on the advert/post because they often have a lot of fake Lego and also you want to be really sure that you're getting a good mixture of pieces that you'll actually use. Some joblots contain lots of Lego basic or common pieces that you may not necessarily want. Hope this helps. If you mean about buying cheap Lego sets then yeah I recommend it because it also more flexibility and creativity than spending all your money on one big set.
@@GoldPuffin yeah I meant like build a set thanks so much for the help