Lego Of Orbs and Lords

Subject: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:58 pm

I decided to recreate my book, Of Orbs and Lords, in Legos. I made a movie set out of the plastic building blocks and filmed a 1 minute 16 second stop-motion movie based on the book. The frame rate was rather slow only one frame per second, but if I were to film at the standard 30 frames per second, I'd be working on it from now until doom's day and I'd use up all my memory cards! I'm not sure how to post a movie in a post (or if that's even possible on this forum). The file is 7.92 megabytes.

Here's a picture of my Lego Xeoromir and Immahyr
(Xeoromir on the left Immahyr on the right)
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Here's an overview of the movie set and props
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Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:34 pm

Very clever of you Gordon!!

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:08 pm

Here's a few scenes from the movie.

Xeoromir finds the orb
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Xeoromir sailing his ship
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Xeoromir Meets Immahyr
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Xeoromir and Immahyr enter the world below
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Xeoromir and Immahyr in the deep hall
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The battle against Lord Aniitron
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Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:18 pm

Gordon that is fabulous! If you can get it onto YouTube or somewhere, I'll check it out. What a neat idea!
Cool

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:11 pm

Where I'd suggest showing these pictures is Gizmodo.com. They LOVE lego weirdness.
But definitaly put the video up on YouTube.

I don't know know what you've got or how hip you are to movie files, but if it's a wmv file, just load it straight up to a YouTube account. You can then imbed it on a website or forums that accept HTML code. On forums like this you can post a link to the URL of the video.

You reallly ought to do this, I't's eye-catching and geek-friendly and could help you promote your book, big time.

Any questions on this, let me know

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:54 pm

Gizmodo thinks THESE guys are lego maniacs. But they just did one set, not a whole movie,'

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Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:57 pm

I just uploaded it to YouTube. Here's the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wutwo3FUIxY
Enjoy!

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:01 pm

Great piece of artistry, Gordon.

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:12 pm

That's wild Gordon.

I hear no sound track. Is there not one? You should consider either a narration or music track.

I don't know how you got ths shots, but they look like still pictures sequenced together. You could smooth out some of the jerkiness by using fade of wipe transistions.

Pretty cool example of thinking outside the box. (Oh wait, lego comes in a tube, doesn't it?)

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:40 am

Do we have a new Nick Park (Wallace & Gromit) in the making?

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:40 am

There isn't any soundtrack for the movie. The jerkeyness is due to the slow one frame per second frame rate. Using a higher frame rate would have taken more time than I had. There are fade transitions between scenes, just not between every shot. Windows Movie Maker wanted to make it into a slideshow with a frame rate of one picture every five seconds. At least at one picture per second, it looks semi-animated.

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:41 am

Very impressive Gordon.
Now I know what can be done with Leggo. I thought the idea was to attach all those parts, and then before you figure out what it is, you knock it down. At least that's what my one grandchild does.

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:44 am

lin wrote:: That's wild Gordon.

I hear no sound track. Is there not one? You should consider either a narration or music track.

I don't know how you got ths shots, but they look like still pictures sequenced together. You could smooth out some of the jerkiness by using fade of wipe transistions.

Pretty cool example of thinking outside the box. (Oh wait, lego comes in a tube, doesn't it?)

Actually, Legos come in a big red plastic box! I don't know how many I have, but it has to be more than 10,000 pieces total in my collection.

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:27 am

Ah. If they are still shots you can stretch them out on the timeline, then push them together for fades between each frame. Would give you a smoother flow.

You might also experiment with the "brightness" effect.

And seriously think about a soundtrack. It would help you get hits on YouTube and you could put it up on aniboom, as well.

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:11 pm

I added some background music to the YouTube video from YouTube's music library. I picked the song I thought best suited the clip. Go ahead and enjoy it again!

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:23 pm

Pretty kewl, dewd!

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:42 am

I got my first rating on my YouTube video and guess what? It's five out of five stars!

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:04 am

... and guess who gave it! lol!

Subject: Re: Lego Of Orbs and Lords Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:44 am

Shelagh wrote:: ... and guess who gave it!

Thanks!

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