My Stop Motion movie

[stamper]

Hi Everybody,

I'm a long time observer on this site, and today I wanna share one of my works with you.
This is a stop-motion movie with legos. I received some funds to create it, this movie's a pilot for what could be an upcoming mini-series on the net.

Why I am coming on a game music forum to post the movie link? Because the score composer and myself are both nostalgic of the 8bits video games era, and you'll notice the use of NES sample instruments in the soundtrack. Those oldschool samples sounded right in this movie. Even the ending chase sequence is scored like an oldschool "boss battle".

Check it here :
http://www.brickfilms.com/films/3914

The movie's in french, but don't worry, I added english subtitles ! ;)

Maxime

studiosepsilon@yahoo.fr

[big giant circles]

haha, that was actually pretty entertaining. theme music reminded me a bit of wallace and gromit.

nice work :nicework:

[Hemophiliac]

very entertaining and very well done. :)

[stamper]

Anybody for a title theme remix? lol

studiosepsilon@yahoo.com

[Nutritious]

Wow, that was great!

[Fishy]

That was really well done. All the tiny details like him spinning his hands when he was nervous were great.

I would watch a series of this if you made more :D.

[chumble spuzz]

Wow. A job very well done. It was well animated, well written, and a joy to watch. Seriously, dude, you can really go places with a piece like this in your portfolio.

:nicework:

[Arek the Absolute]

Wow....
That was amazing! The animation was just beautiful. Add that with the great voice acting it had and you have yourself a perfect animation here.

Really looking forward to the series. Please do keep us posted!

[JoeFu]

Wow... that was freaking awesome :nicework:

[Scaredsim]

France France France ! C'est bien réalisé, je suis impressionné, beau travail ;)

[Zombie]

That was amazing!!! Good job. :nicework:

[Blaster1980]

The movie was great, the last line was just awesome. :nicework:

[anthonium]

That was amazing. I loved the humor, I loved the voices. Everything was perfect. I had to make a youtube account and subscribe. By the way just how long did it take to do make it?

[FuriousFure]

Yeah I agree with everyone here, that was pretty awesome!

with alot of sub-par stop-motion movies using legos, I was expecting something of poor to mediocre quality when I saw the legos but was I proven wrong!!! Holy Crap! :)

Great animation, great voice work, and awesome humor. I'll be looking for more great stuff from you in the future!

[The Damned]

As a fellow AFOL, I applaud your effort and give you a hearty thumbs up.

[linkspast]

Nice work. I would be pleased if you made this in to a semi-regular series..
Loved the voice overs.
I can see this becoming one of those internet phenomenons.

[stamper]

Thanks for the support guys !

Anthonium, this movie took more than 4 months to create (not talking about the script writing or the animation learning)... It was not an "all-day-long" work since I had other projets, but I'd say it was 3 to 4 hours of work every day from November to March.

I'm sorry, I was not able to translate Henri's last quote (the one that makes Clara laugh). It's a pretty dumb joke, something you'd never say to a girl you've just met. :)

Any other question ? :P

If I am able to find a producer, I'll do more episodes...
Thanks again !
Maxime

studiosepsilon@yahoo.com

[Arek the Absolute]

I really hope you do find a producer because this is pure genius.

[Makai]

What amazed me the most was the lighting. The camera-work is just great.

[DrumUltimA]

WOW. that was amazing--you really made that lego set up seem life like. You're the real deal :O

[Dhsu]

Excellent work.

[Bigfoot]

Very nice work.

[evktalo]

Yeah, very good work. Camera & lights I too thought were excellent, and everything seemed very professional. I could imagine seeing this on TV. I subscribed, too.

--Eino

[Less Ashamed Of Self]

I can't even wrap my mind around shooting it too... it must be really intricate. Things like the spinning axe sinking into the wall must take a lot of precision and planning.

At the risk of repeating sentiments above: excellent work.

[Lord.Roderick.i]

This was incredible, excellent work :D
I loved everything specially the voices, and humor.
Really well done!

[Antipode]

Hahaha this was amazing! Thanks for sharing your work with us.

[kitty]

That was awesome. Everything flowed really well to the point where really difficult things to pull off like the axe swinging through the air didn't seem unnatural to me.

[Aninymouse]

Nice work! All the little details like the sound effects and lighting were really indicative of the level of care that went into the project. The voice acting, too, was exceptional.

Hope to see more from you in the future.

[OverCoat]

This was very cool

[anthonium]

How exactly do you achieve things like the axe spinning in the air or an item falling in stop motion anyway? I'm completely clueless in this area.

[Darth Lime]

Amazing. "The cat ends up as a slavic stew". Great humor and storyline.

[stamper]

About the spinning axe : I really launched it and followed it with my camera.
lol
In fact, I was holding the axe myself in the right direction for each position, fingers off screen. I added motion blur in post-production... That was pretty easy to do.

In fact, "noticeable shots" were mostly done quickly and easily, while some "regular shots" were sometimes horribly long to create.

[Broken]

Very well done. Bien fait!
Excellent camera work and voice acting.

[Wintermute]

Absolutely amazing.

[stamper]

tobmaps, "Clara Sterling" is of course a reference to Thomas harris' Hannibal. I was surprised nobody noticed it before !

Die hard fans will also notice some references to Ridley Scott's movie Hannibal, especially the "Henri's face/off" shot. I'd say Clara has a superficial resemblance to Julianne Moore, but this is only my opinion. :P
Vladimir's line "Me would like you be main course" was written on Lecter's "I'm giving very serious thoughts to eating your wife".

[Jarvi]

ah, I never did get the chance to watch Hannibal. :) Clara just really reminded me of the Clarice from the old Silence of the Lambs movie, particularly in this Wikipedia image of Jodie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Starling).

Glad to know I wasn't imagining things, though!

You do realize that Silence of the Lambs is one of the Hannibal novels/movies right? Anyways, great film, I love how it's so fluid that it doesn't seem like legos, it seems life like (movement wise and considering they are legos of course.)

EDIT: I reread what both of you had said about Hannibal so just ignore me, I didn't even pay attention to the fact that you were both naming specific actresses.

[Chiwalker]

Very good filming and detail. I loved the cars moving in back/foreground, and the legos walking (and turning around at 2:33 :razz:), the lego gun SFX, not to mention a funny storyline.

Nice work!

[stamper]

Thanks for all your comments.
I just wanted to say that the movie won an audience award at the Ose ce Court french film festival in Bischheim near Strasburg !
Next step : the festival "7 days for the 7th art" in Colmar, France. The movie will be screened on wednesday october 15th at 8pm.
And last but not least : the International Short Film Festival in Uppsal, Sweden ! The movie will be screened 2 times on october 24th and 25th !
I hope to see some ocremixers there !
Maxime

[Ninja-san]

Noooo Kitty!

Awesome job. The flow and story was very nice :)

[Dhsu]

Congrats! You deserve it. :)

[Darklink42]

That was amazing. How long did it take you over all to make it? I did a series of short scenes once out of Homer's "The Odyssey" using Legos in stop-motion and it wasn't nearly that nice. Hope to see more from you.

[OverCoat]

Thanks for all your comments.
I just wanted to say that the movie won an audience award at the Ose ce Court french film festival in Bischheim near Strasburg !

congrats dude :)

[Blue123]

Thanks for all your comments.
I just wanted to say that the movie won an audience award at the Ose ce Court french film festival in Bischheim near Strasburg !
Next step : the festival "7 days for the 7th art" in Colmar, France. The movie will be screened on wednesday october 15th at 8pm.
And last but not least : the International Short Film Festival in Uppsal, Sweden ! The movie will be screened 2 times on october 24th and 25th !
I hope to see some ocremixers there !
Maxime

Excellent! This movie was really outstanding. Great script, great voices, and great music. Hope to lots MOAR in the future! You gotta make a sequel or something!

[Zephyr]

Nice! That was great, that looked way smoother than a lot of CGI I've seen, you can go somewhere with this, nice quirky plot too, I loved the little lines thrown in there ("Does the FBI often leave bodies like that?") How long did this take you?

[stamper]

It took me about 4 months to get everything right.
I am really glad to see that many people appreciate this short. I'm planning to do a "sequel" (not really a sequel, but a new adventure for Henri & Edmond), which will be bigger, but I really need money and time to do such a thing !
And of course, as I'm a great fan of ocremix.org, I will probably come back here to ask OCremixers to write some songs or remixes for the next episode ! :D

[halc]

:nicework: nice work/many lulz