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[ThaukaFilms]

Hi, we made a short historic Lego film for our daughter:

I hope this is the right forum to post it in. The throne area design was based on the folllowing MOC I found originally in this forum: (author's flicker username: wunztwice).

This was my/our first stop motion Lego try - any advice/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for watching!

[MikeyB]

Hi, we made a short historic Lego film for our daughter:

I hope this is the right forum to post it in. The throne area design was based on the folllowing MOC I found originally in this forum: (author's flicker username: wunztwice).

This was my/our first stop motion Lego try - any advice/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for watching!

Nice!

I like your throne area. I've never done stop action but I like the way the flames flicked in the back ground in one scene and overall I thought it was well done.

Now I have to wait for the end of the story thought!

[Gareth]

I liked the film, the way every thing moved smoothly and the way there was no talking in it, to slow it down. I think that you did a great job, and the animation was really good.

You should make a whole series of films like this fairy tales for example, it worked really well in my eyes.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

[ThaukaFilms]

Nice!

I like your throne area. I've never done stop action but I like the way the flames flicked in the back ground in one scene and overall I thought it was well done.

See, the whole throne area is coming out of the Martin Luther MOC I found posted in this forum - I pretty much replicated it except few details because I don't have the necessary bricks. The stuff posted in this forum was very helpful for getting ideas how to arrange/set up the scenes.

You should make a whole series of films like this fairy tales for example, it worked really well in my eyes.

Thank you very much for the encouragement :). Yes, it's something I was thinking about while reading all these fairy tales for my daughter these days. I am just not sure what would be the most appropriate/suitable format, being it primarily for children. Maybe no-words-only-sounds and self-explanatory story through actions would work the best (just like Chaplin grotesques), but it seems to me it is not something you can achieve with every fairy tale (not mentioning I am a total stopmotion beginner). With this story I was kinda thinking a child (that can't read yet) would watch it with a parent/adult, and the parent can read/translate/explain the storyboards for the child. If I had included dialogues (let's say in English), it might interfere with the child's reception, especially if the child doesn't speak English. So this way the silent storyboards don't disrupt the story the parent would deliver on his/her own. But again I am still not sure if I am right - any suggestions/experiences would be appreciated!

I just wonder - is it common for people to come out of their Lego Dark Ages because of/with their children? You know that if I wouldn't have the daughter, I don't think Lego would ever come on my mind on its own. There seems to be an absolute Lego vacuum in my head for the last 15 years or so. Thank God I didn't get rid of my childhood Lego sets, though!