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LEGO Matrix Lobby Shootout: Blocky Mayhem

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Back in the day, I remember sitting in the theater watching the original Matrix movie and coming out thinking it was the most awesome movie ever. One of the best shootout scenes ever put on film was the slow-motion, wire-fu lobby shootout. The second and third films in the franchise never matched that movie magic for me and mostly just made me mad at how crappy they were compared to the original.

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LEGO animator Snooperking has recreated the lobby shootout in LEGO stop-motion glory. It’s cool and you want to see it. He even edited the ending to make the movie make more sense.

Check out the video for yourself. There is some serious minifig carnage to be seen here.

[via Kotaku]

Fan Made LEGO Jurassic Park Stop Motion Short Film: Clever Girls and Boys

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Digital Wizards Studios makes LEGO stop motion films. To prove to his 8-year old daughter Hailee that they could do anything with LEGO, Digital Wizards’ Paul Hollingsworth, Hailee and his friends recreated some of the key moments in Jurassic Park. They used about $100,000 worth of LEGO, not to mention a variety of audio and video recording equipment and three months of their time to create the fun short film.

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Haley’s main contribution is in animating Tim in the scene where he refuses to let go of an electric fence. Check out the finished short:

Here’s a peek at the hard work – and play! – that went into making the short:

Take a trip to Digital Wizards’ YouTube page to see more of their short films. If you want to learn more about making LEGO films, Paul recommends reading Sarah Herman’s book Bricks Flicks: A Comprehensive Guide to Making Your Own Stop-motion LEGO Movies.

[via io9]

Stop-Motion LEGO Ghostbusters Movie (with Special Guest Ghost)

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Check out this awesome film from filmmaker Marc-Andre Caron (aka MonsieurCaron). He created this cool stop-motion animated LEGO version of the Ghostbusters movie to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film.

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It’s Ghostbusters made using LEGO bricks and minifigs. It features a very special guest star in place of Slimer, presumably because there is currently no official LEGO Slimer minifig (yet). I think it works better this way, anyhow. Just watch and enjoy:

This is a super fun video. Seeing the special guest ghost get “busted” is awesome. You can also check out the neat “Behind the scenes” video to see how it was made.

[via Laughing Squid]

The Walking Dead Season 5 Gets LEGO Trailer

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I love The Walking Dead, and I know I am not alone. I got a kick out of the fact that Michael Rooker, the guy who played Merle Dixon on the show, and is one of the blue guys in Guardians of the Galaxy, uses a flying Crossbow bolt as a weapon in Guardians. That has to be a homage to the fact that he and his brother Daryl prefer to kill zombies with crossbows.

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I am really, reeeally, looking forward to the new season kicking off in October. I think we all are convinced by now that the people at Terminus are cannibals. If you are looking forward to the new season and like LEGO, check out this trailer:

A YouTuber going by the moniker kristo499 has put together an entire trailer for season 5 using LEGO and minifigs. It’s awesome and mimics the official Comic-Con trailer (shown below) really well – even the bit at the end with Beth, and whatever creepy place she’s stumbled into.

Be sure to watch the two trailers side by side on YouTube Doubler for a real treat. Just be sure to mute the audio on one clip to get rid of the echo.

[via NerdApproved]

Doctor Who Day of The Doctor Recreated in LEGO Stop-Motion

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Last year, the big event for Doctor Who was the 50th anniversary special “The Day of the Doctor.” The special introduced us to the War Doctor and brought the 11th and 12th Doctors together with him. That wasn’t awesome enough for YouTuber bookshelfprodutions, who has recreated some of the coolest moments of the special in LEGO.

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Think of this as what the BBC would have aired if they had worked with LEGO like Fox did with The Simpsons. Its animator managed to find all the right minifigs for the job, mixing and matching parts so that they look like convincing Doctor Who characters.

My only complaint is that I want to see more. Great job!

[via Nerdist]

Great Scott: Back to the Future with a Marshmallow

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This will be the best video that you see all day. It was made by Bodega Studios, a production company based out of New York and San Francisco. It is called Back to the Holidays and instead of starring Michael J. Fox, it stars a marshmallow.

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I assume that you’ve unmuted the video below by now, but if not, what are you waiting for? It’s not everyday that you see a marshmallow driving a DeLorean.

This is the most amusing stop motion movie I have seen since… Sorry. Just got distracted by like a million other Vines. So where was I? Oh yeah, this is basically the coolest Vine you will see all day, maybe even all week. Or all year, since the year is almost over.

[via Laughing Squid]

Hundreds of Instagrammers Collaborate on a Short Film for Lexus

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Crowdsourcing is all the rage these days, so why not apply the concept to shooting a video? That’s exactly what Lexus did when it got together over 200 fans to each shoot frames for a promotional video. What makes the clip unique is that all of the images were captured and posted via Instagram.

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The short film, called #LexusInstafilm captured a walk-around of the new 2014 Lexus IS, by instructing each of its Instagrammers to stand (or lie down) in a specific location to capture their still image. 3D mapping technology was used to identify the precise locations where each image needed to be snapped in order to stitch together the final stop-motion video.

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Each individual captured their image, applied Instagram filters and posted them with a specific hashtag so they could be filtered and edited into the video sequence later the same day.

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Here’s the final video, along with a little behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot:

Sure, it seems like a whole lot of labor to capture just a few seconds of video, but it’s still a creative way to let so many people could contribute to a single video.

Extreme closeup! IBM makes ‘world’s smallest movie’ using atoms (video)

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After taking a few shadowy pictures for the scientific world's paparazzi, the atom is now ready for its closeup. Today, a team of IBM scientists are bypassing the big screen to unveil what they call the "world's smallest movie." This atomic motion picture was created with the help of a two-ton IBM-made microscope that operates at a bone-chilling negative 268 degrees Celsius. This hardware was used to control a probe that pulled and arranged atoms for stop-motion shots used in the 242-frame film. A playful spin on microcomputing, the short was made by the same team of IBM eggheads who recently developed the world's smallest magnetic bit. Now that the atom's gone Hollywood, what's next, a molecular entourage?

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Stop-Motion Tribute to Ms. Pac-Man & Donkey Kong

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Office space meets gaming legacy in motion with this brief, but fun, YouTube video.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you a butt-load of Post-It notes and nothing much else to do when in the office, then why not make a splashy stop-motion video like Michael ...
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