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07.20.09Timberdoodle Movie ContestCast your votes in the Timberdoodle Video Contest! There's not a few stopmotion entries from your fellow animators. Check these out! Pirates steal Blockus with help from giant hand. Family receives Timberdoodle catalog and places order. Moving lips. Block tower is built with paperclip crane. Animated writing (very cool) and animated origami sculpture (extremely cool). Stikfas battle over a motorcycle until it morphs into a giant robot. Well-animated Stikfa host introduces the Stikfa lineup. Personable stikfas introduce Timeberdoodle product lineup, do math, re-score "Jack Spelt" (with epic results) and have way too much fun with the animation kit sound effects. Hannibal seeks Timberdoodle, "the source of all things ...
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05.20.09Animation: D-DayWhile we were at the Arlington Book Fair, we met Blake Roberson. Blake gave us a CD of movies of he's made, including this re-creation of troops invading Normandy on D-Day. He gave us an inside scoop on the making of this film. Check it out! Q: Why did you decide to make a D-Day movie? Blake: Well, I've always loved WWII. The history, the stories, the valor of the men. So I wanted to show my thanks by making a video to give an example of what they did, even if it wasn't very scary in Lego. Q: Tell me about ...
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05.18.09Making Things FlyI noticed this today among my YouTube subscriptions. This is a fast way to make something "fly" through the air. Take your character or object, stick it to to your background, and grab some frames of the character moving, either up or down. Some camera shake helps too. And thanks calebrockinout123 for noticing the UP poster kinda looks like DOWN...
