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Broken News (BRAWL 2014)

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Today we have three developing stories.


Made for 2014's annual BRAWL (Brickfilm Rapidly All Week Long) contest on Bricks In Motion. The theme was "development" and the mod elements were red touching orange or the letter K.

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An oldie, but a goodie!

As I wrote those many years ago, I love the intro logo. It looks clean and professional, yet still maintains a nice Lego feel. How did you pull that off? It doesn't look like LDD, and Stud.io wasn't a thing back then.

Sadly, after that strength, the opening few seconds are a bit underwhelming. The first few seconds need some sort of audio, some sort of ambiance or at least footsteps/chair creaking. It feels rather strange, and made me (once again) think something was wrong with the audio.

A simple short like this doesn't need a dozen layers of perfectly balanced sound, but I feel that the short would have benefited from a slightly more complete sound design. Then again, BRAWL doesn't exactly give you much time to perfect that.

Otherwise, the sets and animation are great. I like how each location seen is very different in terms of set design and even lighting, though the final set is by far the most impressive.

It's a nice short, and tying everything together at the end was a good idea, not only with the two armed individuals, but even the dude at the very beginning. It was a great idea to add some cohesion to an otherwise scattered and disjointed film.

I'm really glad you've popped over here to NG. It gives me a chance to revist your films and expand/rewrite old reviews.

ENDfilms responds:

The logo was built in LDD, then I used a program that converts LDD files to pov-ray format, then rendered them out in pov-ray. It is pretty bare bones as it only renders the camera angle the LDD file was last saved at and pov-ray is so old it doesn't really utilize gpu power to speed up rendering.

This brings back memories.

Hey, this was pretty funny, keep going!

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