The Brickfilmer's Guild
Welcome to the Brickfilmer's Guild (BFG). We are an online community created to spotlight and connect those that practice and enjoy the art of brickfilming. Brickfilmers are the people that make animated films using plastic bulding bricks, such as Lego or Mega-Bloks. The BFG is designed to showcase brickfilming animators, producers, voice actors, and editors from around the world. Brickfilming is a hobby for most, but for few it is a profession or for some it is a small source of revenue. In brickfilming production, there is usually only one or a very small group of people that preform the jobs of producer, writer, director, actor, casting director, animator, set designer, set construction, lighting director, director of photography, editor, special effects artist, and promoter. The brickfilmers that do all the above the best find the most success.
We also try to deliver the most up to date brickfilming news. We search the internet looking for news being made by brickfilmers and report it here. Check out the bottom left of this page under Brickfilmer's Guild: Administrator blog for the latest brickfilming news.
A member of the BFG can design and customize their own virtual space among fellow brickfilmers that are famous, soon to be famous, or just novice brickfilming hobbiest. A member's profile can include embeded videos (from YouTube and other video sites), a gallery of pictures (great for production pictures and mocs), Twitter feeds and much more including Blogs, the Wire (and site wide micro blog), and a Chat Room.
This site is meant to compliment brickfilming sites such as Bricksinmotion or Brickfilms.com. The BFG encourage users of either site to become members of the guild and create a profile. We also encourage members of Brickboard and BrickSpace.eu (the German online brickfilming communities) and members of Brick-À-Brack (the French forum about brickfilming) to join the guild and create profiles.
We currenlty have over 600 members.
Check out the featured members of this site. They are some of the worlds best brickfimers. Friend them on this site, subscribe to them on YouTube, and follow them on Twitter.
If you are under the age of 14 please read the "Terms" at the bottom of this page.
After you apply for membership, we will send you an email confirmation and you will be ready to start customizing your profile to display among your fellow brickfilmers.
Join now, it's free! You will be emailed a confirmation usually within one week. Become a member! Register here! One account per person/studio.
Brickfilmer's Guild
P.O. Box 3031
Lilburn, GA 30048
U.S.A.
Email address: register@brickfilmersguild.com
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The Brickfilmer's Guild: Administrator (Big Monkey)'s blog
Congrats to the two BFG members who won for their pitches made for the Tongal "LEGO City Stop Motion Project". The BuilderBrothers and thefourmonkeys earned 2 of the 5 spots. The 5 pitch winners won a $500 production budget and LEGO City Production Kits. Now they must complete a video for Tongal by June 11th. These five winners will automatically be one of the seven winners with prizes ranging from $1000-$10,000 if they complete their videos on time. Tongal is also accepting videos entrees from non-pitch winners. Two wild card entrees will compete for the prize money.
Also in a similar Tongal LEGO stop motion contest, DigitalWizardz won a $100 production budget for their pitch in the Monster Fighters Video Project on Tongal. Digital Wizards video is due May 21st.
Good Luck BFG members!
Voting is now open for the 2011 BFG Brickfilmer of the Year award. There are 8 nominees for the first inaugural BFG Brickfilmer of the Year. The nominees are Keshen8, Forrestfire101, Paganomation, Kooberz, Golego, NXTManiac, Stonebreakers10, and Mobdeli. Please log into your BFG account and go to this link and vote: http://brickfilmersguild.com/elgg/pg/polls/read/admin/16670/who-is-your-choice-for-the-2011-bfg-brickfilmer-of-the-year
Bricks In Motion just announced their 2012 Contest. The theme this year is Kitchen Sink. Contest entrants will thrown in the "kitchen sink" by being required to make an INTERACTIVE VIDEO. The deadline is October 14th, 2012 and they are accepting submissions as early as October 1st. There are two age classes in the contest this year: one for ages 6-12 and one for ages 13 and up. This is one of the most prized wins in brickfilming, good luck BFG members. Check out the announcement thread.
The winners of this year’s Fathom Film Festival sponsored by Saarens Productions were recently announced in Bemidji, MN. A fellow brickfilmer was one of the winners. Spencer Olson (Olsonstudios), won the Audience Choice Award for his film “Bunnies”. As a winner, he received a $100 prize.
The 2012 ASIFA-East Animation Awards were held April 29th at the Tishman Auditorium at the New School in New York City. It was ASIFA-East's 43rd annual Awards Ceremony and a brickfilmer took home a few awards. David Pagano (Paganomation) won awards for:
Commissioned Under 2mins.
Excellence in Animation
Red Brick Saga: Pirates of the Caribbean
Commissioned Under 2mins.
2nd Place
Country Buildin'
Paganomation has also just recenlty been nominated for the Brickfilmer's Guild Brickfilmer of the Year Award. BFG members vote here!
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Vote for 2011 BFG Brickfilmer of the Year
May 18, 2012 by Administrator (Big Monkey)
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Don't forget to Vote for 2011 BFG Brickfilmer of the Year. Click here!
Monkey News & Updates
May 15, 2012 by thefourmonkeys
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Hey Guys!! :D
I'm pumped and ready to blog today. Sorry I couldn't get the vlog done, things are still so busy here and BM is still working crazy long hours. :'(
I am counting the days until Summer break so I will (...)
Brickfilming News - Three BFG Members Win for TONGAL Pitches
May 13, 2012 by Administrator (Big Monkey)
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Congrats to the two BFG members who won for their pitches made for the Tongal "LEGO City Stop Motion Project". The BuilderBrothers and thefourmonkeys</(...)
Behind the Magic
May 8, 2012 by ShutterBroke
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Hey everyone! Long time no....umm..write I guess. It has been a crazy few weeks so that is kind of why I'm a bit behind on these blogs. It totally isn't because I'm a slacker at all...
So I'm currently working on the next animation challenge "getting abducted by an alien" and as soon as that is over I'm goin(...)
