Creators build new communities, brick by brick.

Saturday’s WSJ reports on the web helping another Undie genre emerge:

In This Film Industry It Really Helps To Be a Blockhead - WSJ.com
WSJ.com’s Andrew LaVallee goes behind the scenes with a “brickfilm” creator to see how movies are made using Legos.

“Cognizance” is one of hundreds of movies known as “brickfilms” that are getting attention on YouTube and other video-sharing sites. Amateur filmmakers use Lego pieces to create characters and scenes, sometimes spending months painstakingly arranging and rearranging the blocks before the camera. Re-creations of famous moments in “Star Wars” and “Titanic,” faithfully rendered in the primary colors of Lego pieces and stitched together from thousands of stop-motion frames, have drawn hundreds of thousands of viewings. Many of the productions are original films with elaborate plotlines, soundtracks and voice-overs.

The growing genre is driven by a lively online community of would-be Spielbergs who swap tips on message boards about tackling the unique challenges of the medium.”

Here’s hoping that more and more of these “amateur filmmakers” are able to go pro! Who will be the Rooster Teeth Productions of brickfilms?
You can learn tons more about this genre & support their efforts at Brickfilms.com. Why not buy a DVD?

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