The Magician's Hat

[Aleczandi]

Well thanks for all your help in this! I just looked it up on google and got it, and van you see if you can do a film of the old west? That would be interesting.

[Aleczandi]

@legobondhead, how do I enter bricks in motion? (of course in September)

[legoheadbond]

@Aleczandi Bricks in motion is a website, although I don't think they are going to hold this competition any more. They do other good ones though.

[Aleczandi]

@legoheadbond oh man, i guess i will just enter in 2013, can you give me the link?

[legoheadbond]

@Aleczandi It's just bricksinmotion (dot) com. Then go to competitions and see what one you like. :)

[Aleczandi]

It was great! Where is the music from? It would go perfect with my brickfilm I'm making! Congratz on 2nd!

[legoheadbond]

@Aleczandi Thanks, the music was from incompetech (dot) com.

[zack81512]

you derserve more views

[thelegolord77]

awesome, the rain idear was really clever :)

[SuperGeekInc]

i think spraying the set with water was a good idea

[ferrarienzo564]

You know you could just do a rain effect you don't have to spray water on the set.

[legoheadbond]

@ferrarienzo564 Yes, I do know that. I thought that using real water might look good though, different to everyone else.

[GingaNinja121]

@legoheadbond I loved the real water! It was cool!

[TheMariofans]

what software did u use?

[legoheadbond]

@TheMariofans I used SMA (stop motion animator) and Sony Vegas to edit.

[nsb828]

Nice rain how did u do it?

[Vaatexil]

waou!!!

[wolfgar45]

u used motion blur! smart

[legoheadbond]

@wolfgar45 I did? If you mean the man running at the start, and the cars passing, that wasn't actually any kind of effect. It came out like that when I exported it, and I thought it looked pretty cool, so kept it. ;)

[Mark1Manual]

OMG! That rain effect must have taken ages to film, even filming regualar movies at that high frame rate is hard. Great job.

[BringMeTheRisen]

WAAAAAY better than EmmaExecute's entry!

[PenguinBoyFilms]

I loved the rain effect! How did you do it?

[legoheadbond]

@PenguinBoyFilms It's quite simple, but hard to get right. Basically I had a water sprayer (its one of those gardening ones) and for each frame I squirted on a bit more water. I had tissue for when a little pool formed at the bottom, I used the tissue to dab it up a bit. I also blew the water droplets to make it look like the water was dripping. If you want to try it though be very careful with your equipment, I accidentally got water all on my plugs (luckily I wasn't electrocuted!!)! ;P

[PenguinBoyFilms]

@legoheadbond Thanks a lot, I'll have to try that some day.

[emiliuc17]

Really Smooth animation!

[WelcomeToAwesomeness]

I liked it.

[scootercoconut]

I really liked this. Way better than mine. (check mine out by the way, i need opinions for my first attempt at stop motion.) I think the fact that you made it rain made the movie much more interesting. This video is way too good for only 2,000 views.

[seyalcops]

awesome this rocks awesome effects looks so realistic and cool rain and stuff and i am so favoriting this subscribe

[haqq17]

This was extremely smooth and original. The rain effect was great and realistic and the whole video was amazing. You should continue animations and soon you'll be a partner.

[TheFuntasticFilms]

congratulations on getting in second!

[messyflame86]

i think this would have won ur very very good

[FrameStudiosFilms]

Cool vid!

[GoldSwordStudios]

amazing

[DomoIsSoFluffy]

the was so good and pretty funny

[filmyguy1]

Pretty damn good.

[PopcornMawn]

Like the water effect, but it might be a teensy bit too intense. A drain would be epic.

[LampLightZDL]

Very good. I loved it.

[Jed277]

First place, it must have been really hard to animate with all that rain! Very mysterious, though I have seen allot of bunnies coming out of hats recently... 5/5!!!

[LudbrickStudios]

That was awesome. Sweet rain effet, great animation, even though it was too fast at parts. You clearly got the idea from mindgame, but it's still a great story. I liked it a lot!

[Spark5643]

This deserves to win!

[splodgepictures]

incredibly smooth, nice concept. Although, what was the man looking for in the box? Shelter? Awesome though, dude.

[legoheadbond]

@splodgepictures Thanks. He just saw the box, and wanted to know why it had been left there.

[TheXylon98]

very smooth, amazing! you just earned yourself a subscription!!

[SamWorks2000]

animation is so smooth!!

[bramlvx]

also, how did you do the water on all the lego? i made a raining test (check it out and tell me what you think :D) and i just added a layer of rain, no real water...

[legoheadbond]

@bramlvx Oh yes, I saw that on BiM. Not bad, the rain looks pretty good. Maybe try to make some ripples, I've tried Sqirlz water effects too, and I think you can make some good ripples.

For this particular film I sprayed water onto my set using one of those spray containers you get from a garden shop. Just be careful with your camera!

[bramlvx]

verry good! i think you have a chance of winning!

[legomanh]

kind of reminds me of zachmg's the magician

[legoheadbond]

@legomanh Yeah, a bit. I actually had this idea ages ago, before ZachMG made his, just only now got round to making it.

=)

[AncientEngine]

Your very best work!

[legomanbla2]

Nice