Crisis Reverted - Part 1 of 3 [STAR film contest]

Here's part 1 of 3 of my and PWC's entry into BricksInMotion.com's STAR animated film contest. It placed 3rd out of the 22 films entered. It has been split in 3 parts only to meet YouTube's 10 minute limitation. The first two parts are hosted on my channel, the 3rd part is hosted on my co-producer's channel. I filmed most of the material in parts 1 & 2, PWC filmed most of the animation in part 3. I strongly recommend you watch the parts in order as the film was intended.

This film was inspired by Isaac Asimov's novel "The End of Eternity" (c) 1955. In homage, there are 7
references to planets or characters from Asimov's novels in this film. Any Asimov fans want to try to list them? There's also a reference to 30 Rock and Seinfeld.

Given that the end credits are a bit hard to read in the film, here they are:

Crisis
Reverted

Written and directed by
AncientBricks
&
PdoubleyouC


Story inspired by
Isaac Asimovs
novel
The End of Eternity
© 1955


Starring
======
AncientBricks
as
Administrator
Buchanan

PdoubleyouC
as
Cadet Spaceman


Also Starring
==========
AncientBricks
as
The Thirsty Crewman

Dr. Lovely, M.D.
as
Rose

Dr. Lovely, M.D.
as
33rd Century Ships Computer

Dr. Melissa, M.D.
as
Time Lab Countdown


Film Editing &
Sound Design by
AncientBricks

Trailer Editing by
PdoubleyouC

Casting by
AncientBricks


Filmed in
=========
The U.S.A.
(27th Century footage)
&
The Netherlands
(33rd Century footage)


United States Crew
===============
Animation by
AncientBricks

Set Design by
AncientBricks

Set Construction by
AncientBricks
NewBricks (Ethan)
Olivia
Madeline

Patience by
wife & kids


Netherlands Crew
==============
Animation by
PdoubleyouC

Set Design & Construction by
PdoubleyouC

Camera Provided by
Dad

Patience by
Parents,
Katherine and
Mieko the bad dog


Title & End Credits Theme:
No Mans Land
(Title and End Credits)
Written & performed by
Alpha Wave Movement
From the album
A Distanct Signal
© 2001
Available at CDbaby.com
Used with permission.


Sound Effects from FreeSound.org
(Creative Commons Licenses):
•Time Travel by aarondbaron
•Footsteps by petrasound
•Intercom Beep by HerbertBoland
•Metal Thump by jobro
•Squeaky Cart by FreqMan
•Alarm by Regenpak
•Metal Creaking by epolk & sonsdebarcelona
•Breaking glass by mikaelfernstrom
•Future Computers by suonho

All other sound effects by
AncientBricks

Explosion fireball video clips from
DetonationFilms.com

Saturn painting courtesy of NASA
(public domain image)


Special thanks to these creators of free animation & video software:
-Martin Prince [HeliumFrog]
-Avery Lee [VirtualDub]
-David Perry [MonkeyJam]
-Stefan (YellowHead Studios) [Scroller]
-Stefano Cinque [MPEG Streamclip]
-Hauke Lasinger [CSMC]


Thanks to God the Creator, Melissa, Charlie V., Smeagol, Gregory Kyryluk, everyone from the
BricksInMotion.com forums, Zorg O. at StopMotionCentral.com, Alan Silberberg at You2Gov.org, Leo, Rubinos Pizza


This film was inspired by and made for
BricksInMotion.coms
STAR Animation Contest
(April 13 - July 26, 2009)


Crisis Reverted
by
AncientBricks & PdoubleyouC
© 2009
All rights reserved.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• brickfilm
• lego
• stop
• motion
• animation
• star
• contest
• science
• fiction
• sci-fi
• time
• travel
• Asimov
• BiM

[goldencamerastudios]

Where are the Toledians from? Toledo?

[ancientbricks]

@goldencamerastudios Nice one. Tallidians from Tallidia, I guess? ;)

[jstudios98]

what fps was this made at?

[ancientbricks]

It varies. Mostly 15 fps. Walking is 10 fps. Some places are more than 15 fps if I had too many frames so that the movement looked too slow. Actually, I use 30fps all the time and then just vary how long I hold each frame (i.e. if I hold all my images for 2 frames at 30fps, that's equivalent to 15 fps).

[Legodude398]

Awesome video but you should make their mouth move but AWESOME VIDEO!

[ancientbricks]

mouth movements would look nice, but for a film with that much dialog, putting in mouth movements would be a HUGE under-taking. Any volunteers.

[TheBricksterable]

Wow this was posted on my Birthday!

[korm24]

i gonna subscribe :D

[mammothspawn]

dude, or dudes, i love hyour work

[ezzo12390]

ooh me me me