Crisis Reverted - Part 2 of 3 [STAR film contest]

Here's part 2 of 3 of my and PWC's entry into BricksInMotion.com's STAR animated film contest. It placed 3rd out of 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. Parts 2 & 3 make little sense without the previous parts.

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

[MPfist0]

I found the 5 characters references to asimov (Elijah Baley, R. Daneel Olivaw, Giskard Reventlov, Powell and Donovan), though I'm not sure about the planet references. I guess they're Cronar and Talidia, though I don't remember those names from any Asimov book I read, but I still have to read the Fundation cycle.

[ancientbricks]

@MPfist0 BEAUTIFUL. One of the planet references was to Trantor ("Trantor Temporal Academy" which supplies the cadets). I honestly can't remember what the 7th reference I was referring to. Can't even remember if it was a planet or another character. :) I think it's best to read the Robot Series before Foundation, so you should be in good shape. I liked the Foundation Series, but prefer the Robot Series. Enjoy.

[jstudios98]

why couldn't he move it before 11:23?

[ancientbricks]

Any action before 11:23 ran the risk of him being spotted by the ship's crew, apprehended and questioned about how he got there and what he was doing.

[LEGOkevo]

PART 3 PLEASE!

[ancientbricks]

Part 3 is on my co-producer's channel. It is linked above as a Video Response to this video.

[MPfist0]

@ancientbricks I've read the robot series and now I'm in the Empire cycle. I should have paid more attention. I was kind of expecting a trantor reference, though I didn't see or hear it anywhere in the movie. Is it at the beginning?

And yes, the robot series is my favourite series for now, although my favourite book is "The currents of space".

[LEGOkevo]

The dude dies aww i liked him:(

[ancientbricks]

Part 3 is on my co-producer's channel. You can get to it through PWC's video response given above.

[Kokkeler10]

whens part 3 coming?