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urltoken is the superior online brickfilm experience, this is a simple and obvious fact. i can spend hours on urltoken, and i do, every single day. urltoken is a shell of its formal self and brings great shame to my family. i remember signing up for the refugee camp and things were great. now things are terrible. i have since migrated to the bigger and stronger embrace of the urltoken community and it pleases me so much like you could not believe. it has had all of the great animators pass through its gates. zachmg studios, the guy who made beast, roy hairyhouse, walt disney. urltoken is the home of amateurs such as you and myself. we are standing on the toes of giants, and the giants are so big, and they are at urltoken, and their toes are urltoken, and that is where we are right now and it is awful, and this is the truth in its entirety .
since it' s inception, in march of 2001, urltoken has been the leading resource for all brickfilmers, from beginners to experts .
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patron 24fps cost $ 9 per year. patrons at this level received a full @ urltoken webmail account and were eligible to judge some official site contests .
the first forum for urltoken was launched alongside the site itself in 2000 and remained in use until august 2001. it was hosted externally on server. com .
if urltoken got a nice clean - up, i probably wouldn' t mind it. but, right now, bricks in motion is the site where i belong .
the second forum was hosted externally on ezboard, beginning on august 14, 2001. it was the first urltoken forum to include subforums. it remained in use until 2003. the ezboard forum, although incomplete (only beginning around march 2002), remained online for many years at urltoken but can now only be accessed on the internet archive. [ 20 ]
in 2008, the patronage system was scaled back to only include patron 24fps. [ 19 ] the system was retired entirely with the launch of urltoken 3. 0 in early 2009 .
hey guys! here is a quick question, that i' m sure many of you know. is urltoken back up and bigger than bim? is bim more popular? or is urltoken up and more popular than bim? i kind of want to know because i want my videos in a more active community so they can be seen. it doesn' t seem that bim is as active as it used to be, and i' m wondering if it' s because urltoken is back up (if it even is). i went on the site, and the posts look pretty recent, so i' m guessing it is. which leaves one final question. is urltoken more active than bim? please awnser. thx
in 2012, urltoken underwent a major redesign, moving from a phpbb forum to a wordpress powered website. this redesign broke many aspects of the site, un - hiding private forums, allowing anonymous posting, etc. due to the anonymous posting, spam bots attacked urltoken and filled it with spam posts, even forcing the website to go down due to so many attacks .
remember back when, in its
heyday
, urltoken was everything. they had more contests, and a lot more stuff going on. then, when the website aged, and the members
pilgrimaged
to bricks in motion. they flocked to join this new site. urltoken was now a barren desolation, and the new bricks in motion was alive with members .
patron digital cost $ 30 per year. it granted the same benefits as patron 24fps and additionally gave users hosting space on the urltoken server, with the address username. brickfilms. com .
in 2004, spite your face productions was commissioned by sony pictures to create a spider - man - themed brickfilm (shown below, left). until youtube was launched in 2005, the majority of brickfilms were hosted on the urltoken website. on may 25th, 2006, youtuber sing4u2day reuploaded a lego animation by urltoken user jamesfm titled the letter (shown below, right) .
on may 29 2003, jason rowoldt announced that due to a lack of time and motivation, he could not continue running urltoken. the site was put up for sale. if a buyer were not to be found in around two weeks, the site would become defunct. on the 5th of june, it was announced that urltoken would be purchased by joshua leasure. [ 12 ]
after urltoken was sold to cynthia price december of 2008, many users left due to several controversial site changes. former administrator of urltoken, schlaeps, created his own brickfilming site called urltoken, which received more praised from brickfilmers. over time, youtube and bricksinmotion [ 2 ] became the primary websites for lego stop motion videos, while urltoken faded into obscurity. on august 6th, 2010, the plastic planet productions youtube channel uploaded a brickfilm titled the dandelion, which garnered upwards of 4. 2 million views and 1, 400 comments in the first four years (shown below, left). on october 13th, 2011, youtuber hiffielego uploaded a brickfilm titled lego ninjago fire temple, accumulating over 3. 2 million views and 430 comments in the next three years (shown below, right) .
i was on urltoken for a short while. i don' t like it. not only that, their interface is very facebook - esque, and facebook' s layout and channel design has always been sub - par .
the current urltoken forum has been in use since 2003, though it has been ported across various forum platforms during redesigns. the forum had a large data loss coinciding with the 2015 redesign and is currently missing a significant portion of historical threads .
on july 30th, in celebration of the hundreth film in the directory, brickfilms announced its first contest, the classical movie contest. on august 14th, the urltoken forum was retired and a new forum was launched on ezboard. com. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] in december, brickfilms announced its second contest, the historical fiction contest, to mark the one - year anniversary of the site. by 2002, the domain brickfilms. topcities. com, which previously the domain urltoken had redirected to, had been disused. [ 10 ]
leasure' s first action after taking control of urltoken was to found the review panel, who would provide reviews for films in the directory on the imminent site redesign. a call for applicants was put out on june 11 2003 and the chosen panel was announced on the 19th as
in june 2015, urltoken was once again redesigned. this redesign was initiated by site owner, chuck price. the goal of the redesign was to focus on featuring brickfilms and resources, with the forum as a side element. although the interface was changed, urltoken was still built on a wordpress backend. various website issues followed, the most major being missing forum topics and posts. the issue of anonymous posting was resolved, but many years of spam posts still filled the forums. the forums were majorly pruned, causing much of the old forum content to be lost. the forum remains relatively unused .
after content was created for the domain, urltoken was launched by jason rowoldt on the 16th of december, 2000. [ 4 ] the earliest forum was hosted externally on server. com. [ 5 ] by the beginning of 2001, there were 16 films listed in the directory, and rowoldt would soon begin publishing interviews with filmers and guides to various aspects of brickfilming. the site was moved to the domain urltoken on march 8, 2001. [ 6 ] in may, a request was put out for a volunteer to assist with reviewing film submissions and to write articles for the site, and in july, jared gilbert was added to the brickfilms staff. [ 7 ]
urltoken is a website focused on the art of brickfilming. it was founded in 2000 by jason rowoldt and is the earliest example of a website dedicated to the lego animation community. it was the main home of the english - speaking brickfilming community from late 2000 until early 2008, when the majority of active users migrated to bricks in motion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
on december 15th, 2000, jason rowoldt posted an announcement to the lego enthusiast newsgroup urltoken outlining his plan for a website dedicated to films created using lego. he had created the empty domain brickfilms. topcities. com, coining the term' brickfilm' in relation to lego filmmaking. rowoldt' s goal was to compile all brickfilms available on the internet into one place; the brickfilms movie directory .
now, almost five years since its birth, bricks in motion is still around. but, as pritchard said, it' s not as great or active as it was years ago. in 2009, a young bricks in motion housed many members. but, in 2013, there are many newer members who aren' t familiar with what went on in the days before they joined. i have come to be well - acquainted with these new members. but, i can' t help but notice that the
urltoken pilgrims
, if you will, aren' t around anymore, save only a handful who were there that day, long ago, when bricks in motion was born .
brickfilms are stop - motion animation movies that are made using lego® bricks or similar construction toys. with the ever expanding internet, brickfiliming is more widespread, than ever before. it is our goal to provide information on the production and technical aspects of brickfilms, support and nurture our community and to create excitement about brickfilms .
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at launch, rowoldt' s directory would include films by thomas foote, marc atkin, christopher brawn, robert thomas and stephen roberts, in addition to those by rowoldt himself. he also planned to search across the internet for any other films he had not yet found and to allow submissions of brickfilms from the general public. the site would also feature a forum dedicated to all aspects of brickfilming, which rowoldt was inspired to include due to lugnet lacking a forum for the topic. [ 3 ]
on january 4th 2002, jason requested a technical assistant to help with a site redesign and development of new site features. this role was eventually filled by
work on a complete redesign of the site was underway for much of 2002. on november 22 2002, the redesigned site was formally announced with a projected release window of january or february 2003. [ 13 ] the core development team at this time was jason rowoldt, jay silver, mike yacullo and nick maniatis. the headline feature of the redesign was to be a new searchable film directory with reviews, categories and other special features. in january 2003, rowoldt requested a second coder for the redesign. loïc desjardins joined the development team in this role. [ 14 ] in february, mike yacullo had to leave the development team. work on the redesign remained ongoing. [ 15 ] in late march, rowoldt announced a public test of the new forum which was to be part of the redesigned site. the community was to migrate over to this forum from the ezboard forum after the testing. [ 16 ]
the longest - running logo of the site was introduced in june 2003. [ 17 ]
the long - awaited site redesign was at last launched on august 4, 2003. the new site added the new directory system, which featured films sorted by creator and by genre. it also added an updated resources section with links to helpful articles and software, and the patron system, which allowed members to make donations to the site in exchange for extra benefits .
in the site' s second version, between 2003 and 2008, a patronage system was operated. [ 18 ] this system allowed members to donate money towards the upkeep of the site in exchange for extra benefits. patrons were indicated on the forum by a badge which would appear with their username. the patronage system was divided into four levels :
patron saint cost $ 60 per year. it granted the same benefits as patron digital, but increased the amount of server storage space and monthly bandwidth provided and granted access to two additional email accounts .
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the best highlights of the f1 races will be available to you with unique humor. all done in lego stop motion. no computer editing. just pure lego stop motion .
i have recently made a first attempt at producing a brickfilm and would appreciate feedback - - especially any advice pertaining to decreasing the time it takes to shoot brickfilms (if at all possible). the clip i have linked below took me about four hours of shooting for 21 - 23 seconds of animation at 7 fps .
you can also find an introduction to my channel and collection if anyone is interested in checking that out as well. the following link will take you to an account that has a picture gallery of my lego display :
brickfilms are a form of stop - motion animation made using lego bricks or similar plastic toys. post your work, tips, guides, or ask for feedback !
protip: press' i' to view the image gallery,' v' to view the video gallery, or' r' to view a random entry .
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brickfilms are movies made with lego bricks that are often produced using stop motion animation techniques .
the earliest known brickfilm, en rejse til månen (journey to the moon), was produced by danish filmmakers lars and henrik hassing in 1973, which was made on super 8 film in both stop motion and live action (shown below, left). in 1980, filmmaker fernando escovar made a brickfilm titled lego wars, which parodied the 1977 science fiction film star wars (shown below, right) .
between 1985 and 1989, filmmaker lindsy fleay created a brickfilm titled the magic portal, which is often considered one of the first brickfilms with a high production value (shown below). in 2000, the term
brickfilm
was coined with the launch of the site brickfilms. com, [ 1 ] created by filmmaker jason rowoldt. the site initially featured lego films collected by rowoldt and eventually became a user submitted brickfilm database .
in september 2001, brickfilmmaker true dimensions released a film titled the rescue, inspired by a scene from the 1981 adventure film raiders of the lost ark (shown below, left). in october, the monty python and the holy grail dvd was released, which included a brickfilm of its
knights of the round table
scene produced by spite your face productions (shown below, right) .
on january 17th, 2007, youtuber blunty3000 uploaded an animated music video for the song
circle circle dot dot
by comedian jamie kennedy and actor stu stone (shown below, left). in the next seven years, the video gained over 17. 5 million views. on july 16th, lego launched an official stop motion animation contest to promote the star wars product line, sparking a surge of star wars - themed brickfilms. animator eanimation won the contest with his film an average death star day (shown below, right) .
how a brickfilmmaker feels after working 15 hours but only having less than 5 seconds of new footage .
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ah, no... . bim is, and for the foreseeable future will be, the premiere brickfilming website. take a look at the
last post / freshness
times here, and on brickfilms. com .
yes, it seems like bim is getting a bit less active than it used to be, but that' s been discussed a lot lately in other topics. brickfilms was the best site... . years and years ago. but not anymore, and it' s never recovered it' s former glory. for better or worse, nothing compares to bim nowadays. not brickfilms, not eurobricks, not nothing. well, brickabrack maybe, but that' s in french, and they seem to have fewer posts than we do here .
if you want your films seen, you just have to post them all over the place and hope for the best .
i' d imagine the more people active at brickfilms. com, the more ad revenue garnered for the site - if that weren' t the case, i' d say to just post on both. ultimately you can do that regardless of what i suggest, i just don' t personally like the idea of giving patronage to bf. the community is what determines the strength of a forum; fresh films are a good way to draw in community members. bim has been slightly less active recently, but it' s still much more active than bf, and has a higher level of discourse in general. if you want quality feedback and have to choose one site, bim is the better option .
give bim a make - over and you got something much better than brickfilms in my opinion .
i might have just joined in 2010. but, believe it or not, i
bricks in motion has 1563 more members then brickfilms. com. even if some of them are not active or banned, bim is clearly bigger .
i cannot believe this question even needed to be asked. i am livid .
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urltoken is an online community dedicated to " brickfilms " , stop-motion animations made with lego . it hosts a forum for filmmakers , technical articles and resources , and a directory of brickfilms . in 2007 the site was the internet 's " main hub for lego filmmaking " , according to the wall street journal . urltoken began in 2000 as a website displaying several films collected by jason rowoldt , its founder . in 2006 , the website 's official history stated that it had grown to host an active community of filmmakers and a directory of " hundreds of films " . in early 2003 jason rowoldt sold the site to joshua leasure . 
urltoken is an online community dedicated to " brickfilms ", stop-motion animations made with lego. it hosts a forum for filmmakers, technical articles and resources, and a directory of brickfilms. in 2007 the site was the internet's " main hub for lego filmmaking ", according to the wall street journal. urltoken began in 2000 as a website displaying several films collected by jason rowoldt, its founder. in 2006, the website's official history stated that it had grown to host an active community of filmmakers and a directory of " hundreds of films ". in early 2003 jason rowoldt sold the site to joshua leasure.
urltoken is an online community dedicated to " brickfilms ", stop-motion animations made with lego. it hosts a forum for filmmakers, technical articles and resources, and a directory of brickfilms. in 2007 the site was the internet's " main hub for lego filmmaking ", according to the wall street journal. urltoken began in 2000 as a website displaying several films collected by jason rowoldt, its founder. in 2006, the website's official history stated that it had grown to host an active community of filmmakers and a directory of " hundreds of films ". in early 2003 jason rowoldt sold the site to joshua leasure.