Brickspace Awards 2009: Results

Hey again, guys! Sorry for the delay, but without further ado, I'm gonna announce the winners of this year's fabulous Brickspace Awards!

BEST CREATION
The award for Best Creation goes to...

NATHAN SAWAYA for 'Dissolving Man'! Please give ol' Nathan a round of applause for his excellent creation, featured as our logo back when we were Best of Brickshelf. We'll be sending an email along to Nathan to congratulate him, and we'll tell you his reply.








BEST VIDEO
The award for Best Video goes to...

PHILIP HEINRICH for his film 'Unrenewable'! Let's give Philip a round of applause, and, if you missed the film, you can find it on his website . We'll email Philip too, and get you his reaction. Well done!]


BEST CREATOR
The award for Best Creator goes to...

Nannan Zhang! Many congratulations, Nannan. Let's give another non-existant round of applause to Mr Zhang. We'll throw him an email and send you his reply (well, the non-private bits of course).



BEST BRICKFILMER
The award for Best Brickfilmer goes to...

Philip Heinrich! Wow, double congratulations are in order for Philip who has won not one but TWO awards this time round, so I think we can call him our overall winner. Congrats!


Well, thanks to all of you who helped to nominate people for the Brickspace Awards 2009, and we're sorry if we got some stuff wrong (spellings, freedom of choice etc), but we're learning, bear with us. And, on the subject of prizes, we'd like to additionally congratulate Matthew from Birmingham, UK for winning our first ever give-away prize: the Brickspace T-Shirt!

Thanks again to all who entered that competition. Now, of course, it's even more important to get on with the competitions we have: like the Long Films competition going on at 101 Brickfilms (and over here). You don't have long to vote for your film, so get going! Voting ends on 30th January!

THAC 6: Rock Monster

Zach Macias returns to the Brickfilming scene with his entry for THAC (Twenty-four Hour Animation Contest) 6: Rock Monster, featuring a very lime green Power Miners set. THAC 6 is, for some reason, hosted on Bricks in Motion. Hmm, seems like everyone is migrating there...

A great vid, but it seems like Zach Macias has forgotten a big part of video editing: colour correction. Like me, he has Final Cut Express, so it should be a doddle to up the blacks and the saturation on these clips. Sadly they are left as they are: dull and de-saturated.

Secret Lego II: Hinge and Flame

Hello and welcome to the second in the Secret Lego series!!

For this tutorial about the ways in which Lego pieces fit together that Jørgen doesn't want you to know about, we're gonna focus on an easy way of mounting the flame brick:

Here it is. Pretty cool. Some of you may know that it can create pretty cool rings of fire, but, if you don't, then I'll leave that one 'till later.

Now then, you'll need one of these beauties: the top part of a hinge brick. These come in 1x2 and 2x2 versions, but I think I'll just use this one. Note that you don't need the bottom part of the hinge at any point in this tutorial. Now let's connect the two...

Like so! See how the stem of the flame piece fits perfectly into the cut-out section of the hinge part. It stays there pretty firmly, too.

You can also affix the flame part to the hinge piece by means of the flame's upper stem as well, creating a lovely jaunty angle.

Now we can use the clever combination to give our abstract wood pile a bit of flare - literally! Using this technique, you can easily solve any flame problems you have. Apart from a real fire, of course! You'd need the fire department for that, not me!!

Thanks for reading, and remember:

Sssh! It's a secret!™

Psycho (Flicks)

A man hides behind giant letters, ready to pounce on an unsuspecting showerererer(ererer). Seriously, is that even a word?

Yes, it's not other than Hitchcock's classic film, Psycho, created in Lego by Alex Eylar . Check more pictures of film names in giant Lego letters in a scene from that film (or, er, POFNIGLLIASFTFs) at Eylar's Flicks page here . Enjoy!

Improper Installation / Jump in the Fire

An amazingly detailed pic from that MOCpages genius David McNeely . Apparently it has some meaning or other, but either a) I don't know it, b) I can't be bothered to find out, or c) It's not important anyway. Or a mixture of the three.

More pics here .