So I made this stop motion movie with my kids

[Herb Alpert]

Like a lot of people here, I'm in lockdown since mid march (I'm from France, near Paris). I've got 3 kids and it's not always easy to entertain them, so I came with this idea of doing a lego stop motion movie with them.
So, almost 2 months later, here it is : "confined raiders of the lost ark", please tell me what you think about it :)

 

[Foot]

Really creative and funny obstacles you made for him! The cinematic framing of the shots were nice too, as were the sound effects! The shaky cam made me a little dizzy though, haha

 

[TaySan]

Really neat and well done! :) Love anything stop motion lol

 

[Makoto Yuki]

Enjoyed it, good job all of you.

 

[Carnby]

Nice job!

 

[Deleted member 31817]

That was very entertaining lol, loved the sound effects and him reaching back to get the hat

 

[Herb Alpert]

Really creative and funny obstacles you made for him! The cinematic framing of the shots were nice too, as were the sound effects! The shaky cam made me a little dizzy though, haha

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Yeah I agree but I made this without any tripod so it's way more shaky than what I would have liked...
I used my phone btw, so cinematography is a little Wtf sometimes lol.

Also video editing was made on the spot, I only edited the sound design.

Also thanks everyone for the kind words !

 

[Scullibundo]

Dude. That was baller.

I loved the end sequence with the boulder/soccer ball. Indy catching some serious air down that second flight of stairs.

 

[Minlack]

That was great!
\(^_^)/

 

[Commedieu]

this was better than the new star wars films. every single one of them.

Amazing effort and you FINISHED IT! so good.

 

[LordRuyn]

That was really good, and very funny! Good job!

 

[Deleted member 2802]

ok that was neat

 

[thecouncil]

that was cool. must have took absolutely forever to make.

 

[Sirhc]

That was freaking great, congratulations on finishing it, hope you all had a blast making it.

 

[AGoodODST]

Dude that is fantastic! Well done!

Also I'm sitting with my wee boy who's a bit unwell right now and can't sleep and shown him and it's really cheered him up. So thanks :D

 

[FullMetalTech]

Fantastic job OP. Loved every second of it.

 

[Pau]

That was pretty impressive, but also a really cute thing to do with your kids. What was their favorite part of working on it?

 

[Herb Alpert]

Thanks everyone :)

That was pretty impressive, but also a really cute thing to do with your kids. What was their favorite part of working on it?

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They loved to record their voices for the little girl bedroom sequence.
It was mostly my 10 year old who helped and brought ideas, as the other 2 are still young (8 and 5).
My son wanted to show the town he built in his bedroom, that's the sequence with the elevator and trolley buses, which seems a little bit out of place imo but he was very adamant for doing this.
My 8 year girl helped when we had too much things to move, like for the end sequence and the enraged tribe.

 

[TP-DK]

Tell the truth, how many lego bricks did you drop down the toilet?

 

[empyrean2k]

Says video unavailable for me in the uk :(

Edit: Scrap that, copied and pasted the link into a new tab and it worked, great video :D

 

[Herb Alpert]

Tell the truth, how many lego bricks did you drop down the toilet?

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none ! But this was stressful as fuck !
Worse would have been to drop my phone in there lol

 

[Enterprise1701]

That was fantastic.

 

[SneakyBadger]

Very fun! You should post this on the r/quarantineactivities subreddit to give it some more exposure

 

[Humidex]

Chapeau, great work there!

 

[Wackamole]

Amazing. Now i want to do a stop motion as well.

 

[Belladonna]

That was really great!

 

[Herb Alpert]

Very fun! You should post this on the r/quarantineactivities subreddit to give it some more exposure

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Didn't know about this subreddit, just posted it there. Thanks !

 

[Baroni]

That was wonderful!

 

[Zampano]

Mate this is amazing. It got better and more creative as it went on too - genuinely had me laughing and smiling all the way through. Hats off to you.

 

[Reeks]

Whoaaa this made my day. Some really slick filmmaking on the real. The magnets room was my fav part.

 

[Herb Alpert]

Thanks everybody for your kind comments ! My son is so proud to know that people from other countries liked it !

 

[Catalix]

Wow that soccer ball was an asshole!

Really impressive how it turned. Congrats on following through.

 

[Corrupt]

Tell the truth, how many lego bricks did you drop down the toilet?

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I was thinking that, lol.

This is brilliant, OP. Are the kids raring to do a sequel?

 

[Herb Alpert]

I was thinking that, lol.

This is brilliant, OP. Are the kids raring to do a sequel?

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Maybe next time, for the second wave outbreak 😅.
Or we'll try some temple of doom parody, but it's so bleak it will be hard to sell to the kids lol

 

[Kapten]

Did not know Ben Wyatt posts here.

Amazing work.

 

[Katten]

That is completely amazing.

The only criticism is maybe double or even tripple the amount of pics taken, since it does move *really* fast at times.

But other than that I got nothing, since you and your kids can apparently run circles around me when it comes to ideas, creativity and talent.

 

[supernormal]

It's actually really creative how you handled the set-piece with the boulder. There was some actual intensity in that. I love art like this that can rise above the limitations of the tools it was made with. Amazing job.

 

[opus]

Came in expecting Requiem for a Tuesday, left throughly impressed. Great work!

 

[dallow_bg]

Way better than I honestly expected. Haha. I got really into it.

Loved his smug little face.
And I laughed aloud when the knives were shot at him in the kitchen and when he got his hat.

The chase on the city rug was clever.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

That soccer boulder was relentless.


Bravo.

 

[Kendrid]

It was a bit dizzying but cool. Good job.

I wonder how long until you get a copyright violation notice for the music.

 

[wideface]

That was very cool, OP. Well done.

 

[Deleted member 17388]

Quite cool, hopefully, your kids keep doing this kind of animation :D

 

[hjort]

It's given me a bit of motion sickness, so I'm temporarily paused half way through, but even so I've been enjoying it! The

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cops coming

made me laugh, that was a great gag.

EDIT: Alright, saw the whole thing. Fantastic finale. Sequel please and thank you.

 

[Lace]

It was very creative! Maybe invest in an Amazon basics phone tripod for the sequel to help with the framing (I know budgets for movies seem to grow exponentially with sequels). I'm sure it was a great bonding experience with your kids though.

 

[Herb Alpert]

It was very creative! Maybe invest in an Amazon basics phone tripod for the sequel to help with the framing (I know budgets for movies seem to grow exponentially with sequels). I'm sure it was a great bonding experience with your kids though.

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That's what I wanted to do at the begining of the lockdown but I changed my mind because I thought there were more important stuff to deliver, with the whole country completely blocked I didn't want to clutter the channels with "useless" packages.
That said, I'll probably get one when this shit will be over, cause I tried to make one with the stuff I had at my disposal at home and didn't succeed at all lol.

 

[Herb Alpert]

Almost 500 views ! It's so cool

Thanks for your kind words everyone !

 

[Herb Alpert]

And almost 700 views before the week-end ! Yay
Sorry for the shameless bump :)