Summer Contest 2018

The Summer Contest is a new brickfilming event hosted on Brick à Brack. This event is composed of 8 contests which are taking place over 9 weeks. The Summer Contest is taking place during the Summer, from the 2/07/2018 to the 2/09/2018. Each contest of this event has a theme which is relating to the making of a Brickfilm, from the Preproduction to the Postproduction.

Week 1 - Writing Challenge
The first week of the Summer Contest was a writing challenge from 2 July 2018 to 8 July 2018. The scripts has to be written in French or English and the theme was suitcase. The winner won the LEGO set #60144, the second the set #60135 and the third the set #41599. The contest receives 39 entries.

Top Three
 * 1) Brickfield54, the author of PARACRIMANES writes the supreme MacGuffin ! A man slips gently into madness because he can't imagine what's in that suitcase.
 * 2) Aiwha, with IN EXTREMIS takes you into the world of a sticky apartment. Two thugs live with a sword of Damocles above their heads. They will have to come up with a plan to get out of this situation.
 * 3) chris_gbp, Prepare for a tough trip with 75 MINUTES TO EMORY. A war is raging between several factions. A passenger meets a mysterious character carrying a briefcase.

Week 2 - Brickfilm Adaptation
The second week of the Summer Contest was a brickfilm adaptation challenge from 9 July 2018 to 15 July 2018. First place won the set #31063 and a $25 voucher for Brickwarriors, the second won the set #60149 and a $15 voucher for BrickWarriors and third on the podium won the set #41602 and a $10 voucher for BrickWarriors. The contest receives 18 entries.

Top Three      2. chris_gbp - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6306/
 * 1) Yetgo - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6314/

     3.  Undershadow - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6323/

Week 3 - Set Event
The third week of the Summer Contest was a set event from 16 July 2018 to 22 July 2018. The aim of the contest was to build a set from a chapter of a sci-fi story (Space Brick) written by dom_10, and to post a picture of this set in a cinematographic way. The 3 members of the podium won the LEGO set #60150. The contest receives 12 entries.

Top Three
 * 1) thefourmonkeys - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/fichiers/uploads/documents/1/9dc1b370-thefourmonkeys.jpg 
 * 2) louisoswalt - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/fichiers/uploads/documents/1/7da47f09-louisoswalt.jpg 
 * 3) 'Volrog - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/fichiers/uploads/documents/1/82f6cf7e-volrog.JPG 

Week 4 - Animation Challenge
The fourth week of the Summer Contest was an animation challenge from 23 July 2018 to 29 July 2018. The theme was "Time, a question of speed".

The end goal was to animate a minifigure at a normal pace, before changing their flow to appear as if it's in slow motion, and then having them accelerate into a speed motion. So, to accomplish the slow motion, members had take more pictures and to achieve speed motion, they had to take less pictures in their sequences.

The first won the set #60121 from LEGO, the second the set #60164 and the third member of the podium won the set #60158! 20 members participated with fantastic creations!

Top Three      3. Ozone Studios - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6380/ 
 * 1) Future Past Productions - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6488/ 
 * 2) thefourmonkeys - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6372/ 

Week 5 - Soundtrack Challenge
The fifth week of the Summer Contest was an animation challenge from 30 July 2018 to 5 August 2018. The goal was to add sound on a video made by Brickfield54, The Temporal Loop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQ2NftXJTI ​​​). Participants had the possibility to add diologues, sound effetcs, and copyrighted musics. The first won the set #21312 from LEGO, the second the set #60107 and the third member of the podium won the set #60157! 11 members participated with amazing sound design!

Top Three
 * 1) Wammy
 * 2) JumboGauge
 * 3) MBstudio

All Entries are on this video :https://www.brick-a-brack.com/fichiers/uploads/documents/1/The%20Temporal%20Loop%20-%20Entries%20-%201080p.mkv

Just switch the soundtracks in a software like VLC.

Week 6 - Animate a fight scene
The week 6 of the Summer Contest was to animate a fight scene from 6 August 2018 to 15 July 2018. The first wins the set #21032 from LEGO, the second the set #2000414 and the third member of the podium wins the set #41600! The contest receives 20 entries. Top Three      2. Future Past Productions - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6488/ 
 * 1) ffingers - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6463/ 

     3. Sylvain - https://www.brick-a-brack.com/brickfilms/brickfilm/6441/