A Present Just for YOU!

Here's my gift to all of you. Battle of the Brick update #2. I wanted to get you all the actual movie, but they were all out of them at Target. So, just be happy with this one.

BOTB Update #2

New BOTB update

Putting together a new BOTB update right now. Don't know when it will be finished. There's a lot of footage to sift through.

False Alarm

My mistake. How Lego Bricks are Made (or "were" made) is not being taken down. Enjoy this 4chan kitten instead!

Rockets!

So, this is how I film rockets. The plume of smoke is just cotton balls wrapped around technic rods. It looks quite good in motion.

ATTENTION

My video of How Lego Bricks are Made from the 80's will most likely be taken down in the next few days. If you haven't seen it yet or want to watch it once more...go watch it now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rt620ztAf4

Mega Desk

All I care about is getting...more...mega desk. With this new HQ I will soon begin editing and adding special effects to the Battle of the Brick project. I'm still filming, but now I can use the down time to start "crunching the #'s" and processing all of the pictures into the computer.

Post weekend work

Been working like mad trying to get the Battle of the Brick done after a great weekend of awesomeness. Been really using a lot of unique camera dollys to get the unique vehicle shots. The best part is that it is ALMOST FINISHED!!!

The most epic picture

So...Battle of the Brick is almost done. Filming the very finale scene, then I have to do some in-between shots and interior scenes to fill the gaps, but all in all I could put it together right now and it'd be watchable. Cool huh?

Here's the most epic picture ever btw. And no...this scene is not in the movie. It's purely for fun.

Makin progress...

Forgot to plug my camera battery in, but I'm ready to shoot the next scene. I guess I'll be productive on my blog here instead.

Animating vehicles is a lot more fun than animating the figures. There's only so many points of articulation, and when you move the vehicle forward the wheels move themselves. It's practically animating itself. I wish I could show you all the footage I shot yesterday. You'd love it.

Blomkamp Shots

So, if you want a simple POV shot in real life, reason says to just mount the camera onto whatever you want to shoot. So, you strap the camera on the helmet of an actor or the body of a car and just say action.

However, the process in animation is much more difficult. A simple POV shot requires you to build an entirely new rig from scratch and hope to your diety of choice that it doesn't fall apart in the middle of a shot. That's what we've got right here. Thankfully, the shot came out beautifully as you can see, but it looks even better in motion.

Precarious camera

So, it's very tough to work with a Digital SLR camera in the confines of an actual diorama. It's very hard to get the shot I want sometimes, because some of the set pieces are permanent and can't be moved out of the way. I try my hardest to come up with jerry-rigged solutions to some of these problems, but they usually end up being precarious and scary when you look at them.

My production photo's:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kooberzstudios/5100510585/

Wow...long time

Wow, so it's been a while since I've posted anything. I'm gonna get this thing back on the road. Regular updates on Twitter and this blog about the productions.

First, Battle of the Brick is almost done filming! Can you believe it? I have one more hump to go and then it'll be post production from there. The production is well under way, and I'm just going though the storyboard of my crude hand-drawn index cards and knocking off shots one by one. Take a look! Don't worry...even if you could see it clearly you wouldn't understand my scribbles.

It's Lego Starcraft Time!

The above image is the promo. Click here for the full film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XduXCp91_IA&feature=sub&videos=udE7meM6zYA

The fun of rendering...

Had to re-render everything because a logo got letterboxed and was rejected. However...looks like my Starcraft movie should be coming out tommorrow after all....I hope.

New logo

The new breakout-style logo was a combo of my buddy Liam's help and my own imagination. Thank you Liam! I'd plug your website but I don't know what it is. Anyway...many thanx. I thought it was more appropriate to credit you here than in every video I use the logo in.

First Lego Tutorial

The first in my Lego tutorial series is up right now. Go check it out if you want to build a miniature Starcraft Terran Barracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkVKTtHRmA

Can you guess what's coming?

Is this a tease enough for all of you? Can you guess what's coming? More updates soon.

First Lego tutorial going up

My first Lego tutorial will be going online very soon. If you ever wanted to build a Starcraft Terran Barracks, now's your chance.

New imac!

Bought a new iMac off a friend. If the harddrive continues to work, this will mean I can render things like normal people! I needed this to run After FX and Final Cut Studio 2 since those are my main workhorse programs. But now, I can render 2wice as much Battle of the Brick footage as normal.!!

Lego Starcraft Filming Complete!

I have just finished principal photography for my Lego Starcraft film. While I continue to animate the Battle of the Brick film, I will start post-production on the Starcraft film and should have it up soon. Also, look forward to my first string of Lego Tutorial coming later this week.

Lego Starcraft

As I continue working on the Battle of the Brick film, I have decided to announce a side project I've been working on in my spare time. It should be out in the later part of next week.

I hope I have some Starcraft fans out there because my next film for Machinima will be a last hurrah for the original game. It chronicles everything you love about Starcraft into Lego, and even though it'll be another short film, I'm sure you'll all love it. Expect it to make the front pages of all the gaming blogs again.

More work

Working round the clock on a side project in anticipation of a very long-awaited game, but also working hard on the Battle of the Brick film. More pics and updates to come.

Let's get started

After returning from my somewhat cut-short hiking trip, it's time to get to work.

While organizing and creating a livable working area for myself, I've already started to finish some of my still-in production projects, and getting Kooberz Studios content out there to you as soon as possible. This site will start to look more and more like a production blog now, since my last creation was only my spoof on Geometry Wars.

For my followers, there will be new Lego tutorials and short films. The larger (more important) completion of Battle of the Brick is at the top of my priority list and I am doing everything in my power to release it asap. More regular updates coming.

The end of college.

This image of the first day of college has finally culminated into 4 years of life wasting classes...1 awesome girlfriend...thousands of dollars down the tubes...several lifelong friends...a few really bad experiences...even more awesome experiences...a hatred for cafeteria food and a few people...1 dead futon...introduction to strange substances...interesting roommate experiences...2 bigscreen TV's...the wearing of boxers...more debt than I've ever been in...a vague understanding of what film is...hatred of bad teachers...the love of great teachers...a few scars...one very used laptop...exposure to different viewpoints, even though they don't matter since we're all going to die from the 2036 meteor anyways...5 zombie plans...level 39 in Nazi Zombies...one ice storm...hundreds of dollars jipped from the commuter caf'e before they fixed the one-card system...and a lot of life experience that I'll just forget about when the aluminum in my deodorant gives me alzheimer's. What a run.

End of College---A new era is born

So it has finally come. I am about to graduate college and take the next step into the world of animation.

To all of the fans and few readers still reading this blog, I want to thank you for sticking with me. I have great news. Now that college is officially over, I will be able to dedicate a great deal of my time towards making entertaining vids for you all. Much of time time has been taken up by internship work and general college business. I can officially say that there will now be more work from me at a much quicker rate than I've ever been able to do. Stay tuned for more video's and the imminent Battle of the Brick film.

Geometry Wars Animation

My film is up at last! I hope you all enjoy it. I will have a behind the scenes video out soon after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqClqtHGaTI

NEW MOVIE!!!

New movie coming out this sunday....to keep everyone occupied before Battle of the Brick....hope you played Geometry Wars on the Xbox 360 Arcade.

Games Master Article

Just recieved copies of the UK only gaming magazine: Games Master. This zeene is way crazier than anything I've seen here in the states. The layout is packed with info, photo's and sort of looks like it was made for someone with ADHD. I think Gamepro needs to take a clue from these guys because the attention span of today's U.S. gamer is rapidly deteriorating.

The interview about me is above...including the goofy picture of me and all its glory. I love that they used the still of the Warthog crushing the yellow flower. I distincltly remember animating that saying, "no-one is going to see this, but it's so awesome!" I'm glad I was wrong. I hope I can reach out more to my UK fans, and maybe this will help. If any of you are reading this due to the article...thanks for visiting.

P.S.- the side project I've mentioned should be out this week if all goes according to plan.

New Project

While working on the Battle of the Brick movie, I've found it's important to diversify projects. So...I've been working on a separate little movie for the past week that will be out soon. I think you'll all like it. I'll be putting up behind the scenes stuff soon, and keeping up with this blog more often.

Not to fear...Battle of the Brick is still my top priority.