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Debut Your LEGO Brick-Flick at Pixelfest in Denver
July 19, in the year of our Lord 2011 –
Attention, budding animators with a love of everything from
playing with LEGO® bricks to getting digital kicks in LEGO
Universe! The Ones and Zeros Pixelshow, a non-profit group
committed to promoting the digital arts, is hosting a worldwide
contest, ”Build-a-Brickbuster,” to find and highlight the best
LEGO video animators and LEGO Universe machinima creators from
around the world. Original LEGO creations – with virtual bricks
in the LEGO Universe online game or with footage of actual LEGO
bricks and minifigures - can be used to create a winning
masterpiece.
Creators can submit original videos until the deadline of August
5, 2011, for a chance to win exclusive prizes sponsored by the
LEGO Group, like collectible LEGO sets, premium LEGO Universe
memberships and more. Winning submissions will also be screened
at the Build-a-Brickbuster Pixelfest in Broomfield, Colorado on
August 13-14, 2011, and will be included on the Bill Plympton
Presents Tinsel Toys DVD later this year.
Anyone can enter the contest, regardless of event attendance,
but Denver locals will definitely want to put Pixelfest on their
calendar. The two-day event will feature some of the world’s
best brick flicks – not only from finalists and winners of the
Build-a-Brickbuster contest, but also from talented local
animators, machinima club members, students and professors at
the Art Institute Denver and ASIFA Colorado, and more. Key
members of the award-winning LEGO Universe development team will
also be in attendance for questions and discussions.
“Many animators get their start by using LEGO bricks to get
their feet wet in the world of stop-motion animation and
machinima creations. This promotion is our way of giving the
creative communities out there an opportunity to showcase their
greatest talents,” commented Dylan Krider, Pixelfest Producer.
”When players aren’t busy battling to save imagination in LEGO
Universe, they can bring their wildest creations to life with
virtual building and behavior tools that make it simple for
anyone to make their own machinima creations.”
Start making your LEGO machinima masterpiece now and submit
before the early August deadline!
More information, complete contest rules and tickets to the
Pixelfest event are available now on the Build-a-Brickbuster
website at
http://www.buildabrickbuster.com.
Learn more about how you can explore LEGO Universe at
www.LEGOuniverse.com!