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  • 2022 Brickfilmer's Guild Film Festival

    Who is your choice for 2015 Brickfilmer of the Year? 
    (Only BFG member's votes will be counted) (One vote per member)
    Voting ends March 1, 2016

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Barati Productions - In 2015, Garrett Barati used his stop motion talents to create several brickfilms for the LEGO Group. He was also involved in the production of the LEGO Jurassic Park brickfilm by DigitalWizardz.​

Bricknerd - 2015 was a busy year for Tommy Williamson of BrickNerd Studios. Most of the year was spent doing all the animation and motion graphics for the newly opened Art of the Brick DC Comics, for which his team completed over 16 minutes of animation, 45 minutes overall of running footage. It was a major accomplishment for his tiny studio. This year also saw the release of The LEGO Brickumentary. They did the story of the LEGO company for that, as well as the segment interstitials. In addition, the sequel to last year's Batman vs Superman was released, to favorable reviews. He also managed an immediately disqualified entry into the Doritos crash the Superbowl contest, a fun little Batman holiday short and numerous non-LEGO animation projects. Combine all that with a daily blog to run, contests and other content for the YouTube channel, he barely had a day off for the entire year.

BrotherhoodWorkshop - Kevin Ulrich's 2015 brickfilms on his YouTube Channel have gained over 8 million views. He also created multiple commissioned brickfilms for the LEGO Group, and How It Should Have Ended. Kevin was also a guest on Brickfilmer's Guild Podcast #002.

digitalwizardz - In 2015, Paul Hollingsworth of digitalwizardz continued Battle of the Brick Flicks Series. His studio also produced the amazing LEGO Jurassic Park brickfilm that gained much media attention and has been seen almost 2 1/2 million times. He was also commissioned to create a LEGO Good Morning America brickfilm. Paul was also a guest on Brickfilmer's Guild Podcast #001.

Dylan Woodley - His primary focus this year was on a Technic web series for The LEGO Group that is currently rolling out. The size of the vehicles and diversity of environments amounted to a level of production that was beyond his previous brickfilming productions. He also created a more personal video for LEGO at the beginning of the year that explored his relationship with the LEGO brick and creativity.

ForlornCreature - ForlornCreature produced three 5 - 7 minute episodes of LEGO Minecraft: Creepers, two of which were featured on the official LEGO Youtube Channel, accumulating over 7 million views total.  He also won THAC XII for the second time with 'Fried Circuit'.

Forrestfire101 - Forrest Whaley continued making great brickfilms in 2015. Much of his work was with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios this year creating great Scooby Doo brickfims for the LEGO Group. Forrest also created the stunning Lego Captain America 3: Nazi Zombies which currently has over 830,000 views.

golego animation - Steffen Troeger of Golego is one of the most well known German brickfilmers in the world. Early in 2015, he released the brickfilm "iWater“ which was a co-production with Cornelius Koch, the founder of brickboard.de.  In February, Steffen hosted the Bricks in Motion documentary with filmmakers Philip Heinrich, Zach Macias, and Shannon Birch on the European leg of the documentary filming. An update video about the adventure was posted on the Golego YouTube channel. In late spring, a co-production with Hendrik Denkhaus called "Paragraph" was produced. The brickfilm went onto win 3rd place by the jury at Steinerei 2015 (a German brickfilming festival).  It was also voted 2nd place by the audience at Steinerei. That film also won "craziest Original Brickfilm" at Cine Brique. At the Steinerei 2015 after show party in Klagenfurt, Austria, Steffen was selected to be host of Steinerei 2016 in Struttgart, Germany.  In June, he screened a couple of his movies on a "brickfilm night" at an art gallery in Struttgart. During the Summer, he did a live interview on the radio about brickfilming and building stuff with LEGO. In September, he was invited by an art gallery in Lisbon, Portugal, "Eka Palace" to be part of a 1 year celebration party. In Lisbon, he did workshops with people in brickfilming and showed movies. In mid-November, Golego brickfilms were shown at an expo at the Stuttgart Art Gallery. He facilitated a few brickfilming workshops at that expo.  

MindGame Studios - Zach Macias is one of the producers of the Bricks in Motion Documentary. He also directed and animated the outstanding Macias' Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer (in LEGO). He is also one of the hosts of the Bricks in Motion Awards. 

mobdeli - Spencer Katz animated the incredible LEGO® Club Show: Music Video: Can't Stop Building for the LEGO YouTube Channel.

MonitogoStudios1 - In 2015 Greg Tull (aka: Mudskipper/Monitogo Studios) completed the 50 minute brick film Bound after 6 years in production which earned "Best Animated Film" at the 2015 CWVFF.  Bound was also a finalist in both "Best Feature Film" and "Best Original Score". Greg secured international distribution for Bound, with high market prospects. Greg completed a commercial brick film for a NYC architecture firm, and officially released another. He encouraged the use of Lego and brick filming in professional pursuits and assisted other brick film studios in production by lending acting talent. Throughout the year, Greg mentored several young people interested in brick filming and pushed to take brick filming to the next level and create commercially viable space for it.

MonsieurCaron - MonsieurCaron started 2015 with Episode 4 and 5 of his Ninjago series and then worked on a Walking Dead brickfilm homage to Daryl Dixon in "Smoke". A F1Grand Prix Canada LEGO was shot for the Canada Formula 1 race as well as video for the Montreal Canadians hockey team for LaPresse.ca. Being a big "Back to the Future" fan, MonsieurCaron reshot the well know time travel sequence for October 21st 2015. To finish the year with a big challenge, he produced 24 short brickfilms in 24 days based on the LEGO City Advent calendar.  MonsieurCaron is also the director of Ciné Brique, a brickfilm festival /LEGO expo/ AFOL convention held in Laval (Montréal, Canada). The festival is in its second year. Last but not least, he was featured on the Game/Animation panel at the Buffer Festival in Toronto.

Morgspenny Productions - In 2015, Morgspenny Productions had the opportunity to work on another exciting round of commissioned brickfilms. He created a brickfilm for ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and BBC Worldwide's hit show, Doctor Who. He also had the chance to work with Lego Artist, Warren Elsmore, using his iconic history models to take a journey through time in Lego.

NathanWells - Nathan Wells is one of the producers of the Bricks in Motion Documentary. He is also one of the hosts of the Bricks in Motion Awards.  He also judged the Septemberfest Citizen of the Year LIVES contest. 

Paganomation - David Pagano animated several outstanding Adventures of Max brickfilms for the LEGO YouTube Channel.  He is also currently working on Little Guys…In Space which is a Kickstarter funded project. He also judged the Septemberfest Citizen of the Year LIVES contest. 

rioforce -The year 2015 began with "New Recruits" placing 7th in THAC XII. From there,  he hosted the "EASTER 2015" contest and helped out with the Brickfilms Wiki. After creating a few short films, he created entries to "BRAWL 2015" and "Darkness & Light" simultaneously, placing 9th ("The Surveillance Situation") and 1st ("Sola Luna"), respectively. His final brickfilm of the year was created for "The Citizen of the Year LIVES" contest, ultimately receiving 1st place with "(un)denial".

Sean Willets - This last year Sean Willets, (aka: filmyguy1) animated with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios creating some great Scooby Doo brickfilms.

SmeagolStudios - Philip Heinrich is the site administrator of the Bricks in Motion website.  He directed the nearly completed Bricks in Motion Documentary. He lent his visual effects and compositing expertise to Zach Macias' Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer (in LEGO). His brickfilm Puffindolia was also a finalist in the Cine Brique brickfilm festival. He also judged the Septemberfest Citizen of the Year LIVES contest. 

SpastikChuwawa - James Morr animated nearly a dozen brickfilms that are on his YouTube channel along with several commissioned brickfilms for The School of Life and PewDiePie YouTube Channel.

Titan Pictures - Released over 42 brickfilms totaling over 52,000,000 views.


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