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The Nolen's
BrickFilms
(c) Protowrxs.com
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Welcome...
This is the Nolen Family's little brick
films corner of the world. Films are listed from Newest to Oldest. If you've never
been here before it's best to start at the bottom and work up from old
to new to help understand any continuing or inter-related items. The
Nolen film team includes dad Stephen and 9 year old Austin.
Movie Quick Link
1985 | Pictures He Drew
Any Gal of Mine |
AntiD |
Don't Bug Me
AnimatorDV Ad | Dude! |
Indian Nation
Christmas 2004 | Funny Ad
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Mirror Star | 10 Brick
Mr.
Miyagi
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Scary 2004 |The Factory Fix
| The Car |
Are We There Yet? | Missing
Moon Mission Movies | One Bad Day |
Hair
- No Mo |
Legoman Makes a Friend | Crime Doesn't Pay|
Legoman
Meets Santa| Legoman the Movie
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News and Updates...
- Poodle Band Member Tony De Meur Comments on "Mirror Star"
- 07/2006 - Dumped out some missing movies; 1985, Pictures, and
Any Gal
- 08/27/2005 - Twenty-four Hour Animation Contest Entry
Brickfilms.com hosted yet another contest with this one
requiring at least 45 seconds of animation done in 24 hours. Doesn't
sound like much but stop motion is a tedious process.
My entry is call AntiD - You have to watch it to get it
- 07/2005 - Don't Bug Me Places THIRD
Yes, the movie placed 3rd in the competition which was quite
surprising to me. You can purchase a DVD of all the entries at the
Brickfilms store for only $10 -
Click
Here
- 06/13/2005 - Don't Bug Me Release for
Heroes and Villains
Not a great technical quality film but hopefully a fun story.
- 06/01/2005 - Don't Bug Me!
There will be a new Protowrxs Productions film out soon enough.
- 03/12/2005 - Mr. Miyagi to air at
ttLester Concert
I was asked to make a DVD quality version of the Mr. Miyagi
video for the band to use at one of their local concerts.
- 03/12/2005 - AnimatorDV Ad - 3rd Place
- 02/01/2005 - Dude! Release
It's pretty awesome dude, you need to watch it.
- 01/01/2005 - Indian Nation Released
A little music video I have been working on and off with for a
while.
- 12/17/2004 - Added Movies
Added our 10 Brick movie, a
funny little advertisement and our
Christmas 2004 montage. Happy Holidays all!
- 12/11/2004 - Our 10 Brick Entry Places 5th out of 24!
A little competition at Brickfilms.com was to make a 2 minute or
less movie using only '10 elements' or '10 bricks'. Twenty six films
were entered, two disqualified since they failed to vote as required
and we placed 5th out of the 24.
The film can be viewed on Brickfilms.com for now - Click to see the
thread
- 12/10/2004 - Mirror Star is published
- 11/20/2004 - I am now a Brickfilms.com Reviewer
Brickfilms.com recently expanded their list of members that provide
the initial review of submitted films and I have been picked as one
of the four new members added.
- 11/12/2004 - Mirror Star is almost finished. Likely will not be
made public until December 2004.
- 11/09/2004 - Mr. Miyagi is now done
and viewable below. This is a music video based on a song from
ttLester, a Colorado based band.
- 10/2004 - Protowrxs Films on a Phone
A few members of the Brickfilms.com community were asked to
provide some short 30 second brickfilms for a mobile phone content
provider in Europe. I re-edited some existing films and created some
new shorts to provide for this and ended up with six totals films.
Some other directors also submitted theirs and a total of ten films
were selected for publication. Out of the Ten, FOUR of mine were
selected. Unfortunately I can't make the films available online
since they are being marketed but as of 11/2004 they sale page can
be seen on the
German T-Mobile Page for review. My films are
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Pretty cool. The Brickfilm thread in relation is
here.
- 10/2004 - New BrickLinks Page
To wet my feet in the PHP world of code (I do lot of Active
Server Page, or ASP web coding but no PHP) I created a links page
for Brickfilmers to submit there sites. Although one can browse
through the member list at Brickfilims to see something similar,
this page has only sites that are Brickfilm related. If you have a
Brickfilm site, add it HERE!!
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Works in Progress
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Active Projects...
It is likely no future movies will be
made or published from Protowrxs aka Stephen Nolen. It was fun while
it lasted but interest have changed.
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Future Projects...
None currently planned - See
notes at left
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 1985
- March 2006 |
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A finale of sorts, this was a favorite song for some time and I always
thought I'd make a video of it. Ended up making the video with quite
fitting recycled material. Amazing how creative you can get
sometimes without motivation.. :)
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Pictures
He Drew
- November 2005 |
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A little darker take on this song. It features a different character
with his own demons. Was an interesting change of pace.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms |
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Any Gal of Mine
- September 2005 |
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A fun little parody song of Shania Twain's Any Guy of Mine by Gino
Ruberto. This video introduces an odd trio of minifigs as well.
Actually Gino liked the video enough to put it on his own song
parody site found here
http://ginoruberto.5u.com/parodies.html - Scroll down a bit and
you'll see. He did ask me to use the original version so I re-mixed
it into the 'Gino Version' which he has published on his site.
Discuss This Film at Brickfilms |
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AntiD
- August 2005 |
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Made in about 12 hours for the Brickfilms.com Twenty-four Hour
Animation Contest (THAC) on August 27th, 2005, this little music
video fit the bill for the contest to me. With 28 entries and a
'general' theme in the contest it's placement is maybe questionable
but it was interesting knowing many others were working on the same
contest in the same time period. As of 08/28 there are still some
questions if the movie qualifies since the rules said the 'mod', in
this case the letter "N" or "n" had to appear in every frame. There
are a few frames where the mod is in the set, but not in the frame
so it may get disqualified. Time will tell. As of 08/29 the film
is officially disqualified and not in the running for the
competition. Oh well, it was fun and turned out ok.
Discuss this Film at Brickfilms.com |
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Dont'
Bug Me - June 2005 |
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My entry for the Brickfilms.com Heroes and Villains contest for the
Summer of 2005, Don't Bug Me was a spin off from a joke made by 'KarateDude'
in the Brickfilms chat about 'educational super heroes'.
With collaboration with Rachel 'Dewfilms' Dew in regard to character
development and use of some previous 'villains' I had
developed for other purposes, Don't Bug Me takes one into
Brickville High for a weird little adventure. Is it a hero or is it a
villain film?
Technically this film has some problems problems
such a some set bumps, timing and some other fixes but hopefully the
story is fun to follow.
Discuss
this film at Brickfilms.com |
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AnimatorDV Ad |
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This little clip was the result of small contest at Brickfilms.com to
make a 30 second advertisement for AnimatorDV. I used a little
character I had tested with before and wrote a short ad script. The
entry placed 3rd in the contest and I ended up with a $199 version
of AnimatorDV for the effort.
Discuss this clip at Brickfilms.com |
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Dude! - February 2005 |
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It's pretty awesome Dude. You need to just watch it and, like, see what
I mean dude. It's like, only one minute and seven seconds dude.
Discuss this clip at Brickfilms.com |
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Indian Nation - January 2005 |
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I always liked this song from the 1970's and didn't think about it's
symbolism at the time. Today is a different world and it is rather
interesting how things have changed. This was actually started in
middle 2004 and finally finished in late 2004.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
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Protowrxs Christmas
- December 2004 |
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Just a little montage of the films we made from December 2003 through
December 2004. Set to some cool music used by permission from
Slang,
you get to see the transition of animation quality improve for the
most part. Happy Holidays from Protowrxs!
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
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A word from our
sponsors
- December 2004 |
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Just a random thought. I've never seen a real Brick character ad and
had this idea in mind. You need to be involved in either
brickfilming or Legos to totally understand it but it's real short
so watch it anyhow.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
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Mirror Star
- December 2004 |
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Another music video based on a late 70's song by the Fabulous
Poodles.. everyone remembers them right? Ok, maybe not but this song
was one of my favorites from back then. This was a on and off
again project through the summer of 2004. Although the idea was
always there, the interest was not so it took a while to come
together.
I miss the Fabulous Poodles...
Updated 7/2006 - Seems Tony De Meur found my film!
Stephen
Really enjoyed your animation for my
song "Mirror Star" and so glad there's still people out there who
remember us! All the best, Tony De Meur
See the post here
Discuss this clip at Brickfilms.com |
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Protowrxs 10 Brick
- December 2004 |
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Created for a little competition at Brickfilms.com, the Protowrxs 10
Brick is an exercise in minimalist filming. The competition called
for limited the number of 'elements' to ten. An element is the
smallest component of the brick. For example a minifig with no hair
is still nine elements; two legs, waist, body, two arms, two hands
and a head. This film placed 5th out of the 24 entries.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
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Mr. Miyagi Music Video
- November 2004 |
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A music video based on a ttLester song that I like. A fun tune that
the band is asked to play often. This version of the recording was
done quite ago but is still my favorite version. More about
ttLester can be found at
www.ttLester.com
Discuss this clip at Brickfilms.com |
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Scary 2004 - October
2004 |
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A very short little clip for Halloween 2004. Just some experiments
from backlighting and paper backgrounds but the overall effect seems
right. Don't be too scared. Note: The REAL version really looks
and sounds better than the WMV version although they are encoded at
the same bit rate.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
REAL Scary 3.4mb
Windows Scary 2.7mb
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The Factory Fix -
August 2004 |
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"Something is broken, and only one man can fix it."
A fun film for the Brickfilms.com High Adventure Theater (HAT)
contest made over the summer of 2004. The film actually tied for 5th
place with a Bluntmation clip out of 20 entries and is included on
the Brickfilms
High
Adventure Theatre DVD available here as of late 2004.For this one we've dedicated a
page full of information -
Click Here or on the image at right.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
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The
Car - May 2004 - Completely done by Austin Nolen - 8 years old |
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This is Austin's first NOT "18" second long movie, in his words. He
came up with the script, did the animation, created his own skate
board grind sound, and wrapped it all up in Studio for the final
product... oh yeah, and he's 8 years old. Dad helped with the 'Dad'
voice while Austin is 'Mike'.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
Length: 1:36
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Are We There Yet? - May 2004 |
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Just in time for summer travel, an answer to the age
old question.
A short three minute flick set to the tune of big band
music. the story is based on inspiration by Karen Nolen in regard to
'the question'. This was also basically an experiment in tracking the
camera with an item and giving the illusion of motion using a moving
backdrop and a moving set at different speeds.
Discuss this film at Brickfilms.com |
Length: 3:11
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Missing Moon Mission
Movies - April 2004 |
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Welcome to the Missing Moon Mission Movies...
or "MMMM"...
Don't miss the footage that NASA never
dared show to the world. Built from the Lunar Mission Lego kit and
taken from Earth and beyond, "MMMM" reveals for the first
time these behind the scenes Moon Mission Movies... errr... or
something like that... anyhow...
Includes somewhat better animation and timing for
the most part and a few effects we haven't tried before.
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Length: 4:49
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One
Bad Day - April 2004 |
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This was TOTALLY done by Austin (8 years old) by
himself in March of this year. More title than animation and not much
story, BUT with a flying ball with sound effects for his first totally
by himself movie... pretty cool.
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Hair
- March 2004
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... A little time waster
Heard this song... saw a bald
mini-fig... thought I'd waste a few hours... This is the result.
I also thought that animating a drummer would be a
challenge... It was... too much of one for me as you can tell by the
results. This was also a test to see how good of results I can get
doing close ups using our existing camcorder setup which wants to
'auto focus' on everything else. That didn't turn out too bad.
The song is a parody by Bob Rivers of a Phil Collins
tune.
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Legoman
Makes a Friend - February 2004
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Legoman is lonely. What can he do? He has an idea but
will things work out like he hopes. This is a follow up to the
previous Legoman movies although it really doesn't have much to do
with the first two. See Crime Doesn't Pay first to make some sense of
the extra scenes and then watch Legoman Makes a Friend.
This production is slightly better than the previous
ones. We still haven't invested in any lighting but did use an old
CamCorder camera and different capture device to get better resolution
and camera abilities. Just having fun.
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Crime
Doesn't Pay - December 2003
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Created in December 2003 while a family friend, Matthew Allison age
12, was visiting for the holidays. He had seen the previous brick
films and wanted to help make one. The story line and concept was his
idea. He voiced a couple characters while Austin did most of the
others.
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Legoman Meets Santa
Claus - December 2003 |
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Legoman always wondered about Santa. Well he gets his chance on
Christmas Eve. Our family built a simple Lego Christmas scene together
for the 2003 Holiday and what better way to use it that to make a stop
motion movie with it.
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I
am Legoman - Early December 2003 |
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Our first stop motion film designed to show our then 8 year old son
how a movie or cartoon works. A few simple clips with leaders and a
fun ending.
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