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Astronaut L discovers the Magic Portal on board his giant spaceship.
The Portal takes him to a strange and surreal LEGO world where he has a close encounter with a Monster and barely escapes with his life.
His report to Captain Paranoia only gets him to trouble and his friend and shipmate P, doesn't believe him.
However, the Portal has a mind of its own, and reappears to upset the cosy world of the giant spaceship and its crew to reveal weirder worlds more peculiar than the last.
The short stop motion film uses LEGO, plasticene, cardboard and pixellated live action and was made between the years of 1985 and 1989 on good ol' fashioned 16mm film.
The Portal takes him to a strange and surreal LEGO world where he has a close encounter with a Monster and barely escapes with his life.
His report to Captain Paranoia only gets him to trouble and his friend and shipmate P, doesn't believe him.
However, the Portal has a mind of its own, and reappears to upset the cosy world of the giant spaceship and its crew to reveal weirder worlds more peculiar than the last.
The short stop motion film uses LEGO, plasticene, cardboard and pixellated live action and was made between the years of 1985 and 1989 on good ol' fashioned 16mm film.
Jun 9, 2005 6:42 PM
Re: The Magic Portal
The link is to a smaller version (20 MB). Here is one to a larger one, though it took several minutes even with a sparkling connection (92 MB)...
http://www.rakrent.com/mp/files/TheMagicPortal_lrg.avi
http://www.rakrent.com/mp/files/TheMagicPortal_lrg.avi
By: spam_vigilante
Re: The Magic Portal
Website for more information on this animation:
http://www.rakrent.com/mp/mp.htm
http://www.rakrent.com/mp/mp.htm
Re: The Magic Portal
I updated the link to the main page. Great find Spammie. ;)
Re: The Magic Portal
Da nada. I stumble across some of my best stuff in a drunken stupor. Heh.
I was amazed to see the level of detail in this animation. And from 1989? Geez, shot on an old wind up Bolex 16mm camera? Gotta be an inspiration to animation developers today.
I was amazed to see the level of detail in this animation. And from 1989? Geez, shot on an old wind up Bolex 16mm camera? Gotta be an inspiration to animation developers today.
By: spam_vigilante
Re: The Magic Portal
Would like to see this but not enough to install YAMP (Yet Another Media Player). Already have WMP10, Real10 and QT6 on WinXP.
Anyone know of a free plug-in to play DivX AVI files on one of these players?
Anyone know of a free plug-in to play DivX AVI files on one of these players?
By: digitaldoug
Re: The Magic Portal
Divx is a codec, meaning it is a way of decoding video files. If you install divx, you can watch it in any player, including windows media player. In fact, I believe you can install it sans player if you want. As for Quicktime and Real10, you can uninstall those and use Quicktime alternative and real alternative (google them). Both come with a very nice, barebones low resource player called Media Player Classic which should play any of the files the above already play.
For the record, you can also install the Xvid codec to play this file. It doesn't come with a media player.
For the record, you can also install the Xvid codec to play this file. It doesn't come with a media player.
By: tvthefleshtone
Re: The Magic Portal
Forgot to mention, Xvid is 100% free and open source. No "pro version" or adware (I'm not sure if it has it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did) like in Divx.
By: tvthefleshtone
Re: The Magic Portal
Nevermind. I figured out how to get the DivX codec installed in WMP. For anyone else, the link on the site says " Download the DivX player" but the installer will let you install the codec w/o the player.
Saw the movie. Pretty cool. I can't imagine anyone having the patience to do that movie frame by frame.
Saw the movie. Pretty cool. I can't imagine anyone having the patience to do that movie frame by frame.
By: digitaldoug
Re: The Magic Portal
Wow! Make this a headline! One of the best Brickfilms I have seen. Very funny slapstick humour and a bit ironic, too. And despite it was being filmed with 100% analog equipment it's of good quality.
By: Ting_Ting_Jahe
Re: The Magic Portal
heh, already a headline... I missed that because I only hang around the Latest Links page... :P
By: Ting_Ting_Jahe
Re: The Magic Portal
It's amazing how far Lego has gone from making bricks to making cooler bricks.
By: Ledatru
Re: The Magic Portal
Wow! Amazing animation, over 15 yrs old(the film) with no digital video, amazing.
By: Spacenut
