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  • Oblong Pictures is an imaginary film company which specialises in making short stop-motion films using the popular children's toy, LEGO®.

    There's also the occasional non-LEGO® film but we don't like to encourage that sort of thing.

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April 24th, 2005 by oblong pictures

The Brick Gulch Chronicles: Screenshot

Shame. Shame on me. This film was actually finished six months ago but, for one reason and another, I never got around to updating the site. So without further ado, here’s the old new old film: The Brick Gulch Chronicles.

Any similarity to a well-known popular web series is entirely intentional.

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Something wicked this way comes…

April 20th, 2005 by oblong pictures

Over the last few days I’ve been reading about the web standards movement. Actually, I don’t know if it’s a movement as such. It’s mostly web designers getting evangelical about a structured approach to designing web sites. In a nutshell, you create the content separately from the presentation - the content goes in the html and the presentation goes in a css file. This makes your site easier to maintain and more compatible with a wider array of browsers.

Having spent all of three days reading about this stuff, I’m thinking that it would be a good idea to redesign this site (if you look at the source html, you’ll see what a big mess it is at the moment) and get it all standardised and structured. To make things even more interesting for myself, I’ve decided to sign up for the May 1st CSS Reboot project. So there you go - in about 10 days, on May 1st, you will be looking at a shiny new Oblong Pictures. I might even go nuts and finally add a page for the Brick Gulch Chronicles film that I made 6 months ago.

CSS Reboot

Now I just need to learn how CSS works…

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For those about to rock

July 19th, 2004 by oblong pictures

Twisted: Screenshot

Good news, everybody! There’s a new film to download. This latest effort is quite possibly the most pointless one yet - two minutes of dialogue from the intro to an ’80s music video. It doesn’t get much more obscure than that.

The film page is here. Let’s rock.

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Server problems

June 29th, 2004 by oblong pictures

Server Problems: Unrelated image

It appears that some of my files are unavailable for the moment. I’m looking into the problem and hope to get them back up as soon as possible. In the meantime, all the Quicktime versions (and anything else hosted on oblong.brickfilms.com) should still be available.

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New non-LEGO stuff

April 10th, 2004 by oblong pictures

Well, I’ve had to put away my “studio” temporarily to make room for some work-related stuff, so I’ve been entertaining myself in other ways. The results of this new pastime can be seen on the new Non-LEGO Videos page.

Muppets Mister Ed

This is basically just me messing about with Ween songs and some old TV shows. There’s no LEGO here and if you’re not a fan of the band, I doubt you’ll get much enjoyment from it. Consider yourselves warned.

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As you were

January 18th, 2004 by oblong pictures

It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally got round to putting the hi-res versions of my bigger films back online. So if you’re one of the people who emailed me asking when they’d be back then run, don’t walk, to the LEGO Films page. Knock yourself out.

Luke and Obi Wan training

Since I was tidying up anyway, I’ve taken the opportunity to fix some of the broken links - the old test films in the vault and a couple of other things here and there. Nothing new or exciting to look at though.

I should also mention that work has begun on Out of Time II, the long-awaited sequel to my debut feature. There’s a sneak peak preview thing here (DivX only, I’m afraid). I wouldn’t get too excited, mind.

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Happy anniversary, Doctor

December 18th, 2003 by oblong pictures

Doctor Who: Screenshot

I’m about two weeks late with this, but here is my 40th anniversary tribute to Doctor Who. It was really made with the hardcore Doctor Who fan in mind, so don’t expect it to make sense.

The film page is here. Enjoy.

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Fame!

October 21st, 2003 by oblong pictures

The November issue of Wired magazine features a short piece on yours truly. It doesn’t mention the address of this site though, so if you’re reading this as a direct result of having seen the article, congratulations on some solid detective work.

An unfortunate side-effect of this unprecedented media frenzy is that I’m in danger of exceeding my bandwidth allowance for this month, so I’ve had to restrict the file format of my films to Quicktime and replace the larger films (Out of Time and A Wasted Journey) with lower resolution versions. The high res versions will return early in November (EDIT: Sorry folks, held over to the new year), if anyone is really desperate to see them.

I did a nice picture of Geoff reading the magazine. You can see it here if you so desire. The cover of the magazine, specially created for this photo session is here.

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