Battle for Flowlab (Flowlab meme series)

Flowlab season 1 arcs:

After FL TF 2

episodes 1, 2 and 3

The Filler Arc

episodes 4, 5 and 6

The Venom Arc

episodes 7, 8 and 9

The Sigma Arc

episodes 10, 11 and 12

I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE

Shadow the Hedgehog’s a b**h_s_ mother****** This series is being renamed to Battle for Flowlab and the Flowlab Cinematic Universe that this is part of is being renamed to the Flowlab Meme Universe because that makes more sense. I will repost the wiki once changes have been made.

Episode 10 actually has more stop-motion in it for real. If you were in the Flowlab Official Discord server, you would have seen some previews. Every scene in episode 10 is stop-motion except for the gaming scenes and the scenes with Miles web swinging towards the laptop.

episode 10 teaser


lego miles morales gaming meme

Episode 11 teaser

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Episodes 8 and 9 (may include swears mild 😬😬🗣️🤬)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBfPQJ-kusM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laYzhup2LBQ

80% REAL STOP MOTION!!! (not counting gaming segments)

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The gaming chair you used for Spider Man is the exact same one I own, lol.

Also, you said that 80% of the video was stop motion, but I think there was only like a minute or two of that whole videos that was actually stop motion. I don’t blame you because I would spend hours on hours doing stop motion, only to get like 10-30 seconds of decent film so that’s one reason I stopped doing it, but now that my Lego collection has grew, I may reconsider doing it again.

As, for some criticism, I have no idea what’s going on or what the plot is exactly.

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Lol, nice. Always feels dope to see a thing you have in a thing you’re watching, lol.

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:sweat_smile: yeah, I meant to exclude the gaming sections from that percentage. You’re right, stop-motion is hard lol. It took me about 5 hours to get an approximate total of 3 minutes of stop-motion. But it was fun, and I was 100% dedicated to making episode 10 fully stop motion until I got the idea to play Flowjam games in it.

Sorry, my bad. :sweat: The plot got the better of me (also everything is improv). Additionally, I put a brief synopsis of each episode at the start or middle of every video’s description. At some point I stopped fully trying to make it narratively cohesive, so I just tried to make it enjoyable and added some references to past episodes to create a sense of continuity. Basically, the main point is just fun(ny) [for the viewer(s)] (totally not because I failed to be consistent in a variety of areas XD).

Episode 11 will likely go back to the episode 6-8 format, but with a higher stop-motion to regular filming ratio. The Venom arc (ep. 7-9) was kind of also filler like the Filler arc (ep. 4-6) before it, but the Sigma Arc (ep. 10-12) is supposed to be a culmination of the plotlines to set up the next Flowlab meme movie, which will take place immediately after this first Flowlab meme series season ends, and which will not be a Transformers parody like the first two.

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I honestly thought this was going to be a pure stop motion series but it’s fine I guess. I haven’t watched much of it except the first few minutes of the first episode because I kind of didn’t get hooked once I didn’t see much stop motion. This is still cool though.

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I want to pull out all of my old stop motion films. They were probably worse than this, but a lot of them were mostly tests using 10 frames. Most stop motion films use 20-30 I believe, which would take so long to do.

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Cool. I’d say go for it. 10 frames is even more than me lol, I usually do 7 or 8 frames (5 or 6 frames for episodes 7 and prior). I agree with you; 20-30 frames is standard and looks good. I think a lot of the professional/more skilled animators or those who have been at it for years are able to pull off higher frame counts because they have special equipment and whatnot. I’m not saying they are good because of their tech, but it helps.

When I used to watch a specific Spider-Man stop-motion series by lozaus1 (if it’s still going, it’s been more than 10 years now), the newer episodes would have some brief previews of the creator’s Patreon-exclusive behind the scenes videos. In these previews, I saw that he was using some kind of program to edit the action figure stands and other such equipment out of each frame, like it was Photoshop or something.

CodeAlpaca also shared some really cool but old LEGO stop-motions of his on Discord, which featured the Avengers, Minecraft, Harry Potter, and Star Wars if I remember correctly.

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There’s a ton of old stop motion movies on youtube that use KO Lego WW2 elements produced Brickarms I believe which was mostly custom minifigures, printed parts, weapon molds, etc. And they were pretty good, some even had dialogue as well.

Most of them that I seen, or some of the old classics used play-doh or clay to pose the minifgures.

A lot of recent ones use editing software to edit out display stands and props like you mentioned, but I see people do this for mostly action figures. If you film lego’s on a solid surface or base-plates, you don’t need as much support.

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learn how to sculpt and convert the series into a claymation series,
some good claymation series you should watch for inspiration is morel orel, however i will warn you the series is very dark and is tv ma

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