That is amazing! I have tried duals before in stopmotion but come nothing even close to this!

Congratulations! You won 1st place in the Animator's 1st Contest: http://www.mocpages.com/group_conversation.php?id=19659&topicid=82119 I have also used your main photo as the group icon. I hope you don't mind. If you have any objections, feel free to contact me. -LB Senior

Amazing! What was your frame rate for this? You are now on my favorite builders!!

I'm making a stop motion on 9-11, and i was wondering how long it took you to make this movie?? taking pictures and all

Well done, and well deserved!

By far one of the best stop motions I've seen.

Impressive stop-motion! :)

I like it, very nice!

Impressive stuff here, Dude! The change in the camera angle as the figs are in motion must be especially tricky. Awesome!

A fantastic battle!! Wow, Wow, Wow...

That was awesome!!

This is very well done! :)

This is exceptional. The part where the sword was thrown absolutely blew my mind.

INCREDIBLE!

Thanks for sharing all these awesome tips. I plan on doing a beach duel. You say you bought the sword clangs and swishes from iTunes? Very helpful info. I've watched it like 5 times so far. :) Thanks so much.

Wow, quite impressive! (Great job on the music Max!)

The vocal inflections are the only effects from the Star Wars Soundboards. I used the Lego Clone Wars video game soundboard and recorded effects for the characters there. Technically speaking, then, Prince John is voiced by Lego Count Dooku, and Robin Hood is voiced by Lego Obi Wan. The sword clashes and scrapes, unfortunately are not available in iMovie. The particular ones that I used in this film are in the suite of sound effects that come with Final Cut exclusively. I realized in this project, though, that the "swishes" accompanying the clashes were equally as important, and I purchased some high-quality "swish" sounds from iTunes as well. Thanks for commenting!

I used Apple's newest editing platform, Final Cut Pro X to edit together this movie. FCPX is not strictly a stop-motion program and doesn't have such features as onionskinning or remote camera control, but it can be manipulated to produce adequate functions and effects. The wobble blur on the sword that Robin throws, for example, is a post production effect, and all the frames have been color-corrected to some degree and tinted to remove some of the bright colors. Thanks for the comment!

Thankfully, I had two swords, one that was already broken and one that was still all in one piece. I just did some quick interchanging between frames to simulate the effect. Thanks for the comment!

Very well done mate! I've wanted to do a stop motion before. Never tried though.

Wow Paul I am impressed! The music was awesome and the animation was superb! It shows a ton of skill that you changed angles a throughout the sword fight. I think that by doing that you made the action very believable. so kudos to you for that!

Are the sword fights from apple or Star Wars? If apple, were they in imovie? If Star Wars, what category in the sound board? As I said before this is so epic!

nice stop motion very smooth what animation program did you use

Wow! Amazing stop motion!

Amazing! I have never seen stop-motion so fluid before! Although it would've helped to add a little color to the wall, this is very good work. Did you break the sword on purpose, or was it already broken? Anyways, great job. - Commander Xave

Very impressive job Paul! Stop motions require only the ability of patients and attention to detail, they are not easy. Well done!

Wow! That is very impressive! Our stop-motions looks embarrassing compared to this. :p Hope to see more! It is fantastic to see builders like you filming animations. -LB Senior

This is actually pretty good! Just about one step away from the stuff LEGO does!

That's Awesome!

Great job! Very fluent! Well done! --Blast--

Amazing that you could get so much fluid motion from a minifig! I love this, you should do more!

Wow, that's really amazing, just a little color on the wall would go a long way though.

Wow .. Thats realy well made ... Not talking about the action at all cause thats just well. Let me get to the point: The parts where you play with focus and rotating camera angels and the sword in the wall being torren apart was just awesome stop motion ... A very very well done 1½ minute worth watching ... That was awesome ! Im returning to have you tell me all about how you made it when im no longer ill !!!! Great job !

I'm speechless... The cinematography is perfect and everything just fits together so smoothly it is wonderful! I hope you'll make more!

Amazing job, Paul! I used to fiddle around with stop-motion myself, but my work never came even close to being this good! I hope we can see more movies from you in the future!

Thanks for the comment Caleb! Prince John's sword is 100% Lego with a little modification to make it fit into the scabbard. Robin's sword is actually a BrickArms rapier.

Excellent work! Very smooth. I know you've already posted pictures of Robin Hood, but the parts choices are superb!

Amazing job, Paul!! I loved it when John cut the sword. Max's music was amazing and the camera work rocked. More more more!!

Paul, is a lot of time that i think to do something like this... In one word... Fantastic! You are a great master

Great animation. Probably the best minifig animation I've yet seen. Smooth motion, great panning shot. Really slick.

*jaw dislocates and drops to the ground* HOLY COW PIES!!!! That was so epic!!! Every movement was clearly defined and I could keep up with the action very well. Excellent job!

YOU CHANGED THE CREDITS!?!??!?! I loved the original ones, but great work anyway. Your camera movement is very smooth, and every strike by the swords is definite and visible. I loved doing the music and am looking forward to more opportunities. Thanks so much Paul!

I wonder where I have hear that music before? No but really great build!

Great work, Its so smooth between slides!!

very nice, but is that sword brick forge?

YES! YES! YES! This is SO good! The animation is breathtaking, so smooth! Max, the music is perfect!

Top notch animation Paul! I like the panning camera shots! That's something I've recently started playing with too. And MAX great music! Heh, now I want to score one for you Paul. Max gets first dibs though, of course! Wow, I'm very impressed! Great job both of you!

Wow, that's great! I liked how Prince John cut the sword in half, it was a very cool effect.

I love it. You rock