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===Communities=== '''Brickfilms.com by Brick à Brack''' is an online community dedicated to brickfilming. Founded December 16, 2000 by Jason Rowoldt, Brickfilms.com was the first internet brickfilming community ever created. The website hosts a brickfilm directory, threads for filmmakers, technical articles, resources and organizes many brickfilm contests.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brickfilms.com/|title=LegoStop-motion animation videos & movies|website=Brickfilms.com by Brick à Brack}}</ref> In 2007 the site was the Internet's "main hub for Lego filmmaking", according to the Wall Street Journal.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lavallee |first=Andrew |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119161384425050432?mod=home_we_banner_left |title=In This Film Industry It Really Helps To Be a Blockhead - WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=2007-10-06 |access-date=2012-11-29}}</ref> '''Bricks in Motion''' is an online community focused on the art of brickfilming. It was originally founded in 2001 as the personal website of pioneering brickfilmer Thomas Foote,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bricksinmotion.com/|title=bricksinmotion.com|date=September 28, 2001|access-date=April 28, 2018|archive-date=September 28, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010928223631/http://www.bricksinmotion.com/|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> and the current incarnation was founded by Jonathan Schlaepfer in 2008 as a new community-focused brickfilming website, featuring a forum and later a film directory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bricksinmotion.com/|title=Bricks in Motion|date=December 31, 2008|access-date=April 28, 2018|archive-date=December 31, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231041209/http://www.bricksinmotion.com/|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> Starting in 2008, it became the main home of the English-speaking brickfilming community at the time, following an exodus from Brickfilms.com.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://escobar.id.au:80/chronicle.html |url-status=live|title=Brickfilm Chronicle article on the Brickfilms.com exodus |date=2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501211603/http://escobar.id.au:80/chronicle.html |access-date=2023-08-08|archive-date=2017-05-01 }}</ref> The current administrators are Chris Wynn and Sean Willis. It is one of the largest and most active online communities. Bricks in Motion annually hosts the two largest community-run brickfilming contests, the Twenty-Four-Hour-Animation Contest (abbreviated to THAC)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/29699/thac-2023-is-over/ |title=THAC 2023 accepted entries list |date=2023-01-07 |access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref> and the Brickfilm Rapidly All Week Long contest (abbreviated to BRAWL).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/30050/brawl-2023-is-over/ |title=BRAWL 2023 accepted entries list |date=2023-06-24 |access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref> '''Brickfilm Day''' is an online community known for its annual Brickfilm Day event,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/@BrickfilmDay |title=Brickfilm Day YouTube channel |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref> in which participants submit a brickfilm or a video about brickfilming, all to be released on one day. The first Brickfilm Day festival was in 2018,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHh4tez2ncQ |title=What is Brickfilm Day? |publisher=YouTube |date=2017-10-28 |access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref> celebrating the 45th anniversary of ''En rejse til månen'' (Danish for ''Journey to the Moon''). They have organized several brickfilm community projects, such as recreations of popular movie trailers and scenes. Brickfilm Day does not have a dedicated website, but does have a community on Discord.
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