022 From Lego Art to Visual Film Effects with Tommy Williamson of Brick Nerd
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Tommy has a career in visual effects for the film industry, a business creating stop-motion animations and showcasing lego art, and is a maker of movie props and other cool stuff! So needless to say he was super interesting to talk to!
We get into the history of lego, building the lego millennium falcon with Adam Savage, his work on the film "The Blob", the transition from practical to CG special effects, how stop motion animation works, and much more!
Connect with Tommy at his site BrickNerd.com
And on Instagram @thebricknerd
And find Tommy at NerdsandMakers.com
And on Instagram @nerdsandmakers
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello, and welcome to episode 22 of Curiosityness. This episode I have on Tommy Williamson, |
| 0:09.9 | who is the creator and owner of Brickner.com, which is all about Legos and building Legos, |
| 0:16.5 | and he animates Legos and does all these creations, and it's pretty freaking sweet. If you like Legos |
| 0:22.0 | at all, you're going to like this episode. But Tommy's cool because he also is like just kind of |
| 0:26.8 | a maker of things and he's super, he used to work for the movies. He still does work for movies and |
| 0:32.2 | shows and he does special effects and we talk about all that kind of stuff. Um, so he also has another site called nerds and makers.com. We'll talk about all that kind of stuff. So we also has another site called NERDS and Makers.com. |
| 0:40.8 | We'll talk about all that stuff. |
| 0:42.8 | He's just super fun to talk to because he has all these crazy things that he does. |
| 0:46.2 | And we talk about how he does stop motion animation. |
| 0:49.3 | And we talk about the history of Legos and the different sets that they build and how |
| 0:53.8 | he got to hang out with Adam Savage from MythBusters. And it's just a fun episode if you're into this kind of stuff. If you're not into Legos and making things, you might find this episode a little off the rails. But if you're into it, I think you're going to love it, which I am into it. So I loved it. We went for a long time, think like an hour |
| 1:12.2 | and a half, so it's a good conversation. Buckle in, and here is Tommy. All right, boom, |
| 1:19.6 | we're going. What's up, Tommy? How's it going? Doing good. So, you do a lot of stuff. |
| 1:32.5 | Yes, I am pretty busy just like they're wide and varying yes man you do some cool stuff so i guess why don't we just how when someone kind of |
| 1:37.0 | ask you what you do what do you what do you say to them like what's your answer totally loaded |
| 1:41.9 | question when somebody asks me that. |
| 1:48.8 | I usually ask, do you want the long version or the short version? Oh, give me the long version now. |
| 1:56.2 | I need that. Okay, I'm a semi-retired visual effects and stereoscopic supervisor for the motion picture industry. |
| 2:02.5 | I also own Bricknerd, which is a multifaceted multimedia company, Lego-based. |
| 2:09.7 | It is an animation company, stop motion animation company, a design studio, a design, a YouTube channel, which is sort of falling to the wayside now. |
| 2:16.2 | Oh, okay. |
| 2:18.5 | It's the other aspect of the company. |
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