Collection
Brick Films: Stop Motion Built from Construction Bricks
8 films / Published
From a seven-year self-produced Czech feature to 30-minute fan shorts and studio-made series, stop motion whose puppets are assembled from LEGO bricks rather than sculpted.
Wiki: Brickfilm — principles and production methods behind these examples.
Collection essay
A brickfilm is stop motion whose puppets are assembled rather than built: the cast and set come from a manufactured construction-brick system, almost always LEGO, and every pose has to live inside a minifigure's stock joints. That constraint is the same for a hobbyist at a kitchen table and for a commercial studio, and the works gathered here span that whole range.
At the long end, Lukáš Tuzar spent seven years on And Then There Were None (Czech Republic, 2024), a 1h58m adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel made entirely with LEGO bricks, which TMDB describes as the first Czech feature-length brickfilm. It was self-produced, with no production company behind it. Philip Heinrich's Bricks in Motion (2016) turns the camera on the people who make these films: an 87-minute documentary about brick stop-motion filmmakers, shot in five countries.
Between the hobby and the feature sit long-form shorts that run far past the length of a typical online brickfilm. Maxime Marion's Henri & Edmond series began with the 7-minute The New Neighbour (2008), his first brickfilm, and continued with the 36-minute COPYRIGHT (2011), co-written with Lilian Ginet. Hayden Steadman's Black & White (2011) runs 30 minutes: two rivals fall into a strange world of colours and monsters and have to cooperate to get home.
Studios work in the same plastic. A+C Studios (United Kingdom) made Explained with LEGO Bricks, a ten-episode educational series that mixes brick stop motion with live action. Steamworks / SteamArts (China) made King of Western Chu (2015), a LEGO brick film introducing an online game. Aardman's Boop (2026), directed by Magdalena Osinska, is a branded short that incorporates young builders' own stop-motion creations.
The parts are the same off-the-shelf bricks in every case. What changes is the scale of ambition built around them.