Tag Archives: Brickfilms

LEGO stop-motion animation has a long history, going all the way back to LEGO’s own collaboration with Steven Spielberg in the 1990s. Whether you’re into music videos or iconic scenes from your favorite video games, you’ll find lots of great LEGO videos here on The Brothers Brick.

AFOL: A Blocumentary by Jess Gibson

Documentary filmmaker Jess Gibson has just completed a 30-minute movie about adult fans of LEGO here in the Pacific Northwest. You can watch the complete “AFOL: A Blocumentary” right here:

AFOL A Blocumentary from Jess Gibson on Vimeo.

Jess attended BrickCon 2009, joined us for a SEALUG meeting, and interviewed many fans who’ll be familiar to readers of The Brothers Brick:

The description on Vimeo says that this is the “first in a series of Blocumentaries about the Adult Fans of LEGO,” so we’re looking forward to more from Jess Gibson in the future.

LEGO CL!CK short film is awesome, but doesn’t explain what the heck CL!CK is

I have no idea what LEGO CL!CK is about — probably because I don’t have the patience to wade through the pseudo-interactivity of someone’s love affair with Flash. But that doesn’t stop this video from being gorgeous.

Perhaps CL!CK has something to do with the vaguely useless iPhone app FBTB reviewed (or vice versa), which had at least one of us fooled. Regardless, the video is whimsical and fantastic, as is the dude’s mustache.

Anti-Green announcement

We interrupt our scheduled blogging with a message from David Pickett (fallentomato): orange is the new green.

Do not attempt this in real life

Sean Kenney presents a public service announcement for bikers. Its message is simple yet striking. Check out Red Light.

LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2

Though it does at times feel a bit like an extended ad for the current LEGO Star Wars sets, “The Quest for R2-D2” is a fun 5-minute video featuring some slick animation and funny moments reminiscent of the LEGO Star Wars video games.

Via Bricks3D.com.

Take an 8-bit Trip with Tomas Redigh & Daniel Larsson

Tomas Redigh spent 1,500 hours using LEGO to animate a song by Daniel Larsson. With appearances from Mario, Pong, Tetris, Pac-Man, and more, the video is sure to please any video game fan.

Via Wimp.com. Great tip, nnenn!

What goes around, comes around

This incredible Brickfilm by pe668 has some of the smoothest animation I’ve seen in a very long time. Check out “Cyclic“.

Thanks to Caylin for the heads up!

David Pagano animates Space Police 2009

LEGO stop-motion animator David Pagano has stepped forward as one of the people behind the recent LEGO Space Police teaser.

Check out the first episode in what is apparently going to be a series.

And yes, we know that the new sets are starting to show up at TRU.

Server virtualization illustrated in LEGO by Bluelock and The Brick Engraver

Sometimes, the best way to illustrate a complicated technical concept is through LEGO bricks. I spent my workday today shifting capacity around for a pair of virtual servers I manage (Hyper-V rocks), so this video about server virtualization in “the cloud” really hit home.

Ignore the “Lego’s” in the text, and Yes, it’s an ad for bluelock, but the video makes virtualization a bit easier to understand, and features engraved LEGO bricks by Tommy Armstrong, the Brick Engraver. Thanks for the link, Tommy!

Emperor Palpatine finds new ways to motivate Death Star builders

Sjaak Alvarez has just completed the fourth installment in his “It’s Hard to be a Stormtrooper” series. Click through to Bricks3D.com to watch this hilarious video:

It's Hard to be a Stormtrooper by Sjaak Alvarez

As always, Sjaak renders and animates all his videos from scratch.

Planet TR-57 is full of hilarious clone trooper misfits

Chris Wunz and his coworkers at Valley Video Services in La Grande, Oregon put together this funny LEGO Star Wars animation, called Planet TR-57:


Planet TR-57: Pilot from Valley Video Services on Vimeo.

Planet TR-57 debuted at BrickFest 2009, where the team also held a stop-motion animation workshop, or Animate-a-thon.

Stay tuned to PlanetTR57.com for future episodes in this series.

Sold out Big Ben Bricks hand car stars in Peter Edwards’ hilarious ad

There’s something inherently funny about advertising a sold-out product, as Peter Edwards does with a hand car from Big Ben Bricks in this video:

The video features a fantastic Technic bridge long enough to span a LEGO Amazon: