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A brickfilm is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 made using LEGO
Lego

Lego, officially trademarked LEGO, is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark....
, Mega Bloks
Mega Bloks

MEGA Brands, Incorporated is a publicly traded children's toy company based in Montreal, Canada. Mega Bloks is the name of their most popular toy, plastic building blocks....
, or other similar plastic construction toys. They are usually created with stop motion
Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence....
 animation, though CGI
CGI

CGI may mean:* Computer-generated imagery, application of computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, etc* Common Gateway Interface, a protocol for calling external software via a web server to deliver dynamic content....
, traditional animation
Traditional animation

Traditional animation, also referred to as classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular form of animation....
, and live action
Live action

In film, theatre and video, live-action refers to works that are acted out by human actors, as opposed to by animation. As it is the norm, the term is usually superfluous, but it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, as in a Pixar film, a video game or when the work is adapted from an anim...
 films featuring plastic construction toys (or representations of them) are also usually considered brickfilms.

first known brickfilm was made between 1985 and 1989 in Perth, Western Australia by Lindsay Fleay, called The Magic Portal.






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A brickfilm is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 made using LEGO
Lego

Lego, officially trademarked LEGO, is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark....
, Mega Bloks
Mega Bloks

MEGA Brands, Incorporated is a publicly traded children's toy company based in Montreal, Canada. Mega Bloks is the name of their most popular toy, plastic building blocks....
, or other similar plastic construction toys. They are usually created with stop motion
Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence....
 animation, though CGI
CGI

CGI may mean:* Computer-generated imagery, application of computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, etc* Common Gateway Interface, a protocol for calling external software via a web server to deliver dynamic content....
, traditional animation
Traditional animation

Traditional animation, also referred to as classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular form of animation....
, and live action
Live action

In film, theatre and video, live-action refers to works that are acted out by human actors, as opposed to by animation. As it is the norm, the term is usually superfluous, but it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, as in a Pixar film, a video game or when the work is adapted from an anim...
 films featuring plastic construction toys (or representations of them) are also usually considered brickfilms.

Brickfilming History

The first known brickfilm was made between 1985 and 1989 in Perth, Western Australia by Lindsay Fleay, called The Magic Portal. It is considered the forerunner of modern brickfilms, and mixes both stop-motion animation and live-action. It was captured on 16 mm film and features animated LEGO, plasticene, and cardboard characters and objects.

Brickfilming has recently become popular because of the availability of cheap cameras and animation software, and the growth of video-sharing sites such as YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
. The LEGO Group
Lego Group

Lego Group is a Denmark family-owned company based in Billund, Denmark and best known for the manufacture of Lego-brand toys.The company was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen....
 officially encouraged the creation of brickfilms with the release of set #1349 LEGO Studios Steven Spielberg MovieMaker Set. Though no longer in production, it introduced many LEGO fans to the concept of brickfilming.

In recent times almost all brickfilming is digital based, with the frames captured using a variety of software via webcams or digital photo cameras.

Brickfilming Communities

The brickfilming hobby has led to several online communities, including Best Bricks, Bricks in Motion and Brickfilms LLC
Brickfilms LLC

Brickfilms.com is a website for "brickfilmers" to display their brickfilms and discuss brickfilming in general. It is owned by Cynthia Price, with Arend "Ahnt" Hintze as Community Admin and Zane Eastwood as the site admin....
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