How fan films shaped The Lego Movie

The 2014 film was an animation feat - but it was built on the legacy of homemade fan movies.
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When you watch installments of the Warner Bros. line of Lego movies, it's hard not to be struck by how realistic the animation is. It isn't quite traditional stop motion - but it sure looks as if it could be. That's largely thanks to the work of the animators at Animal Logic, a Sydney-based visual effects studio that has worked on The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie, and the upcoming The Lego Ninjago Movie. Powered by live action filming techniques and a close attention to detail, the studio has helped reinvent what Lego animations can look like. But they owe a lot of that aesthetic to the influence of fan films. Since the early 1970s, enthusiasts have made home movies with their own Lego sets. They're called Brickfilms - and they've grown into a sizable community producing great movies and helping many young animators get their start. The Lego Movie animators learned from what made those home movies so good by embracing the limitations of the medium, and creating a world that anyone could could rebuild at home.
Check out some of the Brickfilms we showed in this video:
The Magic Portal: • The Magic Portal
Journey to the Moon: • En rejse til månen (Jo...
Matrix 2003: archive.org/details/Matrix2003
Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego: archive.org/details/MontyPyth...
Tapporalli 2020: archive.org/details/tapporalli
Predator Montage: archive.org/details/PredatorM...
ONE: A Space Odyssey: archive.org/details/oneaspace...
Krieg der Steine: archive.org/details/KriegDerS...
Batman Begins Montage: archive.org/details/Batman_Be...
Delivery: archive.org/details/DeliveryH264
Star Wars Brickfilm: archive.org/details/Danstarwa...
Victim: archive.org/details/Victim_h264
For a great explainer on how to make your own Brickfilm at home, check out this video: • How to Make a LEGO Ani...
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Why do you make a comment 1 hour ago on a video that was realesed 3 years ago?

[@Chico-s_Bloxer]

@@deviledoreo9841 yea

[@deviledoreo9841]

@@MB-xy3vp But they could’ve done it on any other video but they chose this one.

[@TheRealestSince2006]

no

[@Buymybatteries]

nice

[@Model_BT-7274]

I'm so happy that they made it look like a stop motion instead of a generic animated movie

[@ymtam6748]

yes i love it too!

[@eth_zac4088]

We all do

[@znepb]

this has 666 likes

[@znepb]

it did before

[@berciberc]

BT -7274 I thought it was Stop Motion until I watched this video

[@sumbuddy4088]

Honestly one of my favorite parts about the LEGO movie is the fact that it actually looks like a LEGO movie. The mix of the realistic lighting to literally everything being made of LEGO bricks gives me a warm feeling inside just like when I was young and playing with my bin full of legos in the basement.

[@adyingchannelsbrother8174]

Woah, Lot Of Speakings

[@t-posingbobafett6017]

@[[PastelKitty]] why do I breath the same oxygen as you

[@bathtubs.]

I love this.

[@raulpatata4426]

Yhea Leto ninja go has a thousand things that aren’t made of lego mostly only the characters are made of lego

[@pikapizza9526]

What u mean by at the basement

[@Juno_Kujo]

1:23 That Anakin looks like he could eat my head with one bite.

[@Rocki4577]

It's creepy hahahhahah

[@Overseer-]

OMAO

[@marcoantonioaguilar105]

@@Overseer- OMAO

[@Overseer-]

@@marcoantonioaguilar105 sorry I meant OH MAO

[@wot.-.2754]

OMAO

[@synrgi]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...The Lego Movie is one of the most beatiful (at least visually) films ever made

[@ulisesxo96]

I have the same feeling with The Incredibles 2

[@-Teague-]

Yo I agree but have you seen Into The Spider-Verse

[@legoworthiness9684]

@@-Teague- I still like lego movie better because I am a lego fan but I am also a spider man fan so I enjoyed both.

[@-Teague-]

@@legoworthiness9684 I feel, I love them both too did you know they were directed by the same guys?

[@alqaeda7040]

@@-Teague- spiderverse clearly looks animation but lego movie looks like real lego stop motion

[@dionemoolman]

It bothers me that this film didn't win best animated feature. It even didn't get animated. This film was absolute genius in its animation, and that's what a best animated feature should be.

[@Lumberjack_king]

What did get the award that year

[@Lumberjack_king]

@Swag Monke makes sense

[@Lumberjack_king]

@Swag Monke absolutely

[@L0rdOfThePies]

YES it so deserves it better than frozen tbh

[@Ownxer]

You mean nominated not animated? Lol

[@ringkunmori]

The lego movie is one of those films that is way better than it has any right to be

[@TheDankEngineer]

Like captain underpants

[@stephenbyrne3909]

Ringkun Mori When are they gonna catch up on where they left off with the Duplo aliens?

[@sswpp8908]

Phil Lord/Chris Miller have a talent for taking a premise that seems like another lazy cash grab based on a preexisting IP, but then transforming it into something much better. The 21 and 22 Jumpstreet movies are great movies especially considering that they could have been schlock like some recent dredged up 90's show movies like CHIPS and Baywatch. I haven't seen it but Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was also written by the pair, is also well regarded.

[@TheSomeawesome]

Spencer Williams I walked into Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs with very low expectations and walked out more impressed that I should have been. Miller/Lord don't get enough credit in this industry.

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The Someawesome fdrr c dsf

[@user-fp1go9fl7n]

The Lego movie was something completely unexpected. I went into the theaters expecting nothing, and got a pleasant surprise when I realized they actually cared a lot for this movie and it was showing as quality. Thanks for the interesting video.

[@TheVehicleFan]

1973: first lego movie 1989: magic portal 2001: jack stone 2005: star wars 2014: lego movie 2017: lego batman movie and lego ninjago movie 2019: lego movie 2 2020: Hey

[@david2869]

2007: Circle Circle Dot Dot

[@MicrowaveCosmicToast]

Build a Helicopter

[@asunflower7993]

Hi

[@carlitadaveta4610]

I could recreate the scenes, if they weren’t so expensive.

[@nyancat.123]

Build the helicopter

[@MadsusMythic]

2017: Wow nice video 2020: *A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO A PORTAL IN LEGO MOVIE*

[@shamzulsham4427]

START THE RESCUE HELICOPTER

[@dudearnav]

Hey!

[@idkmanlol_osu]

Aquire a assembly of fellow characters!

[@iwillgiveyousocialcredits]

*HEAYY*

[@nailozaz7596]

*IN LEGO MO VIE**

[@pancake-th7qy]

Remember when 25% of youtube was just lego animations?

[@risingstars3478]

Video Game Pancake no

[@kasenmiller1122]

Totally

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RYAN FORKNER yyyyup

[@betard6244]

Doritos :space jam flavoured Your not supposed to be on YT kid

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@@betard6244 You're*

[@angryteapod1765]

1:51 man seeing these faces move like this is extermly cursed

[@cain6585]

As someone who grew up watching those fan made Lego short films, this is an amazing video.

[@BackyardProductions]

Hey, they showed my thing, cool.

[@ghostw3938]

Backyard Animation. Congrats, man!

[@truelucy]

Backyard Animation Where? :o

[@BackyardProductions]

In the LEGO Movie. It's one of the 4 fan made animations in the film they show, on the bottom left.

[@truelucy]

Backyard Animation at about 7:07, the shuttle one? That's cool!

[@MrPatrickbuit]

I can't believe that you're so casual about that..

[@_Cloun]

I remember growing up watching LEGO Stopmotions on KZbin

[@Notaiidan]

Yeah same,its kinda a nostalgia for me.

[@Ghost_-_]

Yeah I'm starting to do Lego stop motion cause there's barely some so I want to be the person who will last more than others so I just tested if other people liked it so I might do more!

[@jeuse5518]

Same here

[@iCraftDay]

Or just any stop motion

[@suwinkhamchaiwong8382]

Same

[@iwuvu5940]

Lego fans have it good these days. When I was a kid in the late 90s/2000s there was almost nothing in lego movies. Now there is a plethora of excellent lego content. I wish I had all this amazing lego media when I was a kid

[@todesbaum3351]

well now you have the better media but nobody can afford the actual lego sets...

[@iwuvu5940]

@@todesbaum3351 😟

[@kiryu63]

So your telling me The adventures of clutch powers isn’t a lego film?

[@kiryu63]

Benjamin Lambert lol

[@kiryu63]

Cartoon Lover it’s a movie

[@chupacabra9357]

@Franco Villanueva It's a made for TV movie with cheap animation.

[@jack_butler321]

Bruh that’s such a good movie tho

[@melainze8069]

Lol that´s what I was wondering

[@ocean29]

who else remembers watching lego stop-motion films on youtube in like 2006?

[@siremine2192]

ossian Not 2006, but I remember, I enjoyed every single minute of it, this video made me feel nostalgic. Making a 10 second video was for me, very rewarding and satisfying.

[@karinheidi]

Same. I tried to go back and watch them again but they're so old I can't find some of my favorites

[@nonevahed5559]

I do! if only i hadn't lost my old hard drive with the links...

[@codenamemcicle3507]

I totally watched them in like, 2009! I actually made my own for a little while, they were really bad, but so much fun!

[@neverstopmotionpictures6934]

ossian such a shame the KZbin algorithm killed them

[@drewjackson9527]

Wow The Lego Movie is genius

[@FaizanNasir]

Drew Jackson 700th like

[@tatadeee8064]

Drew Jackson True. One of my favorite animated films of all time

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Drew Jackson cause it supports feminism

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Stand with Feminism it does? Lol

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Stand with Feminism K

[@UltamentGaming]

*i fear no man* *but that...thing* 1:24 *it scares me*

[@journeythroughtherails5294]

What does?

[@UltamentGaming]

zijian chow lol

[@UltamentGaming]

zijian chow look at Anakin’s face

[@UltamentGaming]

zijian chow i forget all my comments unless somebody responds to them

[@UltamentGaming]

zijian chow yep this was 1 month ago

[@deltafrost8642]

1:25 thanks I’m having nightmares tonight

[@raidy5215]

4:59 i cant help myself imagined 5 kids take a tour on lego factory, the first kid who fell into a trap fell into a lego river and the owner says "Hey! Build the rescue helicopter" etc etc

[@memedude8303]

jesus christ imagine falling back first onto a flowing river made of painful little lego bricks

[@dedchanel4002]

Little jimmy and the lego factory

[@SuperEvelina1234]

RaidyTJC Blocky wocky Build a wall Add more studs and make it tall

[@crazycarly3504]

So LEGO “Charlie and the chocolate factory” ?????

[@ironicdivinemandatestan4262]

@@memedude8303 So guys, we did it.

[@legoanakin730]

That star wars one scares me *alot*

[@tactical8206]

I would like this comment, but your profile pic prevents me

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Your profile pic says a lot

[@dyingoldmangaming]

haha same also didnt you murder a bunch of younglings at the jedi temple

[@dyingoldmangaming]

@TheMemeFoogle you cannot escape us

[@AryaGilangP]

Ironic

[@invalid_user_handle]

3:46 Hmm, I can't tell if that explosion there is Lego or a regular boom.

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

Both

[@saladspoonami4563]

Looks like both, it’s very lego like Unless your comment was a joke

[@Iris_n_Parti]

wow, i never knew the Lego Move had this much history into its creation. I always thought it was just built on the idea of Stop-Motion Lego Animations but was made by a Professional Film Team

[@Olodus]

The LEGO movie was probably the most nostalgic movie I have ever watched and this was exactly the reason. They captured the feeling me and my friends had playing (and sometimes filming) with LEGO when we were young. This was my childhood.

[@walter3934]

Olodus sadly, not much of my friends like LEGO, and i just play them at home alone, but LEGO is still fun for me

[@siphy9335]

Olodus My dad especially loved the sound effects because it reminded him of when he would play with legos, like when the ship would sail away with a "brbrbrbrbr"

[@poindeckster2]

I was about to say the same thing

[@Wertys]

Im right with you bro. This movie was so nostalgic and amazing to me. And is now one of my all time favorites because of how much of a nod it is to my childhood.

[@devsauder-roblox7174]

Olodus I

[@ElMoShApPiNeSs]

I hope Lego have sent an apology letter to Lindsay Fleay since. I'd love to hear what he thinks of the easter egg for his film in The Lego Movie.

[@morgangreen2526]

BigFatCock He worked on the Lego Movie, so I guess it is sorted.

[@ElMoShApPiNeSs]

Oh.

[@bakubaymon]

Actually it said in the video that he left before the movie was in production at 5:43 so they still kinda owe an apology

[@ElMoShApPiNeSs]

Well they tried to give him a job so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@anhnhvn]

The animation company gave him a job, Lego had nothing to do with it. And The Magic Portal was the only brickfilm Fleay every made. He was probably bummed out by Lego's reaction. Nice work, Lego. Although it's good to know that he still pursued a career in animation and worked in movies like The Matrix and LOTR.

[@crazycarly3504]

I can’t believe how long ago that movie came out! 😂

[@bubblelovesans]

7 years ago... :

[@jackson2531]

And now, the LEGO Movie has turned ten.

[@opiumusergouda]

I remeber watching the lego movie as a careless kid that wouldnt pay attention to those details. But now i will rewatch this and really appreciate the efforts made to create that movie

[@citavalo]

I could recreate the scenes, if they weren’t so expensive.

[@MailMainbutnot]

@Aran Rasekhi the thousands of LEGOs you'd need

[@yeezyy_ye]

@@MailMainbutnot *millions

[@MailMainbutnot]

@@yeezyy_ye lol true

[@alexsiemers7898]

There’s a youtuber that makes “lego” animations by just modeling the lego scenes in Blender

[@macizzyy]

@@alexsiemers7898 but its in blender

[@DiesleADogg]

It must have taken forever to make the lego movie.

[@goodjobeli]

Diesle A-Dogg It's wasn't stop motion though. It was 100% computer animated (except the real life parts)

[@MiniTruckMatt]

Stop motion would actually most likely be a lot faster than CG. With stop motion all you have to do is movie around pieces at 24 images per second of video. With CGI, you have to CREATE 24 images per second of video. Actual lego pieces already have dings, dents, and various textures to them. With CGI all of the fine detail has to be created. I feel like animation would take much longer than traditional stop-motion.

[@amyzuch]

Stop motion takes an insane amount of set up and skill. There also aren't that many people in the world who can do it well. If it were faster (cheaper) to do it any other way, they would have.

[@TheLupinator]

Matt Bothell but after you make the stop motion you would have to go through digital effect and after effects. Which does take a very long time especially with the talking.

[@noamuwu8082]

Diesle A-Dogg it took less then 50 years.

[@PinkiePie762]

That’s why Lego movie 1 and part 2 are ‘masterpieces’ I love both movies I want third one

[@missheadbanger]

Lego was one of my favorite toys growing up, my siblings and I use to have a storage bin full of Lego. We gave it to our younger cousins, on the condition that they keep it in the family. Now I want to go out and buy some Lego sets, nowadays Lego have really cool sets. Play well, everyone.

[@thisisaksu]

I absolutely love it when big groups / companies are inspired by fans and do things together with them. It's such a delight

[@raiderxskull]

Literally President Business looking at everyone else in the Lego Movie 😂

[@sassa0406]

All of a sudden I really want to watch the lego movie for some reason

[@potatochan6955]

sassa0406 Lol you haven't seen it yet?

[@joelscb]

Potato Chan he's a loser

[@audieliem4843]

sassa0406 Go watch it, NOW - it might seem like a kids movie but its just generally hilarious and fun

[@sassa0406]

no no i have i just haven't thought about it for a while i mean its been 3 years

[@crimsoncorsair9250]

sassa0406 product placement

[@garfielf3343]

If LEGO never came into existence, the world would be up in flames.

[@jakobhere620]

I remember messing around on LDD when I was younger, back when the Lego Message Boards were still up.

[@regnij01]

1:24 AAAHHH GET IT AWAY GET THAT MONSTOSITY OF ANAKIN AWAYY

[@rjack3817]

Ikr

[@twonkae9542]

👁 👁 👂 ---

[@mxtchawinter]

that is not lego anymore

[@arcusmeuscatt]

anybody want some nightmares? theyre fresh!

[@LegoAnimations6370]

I'm born in a year 2000. When KZbin was created in a year 2005, I didn't pay that much attention to it. But I remember when my big brother showed me a Lego stop motion somewhere between years 2006 and 2007 (I do not remember correctly) It was one of those typical Lego stop motions which had 009 Sound System music and blue screen with white text in the beginning. The animation was pretty rough and maybe 8 FPS. (To think about that video today, there is NOTHING so nostalgic than that memory) Since those years I had always wanted to do Lego stop motions myself. Then in a year 2011 I created my channel and I have since then done Lego stop motion animations. It's something that I'd never want to quit.

[@edwardanimations6296]

good on you!

[@mattjohnston2]

You're only 2 years older than my son, I remember watching LEGO stop motion videos back then too (I was just older, lol). Normally I don't click on commenters channels, since their comments always sound like shameless self promotion. Yours however, sounds more like you simply take pride in what you do, and after watching several of your videos, you should! You've done a fantastic job of them, keep it up! I'll go back and watch the rest as I have time 😁

[@billcipher1756]

that's touching but you say "I'm born in a year 2000" instead of "I was born in 2000" same with "when KZbin was created in a year 2005" should be "When KZbin was created in the year 2005" then with "Then in a year 2011" should be "then in the year 2011" sorry if you think that is mean or whatever but i just had to correct it.

[@krypton7900]

I was born in 2000 too, but I originally watched mario ytps and lets plays, I think I was like 7 when I first found youtube, heck there's a mario video with mario and toads singing bohemian rhapsody that I watched probably a decade ago, I haev yet to find it again, and now I'm 18, man your childhood just flys by

[@dantheasian5060]

I'm from 2001 and I remember around 2007-2009 Lego movies were all over KZbin. The zombie ones and the classic "clean your room" we're.my.favorite

[@Kent2358]

レゴムービー(新)の方でも2014なのに驚き！！ もう7年経つのか。 最近のCGと比べても全然見劣りしないのすごいな

[@gumi5975]

hello there japanese person :)

[@LMR__1]

I actually have a Jack Stone set lying around, specifically 4618 (I had to look up "Jack Stone lego sets" until i recognized one, cause there's no way i actually remembered) something my mom bought for me when i was.. probably 4 years old, since these sets were 4+, i had no idea it was based on a movie.

[@imfsresidentotaku9699]

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around.

[@Judes6647]

alright but that 2005 lego star wars movie is the ugliest thing i have ever seen

[@argent_ice248]

Ursa Major There's something very uncanny about putting human-like features on a Lego face. 😨

[@JukentheBox]

Ursa Major it was awesome to me as a kid. used to rewatch it like all the time

[@No.............]

I think I am gonna have nightmares because of it.

[@clonetrooper3467]

Lego Star Wars was something that I enjoyed and I only seemed to like the old ones according to my mom, and I always played with that, but when I watched that Star Wars movie, I was utterly horrified.

[@yaboiyerdel6333]

those eyes tho

[@dougdimmadome2303]

forrestfire101 tho

[@isa382]

Doug Dimmadome that's who i immediately thought of lol

[@AnAbsurdExistence]

Doug Dimmadome Forestfire101? Haven't heard that name in years.

[@kearygallagher]

yo his videos were my childhood real talk

[@arend3669]

One of the best lego stop motion creators out there (atleast, in term of video quality it's amazing)

[@WilliamArguetaRighteousness]

I was hoping forestfire101 was going to be mentioned 😂

[@evolutionarytheory]

As the co-designer and programmer of the 3D renderer "glimpse" used on this film, thank you. This is a wonderful way to show people the work we did on this film, and how much love and effort went into it.

[@inaflashfilms]

As a LEGO Animator myself The over extension of the arms isn’t going over the limit so much as you can use clay to do that

[@fryoclock]

I don't know if it's just me, but it feels like nobody remembers Lego: The Adventures Of Clutch Powers

[@Technical_Tony]

Noah Parkour I do! I really liked that movie when I was younger

[@gamerdio2503]

god, after reading that, it felt like someone inserted a syringe full of nostalgia in me.

[@summerngeorge]

I have the disc dude

[@fryoclock]

Floating Orange sweet

[@fagglebag]

Noah Parkour Nobody wants to remember that...

[@vitotheo]

And now the Lego movie 2 is out.

[@AldzYo]

The Second Part is awesome!!! Super cool i must say! :)

[@slattistcool]

really

[@user-pm9qz8fw1z]

@@slattistcool yes

[@cami5026]

VitoTheo Wow 4 years later

[@thedorkknight9684]

I loved the Second Part! The twist with Rex Dangervest blew my mind!!

[@CosplayLM]

This movie is 8 years old, i think I should rewatch it soon

[@ZANTYACS]

I loved the lego movie but I never understood how much work actually went into it and how revolutionary it really was at the time

[@mateo_ferranco]

I watched this with my Mom way back from 2014, she had Cancer, thankfully now she recovered. Thank god.

[@solluxcaptor7908]

That's good to hear :)

[@Delikatessen__]

That's awesome! I am so glad to hear that!

[@JinxisHere758]

I’m glad to hear that

[@gogurtisgood3656]

Thank goodness she survived but did you really have to include that she had cancer

[@Delikatessen__]

@@gogurtisgood3656 to show how much it meant to him watching it with his mom.

[@WayneSmith4267]

2001 Lego Animation Characters don't even look like Lego People.

[@CANADAKRUSH1]

i have the guy in the grey with the hat and the jack stone guy. never knew what that was until now

[@KaltatheNobleMind]

nope, it was based on a real theme. basically, a 4+ theme meant to be a bridge between Duplo and regular System. big figs you can't take apart and all buildings and vehicles were big junks that plugged together with built-in pegs. fun fact: the minifigure of harry potter's hagrid the Half Giant was based on these jack stone figs.

[@masoncheezum5418]

Foxesppl that's what Lego figures looked like back then

[@DaReelSlimN80]

Foxesppl they legit look just like a knockoff brand my little brother has

[@juliaotoole6063]

Foxesppl it is the old design for legos I have one and it used to be my sisters

[@QuackingFilms]

Awesome documentary - as a lego stop motion animator who's moved into digital animation, I try to hold to the same rules of keeping within the movements that a minifigure can actually make. It made the LEGO Movie very appealing to me back in 2014 that they used that technique!

[@VGF80]

Now just imagine for a moment that Nintendo was the company that created and owned lego. Let that sink in.

[@alesin1992]

Nah, I refuse.

[@legoworthiness9684]

It would be another world thag we wouldn't want to live in.

[@ismaellopez3963]

Who remembers The Adventures of Clutch Powers?

[@heatherbladefemboy989]

I do

[@carriewoods8772]

Ismael Lopez Me

[@zgunther7038]

Me

[@user-eu6ep3ki7w]

Of course I do

[@adamalt5316]

I badly miss that

[@sekiko7183]

....DOES ANYONE REMEMBER CLUTCH POWERS...sorry, had to get that off my chest.

[@MysteryMii]

The animation was done by the same people that did (and I'm not making this up) Foodfight.

[@Jacobus3005]

Sekiko 824 thanks man I remember seeing it as a kid and I wanted to see the trailer but couldn't remember the name

[@rabidbubblesgaming4857]

Sekiko 824 yeah

[@PolskiHetman]

Sekiko 824 sorta it was... weird...

[@sekiko7183]

MysteryMii215 ...... My gosh.....

[@mercurysteeth]

6:35 I swear I've been here in one of my dreams it's kind of creeping me out like a lot

[@chieftrey1]

I used to make my own stop-motion home Lego movies starring a character named Guy Legopants. 34 movies actually

[@ww-ue7vh]

Chief Trey Maybe post them?? if you still have them id love to see them

[@jacksample3978]

Also interested

[@w0ng659]

Chief Trey Upload them please.

[@kaouiii]

I used to make them and upload them to KZbin but I lost the password to the account and all the videos were deleted.

[@StLouisFilms]

Sometimes when I'm bored, I just watch Lego stop motions. They are the best. Something about them is just so fun

[@Pengulin]

Lego animations were my childhood. I loved how simple days were back then.

[@liquidlethe]

I wish I still had my own stop motion tapes they'd be so nostalgic now

[@jon250]

The Lego movie contains special packaging that pierces into your foot if you step on it.

[@mileskaufman717]

Kim Jong The Choo Choo Train of Bel-Air Lol I died

[@blobfish-ck4nc]

Oh my god... I have never realized how cool the LEGO movie is

[@trinidad17]

It is one of those movies that is better than expected.

[@johannlianza1065]

It IS cool

[@thekoreanguy1]

I remember in 5th grade, I had a friend who would make Lego stop motions clips and uploaded them on KZbin. He showed me some of his clips and other Lego stop motion videos on youtube. I liked it so much that I created this very account to watch more Lego stop motion videos. This vid brought back so many nostalgic memories.

[@LightspeedTutorials]

Lego movie's style was groundbreaking and funny. the clouds, explosions, waves was joy to see.

[@ibraheemmonks8866]

That Magic Portal easter egg tho

[@toddhoward7649]

HD roll where.

[@MrX626]

noobzilla the tube emmet goes down is called The Magic Portal

[@ReneeStevens98]

The limitations are what made the movie such a pleasure for Lego lovers to watch!

[@Hackanhacker]

YESSS

[@thomaswanderer6022]

This is truly beautiful. Thank you for putting light upon this topic.

[@animationfromkaitlyn3296]

This is so cool! I used to be ultra into stop motion animation, but I kinda fizzled out of it a few years back. But seeing this- it sort of rekindled something. I really feel like trying my hand and it again. Who knows, maybe I'll fall in love all over again.

[@twistedaxles9126]

1989 Magic Portal 2019 *LEgO FoRTNiTe*

[@dusterpl6093]

pls no

[@reallybiggoose9153]

*1989

[@ykosnai8983]

Lego Fortnite gets thrown in trash before even getting a trailer And everyone clapped

[@Akatsuki510s]

TwistedClown912 I will cut myself if that happens Edit:when tf did I type this comment I stg

[@akmedia8206]

TwistedClown912 I like your profile picture

[@BigBang28A]

99% of lego minifigures haven't watched the video yet

[@chronoz9891]

Acrophobian i

[@kushine_]

yet

[@timonhoma538]

You can check my new amazing lego stop motion.

[@williambrojer3416]

Acrophobian o

[@iloveindonesia69]

Acrophobian dafuq

[@izabel9378]

I watched that movie 5 times by now and I'm glad Lego Movie 2 is coming to Netflix.

[@seankennethd.entereso8565]

Me:whats the most awesome things in the world?! Vox: 2:07

[@5MadMovieMakers]

Magic Portal was awesome

[@cardboard8073]

Shame the og video got marked for kids.

[@JTClemente]

My start as a filmmaker was in the 3rd grade making Lego movies with my father's old Sony cassette recorder. I owe it to Lego for helping me find my passion at such a young age. It's incredible to see the length The Lego Movie went to pay homage to the innovators of the "genre".

[@enriquekenziero514]

I love how the lego movie character can take off their body parts and feel very tiny pains

[@ayaduhh]

The improvements are mind blowing.

[@thevikasnam]

Remember everyone Lego is Danish.

[@nizzleprizzle9783]

TheVikas why remember that?

[@cornfarmer8600]

I thought it was Lebanese.

[@elcolto2320]

lego book that was made in 2012

[@anthonyseboe4646]

Remember everyone, youtube was founded in the USA! but wait...what I said was random and no one cares! Kind of like your comment!

[@atlascove1810]

That would make it jeko.

[@SpidemParodies]

The Lego movie from 2014 rocked!

[@KeilaZ-yq1in]

Adrian Mata Yeah.😀

[@CalebEade]

New one at 2019

[@KitKat-uo4zw]

Adrian Mata o

[@erikacastan2872]

HI

[@erikacastan2872]

Adrian Mata I

[@crazycarly3504]

Do you ever realize when a film came out and be like “wow I’m THAT old?!”

[@srupd0522]

I love video essay type videos like this

[@RyanDudeTrolls]

Holy shet, i saw that the first day it came out in theaters, and its been 3 years since... damn time has flown by...

[@waddlez6643]

Sir_Panzer_Gaming say what e years...goddamn

[@anthonygratzol8126]

Sir_Panzer_Gaming same

[@rachelguzzo1602]

Ikr

[@KeilaZ-yq1in]

Sir_Panzer_Gaming Yeah time flyfast.

[@ojahirvonen1129]

ikr

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

It's the best of the two worlds. Stop Motion with CGI enhancements.

[@cIiffe]

It’s CGI that’s meant to imitate Stop Motion

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Yes, but there are actually some stop motion scenes in the film. And I'm mainly talking about The Magic Portal.

[@carollollol]

Yeah i just noticed they didnt even ad motion blur in the rendering. Except when there is a camera pan. WOOOW that is brilliant and so tought thru. Dammnn

[@trinidad17]

The LEGO movie would have needed 100x the original budget if they had to actually buy the LEGO sets shown.

[@crystalspinjitzumaster6656]

They did have the live action builds of it

[@Nightshade17655]

It was easy to tell it was animated because of how the arms moved. They would leave the socket constantly and they would move in weird ways. But they didn't bend, but you could just tell

[@bandgeek9723]

My favorite moment of "Holy crap, look at that detail." from the "Lego Movie" was when Wyldstyle was scanning for the Piece of Resistance. The readout on the scanner was stickers. Stickers that shifted around slightly as they were applied in slightly different positions.

[@bunnybeane1666]

Yeah, it's really clever, and realistic too! There's also scratch marks and stuff on some of the 'paint' on the characters

[@newtonartemisfidoscamander6905]

1:24 The face of the devil

[@fadetoblackened4407]

Did Satan have a son called Lego anakin?

[@mrsSeaweed1973]

SO TRU 1:25

[@clay4trey]

nucckle

[@elchungo5026]

Newton Artemis Fido Scamander why does everyone hate Star Wars lego

[@bencurry3044]

btw. when I saw the lego movie the first few times, I was actually confused, if it was stop motion, or cg, but later after I watched bonus content on the second disk, I found out that it was cg.

[@desert_iron_123]

I grew up watching stop motion legos so when the Lego movie came out when I was like 9 or 10, I thought it was awesome. Definitely part of my childhood.

[@vigga5375]

Fun fact: Lego stands for “leg godt” which mean play well or have fun

[@melainze8069]

Wait.. I thought it means To Build

[@vigga5375]

@@melainze8069 Nope its a danish sentence

[@anders9646]

Yes it definitely means "play well/good) but nothing near "Have fun" that would be "Ha' det sjovt"

[@vigga5375]

@@anders9646 Well you Can tell someone to “leg godt” (even though that would Sound unnatural) but Yesh that was a little bit of a reach

[@RealCrazyCoolYT]

@@melainze8069 I think it does mean “to build” just in another language.

[@Omar-cz7ox]

Anyone remember watching ForestFire101 in early youtube and all his raunchy lego movies?

[@titanfreak2936]

Brokeguy 808 yo, real talk, his batman vids, those I lived

[@luc-perrin]

I don't remember them being raunchy

[@thearax-man7912]

Why are u guys are so good at delivering messages? That is outrageous

[@ClicheProductions]

This is actually incredible how they made it look so realistic and fooled everyone!

[@mrderp6862]

2:49 Roblox in development

[@intelchip_x86]

lol

[@saniyahwhite1902]

Mr DERP

[@itskevinjustkevin]

O O F

[@user-nx4nc9ob9m]

@@KiemPlant Walking animations, sitting animations from R6

[@user-in7wh3sz7b]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@amator141]

As someone who spent a good piece of childhood watching fan-made brickfilms and even tried to make one himself (it's hard af) I am truly grateful for Vox to cover this topic. It feels like these millions of photos combined into thousands of brickfilms made by hundreds of ambitious creators were finally acknowledged.

[@individual8207]

SunnyVanila I would watch them on Comcast, and at the age I was at, never really understood, and respected the amount of time and dedication

[@blakebramley9171]

I grew up watching almost nothing but LEGO stop motion on KZbin as a kid so this really brought me back

[@SamuraiGuy]

I remember using lego digital designer when I was a kid. I think you were able to purchase your own set that you build, including instructions, but I discovered the software after they discontinued that feature. I loved building sets of characters I thought were cool and sets full of gold pieces and all of the pieces I had never seen before, just in case they let people order them again.

[@wallacoloo]

5:25 this is such a great case-study for how derivative works ought to be treated under copyright/trademark law. A fan makes a derivative work and Lego has the ability to shut it down. Meanwhile, Lego makes a work that's highly derivative of what those very fans make and everything's fine and people even seem to think "wow, it's so cool that they made shoutouts to all the fans in the form of deriving (or even using verbatim) their art!" Anyway, it sounds like Lego came around pretty quickly. But not every company does, and maybe the law ought to be structured so that both individuals and companies are always treated equally when it comes to derivatives, by code.

[@RannonSi]

I concur, however I think that parts of why the companies do things like that is that they sometimes have to. As them not doing anything or even allowing when people do stuff like this or the "Classic World of Warcraft" servers could (to my understanding, as a layperson) very well lose them at least parts of the things that protect their Intellectual property. Meaning that if they don't do anything now that could be used against them when they try to use the IP laws against someone who E.G. does something similar but more commercial (As in: If they don't stop Fleay, Warner Bros could potentially make the Lego movie and use Fleay as a precedence in court).

[@bigbrainboi4771]

wallacoloo ui

[@notsofriendly6616]

my big issue with that is that most companies out there tend to lose money due to these "fan art" and that "fan art" is using their copyrighted characters or trademarked products such as the lego block. and thats why its illegal, they are making money off somebody elses characters which is still intellectual property of the "lego company" i dont think lego should deny these people that put so much time into this art, but instead promote it and make both parties money. as lego has a huge marketing division im sure this wouldnt be an issue, the content creator would have to sign over 50% of the royalties though. making it a collaboration product as appose to just being a lego product. they have to do this every time they make a movie anyways, just with the film company. but this could make them be able to release more content, in a shorter amount of time, and possibly give more people the chance to get heard out there. sure you can make a youtube channel.... but not EVERYBODY watches youtube.

[@finnsej8415]

wallacoloo oooo

[@melonpandaepic4539]

u made a realy Long Talk

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

I love this video! It encompasses and explains the history and process of Lego animations over the last 15 years. As a Lego fan who grew up seeing the animation in movies and video games evolve and change, I truly appreciate it! Thanks so much!

[@racer2k704]

Obi-Wan Kenobi General kenobi I was expecting u

[@Mango-cp1im]

Andrew Nicholson Hello there

[@delusionalnoodles]

Finally. Someone who uses the comments as its supposed to be used.

[@deepsea9835]

Obi-Wan Kenobi hello there

[@holydce8155]

Hello there

[@Kommentierer]

The brick-like environment really made a huge difference. That is something that also most if not all LEGO video games are missing.

[@prophet1546]

it feels so nostalgic. watching makes me wanna tear up.