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A brickfilm is a film made using LEGO bricks, Mega Bloks bricks, or other similar plastic construction toys. In most cases, brickfilms are filmed using the stop motion technique, but other forms of film production are also used, such as computer-generated imagery, Macromedia Flash, or live action, which can be used to supplement films. Though brickfilms were being made long before, the brickfilming craze took off when LEGO released "LEGO Studios," a set containing bricks, backdrops, a book and a computer application for making stop-animation movies. Some brickfilms are spoofs of scenes from famous movies, while others are completely original animations.

Well-known Brickfilms

Some of the most well-known brickfilms include:

The Han Solo Affair, made by Spite Your Face Productions, officially commissioned by The Lego Company, and officially licensed by LucasFilm.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, included with the special DVD edition of the live-action film of the same name
, again by Spite Your Face.
Spider-Man, another Spite Your Face production.

The following two films predate the ones above, and were made to promote the Studios product by unknown animators:

Jewel Quest
Jurassic Bark

"Fell in Love with a Girl" Music Brickfilm

A somewhat different type of brickfilm was used for The White Stripes' music clip of "Fell in Love with a Girl", in which there was no tridimensionality and no figurines, but in which the LEGO bricks themselves formed a flat surface where the patterns recreating motion appeared. The music clip was directed by Michel Gondry.

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