[1] Since the 2000s The Lego Group has released various films and TV series and brickfilms have also become popular on (social-) media websites.
A display featuring the advertisement is located in the History Collection of Lego House, in Billund, Denmark.
[6][7] A well-known early brickfilm was made between 1985 and 1989 in Perth, Western Australia by Lindsay Fleay, named The Magic Portal.
[8] The Magic Portal had high production values for a brickfilm of its time, with a five-figure budget granted by the Australian Film Commission.
[11][12][13] During this time, Dave Lennie and Andrew Boyer started making "Legomation" using a VHS camera and professional video equipment.
[14] An early brickfilm with no involvement from The Lego Group to be widely released was a music video for the UK dance act Ethereal for their song Zap on Truelove Records.
[19] The story was an interpretation of scenes from Apocalypse Now adapted to the rave culture of the late eighties, following three heroic Lego men as they battle and overcome evil.
[20] Higher-end films would often feature digital effects, created frame-by-frame with image editors[21] or inserted via video compositing software.
In 2000, the brickfilm Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World was accepted to over 80 film festivals, including Sundance.
The Deluxe Edition DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail contained an extra in the form of a brickfilm of the "Camelot Song",[25] produced by Spite Your Face Productions.
Throughout the early 2000s, Spite Your Face Productions created several viral brickfilms in collaboration with The Lego Group, including The Han Solo Affair[26] and The Peril of Doc Ock.
In 2024, Lego and Universal Pictures released a brickfilm-style take on the theatrical trailer for the first of the two-part film adaptation of Wicked.
[32] Modern brickfilms are captured with digital still cameras (sometimes in the form of webcams, DSLRs or camcorders with still image capability).
These films are created using primarily computer generated animation, they are styled in such a way as to emulate the look of stop-motion brickfilms.
The first Brickfilm Day festival was in 2018,[42] celebrating the 45th anniversary of En rejse til månen (Danish for Journey to the Moon).
[45] In 2014, The owner of the Bricks In Motion website, Philip Heinrich, and his production company, Ergo Possum, started a Kickstarter campaign to crowdsource the funding of a feature-length movie, Bricks in Motion, a documentary that follows brickfilmers from around the world and showcases their diverse personalities and their love for the craft.