Stop-Motion Animations

I fell into the world of brickfilms — stop-motion animation made with Lego — back in 2007, when I was twelve. YouTube had barely existed for two years, the community was small and wonderfully scrappy, and most people animated with whatever they had lying around. That raw, make-it-work spirit hooked me immediately, but what really drew me in was the storytelling potential hiding inside a handful of plastic bricks. Ever since, I have never been able to resist the urge to tell stories with them.

My first camera was a Canon PowerShot A400, and the results were rough — calling them “animations” was generous. Still, I was completely obsessed, and after a couple of years of relentless experimenting I launched my YouTube channel in 2009: HarryAndBillyBrick Productions. The name came from two minifigures I picked up at LEGOLAND Billund in 2008, which at the time felt like the perfect foundation for a studio.

Progress came through a lot of patience and an embarrassing amount of trial and error. The gear kept evolving along the way: a Logitech C300 webcam, then Movie Maker, iMovie, iStopMotion, and Final Cut Express, until eventually I made the jump to a Canon EOS 600D and built a proper workflow around Dragonframe, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects.

Throughout the 2010s the quality of my work grew steadily, and I started entering competitions, reaching finals in community challenges and getting involved in collaborative projects within the brickfilmer world. A full filmography is available on my YouTube channel and on the Brickfilms Wiki.

Around that same period I started developing a couple of very ambitious medieval projects that I poured enormous energy into but never quite finished. Looking back, that time was one of the most formative of my creative life, even if I have little footage to show for it. Gradually, the demands of university and a growing professional career pulled me away from animation, and brickfilming faded into the background for a while.

More recently I have been exploring 3D animation and the ways it could be woven into future brickfilm projects — something that genuinely excites me and where much of my current research and experimentation lives. The core goal, though, has never changed: stories, told with a strong cinematic eye.

With things more settled now, I have found my way back to brickfilming and use it as a space to explore new narratives, experiment with emerging tools, and push the pipeline further than I could have imagined back in 2007. The leap the medium has made — technically, creatively, professionally — since those early scrappy days is honestly remarkable to witness.

Below you will find my most recent animations, alongside a few other projects worth sharing. I hope you enjoy them.