10 Tips for Building Your Brickfilm Set

Set building is a big part of making a Lego stop motion, or "brickfilm". When you see the incredible sets created by animators such as Alexander Studios, it can seem like a huge challenge. But don't worry - it's okay to start small and simple.

This tutorial will give you 10 tips for building brickfilm sets. Whether you're completely new to building sets for stop motion animation, or if you've been doing it for a while, this video will hopefully give you a few pointers on how you can improve.

If you need more stop motion and brickfilm tips, please check out my other tutorial videos:

How To Build a Basic Brickfilm Set

10 Things Stop Motion Pros Do

Stop motion - Noob to pro in 10 simple steps

10 MORE Things Stop Motion Pros Do

10 Things Stop Motion Noobs Do

10 MORE Things Stop Motion Noobs Do

3 Walk Cycles Everyone Should Know

5 Walk Cycles You Should Never Use

How to do a back flip in Lego stop motion

How to do a kick in Lego stop motion

Ease in Ease Out - stop motion tutorial

How to make your First Stop Motion Animation

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[cookiefist]

I love how he responds to comments - thx for all the help you give me and my Stop Motions 😁😁😁

[Gianluca_Inline]

Although I don't speak 100% English, I like watching your videos, they always help me, I watch them with subtitles so I can understand, honestly your work is helping me a lot and I bet other people are too, thank you ;)

[robmunson]

I have some questions

1. What’s your opinion on working with a green screen for brickfilms for space/ moon videos?

2. How can you make your set feel more like the moon? Can you use sand or something else?

3. How can you make a minifigure fat can you use clay or sticky tac?

4. Is it bad to record voices after animating?

[robmunson]

Hey couple of final questions for right now

1. Is it Ok. To have 2 of the same characters with the same voice or does that mean that the person has Multiple Personality Disorder?

2. How can you show a YouTube clip in your brickfilm and showing a character watching it legally?

3. Can you have the same voices or a character that another YouTuber uses? Or it’s that gonna be a problem?

4. How do you write a good abs decent Brickfilm Script on Celtext?

[petermcnany]

I have some questions to ask you


1. how do you animate 2 minifigures moving a couch?
2. how do you animate a pizza or ice cream truck strike or hit a off road truck?
3. how do you animate a Live news broadcast from a news scene?
4. how do you animate a traffic stop with 2 characters talking and one is them in a car and the police officer minifigure is outside of the car?
5. how do you add a intersection Lego piece on a Lego Base plate?
6. how do you animate a rollover accident and make both vehicles involved on fire?
7. how do you animate a helicopter flying down and making a oil truck spill out oil?
8. how do you animate Lego ice being used to Freeze Lego Minifigures can you use blue paint?
9. how do you film inside of a Italian Restaurant and use white table cloths?
10. is it bad to have a 2 part Pilot video?
11. if you get a DSLR camera can you make your first brickfim using it?

[CarnageCounts]

Thank you this was very informative! I definitely have to check out your other Lego stop motion tip videos.

[cristorinaldosuuuiiiiii]

Thanks, that was extremely helpful because I have just started on brickfilms. That will help me a lot.

[robmunson]

Questions how would you film inside a hospital and make a hospital waiting room? And a lego Wayne manor?

[candle]

Nice another video, I havnt watched u long time because I wasnt at home sadly

[lazybuilders]

Thank you gold puffin😊 That was very helpfull. What really helped is learning how to put your fingers in to move the set around. I also liked your technique of making the motorcycle go really fast. I will use these techniques in my stop motions!

[justsaturn]

Doing Lego stop motion like this has always interested me and something I want to have a go at in my spare time always great to be able to find help like this👍

[robmunson]

Nevermind these are the last 3 questions of 2019

1. How do you animate 2 batarang

[DafterThings]

Your 10 tips videos are always so good and the reason I found your channel in the first place.
I know there are Brickfilm books out there but I wonder if you have enough content for a 'video book' of some sort? Maybe a video for a table of contents which then links to videos on specific information (something a little more 'guiding' than a playlist).
I've begun to put generic card backgrounds into a folder (Brick wall, painted wall, pictures, doors etc) so they can be re-used.

[robmunson]

Another question what if you have a nighttime sequence as the opening scene of a brickfilm and you want to film a helicopter flying Thur the nighttime skies how do you do it? And also what would he the correct pronunciation this on Celtext or Google Docs “we start with a opening scene with Joker and his henchmen causing trouble in the skies or this Joker and his henchmen are causing trouble from up above. Please let me know thanks.

[robmunson]

And also how would you make the hospital and room good? And where the camera can see?

[Jonester_Dog]

I am not very good at my Stop Motion's, so I watched a few of these videos. Thank you so much!

[robmunson]

And also for question 3 how can you make sure that the clay or sticky tac will stay on your minifigure and can you make it disappear without showing your hands can it be done in editing?

[thelivingbrick]

I just came back to say thank you! Its been about a year and a half since I binged all your tutorials and now I have 265 subscribers! Thank you for all your help its been a fun journey so far and you've helped the whole way

[theartsyfarmer]

I am starting a LEGO channel with some stop motion animations in it and this really helped! Thanks!

[robmunson]

Hey last questions

1. How do you animate 2 people having a conversation in a 2 seater Lego car is it acceptable and Ok. To use the Over the Shoulder shot it seems like shooting 2 characters talking would be so hard and frustrating!

2. How do you loop voices to the characters in Audacity?