Lego Battle of the Bulge - World War II Stopmotion

In honor of the 76th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge

On December 16, 1944, the Germans launched their last major counteroffensive of the Second World War. After planning for months, the Germans took advantage of a large winter storm to mount their assault, through which they planned to reach the Belgian port of Antwerp. At 5:00 A.M on the 16th, the Germans started bombarding the American line along the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Fresh with new and inexperienced soldiers, the American line was quickly penetrated. The Germans attacked in massive numbers with tanks, soldiers, and other military vehicles. Within two days, they advanced past the forest and into the surrounding towns, including Stavelot, St. Vith, Schnee Eifel, and Malmedy. The following week involved intense fighting in the towns with fierce resistance from the American forces. One week later, on December 20, the 101st Airborne Division became completely surrounded by German forces in the town of Bastogne. The Allied Commanders, realizing the severity of the situation, tasked Patton’s Third Army with relieving the 101st. After intense fighting over the next week, the US 4th Armored Division of Patton’s Third Army arrived in Bastogne, alleviating the battered 101st Airborne Division and driving back the German Army. Unable to retaliate, the exhausted German forces retreated back into Germany. By the end of January, all traces of the counteroffensive were erased. Only three months after the conclusion of the Battle of the Bulge, the remaining Germans surrendered on May 8, 1945, officially ending the Second World War in Europe.

We did not include some aspects of this battle. This was not intended to offend or diminish the importance of the events that took place but was rather a creative choice we made.

You can find instructions to many of our models in this film on our Rebrickable page

These models are free and available for purchase. By purchasing our moc instructions, we earn a small revenue.
Some of the models in this film were also made by Brickmania. The minifigures are from Brickmania sticker packs.

Stuff we used to create this film:
- Camera: Canon EOS Rebel, Canon EOS 7D Mk II
- Stop-motion Software: Stopmotion Studio for Mac
- Video Editing Software: iMovie, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, After Effects
- Visual Effects (VFX): Footagecrate, Action VFX, Action Essentials, Assets found on Youtube, our own VFX Filmed on green screens
- Sound Effects: (SFX) Sound Bible, Zapsplat, Soundscrate, Action VFX, Free Sound Effects, Fesliyan Studios, as well as our own sound recordings
- German Officers: Natural Readers
- LEGO Models: Brickmania® Instruction books for building kits and some of our own mocs

Film Stats:
Around 15000 individual photos
Over 75 gigabytes of raw photos
Final film: 1.84 gigabytes
24 FPS

Produced and created by Twin_Bricks

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[TwinBricks]

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[stevenewman]

😉👍This is truly one of the very best Stop animation ones that I have seen so far indeed on the Battle of the Buldge and I love the camo on the German Tanks and vehicles indeed as well as all the great battle scenes, A job very greatly and very nicely well done indeed Sir!👌.

[lanceschaerer]

Extremely well done!! The variety in vehicles really did it for me. You had the whole line up for the Germans panther panzer4 marder 3m stug panzer4/70 tiger and king tiger plus the half tracks and antitank guns. Then u have the epic artillery. Good job!

[FunkThompson]

One of the greatest military communications in the history or ever; "Nuts!"

[cooldudeproductions]

BEST battle of The bulge



WW2 LEGO BATTLE EVER!!!

[jamesmoore]

as a long time history geek, and a longer lego fan, this is just stunning. i be 64 and still have legos

[bklyny]

This is the most smooth stop motion I’ve ever seen .

[cameronkedas]

My great grandfather was in the 101st Airborne Division during WW2!!! Also, no member of the 101st agreed that the division needed to be saved during The Battle of The Bulge during WW2.

[JRodStudios]

This is one of the best Battle of the Bulge brickfilms I've ever seen! As an avid fan of WW2, watching this was quite enjoyable. Well done sir!

[hnorrstrom]

Answering "nuts" was like breaking the Geneva convention. Americans aren't even serious in a war...
Fantastic video by the way.

[l.f.b_.]

So incredible good. Im a german and i detected every single weapon and tank in this video. This means you did great work ! Go on like this

[aliakseibeniash]

Its awesome the snow even lookes like snow not lego and when the soilder walks its satisfying

[g.t.legostopmotionstudio]

This deserves top trnding couse like bruh its smooth the audio is good and the legos are moving ON FLAT GROUND HOW?!?!

[starzkream]

I love this video. This is the one that got me into all of this stuff, WWII Lego building and animation. After I saw this for the first time, I went onto Amazon and bought some third-party Lego knockoff military sets. Over time, I found Brickmania, and the rest is history.

[wang]

I keep finding underrated channels, and overrated channels, this is a underrated channel.

[marktempesths]

I always watch this kind of lego films when I was a kid
What a masterpiece

[teaproductions]

Are you abrick dictator? Really, it's wonderful and historically accurate!!! You deserve to be promoted more than anyone else! Im excited to see your other projects!
Tea Productions

[LancelotChan]

Very detailed, the explosion kinetic energy and the track and foot prints on the snow. All done very well!

[archicisco]

I reckon if you had some more close ups, like a lot closer to the characters faces then this would look like a movie, super smooth animation man

[HARDPIXEL]

Idk why kids today only watch some talking toilets, tiktok and brainrot when they could have watched masterpieces like this one or more i miss when there was no brainrot