Today, I’d like to introduce a YouTube video from TheJumiFilm. I’ve learned so much from their content and wanted to share it with everyone.

TheJumiFilm’s video showcases creative LEGO stop-motion animations, including bouncing bricks, a LEGO “Slinky,” writing with a LEGO pencil, cutting LEGO foods, infinite building loops, and assembling minifigures in a factory. Other highlights include stretching minifigures, animating waves, simulating melting bricks, and a stop-motion LEGO YouTube logo build. It’s a playful and satisfying display of animation techniques. 

Without further ado, let’s break it down!

The Jumping Journey of LEGO Bricks

While you sleep soundly, the LEGO bricks at home suddenly gather for a secret meeting. Their goal? To become stars.

These little blocks have dreams, ambitions, and even superpowers—don’t believe it? The story that follows will prove that these colorful bricks are anything but ordinary. In a magical stop-motion world, they’re ready to show you their true potential.

One ordinary LEGO brick is tired of spending its days stuck in a parts bin. Today, it decides to transform into a lively rubber ball, bouncing freely across the screen.

​How to Make It:

To create the effect of a LEGO brick leaping, you’ll need a camera, a bit of patience, and some stop-motion animation skills. Position your camera at a fixed angle, set it to continuous shooting mode, and adjust the LEGO brick’s position slightly between shots to simulate its bounce through the air and onto the ground.

By stitching these photos together in animation software, you’ll see the LEGO brick come to life as a bouncing rubber ball. You might also need some transparent LEGO pieces to create the illusion of the brick floating mid-air.

Let the magic begin!

The Artistic Journey of the LEGO Pencil

Our LEGO brick isn’t content with simply bouncing around—it’s ready to become an artist. Taking matters into its own hands, it constructs a yellow LEGO pencil and begins creating art on a giant sheet of paper.

How to Make It:
Precision is the key to this part of the animation. Start by building a realistic LEGO pencil model, then capture each frame as the pencil moves across the paper, drawing as it goes.

To mimic the effect of the pencil gradually getting shorter as it’s used, you can remove LEGO pieces from the bottom of the pencil one by one. Later, you can reverse this process to make it look like the pencil is being “sharpened” and restored.

Let your imagination draw the rest!

LEGO Rainbow Hoop Show

The LEGO bricks are now trying their hand at stunt performing, recreating the childhood fun of a rainbow hoop rolling down the stairs.

How to Make It:
Start by building a structure with LEGO pieces that resemble a rainbow hoop. Then, capture each frame as the hoop rolls down the stairs, step by step. Remember, consistency is key in animation.

A helpful tip is to use some clay to stick the bricks together, ensuring the structure stays intact while it moves.

The LEGO Melting Challenge

In the next scene, the LEGO bricks decide to take on an unprecedented performance—melting.

How to Make It:
To create the effect of a LEGO brick melting, you can either use visual effects software or simulate the melting process by gradually replacing the LEGO pieces with smaller, flatter ones. During filming, progressively swap out the original blocks for these modified pieces to create a visual “melting” effect.

LEGO Master Chef Show

The LEGO bricks are stepping into the kitchen, taking on the role of a chef, and preparing to chop and prep a variety of “LEGO ingredients.”

How to Make It:
This part of the animation requires the creative use of LEGO pieces to simulate food. For example, you can build a “block of butter” using yellow LEGO bricks and use a smooth LEGO knife model to “cut” it. After each cut, adjust the position and shape of the butter block to give the illusion that it’s being sliced.

Additionally, you can “spread” the cut LEGO butter onto a LEGO toast by gradually adding yellow LEGO pieces to simulate the spreading process.

LEGO Food Reimagined

The LEGO chef isn’t satisfied with just basic cooking—he’s now attempting to make more complex “foods,” like a LEGO cake, carrots, and sausages.

How to Make It:
In these scenes, you can use various colors and shapes of LEGO pieces to build different food models. For example, to create a carrot, use orange LEGO blocks for the body and green blocks for the top. When filming the cutting animation, adjust the composition of the food model frame by frame to simulate the changes that occur as it’s “cut.”

LEGO Endless Construction Adventure

The LEGO bricks are now pushing the limits of architecture, attempting to build an endless LEGO city.

How to Make It:
In this animation, the LEGO architect keeps building skyscrapers. To create the effect of an endlessly growing city, use looping animation techniques to make it appear as though the construction never stops, but never quite finishes. Film the process of adding layers to the LEGO buildings, and then use editing techniques to loop the sequence, creating the illusion of continuous construction.

The Secret LEGO Factory

The LEGO bricks have entered a secret factory where endless LEGO minifigures are produced. The factory never stops, and the machines are always running.

How to Make It:
Use LEGO robotic arms and conveyor belt models to create an animated scene that simulates the assembly process of LEGO minifigures. Capture each step of the assembly frame by frame, then use fast playback to give the impression of an efficient LEGO production line in full swing.

Now that you’ve seen the endless possibilities of LEGO bricks, why not try creating your own LEGO animation? It might be a bit challenging at first, but remember, every great director’s career starts with their first short film.

Share your work with us and let’s see what your LEGO bricks can do!

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