How To Create A Lego Video

Is your child into brick flicks? Do you think they would find it fun to make their own LEGO movie? Here are4 nifty apps for making the best stop motion lego movies. Who knows, you may have the next brick blockbuster on your hands…everything is awesome!

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Just in case you weren't familiar with the term, brick films are stop-motion animation movies that are made using LEGO® bricks or similar construction toys.

Making Stop Motion Lego Movies

If you're wondering how to make a stop motion movie, here are 4 different apps that your child can use:

#1. I Can Animate

stop motion apps Create stunning and exciting animation movies quickly and easily. With I Can Animate you can bring the art of creating stop-frame animations to your iOS devices and then share them for all to see.

I Can Animate has some really great features:

Capture frames using either camera on your iOS device
Displays onion skinning, so you can easily see the differences between frames you are capturing.
Preview captured frames in the scrollable timeline.
Adjust exposure, white balance and focus automatically or manually lock the settings.
Duplicate & Reorder frames
Review last five frames and preview whole project
Undo support
Capture automatically using the inbuilt time lapse feature
Standard & Widescreen display
Change playback speed
Connect a bluetooth keyboard and capture frames without returning to or tapping the device (iOS7+)
Share movies.

Cost: €2.99

#2. ClayFrames

stop motion apps ClayFrames is easy to use and has a good set of professional features for making stop-frame animation (or claymation) and time-lapse movies.

Clayframes Lite is the free trial version, it's worth trying this out before you buy the full version to confirm it is compatible with your Android device.

Clayframes includes these features:

Mp4 video exporter for Android 4.3 and higher. Plays with built-in Android player.
AVI video exporter and player.
Onion-skinning (transparent overlay) for smooth movement. Align the current shot with the previous one.
Preview Loop: Review your movie as you shoot it! Make fast progress without stopping to review.
Trigger camera shutter remotely using a hand clap or the phones proximity sensor. Avoids camera shake.
Timed shutter release option for time-lapse movies. Any interval from 1 second to 1 hour.
Add audio using the microphone on your device. Record your own vocals, effects or soundtrack.

Cost: €2.39

#3. StopMotion Studio

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Want to create movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube? Then this is one app you might like to try.

Use Stop Motion Studio to create fun stop action movies with the following features:

Overlay mode to show you the differences between frames for precise control
Grid mode to position animated objects more easily
Ability to use the volume button on your device to capture images
Integrated movie editor with frame-by-frame preview at different speeds
Cut, copy, paste, delete and insert frames at any position
Automatically capture frames with an adjustable time interval feature
Zoom in and out on the timeline view so you never get lost, even if you have hundreds of frames
Fade your movie in or out for a professional look

It also has parental controls to manage access which is handy.

Cost: Free

#4. Lapse It

Lapse It is available for both iPhone / iPod / iPad and Android. You can use the free version to test it out before upgrading to the Pro version.

Here are some of the features the free app offers

Capture shots using your camera
Import pre-recorded videos to speed them up or slow them down
Auto and manual modes for controlling exposure, focus, ISO and white balance
Use any song from your library as the sound track of your video
Speed up your time lapse with millisecond precision up to 240x
Camera zoom includes even a zoom ramping over time
More than 50 filters, including the amazing Tilt-Shift effect
Share directly to Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and many others
Tons of post-capture options including trimming, adding timestamp, square mode, backwards playback and more
Stop motion with onion skin and touch-less photo snaps
Schedule the capture to start and stop automatically

Cost: Free or the Pro version is €2.99 / £2.39 / $2.99 which gives even more features

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Finally, keep an eye out on the Apple Store for the LEGO Movie Maker App, it's currently not listed at time of writing, but if it does become available again, then this fun (and free) kid-friendly app is ideal for creating a custom stop-motion movie.

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Have your say! Is your child into brick films? Have they tried making a stop motion lego movie? Leave a comment below and let us know – we'd love to hear from you!

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