One example among many. Don't reuse its story, arc, shots, props or timings.
Demo: Rocket from Spare Parts (54 s) · brick-toy.mp4 · source in demo/ · asset credits demo/CREDITS
A brick astronaut builds a rocket; it collapses; he rebuilds it from the fallen parts and flies to the "moon" (a stack of books). Failure isn't the end, it's just spare parts. One character, one goal.
The old guide told agents to "turn the topic into something being built" and to use at least three of the four native powers; the demo used all four: snap-together building (open on one brick, end on one brick), break without harm (the collapse becomes the parts for a better rocket), toy on a real desk (a teapot is a mountain, a stack of books is the moon, the lamp is the sun), hand-made stop-motion (12 fps, even the flames and smoke are bricks). The old guide also listed adaptation examples: a product launch → the product is assembled brick by brick; a love story → two characters build a bridge between two books; a history lesson → an era is built, falls, is rebuilt.
Arc (45–60 s, as written for this film): curiosity → excitement → a setback (collapse) → a quiet beat → rebuilding → climax → a warm scale-reveal. Acts: opening 0:00–0:06 (one red brick, the first snap), act one 0:06–0:18 (fast building, pride), act two 0:18–0:30 (collapse, silence, picking up the parts), act three 0:30–0:50 (countdown, ignition, launch, landing on the moon), end card after.
| Beat | Camera |
|---|---|
| Opening | Extreme macro on one brick, slow push, background blurred to real props |
| Building | Low angles make the tiny character heroic; cut every bar |
| Setback | Handheld shake on the collapse, then a low, wide, lonely frame with the character small |
| Emotional beat | Close-up from the front, character's hands and the brick in focus |
| Climax | Low angle following upward; then a tracking shot alongside the rocket with the moon (books) visible ahead |
| Ending | Slow pull-back to a high wide shot of the whole desk: the scale reveal |
Each of these is one choice from STYLE.md §6 made for this story, not the style's default opening or ending.
Lens settings as used: aperture ~500–700 for close-ups, ~800 for mediums, ~400 for the final wide. Snap overshoot 0.35 stud → 0 in ~0.17 s. Collapse gravity ~420 studs/s² (true would be 1225), restitution ~0.3.
Two Kevin MacLeod tracks (CC BY 4.0), edited to the picture by demo/music/edit.py: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" (playful, cut on bars) for building, the same theme returning quietly for the rebuild, "Heroic Age" as the orchestral swell for the climax. The edit makes the climax hit land on ignition and the final chord land on the end card (bar-aligned jumps, chroma similarity at the joins). story.js times are aligned to the music bars.
Silences: music cut dead on the collapse, leaving room tone and a ticking clock; music pulled out again before the climax, with a low heartbeat drum under the countdown.
Foley specific to this film: ignition boom and rocket roar; radio chatter with Quindar beeps.
Voice: warm British storyteller, Kokoro bm_george, speed ~0.9, 4–6 short lines; mission control is am_adam through a radio filter (band-pass 380–2800 Hz + soft saturation) with Quindar beeps. Every line verified with whisper. Voice compressed, music ducked ~40 % under voice, −14 LUFS.
- Classic brick palette: red
#c91a09, blue#0055bf, yellow#f2cd37, green#237841, white#f2f2ee, black#1b2a34, plus orange, light/dark grey, tan, azure. Bevel radius 0.06; baseplate matte green (it turned cyan with full clearcoat). - Set: walnut desk (Poly Haven
american_walnut_veneer),photo_studio_loft_hallHDRI, tea set (teapot mountain, cup), pencil, books (the moon), desk lamp (the sun). Key light#fff4e8from upper left; softboxes key front-left, cool rim behind, one over the finale set. GTAO radius ~3.5 studs, scale 2.5. Grade: contrast +0.26, saturation ×1.1, slightly cool. - The astronaut: 1×1 columns for legs, a 2×2 brick torso, round-brick arms, a round 2×2 helmet with a curved visor panel.
- The rocket, fire (translucent orange/yellow round plates jittered every frame), smoke (white round bricks that grow and roll outward), the moon (grey round plates with crater tiles).
- Subtitles: a dark rounded pill
rgba(18,20,26,.62)centred 150 px above the bottom, Fredoka 600 46 px white, a small yellow 2×1 brick icon on the left. Radio lines get a red brick icon and a "MISSION CONTROL" tag. - Title: "Rocket from Spare Parts", Fredoka 700, popping in on 12 fps steps, with the yellow sub-line "A BRICK TOY FILM".
The darkened final wide, the title (Fredoka 700), a brick icon, "BRICK TOY · LEMO-OPUSCAR" in yellow, the "LemoLab × Claude Opus 5.5" line and the asset credits. That sign-off belongs to this library's demo only; a user's film carries no LemoLab credit and no copy of this card (remove the line drawn in main.js if you adapt it).
styles/brick-toy/demo/
bricks.js geometry + plastic materials rockets.js props, physics, fx
actors.js brick-built character rig set.js desk, HDRI, real props, moon
story.js timeline aligned to music bars main.js acting, cameras, subtitles, events
lines.json voice script mix.py foley+voice+music music/edit.py score edit
node core/render/still.mjs styles/brick-toy/demo <t…>: review stills, iterate..venv/bin/python core/tts/tts.py lines.json voices→core/tts/asr_check.pyto verify.node core/render/events.mjs styles/brick-toy/demo→python music/edit.py→python mix.py.node core/render/video.mjs styles/brick-toy/demo --fps 24(1296 frames with 2× SSAA + GTAO ≈ 65 s on an M4 Pro).core/render/mux.sh out/video24.mp4 mix.wav brick-toy.mp4 24.
Pitfalls tied to this demo's props:
- The helmet visor made from a sphere segment disappeared inside the cylinder helmet; a curved open-cylinder panel fixed it.
- The rocket simply accelerating upward became a dot on a blank wall; a tracking shot aimed at the moon fixed it.
- The desk lamp, placed on the camera axis of a later shot, kept sneaking into the background.
- Stepping the camera at 12 fps too was tried and looked unsmooth; the camera moved to ones.
- Spare-parts piles kept blocking the lens at frame edges.