Blender Animations
This page shows several videos using Blender, a 3D rendering program. The videos all depict animations of virtual lego blocks. Unless otherwise indicated, the videos feature The Way of Kings, book 1 of The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. All background music and sound effects in the videos are used with permission; typically they are from Pixabay, which distributes stock audio and imagery with a free license.
You can view the animations below. Further below, I have included a discussion of the lego builds and some of the customization involved, followed by copyright and use information. If you're on mobile, the menus are at the bottom of the page.
The Assassin in White
From the prologue. No spoilers.
The Fall of Kaladin Stormblessed
From chapters 1, 2, and 4. No spoilers.
Shallan arrives at Kharbranth
From chapter 3. No spoilers.
The Chasmfiend Hunt
From chapter 12. No spoilers.
Shallan and Pattern
From chapter 29. No spoilers.
Cymatics
From chapter 33. No spoilers.
The Lesson
From chapter 36. Minor spoilers.
Shallan's first glimpse of Shadesmar
From chapter 45. Minor spoilers.
Bridge Four: Chasm Training
From chapter 49. Minor spoilers.
The Wandersail
From chapter 57. No spoilers.
The Tower
From chapter 66. Heavy spoilers.
The Tower (duel)
From chapter 68. Heavy spoilers.
Thath (Justice)
From chapter 69. Heavy spoilers.
Chasmfiend
This shows a chasmfiend from The Stormlight Archive running across the Shattered Plains. It's not really a spoiler as it doesn't depict a particular scene from the books, just a particular creature. No spoilers.
Kaladin and Syl
This animation shows a scene from near the end of Words of Radiance, book two of The Stormlight Archive. Heavy spoilers.
Skyward: DDF Poco
I created this video to promote my DDF Poco set on Lego Ideas. The video shows a Poco taking off from Alta Base. No spoilers.
Skyward: M-Bot drone
This video features a M-Bot's cleaning drone that first appeared at the very end of Starsight. No spoilers.
About these builds
Pattern's general symbol design is based on official artwork by Ben McSweeney, though the animation extrapolates that design based on the descriptions in the text. The designs of Shallan and Jasnah's havahs are based on official artwork by Dan Dos Santos. Kaladin's tattoos and uniform markings are based on official artwork by Isaac Stewart. The Poco ship design and drone design are based on official artwork by Ben McSweeney.
Legal stuff
The artwork on this page is copyright 2022-2025 by Richard Martin. The source material is copyright by Brandon Sanderson. I am not affiliated with Brandon Sanderson or his publishers in any way.
I do not grant permission for any of my work to be used in Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated content in any way whatsoever, commercial or not. Feel free to download the media on this page and to use them for non-commercial purposes. If you wish to re-post them online, you may do so as long as you give me credit by either citing me (Rick Martin) as the artist, linking to this site, and/or linking any of my active social media pages.