The folks at BitFlicks have put together another one of their great Lego videos. This time it's Metroid, and if you were wondering, no this isn't a real "stop action" animation. The men behind the BitFlick's curtain published this explanation on their site:

What you can see is a very basic quasi-stop motion animation. Quasi because there was actually only one LEGO block involved, which was photographed in multiple positions and then composited in a photo editing program as a multi-layer image. Producing the animation was then a simple matter of masking the LEGO blocks and then hiding or displaying certain layers. The end result was a simple stop motion animation that didn't suffer from the usual random variations in lighting and position.

Whatever the method, these animations are awesome. If you haven't seen any of the others, be sure to check out their versions of Super Mario Brothers 3 and Donkey Kong as well.

Metroid Lego Animation [BitFlicks]