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Lego Art Effect

Build plastic brick mosaics

Drop in a JPEG, PNG, or WebP to transform your photo into a structural mosaic built from plastic toy bricks. The tool calculates the average color for grid segments and generates procedural 3D highlights and shadows to simulate physical blocks and interlocking studs. Everything renders locally in the browser.

Controlling the build resolution

Start by adjusting the Brick Size. Lower percentages create a massive, high-definition mosaic composed of thousands of tiny studs, retaining the detail of the original photo. Higher percentages reduce the resolution, abstracting the image into a chunky, minimalist build.

True-to-life colors and geometry

Use the Color Palette drop-down to quantize the image. Selecting Classic Bricks forces the algorithm to choose from a strict palette of primary plastic colors (red, blue, yellow, green, etc.), ensuring the result looks like something you could actually build from a basic toy set. Stud Style lets you switch between classic round pegs and smooth flat tiles.

Lighting the plastic

The Plastic Shine slider determines how aggressive the 3D shading is. Lower values create a flatter, more graphic interpretation of a mosaic, while pushing it to 100% renders harsh specular highlights on the studs and deep shadows on the bottom edges, selling the illusion of physical, glossy plastic.

Frequently Asked Questions

JPEG, PNG, and WebP. The downloaded image keeps the same format as your original file.

No.

Brick Size controls the physical dimension of the generated blocks relative to the image. A smaller size yields a highly detailed mosaic with many tiny bricks, while a larger size abstracts the photo into chunky blocks.

Color Palette restricts the colors used in the mosaic. Original Colors uses the true pixel averages, Classic Bricks snaps every pixel to the closest primary plastic toy color, and Grayscale creates a monochromatic build.

Stud Style switches the geometry of the blocks between Round Studs (classic interlocking bricks) and Flat Tiles (smooth mosaic pieces).

Plastic Shine controls the intensity of the simulated 3D lighting, raising or lowering the highlights and shadows cast on the edges and studs of each block.

Yes. Once the page has loaded, the effect can work offline because the image processing happens fully in your browser.

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