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Title: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Mills on January 26, 2010, 06:12:21 am

In the quiet weeks after christmas, I decided to have a go at a short lego animation in the style previously used in TV adverts and currently on their website. It was also a way to remember how to build a variation of the standard model. I was reasonably pleased with the result, so here it is!
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Rendered with v.95 scanline renderer, four lights and some VERY soft shadows. Total render time in the region of four days, can't be sure as I did it in pieces. C&C welcome!
Thanks for looking

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Indian8or on January 26, 2010, 06:29:23 am

Nice one. 

Did you make the parts yourself?

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Pincho on January 26, 2010, 01:31:25 pm

It looks very difficult to do, I wouldn't know how to go about it.

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Mills on January 26, 2010, 05:17:21 pm

Thanks, Indian8or. Yep, all modelled myself. It was a rare and pleasant opportunity to have the 'snap to grid' turned on throughout the modelling process!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: hihosilver on January 26, 2010, 07:41:24 pm

Awesome job!!  Is that second vehicle actually formed by all of the same bricks or did some disappear/appear when they all came together?
Either way, great job.  It looks very professional.

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Mills on January 27, 2010, 02:37:11 am

Thanks, hiho. The second vehicle uses exactly the same pieces, there are no cheats in terms of sly additions / removals. There are a few dodgy overlaps, though, as I didn't quite have the patience to ensure none of them collided whilst reforming! Fortunately the questionable youtube movie quality helps hide that   ;D

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: NeonFalcon on January 27, 2010, 04:58:18 am

Very nice!!! Hah!!! The questionable youtube movie quality HAH!!! Good one!!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: headwax on January 27, 2010, 10:19:07 pm

great work Mills, I'm impressed!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: ENSONIQ5 on January 28, 2010, 03:57:26 am

Excellent work Mills, clean modelling, precise materials and clever animation direction.  Really professional work, makes me miss my huge Lego collection, in storage since 1980!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: rellik420 on January 29, 2010, 11:38:48 am

that was really really cool. great job all around

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: captaindrewi on January 30, 2010, 12:55:21 pm

bravvo!!so very worthy of applause.
i must investigate snap to grid....how did that help in the making of your
first class animation?

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Kubajzz on January 30, 2010, 01:31:38 pm

Awesome!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Mills on January 30, 2010, 08:21:38 pm

Thanks guys! Ensoniq5 - Time for a renaissance, perhaps?! captaindrewi - Lego comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, but all the bricks ultimately conform to the same very simple grid. Having 'snap to grid' turned on in the gui throughout modelling (and assembling the models in the scene) made the processes as quick and easy as working with the real thing.

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: headwax on January 31, 2010, 05:21:42 am

I think you should s end the link to steve and ask him to put it on the video page, it gets my vote

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: animtime on January 31, 2010, 08:49:27 am

it give me an idea to make a video to teach children building something with Lego. But then the video needs to be slower.

nice work.

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: davdud101 on February 04, 2010, 07:55:01 pm

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: SirBonovox on February 05, 2010, 10:19:28 pm

Very nice!!!!  Everything about was professional.  The rendering was well done ad the exploded view was perfect.  I loved it!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: davdud101 on February 05, 2010, 10:20:25 pm

tell you the truth, this looks directly out of a LEGO commercial. literally.

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: aemynzc on February 10, 2010, 05:25:12 am

Wow... amazing!

Looks very professional!

just.. wow..

This kicks butt to the maximus.

Great job!!

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: davdud101 on February 10, 2010, 07:43:02 am

You should actually send it to lego, just to see what they say.

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Bobert on February 11, 2010, 03:35:51 pm

Very cool. And I agree with Headwax, you should ask steve to post this on the anim8or website

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: Olias on February 13, 2010, 08:04:07 am

Wow, that's outstanding.  Very nice work.

Title: Re: Lego 'self-building' animation
Post by: $imon on February 13, 2010, 08:13:35 am

I love lego -- nice work! ;)