Here’s some designs by a series minifigure artist in 2010, lots have been made and maybe some more of these will be coming down the pipe?
http://alexandreboudonbillund2010.blogspot.ca/
There is so much inspiration on this site, check it out!!
Here’s some designs by a series minifigure artist in 2010, lots have been made and maybe some more of these will be coming down the pipe?
http://alexandreboudonbillund2010.blogspot.ca/
There is so much inspiration on this site, check it out!!
I’d like to use the blog to make an important post about a missing person, Heather Braaten, who is known in the Lego world as HeatherLEGOGirl from SeaLUG has been missing since last week.
Here is a brothersbrick article:
http://www.brothers-brick.com/2012/03/27/missing-person-heather-braaten-aka-lego-girl/
Here is a facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/264405843648488/
Thoughts go out to all her friends and family right now and hope Heather finds her way home safely! I’ve met her at BrickCon and she was the warmest, kindest and friendliest AFOL ever, not to mention what a stellar builder she is.
Exhaustive and indepth review on Eurobricks of the Series 7 minifigs. Lots to like here, I wasn’t aware there was this many unique hair pieces!
Well I was searching around the web, looking for something that could make a parts list from an LDD model. What I came out with was LDD Manager by Superkalle on Eurobricks. LDD manager allows you to import LDD modesl and either get an Excel spreadsheet partslist and/or you can export the part list directly to your wanted list on Bricklink.
Here is a quick video tutorial I made for LDD Manager. It might be helpful to some, but it might not.
Here is the link for the Eurobricks Forums topic.
And finally, here is the link to download LDD Manager, it requires a Windows Live account to download.
Hope ya’ll enjoy!
-Aaron
NetDevil was really nice to us and we gave them a few humble presents to show our gratitude. This was made by my wife Jeannie, it’s crocheted out of thread and is the height of her minfig gear experiments. The hood goes over the head and the arms are articulated by just wrapping around the arms and connecting at the wrists. She embroidered ND on the back. This was a present to Ryan Seabury and I assume it is still in his possession. I have a few other LU ‘artifacts’ like this to share.
Here’s more of Jeannie’s minifig crochet work: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/17561
This is Jim Stigall’s Blog It was first brought to my attention by The Great Yak.
In 2006 the vision of bringing the iconic LEGO brick to the virtual world of MMO gaming – started some years earlier by key member of The LEGO Group – began to take shape with the partnership of a small and little known Colorado based video game development studio called NetDevil.
During the five-plus year journey of development, the team at NetDevil was faced with many difficult technical and design challenges in order to bring LEGO play to the virtual space. Working along side the designing minds and programming wizards, the LEGO Universe art team, lead by Art Director Phillip Atencio, molded a visual style unmatched in the world of MMO gaming, seamlessly melding existing LEGO themes with original story developed in-house by the minds of NetDevil developers who also happened to be life long fans of the timeless plastic toy.
The conceptual design team tasked with bringing the vision of LEGO Universe to life boasted some of the most incredible talent the video game industry has to offer. Lead Concept Artist Jim Stigall guided a team of seven concept illustrators during the life of the project. Along with the help and incredible visions of Jerry Meyer, Dave Kang, Brett Nienburg, Kyle Wheeler, Richard Tran, Peter Coene, Nathan Storm, and Mike Rayhawk many many worlds and literally thousands of drawings were explored to assist the world builders, animators, character modelers, and visual effects artists bringing the three-dimensional world of LEGO Universe to life.Millions of fans logged in daily and assumed the identity of their Minifigure avatar, virtually interacting, building, and exploring with their friends in the LEGO Universe.Sadly, in January, 2112, after little over a year since its initial public launch, LEGO Universe was closed for good.This blog is for you, the fans. It is a place where we, the Concept Art Team from LEGO Universe, can share with you the passion and love that was put into this wonderful game – much of it never seen before, some never meant to be shown.Please enjoy Imagining LEGO Universe…
To say it was a brilliant find would be a total understatement.
It showcases the art of these LU Concept Artists
I have spent literally hours in awe of the talent represented here.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have.
Have a happy day!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day everyone!
As lots of you know, I was on a team with HappyPappy called Sector 6. For numerous reasons, primarily distance and babies, our team level wasn’t ready on time for game launch and by the time we were ready the focus of the LUP program had switched. It was still a great experience and I learned so much in the process. I also had the most fun as a LUP after the game launched when I got to meet all the players and fans so there is no regrets on that level.
What I’d like to start sharing is the work we did on the level starting with some of the concept art I did. The level was called Outpost and it was to be a pioneer sort of settlement on a planetary fragment with some miners that had tapped into a vein of Maelstrom. My vision was a cross between Wild West, Firefly and Steam Punk. These pictures were to be the Faction representatives of the area and I was going to ‘space’ them up in a subsequent rendition.
Sentinel Sherrif:
Assembly Blacksmith:
Venture Scout:
Paradox Barmaid:
Going by timestamps I think I made these in July of 2009
This is an annual event our club participates in, going on it’s 7th year though we started joining in on the fun in 2008. The museum owner, Peter, puts together the display with his family collection of sets and the club has a couple of cabinets of creations to show the other side of Lego, what you can make with it beyond the instructions.
The show runs from January 1st to March 25th.
I’ll be posting more LU related stuff soon, as you’ve probably noticed I’ve been a bit wrapped up in local Lego events. We have a bunch more stuff happening at the end of March and then it gets quiet for awhile.
Over the weekend, Robin Sather from Brickville in Vancouver came over to do the Tillicum Lego Mania event, now in it’s third year. Our local Lego club, VicLUG, was there to help Robin wherever needed.
This year we made the Bay Street Armoury, a military compound built in 1915 and still in active use. It’s quite close to downtown Victoria and is a well recognized landmark. Using photo reference (1) and Google satellite/streetmap info, Robin was able to figure out the dimensions of the structure and build it over the course of the weekend. It has about 26,000 pieces and is almost 50/50 Duplo vs Lego.
The club had a display table of mocs and a street scene with a Where’s Waldo fig find ( which I was on point for ). There was a very successful kids contest with a silly amount of wonderful entries and registration for it was filled within 4 days. We had a kid build area ( not pictured ) that was divided between baby/toddler and older kids as well.
This is a huge event for our club since it’s the only one we do over the year that is purely Lego, everything else is another event in which we participate such as a train, game or hobby show. We also participate in a Lego exhibit at Sidney Museum but there is no connection between us and the audience there and this is a great way for us to meet kids, parents and fans!
Some pictures I took over the weekend, all link to embiggified versions:
Article on the Times Colonist:
http://www.timescolonist.com/Photos+Lego+Mania+Challenge+Victoria/6285112/story.html
Article on Saanich News:
http://www.saanichnews.com/community/142538065.html
Great article on scrimporsplurge.ca that is very knowledgeable about everyone involved:
John Langrish’s photoset on flickr of the event:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j1a3l5/sets/72157629573544919/
(1) Photo reference material I took:
http://imgur.com/a/Zl8hS
http://imgur.com/a/VbNf2
http://imgur.com/a/dRxgt
I’ll post more about this event soon. This where I’m at right now and it’s busy!