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Xon67
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Big builds are always impressive. Well-executed builds are also impressive. When a build is both, like this one, it's more than twice as impressive! Fantastic!
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Hi Kellelely--What a great MOC! A very fun barn for some fun LEGO pigs. Here's some info on linking images from Flikr: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=97921 Welcome to Eurobricks!
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Here's an interesting one: I've only found this building in two shots. It appears three times in Emmet's "Hello, City!" scene; at the beginning behind Mrs. Scratchen-Post's building, in the middle between the church and the overpass (mostly covered by billboards), and at the end of the shot in the upper left under the figure doing a flip on the rooftop. It also appears on the left of the frame in the "Fire in the hole!" shot where the fire truck mech is tangling with the Micro Managers. This one took a lot more guesswork than my other Bricksburg builds. Update: Okay, it's actually in THREE shots... I forgot one. It's in a dozen frames during Emmet's morning commute immediately after he turns on the radio. Didn't want to leave that one out!
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I'm pretty sure he has a staff of robo-execs that send the instructions for him--after they've held several meetings with President Business to discuss them in detail, of course! If they're sent in from "Central," maybe the library is in President Business' office tower? On that note, do you think the LEGO instructions on the internet come from the office tower, too?
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I'm with Pandora--It's very creative/wacky/fun! I think we should call it "Friendspunk".
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Hi booh88--That looks great! Thanks for sharing it here. I know how difficult it can be to find references from different angles. I dug through my library and came up with a few images I found on the Internet that may help you out. I don't know where I originally found these, but here they are: The short answer to your question is: I start with the movie, search the Internet for every source I can find, then fill in the rest myself. The long version is: I get references from several places. Starting with the movie; I have a large library of screen grabs from the movie that I add to every time I start a new build. Between Emmet's "hello city" scene, his commute, and his return fall to Briksburg from the Magic Portal, I get most of what I need for recreating the buildings in that neighborhood. Occasionally as I'm searching through the movie looking for something else, I find a helpful angle of a building in some corner of a particular shot that I never realized had that building in it before. Then I'll go back and update my model based on that "newly discovered" shot. If I need more, I go to the behind the scenes videos included on the movie disc. Eurobricks member kibosh already posted about an animated build of Emmet's street on the bluray--I've used that as well as a brief "Distance From Camera Culling" example that has proven invaluable in providing fuller views of buildings that are only partially seen in the movie. If those sources don't provide what I need, I go to several other places. Youtube has provided some good hi res videos of the videogame as well as videos of the The LEGO Movie Experience at LEGOland California. Some of the LEGOland videos I've used are: The LEGO Movie Experience gives guests at Legoland California a look at the film sets LEGOLAND_California_Resort_TV_features_THE_LEGO_MOVIE_EXPERIENCE_with_Julie_Estrada_720p (The horse shows up in this one right around 4:34, but it's not that clear The LEGO Movie Experience at LEGOLAND California Resort Both the videogame and the LEGOland Youtube videos provide examples that may be identical, similar, or even completely different from what's on screen in the movie--it's pretty much hit-or-miss depending on what I'm looking for. Another source is to search image sites like flikr. Eurobricks member Miro78 has posted here several times. He lives and works near LEGOland California and makes trips there "quite regularly" and has pics of the basement set on flikr: www.flikr.com/photos/miro78/sets/72157640674806745 If all of that doesn't provide what I need, I take hints from other areas of the model that I'm working on to fill in areas that I can't see. I might assume symmatry between one side of a building and another (unless I'm in Cloud Cuckoo Land, in which case ANYTHING goes... :-) ), or recognize that a particular designer favors a certain brick over another. You mentioned the detail that I included on the sides and back of Emmet's apartment--For that, I started with what I saw in the scene of Emmet's fall back to Bricksburg (you can see the back of all of the buildings on Emmet's street in the lower left corner of the frame as the construction site is revealed in that shot), then I filled in with details from the video game (the game displays a 360 rotating view of Emmet's apartment before the Bricksburg level). In this case, Emmet's apartment in the videogame is very accurate to what is in the movie. One difference I did notice in the videogame, however, is that it left off two billboards on the side of the building (seen in the movie in Emmet's "fall back to Bricksburg") that are made from 8 x 16 flat tiles. The angle plates used to mount the tiles are still there in the videogame, but the tiles themselves have been removed. I think it's interesting to find these differences between the various "versions" of the movie. It reveals a bit of the processes used to make each of them. For example, in other builds in the videogame, all of the correct pieces may be there, but might be rotated incorrectly 90 degrees and actually collide with the pieces next to them. I have a feeling that this might possibly be a bug in the software that the videogame folks used to translate the movie models into whatever software they used to model and/or animate their game. That, or someone bumped the keyboard accidentally when making the game--either way, I think it's interesting. Hope all of my long-winded rambling helps! Miro78--Next time you go to LEGOland, can you help out booh88 with some hires pics of different angles of the big red horse? He especially needs pics of the hind legs and back end. If also you happen to get pics of the sides, back, and under the arch of this building for me too, that would be awesome! Please don't go out of your way to make a special trip for us. Just whenever you happen to go next. Thanks!
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Okay, here are some updated renders. I fixed a few minor things on the original image of the front of the building. I have also included an image without the billboards on the front so you can see what's behind them and how they're attached. Lemmie know if you are interested in seeing anything else.
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JakobSteffensen--I think as long as you give appropriate credit, it would be okay. I feel any LEGO fan would be excited to contribute to an official LEGO production. It would be great to see a render. Actor Builder -- I still haven't decided to post all of my builds. If you like, I can post multiple high res views of it for you to use as reference. Just let me know! kibosh--I'm (paint) sorry (paint) to (paint) hear (paint) that. Too bad (paint) there aren't any other options (paint and more paint). :-)
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gotoAndLego -- Since I'm copying what's on-screen and it's all digital, I don't have to worry about the law of gravity and the power of clutch. So, my inside arch isn't attached. However, if you want to attach it, here are some suggestions. The red plates could be used to attach the top of the arch. The blue plates could simply rest on bricks without attaching. If needed to keep the arch from spreading out, you could place bricks along the length (in orange) as "bumpers." Another suggestion would be some kind of SNOT attachment on the blue plates. One other idea would be to replace some of the plates along the very top of the arch with a 1 x 2 Technic brick and pin the arch in place. Those are just suggestions. I'm curious to know if you come up with anything else. dutchboy -- Glad you've been lurking and finally posted. I do have more coming. I usually have several builds going at once. We'll all find out together which one gets finished next!
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