#lego vignette

[legomocfodder]

Jedi Santa and his Gingerbread troopers

With Christmas coming up, I wanted to be a little festive with this week's minifigs. The Gingerbread troopers are inspired by the Christmas Star Wars Black Series clone from 2022

Happy Holidays everyone!!

#lego #lego minifigures #custom minifigures #purist minifigures #star wars #lego star wars #chistmas #santa claus #jedi santa #lego moc #lego vignette #gingerbread clones

[clutchandstuds]

In 1978, the first Space-themed LEGO sets landed on store shelves. In the first year, the minifigures came in white and red.

The white minifigures represent NASA's astronauts because it's the color of their EVA suits, and red to represent Soviet cosmonauts. Blue, yellow, and black space minifigs joined over the next few years.

#LEGO #Apollo 11 #LEGO MOC #LEGO Vignette #Classic Space #NASA

[ponderous-ferret]

“What, and I really cannot stress this enough, the FUCK, Elmo?!?”

#lego #lego vignettes #bob ross

[pasq67]

Lego Aztec Warrior par Pascal Hetzel Via Flickr : A build for the May-June Challenge in french RLOC BrickPirate. The subject is to create a 8x8 studs vignette with only one minifigure from Collectable Minifigure Series. I choose the Aztec Warrior from Series n°7. Follow me on Instagram

#LEGO #Afol #Toy #Toys #Flickr #Legography #Pasq67 #France #MOC #2022 #Aztec Warrior #Aztec #Warrior #Aztèque #Brickpirate #Challenge #Vignette #8x8 #Collectable Minifigures #Collectable #Minifigures #Series #Series 7 #BPChallenge #BP #flickr

[gravedigest]

Gonna answer this over here, hope you don’t mind.

Oops it’s gonna be rambling I am so sorry

A lot of my writing winds up being freestyle, and getting something going takes four or five tries to stick the opener, like pulling the cord on an engine to get it to start. I have like three 2k word versions of how I wanted Doing Something to go, and one of them actually has Sanford in Hank’s place and Sanford’s more like a refrigerator than a runaway lawnmower. It wasn’t as fun to write, so I shucked it into the “neat concept, I’ll fuck with it later” bin.

Which is fine, I can have as many half-formed ideas as I want because I have the storage space for it.

From there I kinda write out little scene chunklets that I can rearrange or swap out with eachother, I’ll be thinking about the next scene I wanna do while I’m writing a different chunk, or thinking about an old chunk while writing a new one that I can slot in between that’ll make the overall story more coherent. So like, giving Doc a motive for specifically using Deimos to pilot Hank? I didn’t have one for a really fucking long time, then I was writing I think, like, Deimos’ meltdown and was like “Okay actually Deimos is going to be Doom. You can run Doom on anything.”

Then once I get my chunklets in a row I can go back over and add in more shit, and it makes it really easy to change details. Hank in the restaurant, how did he get to the restaurant? Fuck it. He was holed up in the tower this whole time and it was right next door. I’ll mention Deimos smells something burnt up in that other scene, weeeeee~

I kinda got this whole method from just writing vignettes? HNMT is a pretty obvious example of shoving a bunch of little scenes together to make something longer. I was using the research notes in that to kind of give hard stops so I didn’t need to stitch everything together as much. Because I’m lazy. And being lazy means you come up with fun ways to cut corners like that.

Tis how the first livestreaming video was invented. People didn’t wanna go stand up to see if the coffee was done, so they just hooked up a camera to a network and forced it to stream the video. I think I remember that right, take it with a shaker of salt, I ain’t remember shit good.

I highly recommend just doing a shitload of self indulgent vignettes though, just a bunch of scenes you want to read that don’t have to be connected to each other that you don’t have to do anything with. Eventually you might wind up connecting some of them together and extrapolating on a concept, and you can snowball from there.

Or just make a fun little oneshot, Workday is from a 30k document of what amounts to practicing each character individually in a bunch of scenarios, kind of just getting a feel of how I can have people interact and differentiate them from one another. It also just has a lot of stupid dialogue.

I fucking love writing dialogue. It’s really bad. But also neat when you can figure out how to give characters enough voice to where you don’t get confused about who’s saying what without having to say “he said, they said, x explained” yadda yadda. I use that thing as a reference for how I write each character to kind of gage consistency, and I’m not the best at it but I sure am getting better.

So, yeah. I get distracted really easily and this all sort of helps direct me being distracted into getting more work done than I would’ve if I had to follow a real outline, playing with legos instead of worrying about brick and mortar.

TLDR: Mostly freestyle, then editing in the plot beats that form naturally from that.

@ya-killin-me-smalls

#My therapist says I have unusually roundabout but ultimately helpful tactics for dealing with my ADHD #I have to sort of think outside of my head #Also for every chunklet I write I get 15 minutes of mindless social media scrolling #Or I’ll do a run of Vampire Survivors or something #Which lets my brain unwind from the stress of being coherent and I can swish around ideas for the next chunk #Also fixed my ask button I think

[cutestkilla]

Fic Rec Wednesday

Hey hey! So while I actually am hard at work on CO content for the Picture Book Project (several illustrations of the gang in third year for @captain-aralias’ amazing take on Simon Snow and the Third Gate), I have nothing that’s really ready for main in terms of sharing. Thanks to everyone who continues to tag me over these past weeks (I tag you all back under the cut for today, or Sunday or to share your own fic recs)! I do love to see what you all are working on even when I have nothing shareable.

I thought I might do a little fic rec post today instead, dedicated to one-shots that were posted in the mad rush of December that I love and think are a little underappreciated. There’s such a flood of amazing content during COC that it’s hard to keep up, and then once we move on to January, there’s still new amazing content coming out. As a result there are some real gems that folks may have missed out on. And so, here is a short (no doubt incomplete because I myself am still catching up) list of my fave hidden gems from December 2022.

And We Still Do by @facewithoutheart (T, 8K)

This is the fic that inspired me to write this post, actually, because I was discussing it with @facewithoutheart earlier and saying I can’t believe more folks haven’t read it. Anyway, it’s so great! The story includes a bunch of AU meet-cutes/meet-uglys framed by post-SFC Simon and Baz being fluffy and cute, with a bonus ACTUAL first time they met via the crucible. Each AU is a great little one-shot in itself and to quote the comment I left on AO3, “I loved them all, I would read a full fic of literally ANY of these”. (That is not actually a direct quote because I appear to have misspelled the word “would” somehow, but I digress.) You get post-canon fluff, a Boy Band AU, a Royalty AU, a couple of really neat canon-divergence AUs, and a combo Coffee Shop/Sci Fi AU all rolled into one, with amazing results. I think it’s brilliant like everything that comes from Christina’s mind and everyone should check it out.

Baby It’s Cold by @larkral (T, 2.6K)

This is a post-canon story told through a series of vignettes with Simon helping Baz accept something (something cold, maybe?) about himself in a really cute and creative way. It’s just really sweet, the prose is lovely as one knows to expect from this author, it gave me the warm fuzzies in a major way and guess what else? IT COMES WITH 3D LEGO ART. It’s short and sweet so you have no excuse not to check this one out folks.

Nice Spread by @messofthejess (T, 1.2K)

Post-canon Brobelove! The age old mystery of whether tea actually can be served on Niamh’s thighs is solved! And just generally this is packed with excellent banter, excellent novelty mugs and excellent tea puns. Very fun!

Another Way We Match by @thewholelemon (M, 1.7K)

Gotta include some spice, amirite? This one is post-canon and packed with great dialogue and banter that pays homage to some of my favourite fanworks (This Will All Go Down in Flames by @facewithoutheart, Monsterfucker, Baby by @sillyunicorn and Property of Tyrannus by @starwarned and @seducing-a-vampire, to be specific) in the funnest way. Simon and Baz are doing sexy roleplay! Only all of Simon’s suggestions are causing Baz eye-rolling injuries. Really hilarious, sexy and also with the perfect amount of domestic fluff mixed in. I love me a sex scene full of funny dialogue and awkward moments, and this sure fits the bill.

I could go on and on with this list, only I’m supposed to be working instead of writing this post, so I’ll stop here for now. Hope you all check these out!

Tags: @alleycat0306 @aristocratic-otter @artsyunderstudy @basiltonbutliketheherb @blackberrysummerblog @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @confused-bi-queer @facewithoutheart @fatalfangirl @forabeatofadrum @frjsti @hushed-chorus @ileadacharmedlife @ivelovedhimthroughworse @j-nipper-95 @johnwgrey @larkral  @martsonmars @nightimedreamersworld @onepintobean @palimpsessed @shrekgogurt @stitchyqueer @takitalks @tea-brigade @technetiumai @theearlgreymage @thewholelemon @whatevertheweather @you-remind-me-of-the-babe                             

#fic rec #fic rec wednesday #carry on #snowbaz fanfiction #snowbaz

[forfoxessake]

GREY VEINS - TUCKER AND HIM BUILDING THE SET AND MOVING THE LEGOS + KIDS

Both of the videos also contain a lot of Easter eggs. In the “Grey Veins” video, you have the “Ghost of You” combat helmet in there. Which Easter egg are you the most proud of?

[laughs] That video was really fun to make. It took a very long time. We made the city and a very talented young lady named Kelly Harris made the costumes. Coming up with the concept and the different vignettes that we could film to make this world feel believable was quite the undertaking. We filmed it in this old VFW hall and you would never know because it’s all in miniature. We were moving the little Lego pieces with string and trying to get them to seem like they were moving on their own. My Good Eye did such an amazing job. Me and Tucker were there for fucking 36 hours straight just moving shit and building shit. It was really, really awesome. It was really, really fun to make.

As far as Easter eggs, there’s so many! There’s the keytar from “Medicine Square Garden” which is the final summoning of the rock ‘n’ roll power that comes down and destroys Blobby. There’s a couple of my son’s toys that made it into the world of the Lego people. My dog tags that my wife and I made when we first started dating are in there. The “Ghost of You” helmet is in there. It’s one of those things where it started from this crazy idea of, “I wanna make a Japanese monster movie”. I’ve always wanted to do it and I’ve pitched that idea probably 30 times. [laughs] This was the first time where I was told, “Yeah, you can make that”. So it was pretty awesome.

You’ve mentioned that monster movies were a big part of you and your dad bonding when you were younger. What did it mean to you to have your kids involved in the video?

It’s awesome! I think they’re getting to the age now where they’re more interested in that stuff. Back in the day, I made a video with them for “Best Friends Forever” which was a song my daughters wrote and they were in the video. It was more like, “Hey, listen, I’m going to make a video for the song that we did” and they were like, “Ok” and I was like, “You’re going to be in it!” and they were like, “Ok”. [laughs] I don’t know if they were conscious of what was happening. This was more like they knew. In the video for “Benadryl” my daughter Cherry and my son Miles were in it. Lily is very studious so she told me, “Dude, I can’t not go to school that day. I have a test coming up. I have two Spanish tests coming up and I can’t miss it” so I was like, “Alright, I get it”. She turned me down but Cherry and Miles were more than happy to skip school to be in the video and eat ice cream all day. [laughs] I think Lily got 108 in four of her classes, in every class she’s in she has A+s. She got her sense of humour and her stomach from me and she gets all her smarts and good looks from her mom.

LINK

#frank iero #tucker rule #grey veins #Lego #ls dunes #l.s. dunes #my chemical romance #MCR #miles iero #Lilly iero #cherry iero #bff

[brickcentral]

TIPS: Shooting Lego Sets Interiors: The Creator 3in1

I wanted to go back to basics on some tips on how to shoot interiors of standard sets. First, I will focus on the Creator 3 in 1 series, and for that I chose two recent sets, the 31139 Cozy House and the 31131 Noodle Shop.

There are a few common topics in most interior pictures. First and most important, pick your subject, ideally only one. It can be a minifigure, a build detail, an animal... In this case it was the cook (and not the customers) and the book (and not the reader). The subject must be in focus.

Indoor Lego shots are shoots of very small spaces, so it's important to try to give it depth by moving things around in front of our subject and behind. It does not matter if in real life the room looks weird (in my case I have plants or decorations outside the building). Place them from the camera perspective, not your own eyes.

Use the natural light sources from the build, i.e. windows, doors, lamps, candles, fireplace. They will give you a more natural feeling than using a flat light at the front of the building. Small LEDs can be put into lamps or fireplaces like in the house, big lights or flashes can be shone through the doors and windows, like in the noodle house. A face mister will give the lights a beautiful softness too.

Editing has also a special role. For these rooms there are a few things to look at. My first step is reframing the shot, to delete all the gaps of the build and focus on the room. I also play with the saturation and temperature, since they are night time and indoors, I made them colder and I used a vignette.

Next week I'm picking up a couple of Lego Friends rooms to show more examples.

@taskera

#lego #lego photography #brickcentral #afol #bc tips #brickcentral tips #photography tips

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-10-09

Somehow bionicle is in this one

Listening: I looked at the date on my oven yesterday and it was 08-10 and I was like hey isn't that Bionicle Day. The answer is no, because it's Americans and Bionicle Day was the tenth of August. Anyway turns out that this year some fans got the original voice of Vakama to do a tribute video? And also Cryoshell dropped a new song.

Cryoshell is one of the funniest bands I know. They had little success until they got contracted in by an ad agency to do music for Bionicle, they did Creeping in My Soul for the Voya Nui arc in 2007 and ended up getting contracted in basically every year after that to whip up some music for Bionicle. They remain to this day extremely closely associated with the Bionicle fandom, like, you know, releasing their latest track on Bionicle day.

They are, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, and with all the love in my heart, the Evanescence we have at home. Bionicle had just saved Lego less than a decade earlier and the media effort around Bionicle was very well designed, which included making the perfect AMV soundtrack for 13 year olds to set their stop motion Bionicle fight scenes to. Of course I don't know anything about using a webcam and extremely dubious stop motion software to produce extensive Bionicle fanvideos. What are you talking about.

I am going to leave it here but there is so much to say about Cryoshell. Seriously just go look it up. Their music is actually very good if you like that particular symphonic metal alt rock style that was so emblematic of the 2000's.

Reading: Ended up on a research dive about small towns, because I now live in a country with a lot of small towns. Attempting to do and find a comparative anatomy of how small towns are administered around the world and what drives their success or failure. There is a lot of stuff from the Trump years when he apparently made some gestures towards the idea that people should just move out of doomed towns.

As always in the USA, housing affects everything, both in that homeownership ties people to their towns and that moving to a new city requires paying often prohibitively expensive rents. There are a lot of conservative blogs taking on this question and doing some dubious interpretations of mostly good data.

I am teasing at the thread of "limits of local government in small towns" which seems to be leading somewhere but it's still not well supported. There's a lot of factors.

Watching: the Loading Ready Run 20th Anniversary Subathon is on until this Friday. Since I was mostly watching during American night I caught primarily their watchalong of old videos, which is cute but not exactly that novel. I do like LRR.

Making: More 3D printing, trying to get the hang of modelling off a photo to make a nozzle adapter for my vacuum cleaner. Also made a little stand for my temperature and humidity sensor so I can see it when I'm sitting down or standing up more easily.

Playing: Beat Breath of the Wild finally. It was so long.

The final fight was kind of anticlimactic, between the assists you get from the divine beasts and all your power-ups I feel like I didn't have to puzzle it out as much as I did for some of the blight Ganon fights. I have kind of accepted that I just don't like the endings of most video games.

I did first go around and do the Champions' Ballad DLC quest because I stumbled into it, it's a nice set of little challenges plus some vignettes of the champions to help characterize them some more. I kind of wish you could walk around the world post-endgame and like, talk to some of the people you've met and see what they have to say. Eh.

Tools and Equipment: I have been storing my butter at room temperature the past few weeks, because it makes it much easier to spread. Modern butter is both very high fat and pasteurized so it won't go off for well over a week even if you just left it out, but the main concern is rancidity, which can happen quite quickly.

My Pro Tip is that you don't have to store the whole damn block. Euro butter is 250g blocks and I cut that into four ~60g cubes that I keep in a sealed plastic container in the cupboard one at a time. Just top it up as you go. I think American sticks are like 100g so you could cut it in half. South African butter usually comes in 500g so you'd have to cut that in like eighths.

#last monday of the week #Youtube #bionicle

[kingoftieland]

I’m ready to take a trip back to the 1980s with this LEGO Atari 2600! This buildable console model replicates all the details of the original console and joystick in 2,532 pieces, and even includes a hidden retro vignette for total nostalgia overload. 🕹️

But it’s not just the game system… Also featured are 3 of the most popular Atari games: Asteroids, Adventure, and Centipede. There’s a cartridge for each, along with 3 scenes to build capturing the story of each game. Plus, the games all slot into the vintage-style console and can be stored in the cartridge holder too! Definitely a must-have for any serious gamer and the perfect way to celebrate the gaming company’s 50th anniversary!

#lego #legos #lego store #lego sets #collecting #collection #collectibles #collector #atari #atari 2600 #50th anniversary #video games #video game #games #game #gaming #centipede #asteroids #adventure #retro gaming #retro games #retro #vintage #throwback #replica #model #nostalgia #toy #toys #never grow up

[legomocfodder]

Sabine Wren vs Gar Saxon

I've been thinking about making this little vignette for a while now, but with season 3 of The Mandalorian coming out this week I finally built it and I'm super happy with how it turned out

NSFW blogs do not reblog!

#lego #lego minifigures #star wars rebels #sabine wren #gar saxon #custom minifigures #purist minifigures #star wars #lego star wars #painted minifigures #lego moc #lego vignette

[shortandplastic]

Coming soon: four newly-minted park rangers - led by a supervisor who's been at a desk too long. What could possibly go wrong?

[For real national park history, rendered daily in LEGO, check out National Park Service LEGO Vignettes]

#lego #legominifigures #minifigures #lego photography #BearButteNationalPark #brickcentral

[ponderous-ferret]

“What the hell, Hermione!! It was just a joke! MAKE IT STOP!!”

#lego #lego vignettes #harry potter

[pasq67]

LEGO Flower Pot Girl par Pascal Hetzel Via Flickr : A build for the May-June Challenge in french RLOC BrickPirate. The subject is to create a 8x8 studs vignette with only one minifigure from Collectable Minifigure Series. I choose the Flower Pot Girl from Series n°18. Blogged on The Brothers Brick Follow me on Instagram

#LEGO #Afol #Toy #Toys #Flickr #Legography #Pasq67 #France #MOC #2022 #Brickpirate #Challenge #Vignette #8x8 #Collectable Minifigures #Collectable #Minifigures #Series #BPChallenge #BP #18 #Series 18 #Flower Pot Girl #Flower #Pot #Girl #The Brothers Brick #The #Brothers #Brick

[chronivore]

From National Park Services LEGO Vignettes

"Marcus and Narcissa Whitman left New York in 1836 to bring Christianity to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Setting up a mission at Waiilatpu, tensions grew as more and more immigrants moved into the area along the Oregon Trail, often bringing disease and illness. A measles outbreak in 1847 hit the local Cayuse people especially hard, leading to a final boiling over of anger and desperation that led to an attack on the mission on November 29th which killed 13 people including the Whitmans. Retaliation for the attack was used as justification for revenge against all Northwest tribes, leading to the establishment of the Oregon Territory and the removal of the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla people to a shared reservation. Today, Whitman Mission National Historic Site preserves the site of Waiilatpu and remembers the tragic clash of cultures."

#Lego #American History #colonialism #weird west

[larkral]

We’re leaving the movie theatre when Penny sees the ice cream shop. It’s more of a window, really, with a little slightly-dingy red and white striped awning overhanging the freezer full of choices.

The theatre was hot, and the night is warm. Baz’s hand in mine is a soft, cool anchor.

Some sweet little vignettes of Simon and Baz. And three separate Lego arts because I literally could not stop myself. A gift for @confused-bi-queer​, as if [the author regrets to inform you that she has forgotten what the end of this sentence was supposed to be]

Baby, it’s cold

(did I build this cute little shelf scene for the art of this and you can barely see it? yeah. can’t stop won’t stop)

#snowbaz #secret snowflake exchange 2022 #lego!snowbaz #but you have to click through #because the art is a SPOILER