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i could never do that with any program. blender LeoCad, and a lot other stuff is wayyyyy to complicated for me. maybe is someone could post a little tutorial.....

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Goldenbrick wrote:

Okay thanks, Ive just downloaded Bricksmith; seems to be a promising program. Does anyone else use it?

BRICKSMITH IS AWFUL! DON'T USE IT!

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goldencamerastudios wrote:
Goldenbrick wrote:

Okay thanks, Ive just downloaded Bricksmith; seems to be a promising program. Does anyone else use it?

BRICKSMITH IS AWFUL! DON'T USE IT!

No offense, but that was a pretty bad piece of advice. I've used it before, and it's actually got a pretty user friendly interface, plus it does basically the same thing as MLCad or another basic Lego modeling program.

On a side note, Muszynski, you might have tried a simple search on YouTube. There are countless ones out there. I searched the words "blender tutorial" and there were loads of results right there. Here are a few I would reccomend if you're just starting to learn.

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Sorry. Bricksmith never worked for me at all.

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http://i55.tinypic.com/2quqkht.jpg
A little something I whipped up.

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Lechnology wrote:

Just going to steal the spotlight for moment here...

After finding some impressive designs by dasnewten (in brickshelf and flickr), I decided to make the fighters in my sci-fi side project to be minifig scaled.

So this
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h195/Lechnology/Renders/COW-PStrike3.jpg

Becomes this.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h195/Lechnology/Renders/MinifigScaled.jpg

Some alien characters and symbols will be added later.

HOW DID YOU DO THAT? mini/jaw
And what program did you use?
Is there a tutorial I can find?
Will you tell me?
Please?

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hey- which lego modeling software is best? LeoCAD, Bricksmith or the lego digital designer? also- with any of those choices, can you export them in .3ds (so i can import them into blender 2.53?) i use leocad- but it is kind of difficult.

Also! when ever i import a lego .3ds model into blender, i can only select one lego peice at a time (unless i hold shift). so does anyone know how to select the whole entire lego model faster?

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Hit 'a'

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This is just a test for a logo- i don't think i will use it. I'll probably make a different one. any idea's or recommendations? Here it is

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Good animation, but A LOT of people have used bricks in their logos- think of a new idea, something more original. Like a LOGO, that was just text with a brick. Think of... I don't know.

Brickfilmer a decade ago, now looking to relive the glory days mini/smile

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im starting aseries of blender tutorials on my channel
not necessarily for LEgo blender though
check it out
http://www.youtube.com/user/Mutuceba?feature=mhum

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It was pretty good Mutuceba, and it did exactly what it said, which is teach you about cloth in Blender. However, I would have liked to see a bit better of an example, such as maybe a colored, textured, smooth cloth fall on top of a basic house or chimney or something, instead of just a cloth and a cube. When making tutorials, detailed is always better, as long as you do it in a timely manner.

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will take into acount bg
thanks

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Muszynski Productions wrote:

hey- which lego modeling software is best? LeoCAD, Bricksmith or the lego digital designer? also- with any of those choices, can you export them in .3ds (so i can import them into blender 2.53?) i use leocad- but it is kind of difficult.

Also! when ever i import a lego .3ds model into blender, i can only select one lego peice at a time (unless i hold shift). so does anyone know how to select the whole entire lego model faster?

I use MLCad to buil, then LeoCAD to export it as .3ds and then import it in Blender.

Press b to select an area of objects then press strg+j .. join selected mesh to one object .. then all bricks belong to one object!

Here is a Test movie where nearly every scene containes CGI animation. Done with Blender 2.49.

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Can yone help me
Ive been using blender 2.5 and its been acting up lately
Everytime i save a render or try and pull up a background image its just crashes
here is and example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_47d5TZD78

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QUESTION: how do you make a cgi background in a stop motion scene? I know that I have to green screen and all that stuff.

Why are you looking at my signature?
Mod edit: Your signature started it.
... Oh yeah.

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Omg Sintel is on teh internets

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This thread needs a good old BAMP!

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Some of the verts aren't prefect, and I still need to work on the weight painting more, but as of the moment I'm pretty satisfied with it.

I'm rendering out an animation at the moment, (as a test of animation, camera movement, and seeing what verts didn't get weight painted) but until then, anyone have any feedback?

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*Falls out of chair*

Exo-Force Film?!? Inconceivable! I applaud you sir!

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It looks great BG, but I'll be more impressed if you manage to render that out in an animation using anything other than a white background!

What are you using for the eye material?

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