Mr Vertigo wrote:With all of these delicious minifigure parts I've recently acquired, it was somewhat inevitable that I'd end up making some minifigs.
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These are some prototypes for a tentative Brickfilm about a detective, a con-man, and a guy who's dead but not really dead, which has the current imaginative working title of The Detective, the Con-Man, and the Dead Guy. The two minifigs on the far left are essentially two versions of the same character (the as-of-yet unnamed detective), and I may yet mix and match parts from both or use other parts (thoughts?). The one in the middle would be the dead guy, and the one on the far right is the con-man, Cyrus Frost.
The left woman looks better. But the woman slightly to the right probably has a better hair and face combo. Perhaps combine them as such. As I suggested on Flickr, perhaps her arms should grey dark grey and not white since white does not match her the pink printed on her blouse.
But that might make for too much grey, so perhaps change out her pants to something different, like dark blue.
Liam Neeson's beard looks a bit damaged.
Generally, though, I really like the style they have going.
I don't think I like the Voldy face for the top-hat fellow, perhaps try something else, possibly a skeleton face, or maybe something more normal. Hooded guy looks really cool. I loathe animating long cape, though. Good luck to you in that department.
I really like the look of the yellow fellow. That's a nice outfit.
Loan Shark reminds my of how I imagine most of the criminal underworld types in Vjorthos look (there are quite a lot of them).
It should perhaps have arms, or maybe just guns. It would work nicely for a boss-fight.
The legs come off as a bit long and thin, which is not quite as good for a "tank". Perhaps you could try some legs more like my brick droid. They are chuncky, good for animation, shorter, and most of the pieces are common in black.
Mr Vertigo wrote:I think the body and hat do complement each other well, though the epaulets and chain don't quite fit in, in my opinion. As far as the head goes, I think a grinning or Classic Smiley face may be more fitting, though the one you have on is great if you want to go for a non-standard jester look.
Perhaps I could use modified smiley faces from characters in The LEGO Movie that I posses, this would give me five different expressions plus the default smiley face. it might look quite nice, particularly with Benny's funny face I have from his Spaceship. Nice goofy and jester like.
I myself was not entirely sure about the epaulets. I thought it might be a nice way to benefit the chain, although there is of course no way for me to remove the chain.
Last edited by Squid (March 6, 2015 (11:16am))