Topic: Optimal LEGO Robot Design
Hey, guys.
So for a while now I've been wanting to make a film about non-minifigure characters and have been thinking about building robots and making a film about robots.
However, in order to do this, I need a really good robot design.
Since they won't be minifigures, I'm really wanting to build something that has more movement than a minifigure so I could be less limited in movements. Ideally with shoulder, knee, elbow, heel, and neck joins. However, I don't want to go too big, as having the characters be bigger would mean I would need to scale up the sets to match, which would require more bricks, and likely push the limits of my LEGO collection a bit too far. Ideally I'd want something maybe around thrice the size of a minifigure more or less.
I've spent some time trying to construct such a figure, however, my attempts thus far have been futile, and the figure usually ends up looking rather bad or quite fragile.
That all again:
1: lots of mobility
2: Isn't much more than thrice the size of a minifgure
3: Not fragile
4: Not ugly
Does anyone know of a way one might accomplish this? I'd really appreciate any ideas for starting points, or links to a MOC someone else has made which looks promising.
I'm not sure if anyone will be able to help, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask you guys since it wouldn't hurt.
Thanks!