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I would Try to add more cavities so its even but if you don't have the bricks maby fill the sides with trees or something just a thought.
I tried colouring the first picture. I reduced the quality first so it wouldn't take as long, though.
Something I've noticed about this is that the Skeleton stands out and feels really out of place when the letters are red.
Though with the letters red, it does make them stand out more in comparison to everything else.
I've also tried adding more decor to see how that looks:
I put a bunch of random skulls and skeletons and bits of plants, also a few trees. It feels a bit cluttered to me.
I don't think the FM's suggestion about trees would work, though, because that's a reeeeeaaaaally long space in the middle, and I don't think I could built trees that big and still get them to look nice.
I'm thinking of just leaving it blank, but taking away the skeleton.
Looks snazzy, Squid. I think the miscellaneous items were a good addition. Though, I'm not sure how I feel about the black pole to the left of the skeleton.
The black pole isn't really meant to be there.
I put two of them on the set to try to straight the camera out by aligning to camera to match the poles, but didn't take them out before I took this photo. I did this several times in Leprechauns in France.
I hadn't even finished aligning the camera, as you can see, it's still rather crooked.
I like the second picture, with the weeds and spiderwebs. How would that one look with red lettering?
In the first pic, I really don't think the red letters look bad at all.
Squid-
If you go with the concept of the second picture (with all the skulls, plants, etc.) I would try to add some vegetation, and perhaps a skull or two, to the letters as well, truly make the letters part of the scene
I think the problem is the cavities have no depth to them. If you could make them a bit deeper, the skeleton would appear more in the shadows, drawing less attention to it. I did a quick (slightly shoddy) photoshop to demonstrate what I mean:
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I also like the vegetation etc, but I think a middle ground between the two styles would be best so it's not too cluttered.
Last edited by CheesyBricks (April 4, 2014 (05:41am))
I can't see you picture, but the suggestion about making the cavities deeper is a really good idea. It really makes the skelly stand out less. I've also found enough black pieces to double the number of cavities.
Removing the plant stuff seems to make it much less cluttered, so I think I'm going to only go with random bits of skeletons.
This is what it looks like right now:
Colouring in the letters properly takes a really long time, so I just pasted the colouring from last time, which looks rather off, but it gets the general idea across.
I think I might ad some more skeleton parts near the cornets of the grey area, which looks kinda blank right now, as well as some behind the black arches, which can still be seen before the letters build up.
I'd say darken the background a little bit, and add some more skeleton bits in the corners, which do in fact look a little bit plain. I obviously don't know a ton about the film (you're doing a good job keeping the details hidden) but it seems like the red letters are probably really appropriate. You know the film way more than the rest of us, so I think that ultimately you have the best idea of what will make an effective title card for the film. 
Maybe try showing the edges of two trees on each of the upper corners, to frame it all in? It looks great. Also, maybe you could build the letters in red bricks, then chroma-key them out in post, then invert the chroma key, all over a desaturated version of the shot. It might save some time, as opposed to colouring each frame in individually.
My first double post.
My post was cloned, just delete this or something.
Last edited by Squid (April 20, 2014 (03:19am))
Is it me or is there a double post , but anyway it looks amazing.
Looks pretty good, Squid!
*cue jaw drop*
Much wow.
Thanks guys!
I've also built the shop:
The frames on either wall are still empty, however, my brother is going to paint very detailed tiny paintings of LEGO settings to fill them. I already have the photograph he's going to translate into the first painting ready. My bother is quite good with making copies of that sort of thing.
I'm unsure about that light, as it may come off as too flash and strange, so I might remove it.
Last edited by Squid (April 20, 2014 (10:13am))
The light works.
That sat is amazing. 
Oh wow, those are so beautiful. I especially love the all the random/weird things in the shop--the interior does actually bear a resemblance to an antiques store of the sort you'd find in England. I also love the church. How did you make the cross-shaped windows?
Two things though: I find the roof of the shop looks a little odd, since it starts sloping and just abruptly stops. The whole building itself looks low, I'd recommend adding another story to it (unless you never see the actual height of the building, of course). Also, this is a really small thing but I think you should put the doors of the church on the inside, so they open inwards. Generally, doors rarely open outwards unless there's a specific reason. Right now having them on the outside looks really weird to me. Maybe you could even have a small overhang/roof/archway thing over the door itself (something to shield people at the door from rain, something like that). I'd also recommend putting a few more shelves/cabinets holding items for sale along the walls in the store if possible.
The cross design on the church is based upon one I've seen in multiple medieval MOCs on Flickr. It's done by using snot bricks and the placing cheese slopes on the sides of those. For the bottom part one uses 2 x 1 cheese slopes and near the top I used the usual 1 x 1 cheese slopes.
Putting the door to open inward would be a good go, however, the tower is two studs too small for my to fit them inside. I would have to widen the entire tower, and then the tower would look too big compared to the main part of the church. The main part cannot be made any bigger as I exhausted my supply of black roof slopes. I had to destroy three buildings to make the roof including the Pirate Rule dojo and the Mailbox of Doom.
I'm glad it comes off looking like a real-ish shop. I based the design off of Mr. Gold's shop from Once Upon a time, as it's also run by a creepy Scottish shopkeeper and has a whole lot of random stuff in it.
Gold's shop looks mostly like that from the outside, but slightly more plain and is elevated another story with a flat roof. I thought that the second story made the forward sloped roof look a little awkward, so I thought I'd just chop the top half off. I was also running out of bricks to build another story anyway, and I didn't want to build a stair case inside the shop which would have taken up some space.
So it's basically supposed to be a flat roofed building but with a little roof in the front to offer shade to anyone looking into the shop's large front windows.
Another tall building might also distract from the grandness of the church tower.
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