Nukaya
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I love how you kept the same art style that the G2 Bionicle series had, as well as your choice of colours. The transition from green to blue in the water is very relaxing and gives off a very tropical feeling, especially paired with the blue rocks and plants on the bottom, and I absolutely love the tribal pattern you gave to her chest plate.
The only things I would suggest would be to clean up some of the lines in the background, to give a few more details to the plants on the bottom (some of them kind of look like green blobs), and to work on the shape of her right hand (It's hard to tell if she's clenching her fist or not).
Overall, very nice job. Keep up the good work!
I chalk all of those points up to coming home from work, saying "Ok, I've got 4 hours to take this from a sketch to a final piece, LET'S DO THIS", and then posting my entry with four minutes to spare. I'm planning to go back and clean it up her fist and finish the background to be how I envisioned it (because blob plants are no good!).
Well, no victory, but still thought it was a great piece.
Thank you! It was a fun one to draw.
He hee, there's a little JH on her staff, with a heart between the two. One is red. It's the J.
You support a ship, my fine fellow. :>
It's the best ship.
And, I don't think romance got de-canonized in G2, so we can claim it to be legit! -
I voted for 4 because I like mine, and Hahli is my homegirl.
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What if Hahli was in Bionicle G2! She could hang out and be all awesomely animated with sweet backgrounds like the ones she swam around in during MNOLG 2. She'd upgrade her protosteel talon to a trident, because tridents are pretty great (and Jaller decorated it for her, so how could she not use it after that?).
I imagine that when it came to the enemies in G2, she'd take everyone down and be like "this is nothing, you should have seen some of the enemies I fought as a Matoran".
Whether she's in 2001 Bionicle or G2, Hahli is the coolest.
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Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
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I've often wondered what sort of training or skills does it take to work for Lego? I know all the jobs aren't set designing or master building, but as far as the jobs that actually interact with bricks, how does one become 'qualified' in that regard?
Applying on jobs.lego.com, just like anything else, I expect.Congrats on the job! I am envious of anyone who manages to join Lego - I'd try to apply there myself but I'm not sure how they hire writers.
I've thought of applying for a web design job. They could sure use a good one right now...
It depends on what sort of job you're looking at. A lot of the design positions don't involve any formal education or work experience requirements—hence why Lego set designers tend to come from such diverse backgrounds. But that's not to say they're easy to get into—in the absence of such requirements, you're judged entirely against other applicants for the position, and considering that "Lego designer" is one of the best jobs in the world and that there are so few positions available, the competition is steep. What that means is that despite the lack of formal requirements, any design education or work experience you can get is worth it if only so that you can make your application stand out.
To add to this, at LEGOLAND (at least in the mode shop I'm in) we have several builders and designers who have backgrounds that would lend well to working for LEGOLAND, such as graphic design, art, and architecture, but we also have one with twenty years of glass blowing work, another who has a philosophy degree, and my coworker who started the same time I did has a background in rapid prototyping and has worked for Hasbro in the past. While some people are really into LEGO and building things away from work, and others are not, the main things are that you have a strong ability to build, design, and think on your feet.
I went in with a really strong portfolio and was able to show my building strengths in the group and individual interviews. Being able to show "hey, I've been featured on this magazine and this website, and here's my portfolio of creations I've designed" is great. If you go in and are just like "omg, I really love LEGO bricks so much omg yay yay yay", but you don't have a portfolio to back up and show what you can do, you likely won't make it very far into the interview process. Enthusiasm for LEGOLAND and LEGO is great, but it unfortunately only gets you so far.
This article on lifehacker is about one of my coworkers, who is my team lead has a ton of great insight about this job. This is one of the few articles I've found that really describes what it is that we do at LEGOLAND, CA in our model shop. If you're interested in what it is we do every day, or are interested in potentially interviewing for LEGOLAND, I would give it a read!
Also, super legit pro tip because people are like "oh no, glue!": if you can't handle the idea of gluing LEGO bricks together, don't apply, because you will have to glue so many things. Everything is glued (because LEGOLAND would be destroyed within a day if it wasn't).
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I'm 98% sure it's because no one could consistently pronounce Onepu's name correctly.
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This painting is for the charity auction at BrickFair VA! I haven't painted in a while (i.e., 2+ years), so I wanted to see what I could create. The canvas is 16" x 20", and I used acrylic paints. I'm really pleased with it, and if you're at BrickFair VA, you can bid for it in the auction!
I imagine that Benny disappears for days on end to use his floating abilities to check out other planets.
Here's a detail:
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Here is a quick MOC I made in celebration of the 118th Boston Marathon. Good luck to all of the runners competing!
I wanted to combine the winged shoe with a very simplified version of the Boston Marathon start line. I also wanted to see what and how much I could make in a few hours, and I think it turned out pretty well.
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Happy Easter! Here is a cute little spring LEGO bunny with a mini basket of eggs.
aaaaaaaaaaa I cannot get over how cute this turned out omg bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny.
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HAPPY 4/13 NAK NAK NAK NAK NAK.
It's a Nakodile from the webcomic Homestuck. I made it for 4/13, the anniversary of the comic. I really like Nakodiles!!! This one stole Dave's iShades because of reasons.
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The blue pocky was a nice touch.
Really cool idea to make your own cake stand out of Lego bricks too! The helmet and his face were neatly done too, although I think the blue could have been a darker shade for color accuracy to the character.
Looks delicious.
Yeah, that was one thing that I wasn't able to get 100% accurate. Turns out white choclate melts start to turn into a clumpy, hard to melt blob if there is too much gel food colouring in them, so they can't really get to a true LEGO brick blue. I put way too much red in the chocolate for Benny's tounge, so even though it's pretty close to the correct colour, I had to mash the daylights out of the chocolate in order to get it to stay in one flat non-clumpy piece.
I just discovered in the google search I just did that they make choclate meltys that are already blue! If I were to do this again, I might get those and then add more blue gel colouring to make it a deeper more accurate colour.
It was super delicous! I made a strawberry and rhubarb filling for it, so the tanginess of the filling with the sweetness of the cake was amaaaazing!
Oh wow.
Make one before the next Brickfair NE, so I may eat it. Eat it all.
I love how you did the break in Benny's helmet, and I'd have to say this is the first time I've seen Pocky on a cake. I'm going to have to do that now.
I'm half toying with making a cake similar to this for BrickFair VA this year for people to share (maybe during the BZPowe meet and greet and lazertag?). There's alwasy at least one or two birthdays during the con!
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I don't see ChocolateFrogs' name on here. Dude built the Piraka Fusion!
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That looks so tasty and yet so hard to cut and eat.
That looks really awesome and super delicious. How did you cut it into pieces though?
Actually, not that difficult! The Pocky kind of lines up your knife and gives you a rather clean slice every time.
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Sorry, no actual spaceship here. But there is cake! I made a Benny birthday cake for Kakaru. I followed a recipe/design from Sprinkle Bakes. I really liked the visual created by all the lines of Pocky.
Benny's helmet and face is made out of chocolate, and I dipped biscuit sticks in chocolate to make blue Pocky. I didn't have a cake stand, so I made a simple one out of LEGO (causing the discussion of "does this count as a system MOC that should be in the system MOC forum?"). It was super delicious!
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YOU A NERD EATING YOUR NERD BURGER AT THIS NERD BURGER PLACE AND YOUR NERD CAKE LATER.
NERDDDDDDDDDD.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
NERD.
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Awsome live stream do more and give me da blanket
Nope.
Where did you get it? Or did you make it?
DDeeVee bought it at a store called Bricks and Minifigs in Canby, Oregon. I guess they just bought out a large amount of a Bionicle collectors collection.
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I made a Wyldstyle cosplay for The LEGO Movie! Wyldstyle is super awesome, and who wouldn't want to be her?
For the hoodie I bought a giant men's hoodie and chopped it and reassembled it to fit me and also added the pink lining to the hood. To make the design, I sketched out the pattern and traced it onto contact paper. I then gave it a layer of white paint to help the colours appear brighter, and then added the pink and blue. I have some in progress shots on my phone that I'll upload later that show some of how I made it.
The wig is just a plain black wig that I added coloured extensions to. The ponytail was really difficult to create with a wig, I discovered, but I used a LEGO rubberband to keep it together because oops, who needs to own real hair bands? It will need a bit of work for future use, especially given that these photos are after I was wearing it for several hours, so it just all went *poof* and became a hot mess.
I am planning to make the pants and shoes at a later date, because oops, didn't have time and we were slightly snowed in. Definitely planning on taking this to some LEGO and comic conventions!
Awesome!!!
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TH: Crush bottles on head like Mary Kate and Ashley did in that one movie with pop cans.
TH: Finally understand object permanence.
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Jen: Get Mom...?
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Jen: Pelt windows with knitted apples.
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Maddison: Don't do it.
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Well it's good but odd, the upper arm is good but i think the armor need some works, the lower leg is not that good and i think you should of use the normal Hero Factory leg and it's armor. The Punkin is alright but i think you should have add a head with the MOC.
Yes it's odd. It was a joke build. And I'll use whatever I want for legs. Also because DeeVee has a total of like, three orange pieces ever. I'm not sure what a "punkin" is, but it's has a pumpkin for a body because it's Halloween, and no one's going to take a roly-poly bodied Hero with a tiny head on it seriously. Then again, I made this as a joke, so I'm not taking it seriously either.
Anyway, when Christmas rolls around, I'll see if I can jam some body parts on to a tiny Christmas tree and make a Hero called Noel Jingle. Ooh! And for Thanksgiving I'll make one with a turkey named Macy Gobble.
PS I'm really not taking this seriously. Or am I ???
Nice - excellent work on the carving and the arms, although I'm pretty sure the orange parts is partly due to the amazing powers of spray paint.
(I could be wrong - but if I'm right it was worth it.)Have to agree with ShadowWolfHount on the legs though.
It's not spray paint...? I'm a little bit more creative than that.
Jack O'Lantern worked very hard in the gym to get those legs, thank you very much. His feelings are hurt. He's going to take all of your candy back and is going to egg your house.
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Correct!. I made a small hole to make sure it was lined up/would go through, and then just stabbed the axle rods through. It's pretty sturdy if the feet are positioned correctly.
If you look closely, his legs and maybe his arms are simply pegged in with black axels through the pumpkin.I can't believe someone made a hero out of a pumpkin. Its awesome! How did you attach the parts though? Glue?
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I voted for 4 because watching the Takanuva come togwther was a neat thing to watch (like dang, that anime coat flareout was great to see being designed), and seeing the collaboration with the Makita unfold via messages was really cool. Both MOCs work well individually and together.