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Lego Animorphs?


xccj

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Hah, talk about a Cuusoo idea guaranteed to fail. (Like, seriously, how would you even start. Buildable animals and figs and aliens and spaceships would be cool, but there's no good way to incorporate morphing into a toy. They did transformers Animorph toys back in the 90s, and while they worked, they looked pretty bad.)

 

But I digress.

 

I'm talking more about Animorph characters digitized in Lego form. I've had the figs designed in LDD for a while, but I decided to try and pursue some drawings of actual morphs. The following is my first attempt:

 

cassie-dolphin.png

 

This was drawn in Flash, where I'm finally starting to use the pen tool rather than just drawing individual lines and linking them up later. Anyway, the fig and dolphin mold were taken from LDD (and traced) and I think they turned out nicely. The mid-morph was done by me, and I'm less pleased with it. I've been working on some ways to potentially animate the morphs, and if I continue on I might make a little game out of it. (Like, really little, I don't want to go all crazy on it like the last one)

 

So, is this worth following up on? There are more animal molds I could use, and who knows, I could even like BUILD MY OWN ANIMALS if I really wanted to. (Maybe a Gorilla... :P ) Thoughts, opinions? Thankee!

 

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If I remember correctly... there is a merge type tool built into Illustrator where you actually transform stuff in progression like that. I only ever used it on basic shapes but in theory it could work. You would not know what the turn out would be until trying it though.

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I think you're talking about Shape Tween. I love using it on basic shapes and to change colors and such. But it can be a pain for more complicated drawings. And it's the first thing I tried here. It's like an explosion of lines and colors that later implode into the next one with no comprehensible factor in between.

 

BUT what did work nicely was when I took the silhouette of the Animorph and animal (just one solid black shape for each) and then did the shape tween... it loses all the details but feels cleaner. I'm probably post some animations of it all soonish.

 

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