Lego Avengers FlightOps (Lego Kit 76042)

Hey folks on the heels of the build video here is a little animation of the Lego Avenger fighters doing flight ops. Enjoy, and subscribe to get my posts and videos as they come out.







Built and animated entirely in Blender 2.77.

Lego Avengers FlightOps (Lego Kit 76042)

Hey folks on the heels of the build video here is a little animation of the Lego Avenger fighters doing flight ops. Enjoy, and subscribe to get my posts and videos as they come out.







Built and animated entirely in Blender 2.77.

Lego Helicarrier Fighters Build Video (Lego Kit 76042)

Here is the video of the small fighters for the Lego Helicarrier. She is still under construction. At over 3000 parts the animation and rendering is a bit daunting but it is on the way, enjoy this in the meantime!
Don't forget to checkout my other posts below or in the archive.



All my videos are in HD check your settings if it looks grainy.

You can pick up the Lego Kit here:

So yesterday I was looking at a rendering I did of the mini fighters. (See Previous post). The photo I posted looks great but when I rendered the first 900 frames of the build animation I ran into problems with the lighting.

In the scene I am using an HDR lighting setup that replicates a studio setup (check it out if your not using HDR, makes lighting a snap). The problem was that as I played the video it appeared as if the lighting was flickering.

Doing some research online I found that it was most likely due to all of the reflective surfaces in the scene.

Here is a link to the article that solved the problem:

BenderGuru - 7ways to get rid of fireflies

It was not a firefly problem but changing three of the settings fixed the "flickering"

1. The HDRI map resolution is now set to 512 in Blender (Changed to 1024)

2. In Light Paths, increased Filter Glossy to 0.50

3. Increased the samples to 1500 from 1250

This solved my issue but what I cannot figure out is it tripled the file size of the PNG frames (Resolution was unchanged at 720P and no compression changes.)

Shout out to @andrewpprice of blenderguru.com whose tutorials and lighting discussions really work.

Lego Helicarrier Fighters Build Still Image (Lego Kit 76042)

Good Morning folks, posting a little teaser of what is to come. The Avengers are arriving. Finished up the models today and working on some animation. These little micros are waiting for somewhere to call home. The Helicarrier should be coming out of dry dock soon.

You can get the kit here:

Morning Toast - Lego 10696 Classic kit animation

Good morning folks, check out the latest animation, a take on the Toaster in the Lego Classic 10696 kit.
More to come on how this was done and some lessons learned regarding Lego's, Blender, Gravity and dimensions :)

Lego Fire Plane Kit 42040 Build Video Step 4

Step 4 of the Lego Fire Plane Kit 42040. I have been posting the small steps but I am going to start combining the smaller steps into the primary sub assemblies for a bit longer videos. The Step By Step will still be available to look at.






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