[WIP] LEGO King's Carriage

DudeinCA

Hey everyone, this is a project I have been working on. Recreation of a LEGO set, King's Carriage. Still a lot to be done with this. There is no texture yet, its just Hypershade colors from MAYA, even if LEGOs don't have much to texture, lol.
BTW, the high poly count is because of the carriage. I created each piece and put it all together just like how you build a real LEGO set. Each building piece has the hold and open space underneath. So it is not optimized for a game yet.
And yes, no King yet, lol.

All C&C welcome!

specsowl

This is great! The attention to detail on the Lego pieces is fantastic. My only question is what is holding those grey rods in the back? There doesn't seem to be any other yellow block attached to that grip.

DudeinCA

Thanks man. Haha, looks like I accidentally moved the yellow grip above the lance handles. Will have to fix that.

Alberto Rdrgz

i love legos! looks great!

DudeinCA

Hey ya'll. Little update to this. Here are some more optimized models.

DudeinCA

Close to being done. Still have to do the lighting, just threw in a few lights for this render, along with creating different faces for each guy, working on the camera position, and creating the ground.

Autocon

these bring back SOOOOO many great memory's. The scale/look/proportions look so true to the originals. Very nicely done.

I would create some mountains in the background to really ground the scene. And a ground texture with the little lego pegs on it would be great to see. They dont need to be modled out, could just be a normal map and then throw in some dirt/grass color variation. There were quite a few lego sets with "blended" ground pieces.

slipsius

ugh, I need to dig out my giant tub of lego. And for the record, the plural of Lego is Lego. not legos. I haaate when people call it legos.

Anyways, onto the crits. I think you need to add the black lines that you would usually see between pieces. Just to help each piece stand out.

Tobbo

You know what would be really cool is if you added a child sitting in the background just imagining the lego pieces coming to life.

It does bring back some very fond memories of my childhood. In fact I probably would not be in 3d art today had it not been for building with my lego pieces when I was younger.

It looks great!

vreza

I love lego. it looks great!

DudeinCA

@Autocon Thanks.That sounds good, I think I will try that.

@slipsius Like the instruction booklets that come with the sets? Hmm... interesting. That would make it stand out better.

@Tobbo Exactly why I wanted to make a LEGO set.

@vreza Thanks

Anthy9986

Looking at your latest render the lighting definitely needs work it is very blown out but you did say your lighting needs work. Since everything in the scene is lego I would personally make the ground lego but I could see either way working.

Jungsik

dude this is nice..man i remember when i was crazy about legos..and then you step on one by accident..and it used to hurt so much T-T

Jimmg

You could cut down on some of those edges if you don't need them

DudeinCA

Pretty much done with it now. There are a few things I want to touch up on. Was a fun piece to work on. All C&C welcome.
Wire frames coming soon. Had no time today.

jmt

Good job. This sure looks like lego to me.

Your horses' eyes don't exactly match the toys. They're too big, and the black ones shouldn't have the off-center dot.


I'd like to see the little pegs bumped out of the ground, but that's probably not possible with game specs. The ground in the background is angled, which you don't really see in actual lego sets. They're either done with flat diagonal/vertical areas with pegs on top, or custom style, sort of like minecraft.

DudeinCA

thanks jmt
true, now that i look at it the eyes are too big. will have to fix that.
hmm, but for the black horse, true that the style should be the circle eye. although when i had it the circle eye before it looks horrible with the horse helmet thing on. You can not tell there is an eye there. So I just changed it for more of a an artistic standpoint there so it looks better.


Ya deciding on the ground and background took a while. I almost went the style of all the games and shows. Might changed it to that #2 idea you had, but we shall see.

xenocarium

First off, I love it. You nailed it! I don't know what exactly you are using to render these but if you used UDK, you could get a lot of depth from the ground pegs by using a height map and a bumpOffset node. I'm not too familiar with other engines, so I don't know how it is done elsewhere. Shouldn't be too hard though.

Rednaz

Oh man, this is awesome! You really nailed it with the lighting

DudeinCA

Finally got around to rendering out the wireframe.

Wireframe with Normals and AO