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It apparently took Francisco Prieto three years to complete this animation of a monster Lego Millenium Falcon build. Which sounds about right, given how my much time my 10 year old self spent on the most pathetic of improvised Lego vehicles.
* Yes okay I know a parsec is a unit of distance not of time but I think we’re all just going to have to live with Han’s interpretation and embrace it okay?[Vimeo]
Actually, distance might be right. It’s been suggested that the Kessel run is a particularly tricky route around various obstacles. The ship could run a quicker route by virtue of some fancy flying through otherwise dangerous shortcuts.
This is, of course, fan wank, but I’m on Giz, so hey, it’s in fine company.
I’ve always thought the same thing, and was going to post it but thought “nah, too nerdy.”
Thank you friend, for reaffirming my faith in British nerds.
Please, stop it with all the lego articles. It is tacky plastic shit that is for retarded kids with no talent or skill to do anything truly creative or original. Worst still, this idiot not only was stupid enough to model a pre-designed Millenium Falcon in lego, but did it as a pointless 3D animation over three years. If I was told he spent 10 weekends doing that I’d be surprised and still think it was a complete waste of time. And when the set of ‘Lego’ intersects with the set of ‘Star Wars’ that subset is called ‘the biggest f**king losers in the whole world’, you do know that?
And six months to render, what the f**k on, an Atari ST. And really Lego blocks in 3D, what does he want a job at Pixar??? The Lego blocks are so plastic looking and boxy, how does he do that in 3D? Organic lifelike forms, everyone is doing that in 3D, but it takes real talent to do Lego in 3D and animate it in a casual fashion, wow!
You do realise we have limited resources on this planet, and we are feeding these backward bastards to use are thinning supply of oxygen – I think it is time for a cull.
This moronic crap makes me so sad, not so much the fact that a guy wastes his time making 3D lego animation, that probably wouldn’t even work in reality, but the fact that anyone would think is is anyway special, interesting or worth passing on – I’m an a planet where idiots praise idiots for being idiotic – please someone tell me I missed an ironic joke in this? Please? Or make me a Lego f**king rocket so I an leave this place, or no wait, don’t – because you’d do it as a 3D animation, and even if you did it for real it would be a little plastic toy of no use or f**king purpose.
Rant over – but really, millenium falcon? Lego? 3D animation? 3 years? Really? Really? This is a joke?
Please keep on with all the Lego articles, it’s one of the things I love that carried over from the US Giz.
Tech and Lego, pleases both the Adult and Child sides of me.
Either way, MORE LEGO PLZ.
Yeah, totally agree with you Tacos. Markcgrant needs to take a long hard look at himself in the nearest mirror.
This mirror by any chance? http://brickscientist.bigcartel.com/product/brickish-color-mirror-made-of-lego-bricks
I can respect this guy to some extent, he admits he is simple, “Brickscientist. It’s not rock science… but maybe how it started”. A simple person taking advantage of tasteless stupid people, and sentimental waders – an admirable pursuit for the dim.
Sorry, just too many Lego things lately.
I don’t have anything against Lego as a toy for some joyless child, that is too ill to kick a ball or too poor to afford a game system – or as a weapon to leave on the floor for a bare foot nemesis.
It is just grown ups doing rubbish things with it, then grown men deluding themselves that Star Wars is more than a bad kids film, but that is another story.
Anyone older than 13 that thinks placing plastic bricks together to form an object than almost resembles something created by someone else involves any skill, ability or deserves any level of praise is sadly deluded.
Sure get sentimental if you are the kind of person that wants to skulk in the most vile human emotion, even get a Lego kit and pretend it is a worthy pursuit for a grown up, but don’t expect me to admire that vile emotion or such a pointless activity for a limitless human.
But that didn’t even get my goat with this article, it is the fact that this tosser couldn’t even be arsed with building this with Lego. Instead he made an awful Lego model on a 3D application over 3 years!!!!! He doesn’t even have to stick the blocks together or make it stand up, the blocks just float there, WTF.
And I’m talking as someone who worked single handedly on a 3D project for a London design company that needed a 2 minute animation modelled, textured, animated and rendered to a two week deadline some ten years ago, and not look like plastic building blocks – so let me outline that project:
1/ Build a basic lego brick – 5 minutes
2/ Turn this into an asset library of all blocks needed – 4-5 hours
3/ Take a photo of a toy from top, right and front and project those images in a 3D application for a template design – 5 minutes
4/ Build a better model that this guy did – 14-20 days
5/ Strip model back 1 brick at a time key-framing as you go then reverse animation – 5-10 days
6/ setup lights and cameras, animate lights and cameras – 1-2 days
7/ Render test then setup render – 1-2 days
8/ render – 1 month, or send to cloud for a couple of days.
I’m making that just over two months, working in evenings and weekends, lets double it if you are learning as you go, hell lets treble it to 6 months – what the hell was he doing for the
other 2 years and 6 months, was he on a metal holiday to Lego Land.
The person that did this offends me as a human being, with ambition and scope that is subhuman, to undertake a project so worthless, to do it in such an average fashion and take a crazy amount of time on it.
And we praise him, the king of virtual Lego – a waste of complexed carbon, which makes it maddening when we have people in labs creating life out of building blocks in less time, and what does he do? Nothing, and spends forever doing it, yippee-f**king-doo!
(I just hope nobody points out this was done by a autistic 8 year old, boy will I feel bad)
I think I for one, am going to have to disagree with your statement that “anyone over 13..[still building with Lego] is deluded”
Ok sure maybe you don’t like it; but do you really need to have such a rant about it? On the contrary, it does actually take quite a bit of skill and planning to make a good Lego model; and it’s true that this guy only did a set that was off-the-shelf and true, he didn’t even build it in person; but don’t just make some ridiculous sweeping statement based on one or two examples.
Geez, now I’ve started ranting too!
It takes a lot more skill to make things out of wood or metal, but that is hard it takes skill and practice. Comparing a truly creative act like making an oak box with a fine veneer to something like lego only makes us realise what a silly thing it is.
“Star Wars is more than a bad kids film”
I’ll just hide in the Dagobah system till it all blows over.
Damn you, Sir. Damn your eyes for your blasphemy!
Lego is and has been the entry point for many thousands, nay millions, of children into physical creativity. It’s the toy that allows you to create the things _you_ want that _you_ imagine.
Yes there are others but they’re no better than pretenders to the building block throne. And yes, damn you, we will joy now in the things which we loved as children – don’t abuse us for it, join us! Share the love!
How many architects, engineers, designers, builders both virtual and real creating the wonders of our modern world trace their creativity back to Lego Basic? Lego lit the fire that’s given us skyscrapers, spacerockets and supercars.
For children too ill to kick a ball? You know what kicking balls gave us, of course. Wayne Rooney.
I rest my case.
Of course I forgot about all those great creatives in history that got started on Lego, like…. sorry, no one. Children don’t need an entry point to creativity, they are creative. I would get a child any tool that they needed to expand that creativity rather than limit them with plastic blocks.
An architect goes to work and says, I did this in Lego last night, his boss points at the door and says, don’t come back.
Wayne Rooney wouldn’t be one of the most highly skilled professionally paid sports men if you sat him down with lego, the reason he is a successful grown man doing and earning more than most kids can ever dream of is because he did something real rather than pretending to do something in plastic blocks.
If you have a child that is truly gifted at music, what do you do? Do you go out and buy them a pretend plastic guitar. Or gifted at sport, buy them a cheap plastic tennis set?
Whoa, your comment is too long and enraged looking, but all I’ll say is this: readers love the shit out of Lego, as demonstrated by the traffic, so we’re going to keep posting it. As we post around 50 articles a day, I’d suggest just pick ‘n choosing the ones that interest you — like most people do
I know people like Lego, I know it will be posted – and when it gets to me at a level this waste of space virtual lego maker does I will need to rant – if you are going to indulge some subhuman waste of a life then at least indulge me a few minutes to hate and scorn them for being so vile. And this does interest me, just not in a positive way, it interests me how the human uses sentiment to founder illogical ideals, or what makes someone what to spent years making something crass from lego when they could be doing something brilliant and exceptional, and define or change the world. What makes someone go out and buy lego? I can understand those wanting the simple option and have the depravity to pretend to be creative, but the limits of lego I find hard to grasp and question all humans wanting to lower the standards for us all. I find it interesting how people praise someone for making someone else’s thing badly in lego rather than doing something original and wonderful in a far more substantial material.
It reminds me of Bob Ross, how people will get involved in such rubbish and pretend at being creative, pretend it is art, pretend it is painting, it is none of those things it is learning to do a series of strokes in paint – why would someone want to do that? When they could actually learn to be creative, create art and actually paint – very odd.
Sounds to me like you have a Lego brick stuck somewhere it shouldn’t be.
It’s a shame you think a games system or kicking a ball is some how more beneficial to a child, than something as brilliantly creative as Lego is… Do you regard thumping your fists against chest and grunting an acceptable form of communication?
Look mate I’m a creative, I work with film, 2D art and music – I continue to expand myself with new tools and methods. I grow up painting and drawing and making things, real things, not pretending to be that with lego. I recall having lego around the age of 5, I quickly throw it to one side, as even as a small child I found it limited and limiting. Truly creative people don’t do stuff in lego, that isn’t a debate – fake and false people do.
Wow! Don’t think I’ve seen a chip so big on someones shoulder before, congratulations it’s very impressive.
I never questioned your so called creativity, I was pointing out that a child would benefit from playing with Lego more than kicking a ball or playing a computer game.
Wait wait wait…
So you’re saying that people who play or build with Lego must be useless at “real” art?
Ah, well you’re quite mistaken about that.
By a looong way.
I genuinely feel sorry for you and the sad ‘creative’ little world you live in!
May the studs of a thousand Lego sets infest your carpets, with neither shoe, sock or slipper in sight!
So let me get this straight…
Instead of building the actual lego Millenium Falcon he modeled every piece in Max and then built it virtually… WTF is the point!? Star Wars is lame and clearly so are its fans!
Yep I have to say – I’m a fan, and still am. I have great memories of the first lego technical sets – Car Chassis – Fork Lift – Helicopter. That and Meccano, possibly the two greatest mind and hand toys/games/modelling kits ever invented. Lego is also great for kids and adults with visual and cognitive impairment. I’ve seen some pretty amazing creations over the years. Long live Lego
MOAR LEGO!