A few weeks ago, Bowie — one of the clients I have (ok… pretty much the only one at the moment) — told me that he wanted an animated Lego-ish character for his newsletter.
Cool. I’d do it in 3d, more than likely.
Now, I assumed that I’d need this by February 12 or 14-ish… but no, it seems.
Apparently, I need it by Monday.
[b]MONDAY?![/b]
Bu-bu-butttt?!?!?!?!
So I’ve been doing some research on the Lego people tonight. My search started with “lego men” (because I figured that Lego might have been sexist to start out with), then went to “lego people” (ok, so they weren’t… people sums up Lego civilians I guess…), which then led me to “[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifigure]minifigs[/url]”.
And after a bit of research, I can tell you that there are some very cool Minifig thingies out there…
For instance, there’s [url=http://lucasarts.com/games/legostarwarsii/]a whole ton of Lego Star Wars activities[/url] even if you don’t buy the games, [url=http://lego.fanspace.com/]Minifigs for movie & TV freaks[/url] (I love Phlox from Enterprise & the Tom Baker-Doctor Who ones!), I already knew about [url=http://www.lego.com/eng/watches/productPage.aspx?family=watches&productNumber=4193354]the Lego watches[/url] (anyone wanna buy me one?!), a software solution [url=http://www.ldraw.org/]for creating Lego models[/url], a basic [url=http://www.baseplate.com/toys/minifig/]web-based Minifig generator[/url], and even a how-to guide on [url=http://xenomachina.com/2005/10/howto-lego-minifig-costume.htm]making a Lego costume[/url] (pretty much the head only… the rest wouldn’t be hard).
There’s [url=http://www.minifig.co.uk/default.asp?id=10]even more history[/url] if you didn’t like all of that and / or the Wiki!!!
But wait, the best is yet to come…
The best two sites I found about Lego Minifigs included [url=http://www.koreus.com/media/lego_thriller.html]a stop-motion Lego Minifig version of the Thriller[/url] (originally by Michael Jackson and full-length so put aside 10-15 minutes) and this [url=http://www.adamcadwell.co.uk/Lego/hoff.htm]brilliant pixel-art site with Lego versions[/url] of characters and actors and other people you’ll know at least a few (if not all of).
Blimey. Minifigs own the world. There must be a Minifig inside each and every one of us.