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Greetings all. As an AFOL, I’ve enjoyed lurking around Lugnet, taking a look at
all the amazing creations everyone has come up with, and reading Brick Journal.
My wife and I recently started a project that I thought you’d be interested in:
http://www.themercurials.net
“The Mercurials” is a Lego comic inspired by the many others out there. It’s a
science fiction story set on a colony ship that’s gone off-course and is
drifting in deep space. The colonists and crew have been woken out of stasis in
shifts. Our heroes are the last to awaken and find that the others have been
living on the ship for some time, developing their own factions and cultures -
even myths and religions. The overarching plot will be: can they navigate their
way through this strange self-contained world, solve the mystery of what has
happened to the ship, and save themselves.
As you can see, we’re not only crazy enough to try to tell a story with minfigs,
but to try to tell a serious sci-fi story. Time will tell if we’re successful,
I guess :) As many others have probably discovered, it’s challenging to get
your “actors” to communicate emotions when they only have one expression on
their face! So we’ve had to use body language and other tricks to try to tell
the story.
We’re using the pink-skinned Star Wars minifigs as our heroes fresh out of
stasis. The colonists, who’ve been living and breeding on the ship for awhile,
will be our standard yellow minfigs. They’ve been mutated or something :D
That’s how we’re explaining it anyway.
Well, this is kind of long. Please let us know what you think about our “online
sci-fi photo graphic novel.” I hope you enjoy it!
http://www.themercurials.net
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| That is really compelling. Very movie-like and something I will be following. I noticed that as it went along it got easier to tell who was speaking as it was a little hard to follow in some of the episode 1 panels. Is there a way to watch it as a (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| (...) Perhaps if you gave each character a unique prefix? If you include colors with your greater than symbols, you'd probably not run out. But I think the most clear thing would be to take a small picture of each minifig's face, and put that beside (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| In lugnet.announce.moc, Tom Wilson wrote: I had a good laugh and really wonder how the story is going to develop! would it be possible to tell the number of slides when announcing an episode. don't need a countdown inside the show just some info if (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Very cool. I am hooked to the story already. :-) The only thing I would improve is a method of seeing who is talking. The icons idea mentioned above would work well, but even just the speaking character's name before each line would work. In (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| Very Interesting! I like the cinematic feel you have achieved (I must try that sometime) and despite some dialogue difficulties the presentation is very tight, though maybe a giant 'next' button would be in order. I look forward to seeing more. God (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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