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Re: New MOC: 4-foot tall LEGO Homer Simpson sculpture
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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:52:49 GMT
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Tobbe:

In lugnet.build.sculpture, Tobbe Arnesson wrote:
Very nice!  But I have to agree to te reviewer at MOCPages
that the eyes are a tad large.  However, having seen the intro
sequence frame by frame I know they can be even bigger in the
show - so.

Yes, it was difficult trying to come up with a design that I liked because of
two reasons:

First, as you mentioned, he doesn't always look the same from season to season
or even scene to scene.  Sometimes he is unbelievably fat, other times he is
thin.  His head ranges from 1/3 the height of his body to 1/4 or 1/5.  I just
had to sort of pick something and stick with it. :)

Second, and more importanly,  since the Simpsons are such stylized two
dimensional characters, it was difficult to find a shape for Homer's head that
made him look "correct" from various angles.  Technically, when you look at a
Simpsons charater from the side, their eye should look like a circle... that
would mean that either his eyes should be wider than his head, or that you'd
have to "burrow out" a spherical cavity for his eyes.  Neither worked.  I
actually built an entire Homer head trying to get that to work, and he just
looked wrong from every angle. :)  So, it was really a matter of finding
something that worked most of the time.

Sean



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  Re: New MOC: 4-foot tall LEGO Homer Simpson sculpture
 
I ran into the exact same trouble when building the eyes for my Bart Simpson. Trying to translate from 2-D to 3-D is very difficult, and you must just find the best compromise. eric (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)

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  Re: New MOC: 4-foot tall LEGO Homer Simpson sculpture
 
Very nice! But I have to agree to te reviewer at MOCPages that the eyes are a tad large. However, having seen the intro sequence frame by frame I know they can be even bigger in the show - so. Nice hair! (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)

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