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Re: New MOC: 4-foot tall LEGO Homer Simpson sculpture
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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:33:15 GMT
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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

Sean Kenney wrote:

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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Tobbe: (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)

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