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Re: On creating life-sized sculpture
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Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:36:03 GMT
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It depends on what the sculpture is going to be used for. If it will be on
display where random people will touch it you’ll probably want to have a metal
skeleton within. For the 5’6”
angel sculpture I got
away with it being exactly 2 bricks think from the exterior everywhere
(including diagonals), with no further support, and no glue.
Harshbarger is an artist. I’m an engineer. I am unable to build organicly.
(Well when I do my stuff looks like it was done by an imagination-less seven
year old.)
-dw
In lugnet.build.sculpture, Anne Carasik wrote:
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Hi Ryan,
All my sculptures are small (2 feet or smaller) because my husband
doesn’t want me to build anything bigger than the dogs ;)
Seriously, I don’t know how you would do that with MLCad (I find LeoCAD
very difficult to use IMHO), because most of the building process is
“organic” in nature (to quote Mr. Harshbarger).
If you build something to that scale, you’ll definitely need to put in
building supports as sculptures are not solid.
FWIW, and play good, er, well :)
-Anne
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:06:24AM +0000, Ryan Holtz wrote:
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Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that I wanted to come up with actual
step-by-step plans for creating a life-sized Lego statue of some well-known
caped superhero, let’s say, Superman. What would be the best way to go about
this using something like MLCAD or LeoCAD (but preferrably the former)? Are
there any general guidelines or guides for creating the human form in a Lego
representation? Admittedly, I’m not all that artistic, but while I’m sure I
could enlist the help of the 3D modellers who work at the same company I do,
seeing as they already have a 3D model of Superman that we could go off of,
I’d much prefer to have the plans for the statue all laid out before my
fellow members of the development team where I work commence the construction
of the statue, yeah?
Any help is appreciated,
- Ryan Holtz / MooglyGuy
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