Jan 29 2010
LEGO Star Wars Characters on Hoth
For whatever reason there are loads of people out there who love to depict movie scenes, album covers, historic events, you name it, using LEGO pieces. I’m not sure why but it’s a very common practice amongst dorks.
Instead of just building Star Wars LEGO sets, Finnish photographer Avanaut wanted to create realistic depictions of Hoth using the bricks.
It goes something like this….
The setup is simple really: All I use is an old transparent CD storage box, some water and my trusty old A4 lightbox for lighting. For the bottom of the box I have a piece of gray Lego baseplate cut in form and hotglued on a piece of acrylic sheet to give it some weight. Legos float because of all the air trapped inside individual pieces.
I had a wacky idea to submerge everything in water, it slows down everything that moves. The water also causes light to reflect from solid surfaces in a way that sometimes helps hiding the miniature scale.
Yeah sounds real simple. In any event, here are the results
Pictures are from Avanaut on Flickr
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Haha, these look great! Lego Snow Troopers look awesome.
These are some really good-looking photographs. The photographer clearly has a great eye.
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I love the atmospheric effect that the underwater shooting and lighting gives. I would really like to see some of these done with the more realistic action figures. You could make a really cool looking scene with them, and you wouldn’t have the “kiddy” look of the Legos (though Legos are still awesome.)