Well, I’ve gotten my new laptop, and have started re-constructing my lego minifigure.  This is the finished product, I’d guess this is now the 5th generation that I’ve built from scratch.  On the  up-side, it’s the most accurate model of the minifigure I’ve made yet as far as scale, but that has also brought along it’s own complications.  My previous minifigures, I’d purposely made the legs longer than they actually would be so that it would be easier to animate them bending at the knee, something a Lego minifigure doesn’t actually do.  The legs on this one are scaled perfectly in proportion to the rest of the figure and it is definitely harder to animate it walking, but it can be done.  I guess next I’ll be working on recreating my textures of the various different minifigure characters.  I’m not sure if I’m looking forward to that or not  :-/

I don’t know if there’s anyone following this that was looking forward to my animated zombie film I’ve been working on for the last couple of months, but I’ve got some bad news if there was anyone.  Yesterday, my laptop hard-drive took a crap on me.  While in the past, I have had online back-up, I canceled that awhile back when there were unfair price increases.  So, basically what I’m saying is, “I’ve lost everything that I’d been working on, or already created.”  

I lost all my models, textures, reference pictures…everything!  I’ve ordered a new laptop, which won’t be here fore a week or two at best, and then, I’ll have to start re-constructing everything from scratch.  :-(  At least I’ve learned a lesson and will be utilizing a back-up source of some kind, whether it’s online or local.  I don’t know if I’m even going to ressurect the same project or start something totally new.  It’s not so much the modeling work I’m thinking of as the textures that I’ll have to recreate from scratch.  

The most important thing you should take from this post?  Use some form of back-up for any kind of data that you don’t want to lose!

I’ve re-built my lego mini-figure to accomodate a more advanced armature that allows for more freedom of movement, here’s a test walk-cycle.

My teaser trailer for “Brick City Zombie Rampage!”  Click that like button at Youtube if you enjoy it, working hard on getting a complete short put together by Spring!

A second teaser poster for my upcoming short films (films?).  I think this one turned out even better than the first.

A teaser wallpaper for the upcoming short animation I’m working on.

If you’re going to have a zombie outbreak, you’re going to need a few good men to help put them down!

Here’s a still image from an upcoming series of short animations I’ll be publishing on my youtube channel.  I’ll let you guess from the contents what the storyline will be :-D

I’ll make sure and post links to them here also!

Working on an animation of this “Lego” satellite circling the Earth.

…and here’s that animation test I promised.  It came out pretty good for a quick test, I’m working on some better stuff for later down the line.  I’m hoping to put together a short film (4 or 5 minutes long) before the end of February, utilizing the models I’ve been posting here for the last month or so.