3December Challenge Day 27

Day 27: Legoalways wanted to make this, but never had enough 1s, 2s or flat 8s

    Lego helix
    by Chaitanya Krishnan
    on Sketchfab

Heres the normal map i used for the logo on each block, incase anyone needs it.

also dug up this old program i'd used a few years back when they launched it -
Lego Digital Designer
Free Download - http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/
It lets you build whatever you like.. and then order the parts online. Earlier on there was no way to get a obj out of it so i gave up on it immediately..

but now you can get Leo CAD and that opens the lego file and saves as obj etc.
Free Download - http://www.leocad.org/

Anyway I used it to create something last night.. was fun doing this after a long time. Its a bit of a cheat for the 3December entry, hence not my official entry. Just something I played with last night.

You can see it below.. needs some smoothing and finishing.. the textures don't export apparently.

    Lego Craft

    by Chaitanya Krishnan

    on Sketchfab

H.R.Giger 1940-2014

H.R.Giger (1940-2014) passed away today. He created all the crazy biomechanoid art you see in the Alien franchise..

A few months back I had created a lego scene depicting the aliens.. it was one of the winners in the Sketchfast contest of that month.

Here are the same aliens, now paying homage to their original creator.

    lego  Alien giger memorial
    by Chaitanya Krishnan
    on Sketchfab

R.I.P

How its Made - Lego Aliens Model

For a recent contest at Sketchfab.com i created a diorama of a few aliens(Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise) attacking 3 hapless humans.

The constraint was that it all had to be in Lego style.. to coincide with the release of the Lego Movie. The results were annunced today, and this model won 3rd place!
Heres how i built the winning model(3rd place):

To build the basic Lego character I followed a cool tutorial by @PatImrie -
http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/create-your-own-3d-lego-superhero-21410592 While the tutorial is for Maya, the same theory can be applied to any 3d software. I used Blender.

I havnt shown the modelling of the face hugger , guns or other elements as the process there was too haphazard and experimental to show properly in tutorial form. I have however shown how to texture paint in Blender and modify the textures in Inkscape.

The finished Model is viewable below

lego guy Alien6 from Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab.

and my model's source files and textures can be downloaded over at Blendswap - http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/72535

In the model you see all 3 main phases of the xenomorphs' life cycle - the Face hugger, the Chestbuster and the adult. and heres a video explaining the biology of the Xenomorph..

20th Century Fox all rights reserved

oh and before i forget.. 

Congrats to the other winners of the contest!

1st prize:

 Edward Scissorhands LEGO from Ulises Navarrete

2nd prize:

 Lego Robocop from John Paul Debono

Lego Sketchfast

Sketchfab was back with another Sketchfast last weekend! To celebrate the debut of The Lego Movie, They decided that the theme should be - Lego! 
The goal was to design a Lego character and go crazy with it.. ..

Heres my entry..

lego guy Alien6 from Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab.

obviously i'm a big fan of the Alien Franchise :) and i love Xenomorphs.. so i included them in all 3 forms: Chestburster, Facehugger and, Adult male(for details of the lifecycle click here).

Modelled and texture painted entirely in Blender, with Photoshop and Inkscape for some of the textures.

to see the other entries check out - sketchfab.com/tag/legofast