July 11, 2010 9

A group effort

By in Art!, toys, we have fun

Ari was sent a giant package from Japan including this micro lego set. It’s a little beyond Ari’s abilities (or rather, her patience and willingness to build something so detailed) so after her and Shannon completed the first 4 levels, I took it over and snapped a picture at the end of each level. It was most satisfying and I’d collect all the sets of this amazing toy if I could (I also completed all of the smaller sets of animals she got).

Then Shannon took over and created this flash file, which was probably just as much work, if not more.

Yay for collaborations!

9 Responses to “A group effort”

  1. scienkoptic says:

    coOol!

    I;m retarded. what did you use to animate the pics?

    New season of radiolab. are you listening?

  2. Caitlin Jane says:

    If the answer to your question isn’t flash, then I have no idea, he did the animating part, not me!

    Nope, haven’t started the new Radiolab season yet, but thanks for the heads up, I’ll get on it right now.

  3. It’s just a bunch of JPGs shoved into a SWF file at a low framerate. I used “Magic Pic2Ani” to do it.

  4. Mumma says:

    It’s amazing but I have no idea of the scale. How big is it?
    And what do the other pieces look like.

  5. Caitlin Jane says:

    The blocks themselves are about half what regular Lego looks like so they’re pretty tiny. That entire castle has almost 3,000 pieces in it! I don’t know the exact height, maybe 15cm?

    Small! It’s very small and fiddly and it actually came with special tweezers for picking up tiny pieces!

  6. Jay says:

    That thing is wicked!

  7. Laura says:

    That is pretty awesome. Although the video makes me a bit dizzy.

  8. Caitlin Jane says:

    It makes it look like it was built in a minute but nothing could be further from the truth. It was slow, an hour here or there for a week.

  9. Erin says:

    I’m so jealous of all of it! I want a box of lego sets from Japan.

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