Man I wish I had 10% of your talent. I love building with LEGO but I definitely
do not possess the ability to build something like that without instructions.
I am always in awe of the stuff people such as yourself can make from scratch.
Nice job!
Man I wish I had 10% of your talent. I love building with LEGO but I definitely
do not possess the ability to build something like that without instructions.
I am always in awe of the stuff people such as yourself can make from scratch.
Nice job!
There’s the time spent on Studio or testing with real bricks… and the time
between sessions, thinking about it, sometimes almost unconsciously.
Should I count the time spent looking at the thing thinking “hmm, this isn’t
right” but doing nothing?
And what about the time spent before, on other projects, similar or not?
Maybe I’m getting a head as big as he has but I like this anecdote from Philippe
Starck, a French designer:
A client asked him to design a chair. Starck took a sheet of paper, a pen, and
draw one. The client said, “that’s the 5 most expensive minutes of my life.”
And Starck answered, “It’s 5 minutes for you. Me, I’ve been thinking about this
chair for 40 years.”
More seriously, for what was specific to this minifigure:
— faun legs: a good week, maybe 10 days, at about 2-3 hours a day on average
(some days off, some days double…),
— sweater decor on the torso I already had: a couple hours,
— face on the head I already had: a few minutes… several times over because I’m
not very happy with the mouth,
— hair: two days.
WOW!! I figured it took a while but I had no idea that it took soo long to create
it. That being said, I presume the time involved was just for thinking about
and designing it?
Thanks for all the information pertaining to your designing process, very interesting.
WOW!! I figured it took a while but I had no idea that it took soo long to create
it. That being said, I presume the time involved was just for thinking about
and designing it?
Yes, with a lot of looking at the model every which way and poring over the parts
palette and reading the forum or watching a video
Timing is hard, it’s not like breaking rocks or reading a book, where you
know when you start, when you end, and either you’re really doing it or not in-between.
Thanks for all the information pertaining to your designing process, very interesting.
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