Monthly Archives: July 2017

LEGO, Photo-A-Day, Toys, Vlog

LEGO Stop Motion Test with Battle Suit NEXO Knights

NEXO Knights with Stop Motion Studios
Photo-A-Day #4471

I’ve been creating more Stop Motion movies lately. I use Stop Motion Studio and LEGO bricks to make the Stop Motion Movies. The other day I found some LEGO NEXO Knights on clearance at Target. I picked them up because they have many movable joints and that looked like they would be great for stop motion. The joints and the ability to move them around works amazing for stop motion but the problem I have is that the bottom of the feet are smooth and do not stick to the studs on the plates. I had to find some other LEGO bricks to attach to the back of the character’s feet.

This solution made it possible to secure the character to the green base plate, slightly. I need to make sure that when I making stop motion videos that I am on a secure base plate. The one I used was on a smooth surface and therefore it moved around, too. The smaller bricks that attached to the back of the character’s feet weren’t exactly secure. The screen test below isn’t the best, but by the time I got to the last character I found a rhythm to it. I really like how I did the sword rattling the shield. That was fairly smooth. I’ll keep working on how to make the movements more natural looking and I want to create an epic fight for Built from Bricks.

LEGO, Photo-A-Day, Toys, Video Game, Vlog

Clearance Finds at GameStop and Target

LEGO On Clearance
Photo-A-Day #4470

On the way in to work today I stopped over at GameStop and there I found that they had a few FUNKO Pop figures on Clearance. They were even doing specials where you buy one POP the other was 50% off. With prices down to $5 I made a careful look through the inventory and found two that I wanted. Marvel’s Captain Marvel and from Star Wars Rogue One there was Director Orson Krennic.

They also had some POP themed pens that had Marvel characters on them for $2. I got Iron Man, Captain America and The Hulk. They now sit in my coffee cup along with my Star Wars one with Chewbacca on it.

At target there was a some clearance LEGO NEXO knights which will work well with some stop motion videos I’d like to make. The thing is, though, that they do not have holes on their feet to secure them to the ground so I will have to get creative with adding some additional pieces to the feet to keep them from moving while I make any videos.