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Recreating the Matrix In Legos
LoneHighway writes "Salon.com has a write up of what is being called an epic feat of Nerdity, the "Trinity, Help!" scene from The Matrix has been recreated using only Legos. It took 440 hours for Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett to create Lego Matrix Trinity Help, which is a perfect shot-by-shot remake of a short but memorable scene from the Wachowski Brothers’ masterpiece, executed via stop-motion animation and a nearly infinite amount of Legos. They even provide a split screen comparison to the original. Very cool!"
Great work, but it would be nice if there were a non-evil product to make it with.
400 hours though - the surface characteristics of Lego plastic seem ideal for 3D rendering. Great practice of patience, guys.
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http://www.legomatrix.com/ for the details, behind the scenes, more videos, etc.
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Well, I do remember my father telling me about playing Cow Boys using sheep jaw bones as pistols, because they were poor.
He also told me about using old wheels to run along with a stick and a nail to direct them.
One thing that you could look at to understand the situation is the change in expectation in Bhutan since they "opened up" (The only country in the world that calculate Gross National Happiness...)
Now they have TV. And ads. And higher expectations about what they "need". And less happiness...
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
Why doesn't the poor parent just buy the Legos then? Oh, right, because they charge $25/lb for moderate-grade injection-molded plastic. Who hates the poor kids again?
There's some weird triangulation between marketing, entitlement and corporatism going on in that story.
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> Oh, right, because they charge $25/lb for moderate-grade injection-molded plastic.
And yet, it will last 30+ years, making exceptionally cheap compared to most other toys.
And yet, it will last 30+ years, making exceptionally cheap compared to most other toys.
indeed, yet the poor rarely buy on value. I get my kids nice quality used toys at the second-hand store, yet somehow it seems the box opening experience would have been important for the GP.
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There is just no comparison between LEGOs and the cheap knockoffs. I remember having a giant amount of LEGOs and I was only interested in the functional ones. The men, windows, and other random parts quickly were thrown away.
I made things like a coin box with a functional three tumbler keyed lock. (if I would have glued the blocks to prevent disassembly, you'd be hard pressed to open it without the lego key) I wish those hadn't been given away to a relative when I got older.
I picked up a box of blocks a few years back, not realizing they were the crappy knockoffs. Can't make anything like that, the blocks catch and jam, don't fit well, have very little holding power, it's a mess. I remember being able to take the 2x4 LEGO blocks and make a stick almost six feet long held horizontally from the middle before they separated. Just try that with imitation LEGOs.
Many things you do get what you pay for. And LEGOs are one such example.
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now where is the rest of the movie? I made a whole bag of popcorn, and... WTF, just one scene? Seriously though, this is just about the nerdiest/geekiest thing I've seen since the Matrix itself, and I mean that as high praise.
Uh, 1:24 at 30 frames per second is 2,520 frames, not 1,080.
Anyway, the 440 hours would also have to include the time it took to crop and align the photos, probably colour-adjust them where needed, and make them into a video. Professional equipment would have taken some of the intensiveness out of the post-processing, but professional equipment is expensive.
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The plural of Lego is Lego, just as the plural of sheep is sheep. Fuckwits.