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Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces
mpicpp writes Animator Paul Hollingsworth and his daughter Hailee, along with some help from a few "master builders" — decided to Jurassic Park using only Lego pieces. More than $100,000 in Lego were used, according to the video's description. The result is a surprisingly stunning and hilarious version of the 1993 dino-thriller. The team behind the film also released an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the production.
This. Well sort of. At least they are still putting personal effort in, but it does kind of remind me of the gigapixel war of a few years ago.
The first gigapixel photo was made by amateurs who used their own cameras built their own motorised tripod, wrote a lot of custom software to handle the stitching, let their PCs slave away for weeks on the processing and were hailed as pioneers.
The second significantly larger gigapixel photo was made by amateurs using camera gear gifted by Sony, off the shelf software, and processed on computers gifted by Microsoft in return for displaying the result in a Silverlight web app that ran from Microsoft's servers. Then they proclaimed how awesome they were.
It's a good effort they've gone to, but I don't see the $100000 investment in the result and somehow I get the feeling they could probably have achieved similar with less, or quite possibly even did achieve it with less and the money is just the book value.
Dont forget that 'Dad' is part of a professional group who is seems do this for a living, and this is one of many such videos they have made.
Still, got to turf the media.. after all, mentioning the daughter makes it a human interest story, right?
Sigh.
well a war is $1T, so this $100k could have helped 0.00001% as many people as spending war money better could have.
I think you have bigger fish to fry, so you can hop to it now if you actually give a shit.
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