Art of LEGO Design : Creative Ways to Build Amazing Models.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Jordan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LEGO toys--Design and construction.

LEGO toys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : No Starch Press, 2014.

Summary:

The most impressive LEGO models often take careful planning (and lots of pieces), but with some inspiration, a little imagination, and a number of tried-and-true techniques, you too can turn bricks into a masterpiece. In The Art of LEGO® Design, author J.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Information and Inspiration; Overview; Chapter 1: Inspiration & Preparation; The Plastic Perspective; Colors; Shapes; Size and Scale; Reference and Research; Your Work Environment; Your Building Desk; Indispensable Building Tools; Fighting Builder's Block; Essential Elements; 318 Bars; Travis Bricks; Pneumatic Ts; Finger Hinges; Flexible Hoses; Minifigure Hands; 1×1 Clips; Cheese Slopes; Pistols; Half Pins; Chapter 2: Minifigure & Company; Anatomy of a Minifigure; Skin Tones; Strike a Pose; The Extended Family; FABULAND Figures; Belville Figures.

Technic FiguresA Minifigure Rogues Gallery; Chapter 3: Bricks, Slopes, & Studs; Bricks; Plates; SNOT; Expansive Structures; Scattering Bricks; Slopes; Roofing; Rockwork; Studs; Chapter 4: Patterns & Motifs; Introducing Cheese-Slope Mosaics; Measurements and Shapes; Arranging Cheese Slopes; Squares; Other Shapes; More Complicated Mosaics; Eliminating Gaps; Planning a Mosaic; Framing a Mosaic; Orientation; Shape; Special Frames; Mosaic or Frame First?; Other Helpful Hints; Katie Walker on Mosaics; Chapter 5: Texture; Fabric Elements; Building with Fabric Elements.

Creating Texture with Fabric ElementsSculpting with Fabric Elements; Rubber Elements; Building with Rubber Tires; Building with Rubber Bands; Creating Texture with Plastic Elements; Chapter 6: Dynamic Sculpting; Organic Models; Bows, Slopes, and Wedges; Flexible Elements; Bruce Lowell on the Lowell Sphere; Stylized Models; Tyler Clites on Creating a Style; Chapter 7: Composition; Lighting; Hiding the Battery Box; Unofficial Lighting Solutions; Silhouettes; Perspective; Color; Basic Rules; Mixing Shades; Advanced Designs; Chapter 8: Wildlife & Foliage; Animals; Articulation; Achieving Realism.

Creating Small AnimalsPrefabricated Creatures; Fantastical Creatures; Ken Ito on Dinosaurs and Dragons; Trees and Foliage; Chapter 9: Large-Scale Figures; Scale; Proportion; Articulation; Expression; Iain Heath on Characters; Chapter 10: Cars, Wagons, & Watercraft; Automobiles; General Advice; Common Pitfalls; The Garage; Adam Grabowski on Cars; Wagons; Shaping the Cabin; Wheels and Horses; Watercraft; Building the Hull; Final Details; Tom Jacobs on Watercraft; Chapter 11: Buildings; A Texture Medley; Historical Buildings; Luke Hutchinson on Medieval Buildings; Interiors; Lighting.

Modular BuildingsViewing from the Side; Furniture and Other Details; Michael Jasper on Furniture; Chapter 12: Science Fiction; Robots and Mechs; Style; Size; Articulation; Brian Kescenovitz on Mechs; Spacecraft; Small Vessels; Peter Morris on Starfighters; Large Vessels; Pierre E. Fieschi on Freighters; A Universe of Possibilities; Keith Goldman on Dioramas; Chapter 13: Final Steps; Photography; Postediting; Sharing Your Work; Critiques; Closing Thoughts; Index; Photograph Credits; Updates.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781457185335

1457185334

OCLC:

889675882

Publisher Number:

689145755367