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blob8108 · 2012-08-30 03:30:18

(777w suggested I post this here, so here goes...)

My brother made me an awesome Portal-themed LEGO present last Christmas, which he spent months wokring on.

8 months later, I've finished a stop motion of it. :D

Everything apart from Chell (and her companion cube) is *not* stop motion: the doors, elevator and the portals are all motorised, and he included a Mindstorms brick that opens the door when the button is pressed down. It requires very exact timing to get the portals straight, though... :P

See the full video: on Youtube | on Vimeo

whizzer · 2012-08-30 03:42:06

OMG THAT'S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's one of the best stop-motions I've ever seen!!!!

Lol, CHOCOLATE!

jji7skyline · 2012-08-30 04:34:53

That's is awesome. I should really get back to stop motions and stop wasting so much time online tongue

Btw, did your brother make that all from scratch? If so, he's pretty awesome :3

blob8108 · 2012-08-30 10:31:33

jji7skyline wrote:
That's is awesome. I should really get back to stop motions and stop wasting so much time online

They do take forever, though tongue large parts of this were done when I was at home ill...

Btw, did your brother make that all from scratch? If so, he's pretty awesome :3

The Lego stuff? Absolutely! He's really quite good... big_smile

EDIT: I'm informed that he may have borrowed the designs for the turrets, cake, and portal gun from t' internet.

He is awesome, though. tongue

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Cozyhut3 · 2012-08-30 12:08:27

How... BOSS. big_smile

scratchisthebest · 2012-08-30 17:33:57

0.o

Now I want to play Portal so I can figure all this out tongue

Must have been fun to shove the camera for all of those tight-fitting scenes smile

Molybdenum · 2012-08-30 17:46:42

scratchisthebest wrote:
0.o

Now I want to play Portal so I can figure all this out

Must have been fun to shove the camera for all of those tight-fitting scenes

And make the turrets fall without making them actually fall.

Anyway, VERY cool.

bobbybee · 2012-08-30 20:44:20

THIS....IS.....PORTAL! tongue

Great work!

ProgrammingPro01 · 2012-08-31 01:24:05

Awesome! Great job!

blob8108 · 2012-08-31 03:08:19

Thanks all! big_smile

scratchisthebest wrote:
Must have been fun to shove the camera for all of those tight-fitting scenes

Yeah, I had to take apart some of the walls to get in tongue Putting it back together was rather nerve-wracking...

terminator68 · 2012-08-31 03:43:25

Awesome stop motion! The set is incredible as well, with all the moving parts and doors!

majormax · 2012-08-31 09:49:18

Amazing! Wish I could do that.

blob8108 · 2012-08-31 12:45:49

terminator68 wrote:
Awesome stop motion! The set is incredible as well, with all the moving parts and doors!

Yeah, the set he made is awesome big_smile He even got me to program the Mindstorms brick for him without ever telling me what it was! ("there's a car with a motor, and when you press the button the motor needs to turn 180 degrees...") tongue

majormax wrote:
Amazing! Wish I could do that.

I used a Mac app called iStopMotion which overlays the camera video feed with the previous frame, which makes posing things a lot easier -- you could try that! But the only thing you really need is a lot of patience... wink

terminator68 · 2012-09-09 13:38:52

blob8108 wrote:
terminator68 wrote:
Awesome stop motion! The set is incredible as well, with all the moving parts and doors!
Yeah, the set he made is awesome He even got me to program the Mindstorms brick for him without ever telling me what it was! ("there's a car with a motor, and when you press the button the motor needs to turn 180 degrees...")

majormax wrote:
Amazing! Wish I could do that.
I used a Mac app called iStopMotion which overlays the camera video feed with the previous frame, which makes posing things a lot easier -- you could try that! But the only thing you really need is a lot of patience...

Wow, how clever of him.

I always wondered how to program those mindstorms... I still have one, but the program was very glitchy and would never work...

slinger · 2012-09-09 15:21:10

Wow, that's amazing!

blob8108 · 2012-09-09 16:57:03

terminator68 wrote:
I always wondered how to program those mindstorms... I still have one, but the program was very glitchy and would never work...

Yeah, the included LEGO software (NXT-G?) is a bit meh. There's a project to make Scratch for Mindstorms: Enchanting, I think. And you can program them using NXC, a C-like language, or LeJOS (which is Java, maybe?).

slinger wrote:
Wow, that's amazing!

Thanks! big_smile

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