LEGO Blender Tutorial: Part 1 - Overview

Hey everyone! At long last the tutorial series is starting! This first video is just a quick overview of what the tutorial series will cover and the programs you will need to follow along.

http://www.blender.org/
http://www.ldraw.org/
http://www.leocad.org/
http://web.tiscali.it/ALV/blender/

And in case you are new to Blender and are in need of some basic tutorials to learn the ropes, look here:

http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

As stated in the video, a new tutorial will be posted every Tuesday starting next week, so keep checking back. Here is a list of the planned tutorials, leave a comment if you have any requests.

Tutorial 1 : The Basics
Part 1 - Tutorial Series Overview
Part 2 - Installing and Importing
Part 3 - A Realistic Brick
Part 4 - A Realistic Stud

Tutorial 2 : The Minifig
Part 1 - Modeling a Fig
Part 2 - A Change of Clothes
Part 3 - A New Face

Tutorial 3 : Animation
Part 1 - A Falling Brick
Part 2 - The Walk Cycle
Part 3 - Talk It Up! -Rigging
Part 4 - Talk It Up! -Animation
Part 5 - Hands

Tutorial 4 : Rendering
Part 1 - "HD" and all that
Part 2 - Lighting Basics
Part 3 - Nodes, Your Best Friend
Part 4 - A Few Tricks

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• LEGO
• Blender
• Tutorial
• Star Wars
• Western
• Brickfilm

[Roboticist002]

Is it possible to do this with just blender?

[LEGOblender]

@Roboticist002 Yes, it is possible. But that would involve you creating every single brick. If you want to do that, have at it! Other wise, you need LDraw.

[conradslater]

do you know if I can do the same in C4D?

[LEGOblender]

@conradslater I know very little about C4D, so couldn't say. But I have noticed that most CGI programs have similar capabilities, just different ways of going about it.

Having said that, Blender is free!

[Mutuceba]

i have a problem everytime i try and import the addon script i gert an error message

please help

[LEGOblender]

@Mutuceba I'll cover this in the next video, but for those "following along live" and can't get it. What you need to do is actually install the previous version of blender (blender 2.49) and copy and paste the script into the folder C:\Program Files\Blender248a\.blender\scr­ipts

Then when you need to use the script, you first open up Blender 2.49 and import, then save and open with 2.5. I recommend using LeoCad for most models. I will go into detail in the next video.

[90office]

Could you make a lego tutorial blender with subtitles in Spanish? You would have more views;)

[eftimov2]

@conradslater yes

[ultislasher1]

2,000'th VIEWER!! =D

[ultislasher1]

who knew blender was free? Thank you so much- as well as blender. =D

[henriquebio]

Can I Make Bionicle With This?

[TheGameLoungePD]

can i use maya to import the leocad files?

[beckernater]

so i can do all of this with more updated blender versions?

[conradslater]

@LEGOblender you're probably right - I really should take a look myself (c4d imports 3ds stuff so I expect that's my answer). I guess I was just hoping for someone to hold my hand through the process. It's crazy how few people are doing cgi lego! BTW That Star Wars vid is awesome - oh and I'm enjoying your podcast; listening to all the old interviews - you'll one talented guy!