Hello community!

We've asked to our spotlighted artist Yuan He to provide an exclusive picture for Brickcentral along with some insights on how he made it, and here's what he have to say:

"I’m an interior designer, therefore most of my MOC projects are setting up in interior spaces or architectural scenes. I haven’t done too many projects in natural environment, which sometimes I found it very challenging and interesting. In this shot, I wanted to create a scene of bunch of friends gathering together in a forest, sort of like a camping trip, and in this case, it’s the characters from Winnie the pooh. In this project, in order to hide the boundary of the scene and creating a more realistic environment, I designed some rocky structure on the back, along with some trees and bushes. There is an awning at the center, and the friends of Winnie are playing music, telling stories and dancing, surrounding a fire pit, enjoying themselves and having fun. I planned the scene to be set in night time, in that way I can create contrast of cold and warm lighting colors in this shot, and the viewer can easily focus on the characters, to experience their joy.

Despite the scene looks complicated, it’s actually a relatively simple scene, just lots of random items and repeatable steps, and takes time to build. I spent almost two weeks on it, most of the time are just placing flowers, grasses and trees.

As I mentioned this is a night time scene, I needed to set up some camping lighting to light up the awning area. I’m using micro-LED lights inside of the translucent bricks, but they are not that bright, just for decorative purpose. Another light source is in the fire pit, again it’s not bright, but sometimes it would be helpful to add more details at the scene.

After posting all the minifigures, and it’s time for the big boys to actually light up the whole scene. As you can see in this photo, I have 4 blue lighting fixtures to create the night time atmosphere. The two tubes on the back are for slightly lighting up the blue backdrop paper, to separate the trees and also mimicking the night sky, will get into that later. Besides of those, the front left light is serving the purpose of creating the general blue-sky light at night, which can be reflected on the front elements like trees, grasses etc. There is only one warm lights in front of the scene, since those decorative micro-LED lights are too weak, this small cube light is the key to light up the awning and minifigures, and generating a growing spot at the center. The small LED tube at the front right acts as a fill light, specifically for brightening minifigures, restores more details on the dark side.

If we are shooting indoor, there are few tricks to create more realistic background for the photos. I used to have my computer monitor as a background to simulate the sky, distanced buildings etc. But sometimes it can be tricky, I might need to adjust lighting and monitor brightness levels to accommodate each other, or my scene is just too big to move. In this project, since the trees needed to be blended in with the “sky”, I’m using a blue paper as a backdrop to creates more depth on the scene and making it look bigger, it works great for night scene, but different scenarios like broad daylight might be too bland for just using a paper.

Hope you enjoy this project and found it useful for creating your LEGO photos. I’ve learned a lot from other amazing photographers and creators all these years, I found it very interesting and inspiring to watch how others create their amazing photos. And like I said earlier, for LEGO photographers, camera gears are not that important, what matters is how your story want to be told."

Thanks for all the insights Yuan He! If you want to read this artist profile, head to our blog at https://brickentral.net/ - @theaphol, Community Outreach Manager

🎶 light it up like dynamite 🎵

Gonna have to figure out better posing, so they spin around in a more pleasing way without hitting each other. They’re so close together I can’t really have any of them doing anything too interesting; raise one arm and it’ll hit somebody else’s mic, tilt one fig back and it’ll hit somebody’s head, etc etc, and rn Jimin is kind of weirdly separate? perhaps I shall have to construct a larger stage so they can all be properly chaotic. and find a better way of turning the gears somehow, the whole thing moves as it is

Just Made a Huge Purchase

RIP to my wallet. This whole build took my over two hours to build and I listend Dynamite and other songs like LOCO and Butter. Btw this costed over $140 plus tax 

Put my LEGO BTS set on a shelf :D ~Photos are mine Do not steal/edit/use/copy/repost -NinjagoZaneFan14/NZF14~

monkey man

Lyla watched Miles do this while Miguel was out and totally convinced him it was a good idea

I got this as a Xmas present from my son and finally put it together! It´s so cute!

And guess what!? Even LEGO put Jikook together in the package 🤭

🥰🥰

Bionicle MOC: Death Stranding

I'm definitely thankful this is just a game element.

Source

Creator: LordObliviontheGreat

Source (Season 2 - October 8th 2023)

nathanielgoodman: A little bts of our @ourflagonmax incredible ROP set! @ourflagmeansbts

Hello community!

We've asked to our spotlighted artist @lady-brick to provide an exclusive picture for Brickcentral along with some insights on how he made it, and here's what he have to say:

"For the exclusive photo I decided to recreate a typical urban garden where retirees dedicate their leisure time to care their plants and vegetables.

For the MOC, I was inspired by one of the users, Marty Mocs, on Rebrickable. The creation of this MOC was a challenge because it's not something I usually do. In 2024, I would like to explore this theme more. The objects around the minifig and the background together explain the story.

If you don't have any sets that are ad hoc, the MOCs can help you take more realistic photos.

For the background I used part of the the back of the Downtown Dinner, just to situate the garden inside the city.

The story I want to tell is a simple peaceful and happiness moment for these people. Is a simple scenario with only one LED as ambient light."

Thanks for all the insights @lady-brick! If you want to read this artist profile, head to our blog at https://brickentral.net/ - @theaphol, Community Outreach Manager

It's always so sad hearing about just how badly corporate meddling and lowered budgets and shortenings screw over SO many great stories for literally no reason, and we gotta be normal about it

You ever seen a babygirl so babygirl you wanna die? No? Right, right….just me……

Hair?? IDK IT WAS 3am- I was bored- and well….babygirl

Bonus:

He’s so- GUHHHHHHH

found this from 2 months ago lol

So cute

your f/o suprised you with a Lego set to build together!!

You turn on your favorite show that you’ve watched a million times before for background noise and clear some space for your Legos.

When you take the Legos out of the bags, does your f/o have to organize the bricks, or are they picking them out as you go?

Are your f/o’s hands so big that they have a hard time holding bricks? When they make a mistake in the build, how frustrated are they? How likely are they to step on a Lego??

While building, does you f/o remind you to take breaks, or are you two stubbornly determined to get as much done as possible?

When you’ve finished with build, does your f/o immediately start taking pictures, or do you two play with the set?

No matter how it went, you two worked hard and are proud of what you made :D

plot twist: bts dynamite legos were released solely because they knew enha have been obsessed with legos recently