I had already used the same location near my home to show a canoe falling into the waterfall. But I wanted to take the storytelling a step further and feature a team of unhappy pirates who had made the wrong choices and were about to lose their entire fortune!
I'd like to take this opportunity to share some behind-the-scenes footage with you ;)
This image is just fun to look at. The pirates face, the frozen moment of almost falling, the coins going down the waterfall.
It is also quite challenging with so many flying objects around, the moving water, the frozen action. It is very well done!
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Never mind the time you are in - when you travel back from your holidays you always seem to carry more than you left with...
As an entry for this month contest on @brickcentral "Going on Holiday" I interpreted this conundrum I have encountered a couple of times myself in three different time periods.
This is the legendary treasure of the restless pirate. Well hidden on a lonely island, it should give every restless person eternal peace and blissful sleep 😴
🤩 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: pirates016
Hello everyone!
It's time to direct the spotlight toward our community members, and today we will get to know better pirates016!
"Hello AFOLs, my name is Grégory and I'm from France.
I was a huge LEGO fan during the 90's. I've collected pirates theme but mostly city with trains. I also was a Star Wars fan and I've built MOCs of it, because there were no official LEGO sets at that time.
Four years ago my kids started to play with LEGO and when I saw my old Eldorado Fortress and Caribbean Clipper the flame reignited in me. At that time there was the new pirates of barracuda bay so I knew I have to build it. With this set I discovered so many new LEGO parts and building techniques that it was the beginning of a new era for me after 25 years of dark age.
My collection was growing but I was sad to see all these sets taking dust on my shelf after building them. It was at this point that I decided to make LEGO photo because it was kind of a new way to play with it.
I started my instagram account three years ago to share my love for pirates theme.
Unfortunately I was a newbie in photography (and still I am ) and I began to learn some photo techniques with youtube videos and following account on instagram, like Brickcentral.
At the beginning, the easiest way to progress was to snap outdoors photos because it needs no set up or materials.
On the other side, I couldn't shoot all my sets outside so I began to try studio photoshoot, which was more difficult for me because I had to learn how to use lights.
Talking about gear, I'm shooting with a Canon 550D and to light my scene I normally use a LED ring, a lume cube or a small LED kit.
To create my scenes I always use very basics products, like wood, tree moss, sand and printed wallpaper for the background. My goal is to recreate natural scene and so I want to use what I can find in nature."
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This minifig came together by happenstance and, after a few revisions, has become one of my favorite minifigures to date!
One of the ways I like putting together minifigs is by starting with an interesting torso and letting it inform the rest of the parts usage. That approach is very evident here and it’s one of the best showcases of it.
I’m so satisfied with how many LEGO greens are represented in this minifigure; the nod to the Phantasm with the mask and hook placement; and that I was able to build an octopirate! The Hidden Side tentacles gave her a much more interesting silhouette and the addition of Raya’s sword is just chef’s kiss!