The computer finally arrived at my doorstep a few weeks ago. I built him to find several pros and cons...but mostly cons. I'll explain in pictures and videos.
The box (not) upon arrival.
The back of the box.
Look closer.
Now that's a glitch!
How come I suddenly have two boxes?
Oh. The custom "box" is just a cover.
So I was a little disappointed with the box. How about the contents? The computer is assembled out of 299 Lego elements. Here's the finished product.
Other than his awkward, inhuman legs (which appear so due to my own poor designing), he looks pretty okay. He resembles the computer from my imagination. But to make a feature-length brickfilm (i.e. stop-motion lego movie), heck, even a 10 second brickfilm with this guy, would be a herculean labor. I wish I could show you why, but I don't have a very good webcam. Anyway, he's extremely fragile, and the few parts of his body that move without breaking move too much and can't stay still like clay. In the program I used to make "The computer in CGI", the virtual computer had built in muscles so I could keep his limbs in a certain spot. Now with the real computer, his arms just fall off when I try to move him. I could use fishing wire or tons of tape to try to immobilize him for a single frame of film, but it'd still take massive time and effort to animate him in real life.
I still think
Oedipus has gigantic potential as a brickfilm and even more as a live-action film (although I have none of the tools or resources to produce such a movie). But if I want to make it, I'll have to take the computer back to the drawing board, and figure out a way to make him STAND UP!!
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