Angus MacLane and the LEGO Community
Angus MacLane Buy plavix without prescription, is significant to the AFOL community for a number of reasons. Buy plavix online australia, For one, he's an animator at PIXAR who worked on WALL•E (among others) and also directed the short from that film, plavix in australia, Cheapest plavix price, BURN•E. And, generic plavix, Plavix information, more specifically, Angus builds LEGO; he is an AFOL. His LEGO WALL•E is one of the better ones out there (hmm...something about animating the character helps you to understand his dimensions pretty well ;D ), find plavix without prescription. Plavix prescription, And he's made up some of his own themes, like Space Dwarves (here and here) and Clown Wars, cheap plavix tablets. Find plavix no prescription required, A lot of those creations were covered in the Spring 2009 issue of BrickJournal in an interview by Joe Meno.
Enter the CubeDudes
Another theme that Angus invented appears quietly on September 21, buy plavix without prescription. Angus posted 102 characters in a new scale he's developed called "CubeDudes." Umm...wow, lowest price plavix. Drug plavix, Bigger and blockier and cuter than miniland scale, this scale feels very "cartoon" but also professional and crisp, cheap plavix from usa. Plavix pill, The heads are a 3x3 block making use of color variation and different SNOT techniques (depending on the character).
The Brothers Brick Buy plavix without prescription, caught on pretty quick followed by oodles of other blogs. Plavix internet, And what is this, just another blog post about Angus Maclane's CubeDudes, buy plavix once daily. Order cheap plavix online, Nope. After building a couple CupeDudes myself, cheap plavix in uk, Generic plavix online, I started coming up with a whole slew of questions that weren't covered in the various musings of the blogosphere. So I went to the man himself, order discount plavix, Order plavix cheap online, and Angus graciously permitted me to interview him.
 | Why CubeDudes/ What inspired you to come up with them?AM: Sadly, I have a variety of restrictions when it comes to Lego building, buy plavix without prescription. I don't have a lot of room to build anything large, order plavix online. Buy cheap plavix online, I don't have a lot of free time to build so I wanted to find something to make that didn't take very long to complete. I had just seen G.I.Joe: Resolute and I was inspired to make a "Snake Eyes" in Lego, discount plavix. Cheap generic plavix, I know there were a few "Snake Eyes" Mini-Figs out there on the internets but I'm not really into decals. Buy plavix without prescription, So I thought about making him in Mini-Land scale. I started building the head and realized that with the eye pieces a 3x3 scale would look much better than a 2x2 scale, buy plavix internet. Where to order plavix, I then thought that having him super-deformed would be much more appealing. After I finished Snake Eyes, canada plavix, Buy discount plavix online, well I needed a Storm Shadow so...and I just kept going. |
How did you settle on the "standard" you ended up with? Was it a lot of trial and error, or did you hit on it pretty quick?
AM: It came pretty quick once I started building Snake Eyes, order plavix no prescription required. Plavix us, I think it took me about five or six 'Dudes until I established the rules for myself. The biggest changes in settling on the design was the availability of pieces. Originally the arms were 1x3 round slopes which made for a really stylized "Popeye" type arm, buy plavix without prescription. Since those elements are less common and don't come in tan I nixed that idea even though it was an extremely appealing aspect of the design, plavix without prescription. Plavix in australia, Actually one of the biggest choices I had to make was what color to settle on for the caucasian skin tone. I had to choose between yellow or tan and I ended up going with tan. This was mainly because there were many more characters that needed yellow for their costumes than tan, get plavix. Canadian plavix, Of course now I can't really do Indiana Jones or Duke from G.I. Joe because they will appear half nude.
Which CubeDude(s) came first?
Buy plavix without prescription, AM: In order: Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Destro, Robocop, Cobra Commander, Cobra Soldier, Baroness. After that I'm not sure, plavix online pharmacy. Discount plavix online, I wanted to do a chunk of Cobra and G.I.Joes. Cobra was easier because they use common Lego colors, plavix in malaysia. Cheapest generic plavix online, A lot of Joes are shades of green that I don't have much of. That's why the Joe character choice seems so random.
What is your favorite overall character or theme that you've built of the CubeDudes so far, buy plavix without prescription. and why?AM: Robocop is probably my favorite character, plavix rx. His design just ended up working out so well. In making him I arrived at the convention of using a white 1x1 round stud as teeth and gums. Although a lot of the CubeDudes use this design it is somehow the funniest to me on Robocop. |  |
Why did you build so many before posting. Buy plavix without prescription, Just trying to blow us all away, or ensure that you had the opportunity to build all the cool ones you wanted to first. =)
AM: There were a few reasons I built the amount of CubeDudes that I did before releasing them. First of all, I was much more excited about building the CubeDudes than taking pictures of them. Originally I had planned to release them in conjunction with The Transformers sequel or the new G.I. Joe movie as a shout out to the original (and in my opinion) superior design choices. When those dates came and went I just kept building. I asked my good friend Scott Clark to photograph them and as soon as they were ready I posted them, buy plavix without prescription.I decided that before I released the images I wanted to make sure that I had built at least something in a bunch of properties that I cared about. Now I've only built a fraction of the ones that I want to build, but I made a big enough variety to sketch out the vision for the breadth of my CubeDude genre interests. For example in the initial release I had made a few movie themed properties that were fairly well known. Now that the CubeDudeMovie folder is established I might go and make My Dinner With Andre CubeDudes since there is a frame of reference.
How long did it take to build all those. Were you on vacation or something?
Buy plavix without prescription, AM: I started over a weekend and it took me a while to figure out the first few designs. After I settled on the style I made trays with the 15 or so different main elements and put them on my drawing table at work. When I had a moment here and there I chip away at a few at a time. I'll have the body of one 'Dude and a head of another that I will be working on at the same time. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to make one CubeDude and I average about two a day. I've been working on this for over 4 months so that's why I have about 100 now.
I see you've got a decent selection you're taking to BrickCon -- but not all...did you have to re-use a lot of bricks and tear down during your process, or do you actually have every single one of those built right now?
AM: I have not broken down any of the CubeDudes that you see pictured. They are on shelves on my wall at work.
Are you hoping to set up a collaborative display at Brick-Con (i.e, buy plavix without prescription. hey, everyone build a CubeDude and bring it?)
AM: I think some sort of collaborative display or a CubeDude building workshop would be really fun if people were interested. Unfortunately I think that it is a little short notice for this year.
Did you have any characters you tried to build that just didn't fit into the CubeDudes format?
AM: There are a ton of characters that I want to build that have color schemes that Lego hasn't made or hasn't made a ton of. More purple would really help me out in making villains such as Lex Luthor, The Joker, Grimace, etc.As far as failed attempts- I tried to do a Princess Leia in Boush Bounty Hunter disguise. I ran into problems with the "muzzle" and decided to abandon it.
Buy plavix without prescription, You mentioned setting up a template for CubeDudes in LEGO Digital Designer. Do you do a lot of work in LDD. Did you use it to help create the CubeDudes?
AM: Lego Digital Designer is a good program, but I don't really use it to build anything from scratch. I find I get more ideas and happy accidents when I build with real bricks. Also LDD doesn't allow a few SNOT techniques, so that can get frustrating after a while. I did build a CubeDude in LDD that I'll get around to posting online soon. LDD let me build it almost exactly as I would have in real life (except for the SNOT ears).
What pieces do you wish The Lego Company manufactured that would make it possible to make a wider variety of CubeDudes?
AM: Oh there are a few elements on my wish list. As I said more purple (light and dark) would help out, buy plavix without prescription. More light and dark green elements would be greatly appreciated as well. 3x3 plates would save me a lot of pieces. 1x1 round tiles and inverted cheese slopes would be sweet. Cheese slope corner pieces would make better hair. 1x2 solid cheese slopes would make a lot of adult fans of lego happy.
A big thank-you to Angus for taking the time to answer my questions. And now it's time for you to go build your own CubeDude and add it to the CubeDudes pool on Flickr.
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