For 10,000 posts in 10 years – a gallery of Lego skiing

Holte

Holte

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So I broke my ankle earlier this fall, which has given me plenty of time to do things like watch old ski movies, play video games, and clean out my closet. While finishing the closet-cleaning part of that list, I came across several massive boxes of old Legos, and since dusting off the Legos seemed like a better time investment than playing another 30 hours of video games, I decided to combine two awesome things: Legos and skiing.

These images are made with a free application called Lego Digital Designer, which I initially used in the planning phase of the Chad’s Gap shot, and then kept using for the final renders when it became apparent that building the physical sets would take several years and an enormous amount of money. Plus, building with Legos on a laptop is very mobile, and the ability to copy and paste bricks is really nice.

For my 10,000th post and 10 year anniversary on NS, I present a collection of iconic skiing images as Lego!

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I had been working on this one when the news came out about JP. Wish he'd been able to see it.

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Here's what I'm working on now: the kangaroo flip.

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what a sick thread. i don't think i'd have enough self control to make sure my 10,000th post is on my 10 year anniversary. well done holte!
 
duuuuude this is sick! Stoked to see some more Lego + skiing stuff besides the Lego freeskiing animation I did last year.

Lego just needs to make a damn twin tip mold now... Haha
 
This is incredible. It's not easy. I appreciate this. Shit... man, this is some fun and high quality work

(I did a lego animation last year, not ski related, find it on patrickcrosman.com if you care)
 
So so cool! Super impressed, inspiring me to spend my down time at home doing something more productive than just being on my computer.

Hope your ankle is healing up nicely!
 
Fuck yeah. This is the proper way to get a 10000th lost. Definitely lacking a TWall superunknown though, hope you keep these up!
 
Thanks guys! It's been a fun and unique off-season project.

13200990:jlens05 said:
is this hard to do?
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Each one took between 4 and 8 hours, not counting render time. The renders usually ran overnight. Grab the software and find out.

13201596:DIX~ said:
Fuck yeah. This is the proper way to get a 10000th lost. Definitely lacking a TWall superunknown though, hope you keep these up!
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That's the tough thing, his Superunknown edit was a video, not a still image. I'd love to do a Wallisch shot, but there's not one single shot that stands out to me. Feel free to post up some rad images though.

13201768:iLLbiLLy said:
sick, but no red ledge?

How did you render the pow slash one?
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There DOES need to be a red ledge one. I started looking through the history of the red ledge a few weeks ago, but there aren't many stills. I know there's a great shot of Matt Walker, but I can't find it.

The pow slash one is a composite of a handful of actual slash photos that I just tweaked in Photoshop. I was waiting for the shot of Kaya at Nine Queens to finish rendering, and I wanted to do something with CR Johnson, and I just started playing around without a plan. That's the only one that's not a recreation of an actual photo - just a memory representation of CR skiing deep pow in EDIAS.

Again, post some pics if you guys have any. Images with strong architectural elements tend to work the best - I started making Seth's double front flip off the hundred foot cliff in Believe, but building the cliff would have taken a month - so LJ got a shot instead.
 
T-heed and JP from propaganda? Those two are amazing! how long did those take you to put together?
 
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