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Yeah, this is my entry on this competition. Music is my passion when we are talking about creationg something own. My original plan was making 10-20 mins medley which would have included all songs but I encountered some technical problems so I abandoned that plan and went on this. LEGO Racers is for me THE game. I first played this game when I had only demo version of this game. Around 2-3 years after that my big brother installed the full version and that was like dream. I finally could save the karts I made and those extra tracks were awesome. I and my younger siblings sucked on that game but we got in Basil the Batlord Then our first PC broke and there went LR I tried to ask my brother to install it again but he was on in his teens and didn't listened me. Around 3-4 years after that we got own gaming PC (for children) and my big bro installed the LR again. I was so happy about that. First time I beat the Rocket Racer and that was such achievement for me :DD Today I just try explore this game and go back the "better days in gaming". When I hear the Main Menu Theme I instatly get cold vibes on my bones and I start jamming it myself I just hoped taht this game would be little harder and multiplayer would be more interesting. Otherwise it's 10/10 game for me.

Full 4K PNG downloadable here. David Roysk is my artist name, kudos to anyone who can guess how I came up with it. This is my entry for the LR competition! Credits for the decals are in the link above. The aim was to make something that looked like a photo a kid might have taken with his toys, of course using photo-manipulation wizardry to get Rob-N-Hood floating haha. I'm not skilled enough to achieve photorealism yet but I think I did an okay job. I used procedural textures for some of the stuff which was a fun technique to experiment with. The ground was partly sculpted and I think I could have done much better with it, but I'd already spent many hours over a couple of weeks and at some point you have to call it a day! Rob-N-Hood was chosen as he was one of my favourite characters in the game, and that was totally not because green is my favourite colour or anything. Captain Redbeard in the Small Transport Truck is a reference to a mod I made which took a ridiculous amount of time to make. Rocket Racer is there because of course he has to be, the ultimate boss and an epic dude too! Racey Hazey is the racer my mum would use when I was a little, and has a (true) story to go with her: Thanks for taking the time to check out my entry! I had an awesome time making it.

Cheers! First the models were built in LEGO Digital Designer, then I used @M2m's converter to bring them into Blender where I posed them. I set up custom materials for the models using the Principled BSDF shader, including a tiny bit of subsurface scattering which breathes a little life into the bricks. Then the meshes were edited a bit, mainly to add bevels to the edges for realism. The ground is a tiled texture from Poliigon which I sculpted large lumps into. For the finer details I used a displacement map, which modifies the mesh on a much more precise level. For the foliage I placed a bunch of objects in LDD, converted them and set up the materials. Then it was a simple case of duplicating them around the scene with slight rotations. I always use an HDRi for lighting and usually some additional lights too, but for this scene the environment lighting was enough. The camera is set up roughly following basic composition techniques like the rule of thirds. A focal point is set with an aperture for depth-of-field as well as a focal length to get a dynamic shot. I considered adding motion blur but decided that to fit the theme of a child taking a photo, it wouldn't make sense, which was great anyway as it's less work for me After countless test renders and constant tweaking to until I was mostly happy (there comes a point where you have to kick out the perfectionist inside!), I sent it to a render farm which spits out a number of different passes that I can use in post-processing. After that a ton of further work is done in Photoshop. Corrections such as fixing "fireflies" (bright white pixels in the render) come first, then I paint in smoke/dust and add mist. Next I use the Nik Collection plugin to do a bunch of colour work which really transforms the image - while it's best to get colours, lighting, etc in the initial render looking as close to the final piece as possible, there's always more that can be done in Photoshop and it's sometimes easier. Finally I'll add a vignette and camera imperfections: film grain, lens distortion and chromatic aberration. Funny enough they're things that real photographers work hard to remove from photos, while CG artists do the opposite to try and get their art looking more realistic haha. Hopefully that was somewhat helpful? Blender can be a bit daunting, but the latest 2.8 update included a huge change to the interface and it's more accessible to new users now.

Hi, So I’ve been working on recreating some of the Doctor Who content from Dimensions. I’ve just been made aware of a hidden area in the Goonies level pack and wondered if anyone knew the best way to get hold of the .dat files? I’m looking to recreate some of the pieces in real life-already figured out the TARDISes and a few other bits, but interested in the construction of the Dalek Emperor. Any ideas guys? thanks MG

Yes! I’ve found these-they’re in the dlc content packs for the DW expansion. funnily enough, I’m looking for the Goonies dlc stuff as it has a further DW expansion included. I’m not at my PC at the moment though, but would love to help as been working on a similar project with the DW stuff

Using Gmod, I decided to create a reunion party for the Lego Racers characters. It was hosted in the Backlot Map happily made by Xiron and Mr Red. It's most of the characters doing antics. The Addon Pack was also made by Xiron. Oh yeah, one of the models used is the Rocket Racers car made by Kirbyguy. Links to the Workshop packs made by Xiron https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=446871335 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=546722527 Link to the Rocket Racer's Car: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1616368402