Behind the Scenes: Lego – 1917

INTRODUCTION

Hello! My title is Andrew Herman, and I’m a self-taught 3D artist. I noticed a brief movie created in Blender in 2015 and immediately wished to make one myself! After seven years of expertise, I’ve develop into a proficient Blender artist and love creating superior renders in my spare time.

INSPIRATION

I’ve all the time cherished LEGO. It is superb how highly effective such simplicity might be! After I found LEGO software program like Mecabricks and LDD, it was a no brainer. Now, I might construct and render my fashions with entry to each brick ever! (Not solely that, however my pc loves the truth that there are solely about 100 polygons in a brick, in contrast to 1.2 million in a photorealistic tree stump.)

I ended up buying the Mecabricks Advanced addon for Blender, which is extremely highly effective. It presents customizable values for fingerprints, scratches, SSS, bevels, and dents, considerably enhancing the standard of the ultimate renders.

I take pleasure in what I name “body matches” with LEGO in Blender, the place I attempt to replicate a body from a film precisely in Blender, like this body from Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker:

Body:

Render:

A couple of weeks in the past, I noticed the film “1917”, and was like, “I gotta make that!”

TEXTURING

First, I wanted to design a customized minifigure for the primary character, Lance Corporal Schofield. I exported a minifig of a WW1 soldier from Mecabricks, imported it into Blender, after which unpacked the textures.

After that, I imported the textures into Adobe Photoshop and painted over them so as to add blood, particles, mud, mud, and so on., to create that wartime really feel.

That is the ultimate minifigure I designed of Lance Corporal Schofield.

SCENE

I imported the customized minifigure into Blender and positioned it in a manner that finest complemented the scene. Then, I created a digicam with the Arri Mini LF sensor preset, the identical digicam that was used within the film.

Subsequent, I imported a Quixel Megascans grass asset that I bought, particularly Tundra Grass, and scattered it utilizing the superb addon Gscatter from the Graswald Group.

I adjusted the Gscatter preferences to attain the very best outcomes after which moved on to lighting.

LIGHTING