I think this is my best yet ^ ^. Or equal with a pic you didn't see yet from the TT jungle MOC.
No retouch.

Inspired by this pic
Background from Dan ! Have a look to his Lego Matrix short movie. Awesome !

I made about 300 shots, I spent an afternoon. I think I'm gonna make a video with the pics, it can almost do a fast anime with fire and smoke.

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25 January 2038, 6:45 a.m.

As the sun is rising on Neo Tokyo's no man's land, Preacher who is the only survivor of his squad, is running for his life. The killing machine, which slaughtered his brothers in arms, is relentlessly chasing him through the wreckage.
Preacher is running for ages through the ruins, zizaging, getting in narrow spaces to buy some time. But the mecha is so agile that he can not lose it.
Preacher is exhausted, he perfectly knows his body is on the point of droping him. He is reaching the edge of the highway that has been cutted in half by airstikes. The mecha is getting closer, he can almost feel its mechanical breath on his back. Preacher would rather risk everything than to get grabbed and crushed by the machine's claws.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, he jumps off the bridge as the mecha is trying to reach him out with its arm.

Here is the last picture of the Lego Tokyo series and my last lego picture !
It is the largest diorama I've ever putted in stage, using almost all the buildings built for the series. It is a bit frustrating to see that we finaly only see the top of the building on the right behind the highway, which is a full half destroyed building. We only see a fraction of it haha, but composition goes first.

The lighting and the posing was the most challenging things on this frame. First to make clear that the minifig is jumping on purpose from the bridge instead of just falling was really tricky. I had to make several long shots to find the right way to do it.

As for the lighting the idea was to get a sun rising and orange and reddish look to get a Blade Runner vibe. It mixes continious light and flash. The background is a matte painting that I had to continiously repaint because there was too much red, there still is too much to my taste.

Next, I will uploaded 3 making of video for the main 3 pictures of the Lego Tokyo series. You will have a really complete behind the scene insides from all the steps from bulding the set, to the shooting.

Please comment and share this picture ! ;-)

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Tyrannosaurus rex versus Triceratops !

When two giants of Jurassic came accross it must have been quite a show. Trees and ground under their massive weight should have kept track of what happened.

Today an adventurous explorer witness the extraordinary fight for survival of these two giants.
T. rex is a huge carnivore and primarily eat herbivorous dinosaurs, including Triceratops. The predator acquired its food through scavenging and hunting. He had the strongest bite of any land animal that ever lived, the dinosaur's bite could exert up to 12, 814 pounds-force which is roughly equivalent to the force of a medium-size elephant sitting down. No doubt a bite from him will be devastating for the Triceratops.

This image is part of an illustrated dinosaur’s book I’m working on with a paleontologist from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturel de Paris. So expect to see a lot of Dino pictures ! :-)

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25 January 2038, 5:30 a.m.

The navy seals recon team is trying to escape. Preacher is draging his wounded brother in arms, Stump, who is opening fire on the mecha. The M4 bullets are useless against it. Rabbit has already been taken down by the fighting bot.
As the threat is very low, メカ is having fun, which means that it disabled its machine guns and taking its time to erase the threat. Basically it’s doing like a cat with a mouse or a spider with a fly caught in its net.
As unpleasant as it seems it could mean a way to survive for Preacher. Stump’s body has been internally broken by a simple punch from the mecha. He won't live long but Preacher is not letting him behind.

メカ is a fully autonomous 6-legged walker tank, equiped with a huge fully rotating anti heavy armored laser gun, 8 grenade launchers, 2 machine guns on the front legs for close range combat. This is a very agile beast designed to fight on both horizontal and vertical zones. It is moving at an incredible speed, every leg of its body is made to kill, to the point where it is trying to avoid as much as possible to open fire.

This incredible mecha has been built by Cole Blaq, a very talented MOCer. I have contacted him with this project in mind and have sent him some inspirotional pictures to achieve something between Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid bestiary and Masamune Shirow's famous Ghost in the shell mecha.

I invite you to discover the building process detailed in Cole Blaq's last article -> cole-blaq.com/shobrick-meets-cole-blaq-neo-tokyo

Make sure to watch his fabulous work on Flickr and Instagram :
www.flickr.com/photos/coleblaq
www.instagram.com/cole_blaq

You probably noticed that the soldiers are made with Tiny Tactical's awesome gear. Make sure to have a look at their website : www.tinytactical.com
Preacher's tattooed arms are from citizen brick : citizenbrick.com/

Oh my god this picture was an everyday challenge to make it right. It has so many things in the same frame, from background to middle and foreground. The fire shot lighting was the trickiest part. I have taken separately the foreground with the two soldiers of the rest, because you know that kind of depth of field is impossible to achieve in one shot, and the fire effect was tricky enough to make the decision to seperate this two things.
So the idea was to get the lighting from the fire on the mecha. At first I tried with bengal lights but the sparkles keep getting everywhere in front of the mecha, so I simply switch to a small ikea lamp. You can notice the shadow of the mecha hand on its left front leg is pretty neat.
Then came the gun firing effect challenge, I wanted it to get it live as all my effects. I sliced of tiny pieces a bengal lights, put the powder on the top of an iron wire and light it. As you can imagine I had to light it so many times. And then on photoshop I mixed two blows to make the final effect. The bullets impacts are made with projections of bengal lights.

The shooting last at list 3 days, as I was not satisfied with the posing, lighting, effects, I kept getting back to the studio until it came up good.

Please let me know what you think of it in the comments !

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Guys I'm so happy ! I had the chance to be hired by Warner Bros to make 5 images with another french artist «Discret» (who made 5 others) for the release of the Lego Star Wars video game : the force awakens.

An intense work of 3 weeks to revisit some of the best moments of the movie. The deal was to bring humor and funky moments to these famous scenes.
Our pictures were first shown in the Lego Star Wars stand at the Comic Con Germany in Stuttgart. It will be displayed soon in France. I can't wait to show you the 4 others pictures and a making-of video.

A part of the deal was also to build two scenes with lego bricks, one showing the crashed imperial destroyer in Jakku’s deserted landscapes and the military First Order gathering on Starkiller base just before they triggered their superweapon.

Here is the « Seagull's squad », starring Poe and the armada of x-wings flying very low during the battle of Takodana. At that time only Poe’s black and orange spaceship was released by Lego. One month later the grey and blue one came out, what a pity !
An other version of this picture was given the green light, one without motion blur on the water where two stormtroopers are fishing on a boat unaware of the massive ships about to fly over them. I still prefer this one with motion blur as it adds more speed feeling even thought I worked hard to get a nice water effect.

I hope you gonna like it, it is the largest diorama I've built so far ! 😹

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