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Gideon+Minifig == Skeletal Shenanigans

by Thomas -elfprince13- Dickerson · 08/01/2011 (9:40 am) · 6 comments

Here's an entertaining video showing off what happens when you attempt to rig a Lego minifigure to Gideon's skeleton without any modifications. There really isn't all that much more to it, except that I find these sort of "development bloopers" to be good fun and worth sharing. I'll try to post more of these as I have more interesting accidents/stages of partial completion. It also helps keep a bit of a "lets see how far we've come" log.

Please excuse the greyed-out introduction. Youtube and Handbrake don't seem to be good buddies.

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#1
08/01/2011 (1:51 pm)
A few hours of tweaking skeletons by hand later:
img6.imageshack.us/img6/9342/screenshot20110801at447.png
Also, he leaves lego-shaped footprints now.
#2
08/01/2011 (3:22 pm)
Haha, I remember the good old days of the Orange Guy looking like this when I exported animations wrong... fun for the whole family!
#3
08/01/2011 (4:39 pm)
I've had some animation export horror stories over the years ...
#4
08/01/2011 (4:57 pm)
Looks painful...
#5
08/01/2011 (7:30 pm)
S2P: for the minifig or for me? ;)
#6
08/02/2011 (6:16 am)
@Thomas - both? :)