Half-Life's Black Mesa Test Chamber, In LEGO Form4/22/16 9:30am One of the most memorable scenes of Half-Life was right at the beginning, when Gordon Freeman woke up in a severely damaged test chamber, realizing that getting out of the facility will be a bit problematic. LEGO builder Dorian Glacet created a superb diorama, called Resonance Cascade, showing the events that led to this very important moment, using LDD and Mecabricks.Lego Robox100 LegoToys LegoAvenger MechsLego AvengerAvenger TitansFlickr TinmanDavi LegoLego SampleForward" Tinman X Ironman " by Titans Creations Lego Mech Suits for the Avengers In this brilliant series, Titan Creations designs Leg... The LEGO Ideas platform has made blocky sets from franchises like Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, and Adventure Time come to life. The site accepts submissions from fans, and if a concept projects get enough supporters—10,000 to be exact—it moves onto a review from LEGO. Set designers and marketing representatives from LEGO evaluate the idea, and after that, the project could become a set on shelves.
The “I Am Amelia Earhart” set hopes to earn that honor. The pilot and her plane were designed by Alatariel. You may recognize her name as the designer behind The Research Institute, the wonderful LEGO set devoted to female scientists, which was released in 2014; this set also came about thanks to LEGO Ideas. This time around, Alatariel has made an Amelia minifig based on the book I Am Amelia Earhart by Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos. The title is part of a series of illustrated children’s books featuring figures such as George Washington and Jane Goodall. Amelia flies a yellow biplane in this set. It’s the one she bought for herself and named Canary. The minifig and plane are made from 186 parts. I think it would make an awesome present for any little girl. And hey, if the project works out, Meltzer and Eliopoulos can turn their attention to making sets inspired by their other books. You have almost a year to lend your support to the project, but why wait?
You can jump over to LEGO Ideas to add your vote. Will you be supporting this pilot project? Let me know in the comments. IMAGES: I Am Amelia EarhartYellow Submarineproduct_label_list_price_accessibility 43 Reviews121FIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISIdeasLet’s all live in a Yellow Submarine with The Beatles! Yellow Submarine Reviews - page 2We wanted to share with you some of the amazing artwork and creativity from around the community that caught our eye over the past fifteen years. Like in all of our other compilations from our 15 Years of Half-Life celebration, we cannot cover everything under the sun and we have very likely forgotten or have not seen many other amazing things too. Please feel free however to remind us!Throughout these 15 years the game has attracted quite a vast array of artists throughout many forms of artistic efforts. Half-Life has a very creativity community. As a result, there has been an overload of Half-Life fan-art and creations that has and is still being produced after all these years.
Half-Life is now fifteen. Ok we already known that by now, right?Ok we already known that by now, right? Throughout these 15 years the game has attracted quite a vast array of artists throughout many forms of artistic efforts. We wanted to share with you some of the amazing artwork and creativity from around the community that caught our eye over the past fifteen years. Please feel free however to remind us! Shaylyn Hamm, or known more well known to the community as ‘Chemical Alia’ has produced an amazing collection of digital artwork relating to Valve’s games, especially the Half-Life series. Shaylyn actually works for Gearbox Software as an environmental artist and recently worked on Borderlands 2, so you know that this is going to be some serious stuff! You can see an entire list of her Valve-related works on a list on the Steam Forums. Check out here entire folder of Valve stuff and her own personal creations here. If there was one thing Valve missed out from Half-Life 2, it is that there are not enough jokes about toilets in it, right?
Well, thanks to Chris Livingston, there is a fix. Concerned is a webcomic about the (half) life and death of Gordon Frohman on his misadventures through City 17 and it’s outskirts. It has received a lot of recognition from popular international gaming magazines and publications such as Joystiq and PC Zone, it even has it’s own Wikipedia article! The story (if you have not already read it (which we recommend you do!)), is supposedly set in a short time before Gordon Freeman actually arrives. Frohman, unlike Freeman (and pretty much the rest of humanity) actually loves life under the Combine’s domination and suppression and becomes disappointed when he cannot be surgically transformed into a Combine Solider. Along his paths he comes across many Half-Life 2 characters we are all familiar with, however Frohams take is most always clumsy and bewildered. Livingston started working on the comic in 2005 as a hobby using Garry’s Mod to create scenes and poses which were then screen-captured and edited into a comic format.
The main aim was to bring a bit of humour to Half-Life 2′s story in a way we all could relate to. Well, I thought Half-Life 2 was a great game, but there simply weren’t enough jokes about toilets in it. So, I thought a comic would be a good place to get some humor into the game. I came up with the idea for Frohman, a complete idiot, to play all the way through the game, just like Freeman only instead of being a hero, he’d be a complete fool. You can read the full comic over on Christopher’s site, Screen Cuisine. Like with Concerned, Garry’s Mod became a very popular tool for comic makers. There have been many Comics produced over the years, with Concerned being possibly the most well known. Whilst we obviously couldn’t list them all, here are a few that grabbed our attention over the past 15 years. Oh and if you want to see more, check out the Screenshots or Creations section on the Facepunch forums. You can find a few on Metrocop.net, a small and relatively new blog dedicated to Gmod Comics.
If you have ever snooped around for good Half-Life wallpapers then there is no doubt you have prably come across by the work of Colin M. Winkler, a.k.a WillhelmKranz. ‘tastytofusoup’ has published an insane amount of screenshots from the Half-Life series, mainly Half-Life 2. However his screenshots are not ordinary screenshots. I don’t know if there is a proper name for what he does, but you could call it ‘game photography’. Check out his work on his blog. Some amazing hand-crafted sculptures of various Xen creatures from the Half-Life Series, even including a Chumtoad! In 2012, a user known as Corinthian created an entire map a map of Half-Life 1, from the start of Anomalous Materials to the end of Xen, even including friend/enemy locations. What’s even more amazing is that Corinthian claims it was drawn from memory. Click the image to view full size. Also check out Vic’s article about this from last year. A Flickr user by the name of ‘Orrange’ has showcased a range of extremely detailed Lego themed Half-Life sets over the years.
The collection contains a variety of main characters, enemies and scenes. You can check out Orrange’s Flickr gallery here. Protokol is a user who creates animated-gif images of various NPC animations and movements. Protokol’s work captures the animations in quite a raw form and uses the looping of gif-animations to repeat the sequences infinitely. You can check out all of her work here. Shane Hillman, also known as ‘BryanTheEvery’ is an illustrator from Canada. He created a compilation of Half-Life monsters. He did quite a few and you can check them all out on his DeviantArt Gallery and also on his blog. It’s almost like a recap of everything from Half-Life 1 to Half-Life 2. A cool pixel recreation that makes me wonder what Half-Life could have been as a SNES rpg. Finally, some use for Barnacles other than sucking up explosive barrels. This gravity gun was made far before NECA started selling their own. Read about this one here. A a few maps that visualise Black Mesa Research Facility (click for full size).