Building Lifelike Sculptures with LEGO
The Final Assembly
A course by Samuel Hatmaker , LEGO Artist
About the video: The Final Assembly
Overview
“Lastly, I will show you how to put all of the parts together! Then, you will learn how to make any final adjustments that will bring your model to a strong finish.”
In this video lesson Samuel Hatmaker addresses the topic: The Final Assembly, which is part of the Domestika online course: Building Lifelike Sculptures with LEGO. Learn to bring your design ideas to life by creating unique and versatile sculptures from start to finish using LEGO.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Final Assembly Now that we've finished the legs, we have the body and the legs, the head and the neck, and the feather fans. In this lesson, we'll do the final assembly. First, we'll attach the head and the neck to the body. We've used SNOT bricks in the front, and I've designed it with a ridge, so we can line up the two parts. When the two hit each other, I know I'm lined up and I squeeze them together. It looks beautiful. Now we'll take the feather fans. I designed the two handles to fit together, and lock into place with two studs. The great thing about LEGO is you can measure usin...”
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Course summary for: Building Lifelike Sculptures with LEGO
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Areas
Art Toys, Arts & Crafts
Samuel Hatmaker
A course by Samuel Hatmaker
Samuel Hatmaker is a toymaker from Michigan who spent two decades designing and developing children’s toys in New York City. As a lifelong LEGO fan, he rediscovered his childhood passion after a ten-year hiatus and started building LEGO sculptures with his technical knowledge of toy design. His model inspired by The Golden Girls went viral on social media, encouraging him to tackle more large-scale projects like his portrait series Chicks with Bricks, a collection of realistic LEGO mosaics depicting pop icons.
In 2020, Samuel appeared as a contestant on the first season of LEGO Masters, and his art has been displayed in galleries all over the world, including the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego and Art Basel in Miami. As a prolific toymaker, he has also created toys for renowned brands such as Marvel, DC, Hello Kitty, Nickelodeon, Disney, Crayola, Mattel, Hasbro, and more.
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