Using LEGO to represent a fictional world?

[General Magma]

I'm currently in the process of working on the first ideas for the creation of my own fantasy world & stories set in it (in a medieval fantasy setting),

of which I've had thoughts of doing for years now, and the idea has always been to visually represent it in LEGO. By that I mean, depending on

future circumstances and how things will end up going, having pictures of LEGO scenes (cinematic looking pictures is what I would be aiming for)

alongside the written stories, but also - imagining a website devoted to this fantasy universe - images on certain pages with, for example,

information about a certain city, and then the image for that page would be a LEGO scene representing that specific city.

There would be such an image for most pages - think of something like... movie scenes or paintings converted

into LEGO versions, if you need a better example (there could be an occasional picture placed alongside the story IF I were to post those on such a website).

However, now I'm kinda wondering if this would be a good idea in the first place. It might not be able to reach out to as many people,

it might somewhat diminish the seriousness of it all, so I'm rather stuck with this dilemma at the moment, hindering progress.

It could end up being something neat and unique, maybe, but perhaps it won't really work that well in the end.

Alternatives I had in mind were: to do something with digital art (I'd have to learn to do this using Photoshop first),

or just nothing but written text, which I might find the least favorable but not necessarily unacceptable.

All in all, I'm looking for some insight on this as well as some ideas and thoughts - what would you think of the initial idea of using LEGO?

What do you think others may think of it? Would it be good enough for something like this, or do you think I'd be better off going with something like digital art instead?

Any other ideas & suggestions that revolve around this matter would be welcome, too.

Edited May 20, 2015 by General Magma

[omegabob]

I would say do it in Lego if that is how you see your world. You are never going to please everyone so you might as well tell your story the way you want to tell it with the visuals you want to use. Which ever route you go it is going to involve a good deal of work so you might as well make sure you are enjoying the work part of it as much as the finished result.

Please post a link to your site once you get it up and running as it does sound interesting.

[Vorkosigan]

I'd say go for it with LEGO if that's your passion. Its more about the quality of what you do than the media in my opinion. And I don't think its so easy to create full artwork from scratch using photoshop, unless you are already skilled at drawing by hand.

[General Magma]

I've been drawing by hand for years now, so I think I don't have to worry much about that - I should be skilled enough to

be able to get a great head start for learning how to create digital art using Photoshop.

All in all, I have come to the conclusion that I must go with digital art,

this conclusion was raised by the following factors:

1) The things I want to create are simply impossible for me to do using LEGO. My collection is too limited for that,

but with digital art, I'd be able to create anything related to my lore, no matter the size of it all.

2) Increasing my collection of pieces may be possible, but the costs for that would be too huge if I were to look at

what I'd probably need - add to that the costs of a new, proper camera, and it would likely be far more expensive

than getting a tablet for digital art.

Those are the two main factors. I will most likely still recreate some of the events that take place in my stories

in LEGO, but the "canonical visuals" will be created as digital art. Thanks for the responses, any more tips for the creation

of such a fantasy universe are still welcome - and omegabob, I'll try to remember your post to send you a link to it the day it will be opened.