Super hero effects - MARVEL

[kevkipo]

Hello lads,

I've seen a lot of creative idea's on this website over the years, but i found one thing a bit... "Lacking". Something i wanted to see more of...

I always like special effects, i love them in fact. It's what makes a movie awesome to me, from Thor's lightning to Smaug's fire it's what makes everything believable

As a Lego fanatic i want to avoid Photoshop as much as possible, and create my own effect using the thing i just photographed! (Does that make sence?)

I've seen lot's of great Brick effects on Flickr, Like this awesome Nightcrawler BAMF! effect from Tim Lydy - https://www.flickr.c...s-77334655@N07/

This amazing Gambit effect from my good friend Grantmasters (Who makes LOTS of these)

- https://www.flickr.c.../in/dateposted/

And my all time favourite explosion effect, by Torsten Bonsch ( I still don't get how he does it)

- https://www.flickr.c...v-pV64uL-pV64nS

So because i love those effects so much, i decided to make a thread for it. and for Everyone to share their effects here may it be Ant-Man, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, Wolverine etc... the craziest things

And i decided to make an easy guide for effects with a part lay out so everyone can join the fun and make their own.

So first up is Quicksilver:

1. My personal favourite

It's a great example of Quicksilvers speed trail from Age of Ultron, easy to make and it looks awesome in MOC's

2. The sleek effect

This one is very Cartoony / Comic like, it turns out as a very sleek effect. Working with the colours that come from the Quicksilver Minifigure

3. The busting Ultron drone effect

This one also represents the speed trail effect from Age of Ultron, except this one doesn't follow the colours of his clothes and hair, this is a blurred line really, and the nice parts are the Ultron drone bodyparts flying around, just like in the movie (Altough not possible in different angles sadly)

And then the one i almost forgot

4. The very easy effect

As said very easy, just a single Banner / Flag piece in trans blue (True )

So i hope there are some of you that like to contribute to this thread, and i would love it even more if someone actually uses these effects!

Next up Doctor Strange:

Edited September 21, 2015 by kevkipo

[The Lego Nolan]

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[kevkipo]

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Edited September 21, 2015 by kevkipo

[Darkstone]

Particularly like your '3. The busting Ultron drone effect' and totally agree with you that Torsten Bonsch's explosion effect is very, very cleverly done.

Edited September 21, 2015 by Darkstone

[kevkipo]

Particularly like your '3. The busting Ultron drone effect' and totally agree with you that Torsten Bonsch's explosion effect is very, very cleverly done.

Neat right? still don't know how he does it. Thanks for the FB!

[Ultron]

His explosion effect is certainly very good, although the 2D smoke is simply not doing it for me. That should be 3D. Anyway, I really want to give my Quicksilver a running effect. Right now I just gave him the trans-blue "magic" pieces they idiotically gave to Scarlet Witch and it works well enough but it could be better. Do you have a general idea of how many of each of those trans pieces are required for the streak effect? I don't want to buy too many or not enough.

[kevkipo]

His explosion effect is certainly very good, although the 2D smoke is simply not doing it for me. That should be 3D. Anyway, I really want to give my Quicksilver a running effect. Right now I just gave him the trans-blue "magic" pieces they idiotically gave to Scarlet Witch and it works well enough but it could be better. Do you have a general idea of how many of each of those trans pieces are required for the streak effect? I don't want to buy too many or not enough.

You mean these? right?: http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=11601#T=C

And you let your QS hold it? could you explain the technique

[Ultron]

Yeah I just put them in his hands and then move his arms so that the pieces are facing behind him. The effect isn't bad, but it's not as good as a brick built one.

[N_Cat]

First off, this is NOT mine, it's from JaredChan's amazing AoU MOC:

but what I really like is that his speed effects are wispy. In the movie, they are translucent white-ish wispy lines that almost resemble lightning bolts. The only problem is you can't chain them together. If you wanted that, you might have to go to the old flame/water spout pieces with the side pegs. Has anyone tried that?

[kevkipo]

First off, this is NOT mine, it's from JaredChan's amazing AoU MOC:

*snip*

but what I really like is that his speed effects are wispy. In the movie, they are translucent white-ish wispy lines that almost resemble lightning bolts. The only problem is you can't chain them together. If you wanted that, you might have to go to the old flame/water spout pieces with the side pegs. Has anyone tried that?

I liked that MOC very much as well, i tried to get the Whispy effect with Nr 3

Edited September 22, 2015 by Captain Nemo
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[N_Cat]

I liked that MOC very much as well, i tried to get the Whispy effect with Nr 3

Yeah, I totally picked up on that. Of your four, number 3 is by far the closest to the movie effect. Not that the others are bad- they're really, really good for implying superhuman speed, they just aren't imitating how Age of Ultron did it.

[kevkipo]

Yeah, I totally picked up on that. Of your four, number 3 is by far the closest to the movie effect. Not that the others are bad- they're really, really good for implying superhuman speed, they just aren't imitating how Age of Ultron did it.

Thanks! found that as well, i just love how the Ultron parts fly around in the movie, tried to capture that. Could be better but Oh well...

[kevkipo]

Next up is Doctor Strange the Sorcerer Supreme

These powers represent all of his Comic abilities (Of course there are more) feel free to use in MOC's!

Next up, Hawkeye or Scarlet Witch

Edited November 3, 2015 by kevkipo