Hello, my name is Nick

[prepmaster]

I'm a father of two girls 2 and 5. I took the family to Legoland in Orlando, FL last week. We all loved it. We didn't see the first half of the park... My older daughter is good with puzzles. I am aiming to keep her motivated by explaining and modeling LEGOs as a 3D puzzle. She can even read through the instruction booklet alright. I imagine she will develop if I can keep her motivated. We don't have a bin of legos like I did once upon a time. I used to have tons....I'm on idea.lego right now checking out what seems to be coming out. Some of these ideas are pretty attractive. I have a little bit different flavor of purpose in mind. I thought for my own purposes, it would be fun to build lego sets and sink them in my aquarium for decor. I loved the LEGO movie sets and have not bought any but would consider. I also enjoyed the lego monuments gallery at the theme park. I especially enjoyed marveling the lego pirate ships battling. If I could build one of those... That would be awesome. Another thought I had is... how do people get these digital lego photos? What program is used? Can the lego sets in the program be converted to sets? Could a picture be converted to a set? I don't know who to ask but some of the MOC submissions on here make me think I might be talking to the right person. Please let me know. Thanks!

[Littleworlds]

Hello there! Welcome to Eurobricks! Glad your kids enjoy their Lego!  

I am not an expert in building Lego with digital tools, but here is what I know: The building tool for making digital models is called LDD (Lego digital designer). Many digital builder use 3D modelling programs like blender for post production and a more realistic render. There are also ways to automatically generate instructions from the LDD files iirc. I guess there are tutorials or at least discussion about the software in the LDD subforum. I don't think it is possible to make Lego models only from pictures (yet!)