brickville propaganda posters

[james dofine]

these are some of the first propaganda posters made by brickville and personally desingned by the emperor and dictator for life of brickville james. tell me what you think

http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/63240

[Lt. Veers]

First one: Very nice! I like it.

Second one: The picture was stolen from someone else.

Third one: It's okay.

My advice would be to delete the second one, as it could EASILY get you in a heap of trouble.

[Cardinal Brick]

While it seems quite odd to be offering comments on propaganda posters I’ll try. While the background images are good I think there are a number of problems with the text overlay, if you look at most propaganda poster the text isn’t over a picture but a blank background colour so it makes it as easy as possible to read, if it is over a part of the picture you’ll find it’s over something that is nearly a block of colour rather than something with a number of things represented. That’d be my main advice in order to improve the look of the poster and make them seem more real world otherwise good job.

[Ralph_S]

You've obviously put quite a bit effort into these, but I'm not entirely sold. You've obviously seen Dr Sinister's work. The ones made by Dr S seem much more obviously tongue-in-cheek and not so much in yours. It's clear that he's having a laugh and that's probably why I like his a lot more. Perhaps it's also a question of me thinking that his idea is fun and original if one person is doing it, but the fun wearing off very quickly when others follow in his footsteps.

A few technical things: you've changed the aspect ratio of some of the pictures, distorting the figure's proportions. Oh, and enemies is spelled with 'ie' -not a 'y'. I'm not a spelling-nazi, but this caught my eye straight away.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Doctor Sinister]

You've obviously put quite a bit effort into these, but I'm not entirely sold. You've obviously seen Dr Sinister's work. The ones made by Dr S seem much more obviously tongue-in-cheek and not so much in yours. It's clear that he's having a laugh and that's probably why I like his a lot more. Perhaps it's also a question of me thinking that his idea is fun and original if one person is doing it, but the fun wearing off very quickly when others follow in his footsteps.

Thanks Ralph.

James, are your posters based on anything specifically? The Tabletown ones are usually based on one (sometimes two) specific posters of WWII vintage - you'll find that a lot of those types of image generally depict ultra-heroic or patriotic soldiers off to war, and that's what I try to replicate. Shooting minifigs or vehicles from below is a good (albeit tricky) way to give them a larger than life status as it gives the reader the impression that they must try to literally "look up" to the example in the poster, and emulate the hero. Also, the Tabletown images are often multi-layered with judicious use of Photoshop to merge images together and sometimes processing to get interesting effects - those are just a few tips you might (or might not) want to adopt although I stress I'm not an expert.

Ralph is correct - my posters are very much tongue-in-cheek - they are deliberately OTT pastiches of the real thing, boosting the ego of LEGO Doctor Sinister in his quest to wage war. However when you compare the apparently heroic activities of the men in the posters with the men in Grunts, it soon becomes apparent what the truth is...which is why it's fun to put a poster in a Grunts episode every now and then to make the contrast.

Dr. S.

[james dofine]

Thanks Ralph.

James, are your posters based on anything specifically? The Tabletown ones are usually based on one (sometimes two) specific posters of WWII vintage - you'll find that a lot of those types of image generally depict ultra-heroic or patriotic soldiers off to war, and that's what I try to replicate. Shooting minifigs or vehicles from below is a good (albeit tricky) way to give them a larger than life status as it gives the reader the impression that they must try to literally "look up" to the example in the poster, and emulate the hero. Also, the Tabletown images are often multi-layered with judicious use of Photoshop to merge images together and sometimes processing to get interesting effects - those are just a few tips you might (or might not) want to adopt although I stress I'm not an expert.

Ralph is correct - my posters are very much tongue-in-cheek - they are deliberately OTT pastiches of the real thing, boosting the ego of LEGO Doctor Sinister in his quest to wage war. However when you compare the apparently heroic activities of the men in the posters with the men in Grunts, it soon becomes apparent what the truth is...which is why it's fun to put a poster in a Grunts episode every now and then to make the contrast.

Dr. S.

thanks, and I just made them in an hour, so that is maybe why they are like this. and for Ralph, It is not true I wanted to follow DR. Sinister. Brickivlle excist as long as I excist and I have made in those years serveral propaganda posters. These were only the first ones on the internet.

[Ralph_S]

thanks, and I just made them in an hour, so that is maybe why they are like this. and for Ralph, It is not true I wanted to follow DR. Sinister. Brickivlle excist as long as I excist and I have made in those years serveral propaganda posters. These were only the first ones on the internet.

I'm not going to argue with you about it, but perception is everything and some of yours look quite a bit like the ones Dr S. has done. Consider yourself unlucky that he beat you to it when it came to posting them.

BTW, I realise that the problem with the aspect ratio is due to code on MOCpages. It doesn't deal well with photo's that are portrait rather than landscape. To fix it, you need to hack the html code on the page and swap the numbers for height and width for those two photos.

Cheers,

Ralph

Edited July 7, 2008 by Ralph_S