Basics of LEGO Building
- Introduction to the LEGO System
- A brief history of LEGO
- How LEGO clicked: Breaking down a remarkable success story
- Basic LEGO elements
- LEGO measurement units
- LEGO Technic
- Digital Building
- The LDraw format
- All about scale
- Scale and proportion
- Upscaled bricks
- The minifigure scale
- Picking a scale for your model
- Basic LEGO techniques
- Overlapping bricks for a stronger structure
- Alternating the orientation of bricks between layers
- Creating sloping roofs using regular bricks
- Creating sloping roofs using slope pieces
- “Illegal” Techniques
Venturing outside the LEGO grid
- Half stud offsets
- Half stud offsets in one and two dimensions
- Creating recessed wall sections, windows, etc.
- Centering elements with odd vs. even number of studs
- Smoother tapers using jumper plates
- Tapering by unequal amounts in two dimensions
- Other uses of jumper plates
- Building sideways aka SNOT
- The headlight brick
- Bricks with studs on their sides
- SNOT with half stud offsets
- Plates with studs on their sides
- Brackets
- Half plate offsets
- Quarter plate offsets
- Stud reversal
- Angled Walls
- Angled wall basics
- Angled walls using hinge elements
- Angled walls using turntables
- Near triples
- Using jumper plates for even more options
- The “mirrored hypotenuse” technique
- The “switched diagonals” technique
- Creating polygonal walls with LEGO
- Building angled walls in Bricklink Studio
- Round Shapes
- Using SNOT to create small cylinders
- Bending LEGO walls to create round shapes
- Mixing regular bricks with round bricks to create round walls
- Round walls using hinge elements
- Building round walls in Bricklink Studio
- Building a sphere by stacking bricks or plates
- Lowell spheres
Computer-assisted LEGO building
- Mosaics
- Image resolution and color depth
- Image resizing, color quantization and dithering
- Regular mosaics
- Studs-up mosaics
- Lenticular mosaics
- Isometric pattern mosaics
- Creating mosaics in Bricklink Studio
- Sculptures
- Introduction to 3D models
- Voxelization
- Studs-up sculptures
- Mixing bricks and plates in studs-up sculptures
- Studs-out sculptures
- Creating sculptures in Bricklink Studio