Having played both LEGO Racers and LEGO Stunt Rally, I was curious: what would a combination of these two games look like? So I came up with the idea of LEGO Racers but with the perspective of LEGO Stunt Rally. I definitely bit of a lot more than I could chew with this project.
I started of by planning out the whole video before I made anything. Firstly there was a decision to be made about what map would suit this new view the best. Most importantly, the amount of interior/cave sections had to be very low. I have to remove all of the roofs and walls to make sure you can still see the cars. Knightmare-athon was the one I decided to use. But Desert Adventure Dragway and Royal Knights Raceway were also considered.
When everything was planned out, it was time to start building the map, I imported the original map from the game. Which filled me with nostalgia. I felt the same way with the LEGO Island in VR video, it's such a strange yet cool feeling to see the inner workings of a map you've spend so much time on as a child. The walls were raised, the roofs removed and certain 3D models improved.
Then it was time to lay out the animation. I firstly animated the "main" car. After that I animated the opponent cars. When you play LEGO Stunt Rally, you'll notice how much of the time you spend driving alone. You only really see the other drivers at the start. I wanted to have that same feeling with this video, but to a lesser degree. So there are sections were all of the drivers are on screen and sections were the main car is the only one. Then it was time for the powerups. And ohh boy, did I underestimate the amount of work of this. Keeping track of what bricks what car has picked up was really difficult. It's also very important that the character of the opponents are still there. So Captain Redbeard favours the red bricks, King Kahuka the blue ones and Basil the Batlord pretty much of all of them. The scene was rendered multiple times because of wrong powerup selections.
At the end of the day I'm quite happy with the result. I still see a lot of areas where it could have been better. But I think it gives a great idea of what this game would feel like if it used this perspective. Thank you for watching and hopefully you liked it!
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23 фев 2024
