LEGO film noir street scene

We have been using LEGO to create a gritty film noir scene, using Adaptalux Studio, featuring Laser Lighting Arms! You can watch the how-to video on Youtube here - youtu.be/UpBwuMCMJ34

 

We set up this scene using LEGO modular building sets, the Detective's office and the Palace Cinema, along with a little mini-figure protagonist. All of the lighting was concealed in the street, around the corner from the cinema. The objective was to make the scene look like it has been lit using the light that would be available in the street.

 

A white Lighting Arm inside the cinema had light pouring out of the windows, and another in the upstairs window of the detective's office in the background. The streetlamp and the lights under the cinema entrance were created using lasers!

 

When you shine a laser into a translucent brick, it illuminates from within, as if the brick itself were creating the light. This effect means we could illuminate the street lamp without a lighting arm in the shot, and no strange shadows cast on the building by the light coming from an external source.

 

For a film noir look, the end result was turned to black and white, hiding the red glow created by the lasers, but a simple change of hue could have kept it in colour.

 

Setting up and shooting LEGO scenes like this is great fun, if you want to know more about how we did it, head over to our blog to read the walkthrough here - bit.ly/LegoNoir

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