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…which I am well behind the curve on because I first saw it earlier today, referenced in an archived VSauce episode.
A cursory DeviantArt search for “MLP Lego” showed lots of matches of course for all things lego related – but not this exact reference as far as I could tell.I considered it my honor-bound duty to continue ensuring that there is A Pony Version of Everything, and got cracking immediately.
It’s also a good warm-up considering I’ve been away from Blender for a little while and in fact getting the lighting as close as I could to the originals turned out to be a quite a decent challenge.I still don’t think I have it entirely cracked – something tells me they did some post-processing to either erase or add shadows.
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In the pursuit of photo-real authenticity I didn’t simply take the colors direct from the show characters – I deliberately restricted myself to selecting the closest matches from the actual Lego brick palette, just as if I were on-set picking through a tub of fresh new pieces provided by Lego Group.