Sliders Playsets and Minifigures (Page 1 of 2)

Thanks. I have not sent it to any of the stars due to me fighting a social media addiction.

It is amazing that Sliders fans are putting the quantum quartet in action. You, Cez, LadyAgata, Dyland(2014) from bricks in motion(Temporal Flux started the first lego thread here) and myself. The brick builders are out there, keeping the spirit of Sliders alive.
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I have seen some of yours and LadyAgata's work. It's good, but there is so much, i'll have to take a 2nd look, maybe even a 3rd look...

it's all incredible

Welcome to Vortexvember!

Vortex 1.0 with tunnel:

It was ok for a starting vortex, I know I can do better. And I will.

I applaud her creativity in turning a drill piece into a vortex. I personally wanted a vortex that could be a play feature of a sliders set. Will I succeed?

Vortex 2..0 / version A (inspired by a lego star wars set)

Glad you like it. I might do a bonus feature on the pieces I used for creating vortex 1.0, 2.0, 3.0.

Side-by-side comparison.

Cool. Glad that you like it, and stay tuned to this thread, because there is more to come!

“What if you could find brand new worlds, right here on Earth, where anything is possible? Same planet, different dimension. I’ve found the gateway!”

Just when you thought the teaser was over, here comes a new teaser: Quinn's L.A.B.!

Hang on sliderino's! There's more Vortex 3.0 goodness to come!

This one is amazing! I love it!

That's awesome!   Can you do the inside of the hotel, at the hotel bar?  With Quinn, the Professor, Wade and Remmy at the bar being served by Elston Diggs?

Looking forward to it!

But take your time!

So much fun!

Frontal/side view of V3.0 and how it fits into a lego wall:

More? Did you say more? It's going to get a lot more colorful from here on out. Might even do the Timeslide vortex from issues #32, #50-56, and #78 of the sliders ongoing comic book series.

ha, hilarious!

Here is the vortex from season four and five:

Ha!

The Universal Set vortex..

The monkey men are finished. Working on LSC vortex.

It looks to me like the Season 4 vortex was a victim of shrinkflation.

The Season 1 vortex had flowing lines of energy that indicated the specific direction of the vortex and had a transparency at the edges that required blending into and warping the image of the surroundings. The silver glow effect required multiple layers of composition and animation for both the perimeter of the vortex and the internal body as well as rendering the vortex at different angles. The Season 1 vortex was effectively a rippling hole in the skin of reality, often resembling a bubble that was partially bursting to allow entry.

The Season 2 vortex, however, reduced the transparency ripple at the perimeter severely while the silver light was now filled in with blue. This appeared to be, in some ways, a cost or time saving measure. It was no longer necessary to blend the vortex into the shot with lens distortion effects because the transparency was reduced and the interior of the vortex was now filled with blue light rather than a transparent silver. The Season 2 vortex was less an aberration in reality and more a doorway to wonder.

The Season 3 vortex benefitted from a higher special effects allocation: the animation of the water-whirlpool effect of the vortex was far more intricate and detailed than the first two seasons. The silver colour of Season 1 was restored and and a thin level of transparent edge distortion. Also, the lines of energy charging into the vortex took on a more nebulous but varied and denser; it looked less like straight lines and more like flowing water.

So what happened with the Season 4 vortex? Like the Season 2 vortex, they simplified it. They simplified the perimeter: the transparent edge effect was only present on specific shots, so there was now no effort to blend the vortex into the surrounding shot.

They simplified the body of the animation: rather than lines of energy or a mass of flowing water, it was now a rotating spiral of cloudy energy composed of grainy dots, an effect that, if nothing else, was captured well by the grainy format of the 16mm film of the Sci-Fi Channel years.

And with so little animation and a vaguely defined body texture and no transparency blending, the vortex in silver-blue would have just looked like a blurry coin or a puddle on the video, so to fill in an otherwise blank void, they made it a hypersaturated blue and green designed to contrast against the shots because they no longer had the time, money or inclination to blend and coordinate the vortex to match the shots.

It's rather sad because the vortex is a vital part of SLIDERS' iconography: the timer, the basement, the wise Professor, the funny soul singer, the sweet shorthaired girl, the flannel clad boy genius, and the rippling, glowing tear in reality that is a gateway to adventure. But by Season 4, the gateway looked less like a tunnel and more like somebody spilled blueberry Gatorade on the lens.

I am a Gatorade Zero person myself.

I really like all the vortexes. I don't think they *match* exactly, but I also don't feel they should or that they can. You are attempting to recreate a special effect that was created on a 90s videotape effects suite. This effect had colour gradients and animation and transparencies, but Lego is generally in solid colours and still blocks, so it's necessary to adapt the vortex to this other medium.

Vortex 1.0 looks like the Season 3 vortex with the water-puddle effect. The blue-green shade isn't quite a match for the silver of Season 3, but the richer colour is  better suited to lego. Vortex 2.0 is intriguing as the vortex about to open, but it looks a bit like a machine rather than an energy construct.

Vortex 3.0 looks like a very good match for the Season 1 vortex: it's a bubble, it's translucent at the edges. The inner blue effect is gentle and not quite a match for the white-blue transparency of the Season 1 vortex, but it's the right choice for Lego.    

Vortex 4.0 looks good, unlike the onscreen Season 4 vortex. The Season 4 vortex looked like a blob that didn't give a strong impression of a tunnel whereas your vortex shape provides a tunnel effect. The green of Season 4 is missing, but given Lego's limitations, that makes sense.

I don't really recognize the yellow core of the Kromagg vortex, but the red perimeter is very appealing.

Here is something to keep you warm on this co-co-cold day:
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With thirty seconds until the vortex closes, will Quinn Mallory help Logan St. Clare fix her timer?

Extras section:
I. Pieces used in construction of Vortex 3.0 (ID of piece: Description)
   1. 65617: Brick, Round Corner 3 x 3 x 1 without Studs
   2. 68325: Brick, Round 4 x 4 with Recessed Center and Hole
   3. 18674: Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Open Stud
   4. 15535: Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Hole
   5. 4032: Plate, Round 2 x 2 with Axle Hole
- You can enter the ID no. at bricklink.com to see a picture of what the piece looks like.
- Some pieces may not come in the colors that I used.

II. The software I use is Studio 2.0
You can get it from here: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page

Updated extra's with software I use. Looking forward to seeing all the great things the SLIDERS community will create!

Shroedinger

You know, I wonder if there's any way to explain why Quinn's cat wasn't in "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome" with no mention from Quinn.

Hello friends. A quick update on Quinn's L.A.B.: It is still being worked on, right now I am working on the accessories, Quinn's chair, recording equipment, tv, figuring out how to get the skis placed, fixing the stairs, among other things. I am hoping to finish the first part of the L.A.B. soon.
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