“She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. I’ve made a lot of special modifications myself.” Those epic words from Han Solo could very well be applied to the above video. Created by visual artist Francisco Prieto, it depicts the final product of a three-year labor of love to faithfully recreate each and every piece of the Lego Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon kit #10179 using 3ds Max. The amount of work and dedication that went into this piece is evident in how realistic it looks.
Three years may seem like an awful long time to create a simple video, but the process that Prieto used was more than just finding 3D models that he could download off the internet and make use of. He literally took each piece from the kit and made a faithful recreation of it as a 3D model. When he had each piece complete, he spent a year filming the building process one frame at a time. With 5,344 pieces to assemble you can understand the amount of time Prieto had to put in.
When the video was finally completed, Prieto calculated that his 3D model of the legendary space vehicle contains 3,572,568 polygons. It took him 670 hours to fully render the film, a large number considering this isn’t his full-time day job.
The next project he wants to tackle is to re-create the Lego version of the Death Star, it’s obvious the man has a great deal of patience and perseverance, as well as 3D modeling talent.
Read more at Prieto’s Vimeo page via Vincent Laforet.
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