Santa Brickfigure Preparations

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As I have been making my own preparations for the season, I was thinking about if I should add a more original and unique character to this product proposal.

Here is Albert the slightly grumpy Christmas Tree, he is slightly grumpy as he gets given presents for a few hours every year and then some Brickfigures come along and take them away and open them!

• Branches are moveable.
• Head can turn around so face doesn't show.

What do you think?

Thank you for your time. : )

Thank You Staff Pick

Thank you to the LEGO IDEAS Team for the very generous staff pick on Tuesday 2nd December 2014.

New New Bickfigure Designs

I hope you like the results.

Behind the Scenes

My Other Projects
If you would like to see my other projects they can be found here:
https://ideas.lego.com/profile/SavetheBrick/projects

LEGO Digital Designer (LDD)
The models have been created using LEGO Digital Designer (in the Extended Mode) which can be found here:
http://ldd.lego.com/

LDD things you might not know
Under the edit tab, there is a preferences option, which may (depending on your computer) allow you to generate a higher-quality picture.
You may also want to explore the outlines on bricks option as well (I think it makes building easier, even if you don’t want to see the outlines in a final picture).
If you use Ctrl k in the Build mode it allows you to save an image with a white background (which currently will show with a grey background on the Discover pages).

Thank You GlenBricker and Better Backgrounds
GlenBricker
https://ideas.lego.com/profile/GlenBricker/projects
has a helpful page on the blog
http://blog.brick-hero.com/
http://blog.brick-hero.com/2012/10/cuusoo-advice-simple-background-editing....
if you want to experiment with adding your own backgrounds, so they don’t show with the grey background.

Thank You GRusso and POV-Ray Rendering
GRusso
https://ideas.lego.com/profile/GRusso/projects
pointed out to me that rendering is a better option than simply using LDD and is not as difficult as it looks and provided me with the links below.
You need two pieces of software, one to convert the LDD file and the other to complete the rendering (which can take a number of hours, depending on the complexity of the model and the bricks used). The software can be found here:
http://ldd2povray.lddtools.com/index.php?p=1_3_Download
http://www.povray.org/download/

Errors and Mistakes
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Thank you for your time.