I’ve got a post on CC that looks at how presentation can help or hurt a MOC. Another thought is that the mode of presentation can affect how you build. If you are building only for the camera, as in illustrating a story, you may make something that only looks good from one angle. If you’re going to display it publicly, you want people to be able to walk around all sides. Building interiors might be completely superfluous in a train layout where viewers are going to stand behind a rope and look but not touch, but if a model is for playing, you’ll want it to open up somehow so you can access the inside, add furniture, etc.

Not necessarily. Most brickfilms are made with webcams, and they are not out of focus and poorly lit. The good ones, anyway. I use a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000, and I’m only upgrading to the 9000 for the sake of more pixels, and the remote-focus feature. The 9000 also sounds like a good webcam, and from what I’ve seen, it is.

With a webcam, you might have to work a little longer on the lighting, but it’s possible. So I guess if you didn’t have a digital camera lying around, certain webcams could be good substitutes.

Nannan: That’s an interesting paradox I hadn’t really considered, but it’s true. I suppose it’s all a matter of making people aware. If you make the thought process available to many people, then the awareness of it will spread consciously or subconciously. (“Why should I present it like that?” “Well, I read it somewhere, but it’s better now, right?”) Plus, if it’s available, people have somewhere to point those asking questions instead of having to explain over… and over… and over… again.

I considered making a note on using completely white backgrounds, as I think they’re something of a special case. Sometimes they’re in the enhance-category - like when you show your artwork. Sometimes they’re actually in the neutral category, like when you show a spaceship.

Compare your pictures of Contortion to your pictures of Guilty Light: the white background is enhancing your model on the first. Creating something surreal usually means letting the audience fill in the gaps themselves, and as such a white non-descript background is perfect.

A spaceship is placed in a context that is generally homogenic for most audiences, which enables you to push your message further without losing your viewers. You do so yourself with the photoshop-job on one of the pictures. That picture enhances the feeling of a spaceship you’re trying to convey, while the white background on the rest of the pictures merely lets us look at the model as easy as possible.

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The paradox I see with this articles is that many people who read it may already do better presentation, and people who don’t read it can be those like the builder of the poorly presented creation that you showed. In short, not everyone’s a reader, they just keep what they’re doing while being oblivious to the resources and advices that are around. But this is may be natural for beginning builders.

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