Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi builds with LEGO to solve writer’s block
The Final Fantasy series has been a frequent inspiration for my LEGO creations, so it was fascinating to read that Final Fantasy creator and head of game design studio Mistwalker Hironobu Sakaguchi builds with LEGO when he’s looking for inspiration.
Click each photo of a LEGO creation by Hironobu Sakaguchi to read how he uses LEGO in his creative process as a video game designer.
(Via Joystiq, with a hat-tip to reader Nathan Hale.)
May 6th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I love his description:
“I can spend an hour sorting out the proportions and details, trying to make it like this, trying to make it like that. Lately, I’ve been enjoying creating the small things. I build them using minimal parts, making sure the bumpy parts of the pieces don’t show.”
May 7th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Yeah, that description really stands out. Such depth conveyed with such simplicity. I know I could stand to look at some of my “stress reliefs” a little differently.
All of his writing on these MOCs give the impression that he has grown into the hobby almost completely without community support. “I don’t tell many people about this hobby.”
The hobby seems to be a very personal thing for him. I can see a bunch of people clamoring at him to build more and show it off only to see him stop sharing his work completely. And by “his work”, I mean his write-ups. While his MOCs are very good in their own right, they are obviously just a medium that allows him to express himself with the writing.
Or something like that.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Why isn’t he on Flickr yet? ;)
May 7th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Funny that the Final Fantasy creator would be into miniscale stuff. You’d think, considering the scale of his games, he’d be all about the mega, 10 foot long MOCs.