Southern Tier Melee Spring 2024 PR Graphic

This is easily one of my favorite graphics I've ever had the honor to make, each player on this PR was asked to pick a LEGO mini-figure to represent themselves. I built a structure out of virtual LEGO bricks and recreated every mini-figure with a vector illustration.

Before even attempting to begin making the graphic, I took the time to create to-scale LEGO bricks and a mini-figure, in order to ensure appropriate scale. I wanted someone to be able to re-build my graphic in real life with real LEGO pieces.

The reference images and mini-figures made for the first row of the graphic. I especially enjoyed making Blooky's selection, Burger Person from the Unikitty! collection.

The references used for the second row of the graphic. This row had a great number of mini-figures that were enjoyable to make. Donut's selection of Unikitty was fun for a similar reason to Burger Person. SRM's selection of Lloyd Garmadon was difficult to recreate the exact pattern on the chest, but it was a fun challenge. Birdie's selection of the ice skating penguin mini-figure has a little easter egg in the graphic. Since it doesn't have appropriate feet bottoms to mount on top of another LEGO brick, in the graphic the penguin is leaning against the wall, between some of the LEGO pegs.

The final row of mini-figures from the graphic. Dominion's selection of Crab General from Monkie Kid was incredibly difficult and incredibly rewarding to get just right.

For SRM13's PR Combo Video, I made lower thirds for all the players with their selected mini-figures. In both this and the original graphic, the colors of the LEGO bricks are randomly selected from a list of colors from a selection of LEGO brick colors.