The Lego Kid
Written by Cyrena Sandoval, Former Student on Tuesday, October 15, 2013
It started with a construction set. From a young age Junior Matt Forrest was introduced to the Lego world. When his father came home with a Lego set that he got especially for Matt. After building the set Matt knew that he was hooked to making things from Legos.
“I’ve kind of just had a passion for creating things that I’ve seen in real life into Lego form,” Matt said.
Just this past summer, Matt began to attempt to make larger scale pieces such as a helmet from the video game Halo. “I’d seen a fellow Lego enthusiast build some pretty incredible replicas,” Matt said. “I then decided, ‘I might as well try it!’”
One of the most difficult Lego creations Matt has made is his Master Chief helmet. It took him a total of six days to complete the helmet. “I could not get the angles correct with the amount of pieces that I had,” Matt said.
Forrest mostly has video game or movie based creations. “Sometimes people will come up to me and ask me, ‘Hey! You should try making this!’” Matt said. Aside from still pictures, Matt makes stop motion videos. His very first video was his version of a video he had seen on YouTube. “I was trying to do my best to re-create some of the voices that I had heard in the video,” Matt said.
Then in Kinga Thomas’s English class, the students were shown a Lego version of a part from the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. “I was just joking around saying, ‘Who has time for that?’ Then Matt said ‘I do’,” Thomas said.
After that, Forrest started showing the class his videos that he had done. Later on in the year he was asked to make his own version of a scene from Romeo and Juliet. The video he made was 26 minutes long, but took 30 hours of rendering and editing until it was a finished product. “Anything that Matt touches is gold,” Thomas said.
In Matt’s videos all of the voice acting is done by him. “If you see [my] video on YouTube and it’s a female voice that’s me doing the best I can for a female voice even though it’s not very good,” Matt said.
For his other videos it takes him three to four hours of editing for just a one to two minute long video. You can see more of Matt’s videos on YouTube at his channel under burnout1revenge.
Matt is currently showing a few of his Lego pieces in English teacher Tim Fraser-Bumatay’s display case. Check them out on the second floor of E-Building.
