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Finally got back to making Bionicles again. Boy, it has been years but I'm quite exited! This project was a crazy idea I had to make myself and a small group of me mates in Bionicle character form.

Here is what I have made so far. Note that although I had a lot of parts already, I decided to remodel all of them for a new joint system I devised just for this project. This will give me some more options when posing and more maneuverability than the regular Lego pieces.

Great idea - making one for each of your friends. Each mask has its own personality. I like that hexagonal symbol font. Can't read it but it looks cool.

No Comment about the hat!

I like it. Perhaps the torso should be longer. But it is a good work at this step.

Current progress. About to start making the armour.


@Finis. It just said "Work In Progress" and the names of the masks in Matoran writing.

@Marcel. I'm not so sure yet about the torso. The armour pieces are what define the shape of each Bionicle so I will be able to tweak the height through those. I'm still looking into what kind of official pieces there are that would suit the character and I'll model those to fit my model.

Your hard surface modeling is mint! Great work, love the hat, I think that's the best one of them all!

@Draise I SAID NO COMMENTS ON THE HAT!

(Also, thanks )

Update:


Seriously, view full size if you want to see the silly large amount of detail.

Do you plan on creating a bone structure for this one. It would be crazy cool!

Considering all joints are solid, I wouldn't know how to do it in trueSpace. It would be fun though, I have just never really looked into that kind of rigging and animation in trueSpace.

Why nottry to rig it in blender. I would love to play with this in blender .
By the way very cool models you do.
Keep it up cheers ralph

@pugman1
Yeah I could do it in Blender as I have played around with rigging in that program before. It's certainly a lot more straight forward.
Unfortunately that would mean I would have to do everything else in that program as well. That includes setting up the materials(again) and to be honest, I really hate the Blender material editor. That and I have never even used its render engine. So I think that may be a project left for another time.
After all, I still have four more of these characters to build

Update:



Added a battle rifle to my character. All that remains now is to design and model a sword/spear and then to pose the figure.

OK, first character finished! A proper render will be my next step but at least modeling + posing are behind me.


Full View For Detail

Next character is almost finished:

Next Bionicle finished. Renders will come later.


Full view

Zat in the first picture is intense! Love it! Probably my favorite of them!

Hehe thanks Draise. I'm still working on a proper render.

Here is another, slightly different picture:

Since I finished MAD I'm moving on to Delta:

WIP01:


WIP02 (Adjusted the Cape):

Update:


Ready for posing.