#kanohi mask

[toacody]

Turaga Takanuva

A small glimmer in a dark future.

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Creator: Mate397

[jarhara]

[basingamer]

If you need info on what these do, you can learn about them on Bioniclesector01.

Please reblog and state the reason for your choice, and remember to name the mask you picked.

[malwarewolf-mocs]

I ran the prompt “Bionicle Mask” through Neuralblender over 100 times. This is the result.

I’ve been plugging away at this for a couple days now, and I’m pretty happy with some of the renders. If you’re interested in doing this yourself, I’d recommend using Oceanus blend, and not straying too far from that prompt specifically. The AI tends to get a little confused if you add to many other words beyond that to the prompt, and even with the prompt I had a good handful of rejects. Some renders would have a full figure in them, or a couple odd shapes, or the mask at a three quarters angle. I wanted to do this in order to get some concepts going for new Kanohi masks, and it kind of got out of control with quantity over quality. My plan is to try to make as many renderings as I can, ideally over 1000 of them, and then dump everything into a public google file for us all to enjoy. In the meantime, I’ll post some of the good ones in series on here. Enjoy!

[neon-ufo]

Avohkii

[systemsearcher]

Just some knotted artful Kanohi.

Numero Dos Because I suddenly came up with better presentation a moment after I posted it everywhere >>

[kolhii-head-chronicler]

When you turn god’s defibrillator into a ✨gingerbread cookie✨

[0m3g4skanohiforge]

MASK MONDAY

Today's the Eclipse! I wanted to make a mask specially for today, but unfortunately it didn't come out as I'd hoped and I'm out of time/material again lol (don't worry, material is on the way)

My hope was to have a white-edged mask with black forming into the center, similar to how I made my Shadowed Kanohi for comic con.

However it seems such a pattern isn't as easy as I believed, and is influenced greatly by the shape of the mask... more tests will be needed to see what different blend styles I can make

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Some custom Bionicle mask designs that have been in my drafts since May 2023 and that I never got around to making more of.

Top to bottom:

Noble Kaukau (based on the Carmagnolle diving suit)

Noble Pakari (a cross between the MNOG and set designs)

[boxturret]

Bionicle Kanohi Mask Simulator Game

I've made a small game that can be downloaded for free HERE

[UPDATE] Also available for download on itch.io HERE

It tries to emulate the experience of opening a mask pack, released in 2001.

The box can be panned, rotated, and zoomed, and by clicking on the tab, it can be opened!

And a randomised pair of the 88 possible Kanohi masks will pop out!

This is the game, have fun!

[noodelzmop]

Ahmaki's powerless kanohi Olmak

[toacody]

Makuta Thoraxi

Gorast wasn't the only evil girl in the Swamp.

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Creator: gk733

[jarhara]

It is embarrassing how long this mask has been in the works and how much I still have to do. Tbf I had broken a hand which already lost me 2 months... But I hope to finish this mask up soon-ish

[basingamer]

(Keep in mind I’m referring to the Great versions of these masks, so they’re at their full potential)

Please reblog and state your reason for your choice. Doesn’t need to be complex, also please name the mask you pick. I can’t see your votes.

[2stepadmiral]

So I’ve been getting back into Bionicle lately, I loved it as a kid and I’m on a whole nostalgia trip right now, rebuilding my Toa and Bohrok and rereading the comics/watching the movies, and as much as I still love it, it makes me sad for anyone who didn’t get to experience it as it was coming out.

Like take the MCU, for example. If you weren’t old enough to start watching the MCU before the first Avengers came out, you could still experience the MCU in its golden times. And if you have young kids, who are just getting to the age, where they can start the MCU, they can still kind of experience that by watching the movies in order and building up to Endgame. It obviously won’t be the same, but I feel like if you do it the right way and paste it right, you can kind of re-create that experience in a reasonable proximity.

The same goes for Star Wars, you can have your kids, watch the original trilogy, then show them trailers for each of the prequels before letting them watch those to get them. Excited, then let them go back and watch clone wars and rebels, and let them read the expanded universe books at their own pace. It won’t be the same as growing up with the prequels coming out and being excited to see new Star Wars movies after seeing the original trilogy when you were little, but it’s still a fairly decent facsimile.

But with Bionicle, that feeling cannot possibly be re-created.

You can’t recreate the feeling of being 11 years old and finding out that Mata Nui is dying, and that the Toa Nuva, your traditional heroes, were defeated by the new villains, and that the six Matoran you grew up with since the franchise started are the new Toa who have to pick up where the Nuva left off.

You can’t recreate the shock of finding out that the eccentric village elders who have advised your heroes for three years were once Matoran themselves who became a team of Toa a thousand years earlier, defeated the main antagonist, went through a Jekyll and Hyde mutant phase, and then turned into the Yoda type elders.

You can’t recreate the horror at finding out that Makuta won in the end, his convoluted, millennia long plot resulting in himself gaining control of the universe. You can’t recreate the disbelief that the story abandoned the Matoran on that dark note to explore an entirely new planet with entirely different characters, species, and culture. You can’t recreate the relief when Mata Nui showed up, his presence, carrying the promise that the original storyline would tie into the new one sooner later, and the grim ending was only a temporary pause. You cannot re-create the excitement at seeing the story climax with the final showdown between Mata Nui and Makuta. A final battle that you had never imagined possible, but one that only feels right and full circle.

You cannot re-create the horror and sorrow when Matoro failed to reach Mata Nui with the Mask of Life in time to save him. You can’t re-create the disbelief and terror at wondering where the story can possibly go after that point. You can’t re-create the disbelief and sorrow and morning as you read the pages of that comic, as you see Matoro put on the mask and start to become part of its energy. You can’t re-create the stunned, heartbreaking silence that you felt as the death of Matoro, who you would known for six years, who you had at least peripherally grown up with, whose journey you had watched unfold as he went from a simple but well-known and even iconic Matoran, to a new Toa of Ice, unfolded on the pages of that comic in that curious new art style that you would never quite gotten used to. You can’t recreate the feeling of mourning you share with his friends as they learn that Matoro has died, that feeling of almost being part of this universe as you share in the sorrow of the characters (Matoro’s sacrifice was way better than Tony Stark’s, sorry but not sorry).

And above all, you can’t re-create the feeling of having to wait two months for the next comic or the next book, or the movie to find out what happens next, and filling that time by making up your own storyline, and acting it out with your own toys.

Largely because the story unfolded through books and comics, and through the new wave of toys, and through the movies in some years, trying to re-create, even a close facsimile of that feeling just isn’t possible. And it breaks my heart for any kids I might have one day that I’ll never truly get to share this wonderful franchise with them.

[irradiated-imp]

Updated Matoran Renders