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skybard — Toa Nuva Sketchdump- Part 2
Published: 2009-06-20 17:30:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 1919; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 0
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Hello, world! This is my good friend part 2! He's the reason I named my last sketchdump part 1!...yeah. Movie style (MoL, LoMN, WoS) is another style I like working in. These are movie-style versions of the Phantoka and Mistika Toa Nuva's Kanohi Nuva. I tried to adhere to the set, but varied the designs slightly for the Mistika and for those Phantoka who also had vehicle forms (I'll never understand why the top fin disappeared on Lewa's vehicle form-- after all, it looked almost as though it was designed to match the auxiliary fins on the visor, thus giving him that five-spike look of the original Miru Nuva).
Some are cool, some are crappy. I'd love to hear what you folks have to say about them, however, so don't be afraid to point out any flaws you see.
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Tahu: Interesting (in a good way)
Gali: Eh...
Kopaka: Looks good
Lewa and Pohatu: Great job, it has the feeling of the original Nuva masks
Onua: It's like a Kanohi for Nidhiki, and a good job on it
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No offense, onua looks hideous.
Maybe more like his mistika than his nuva?
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Onua's was definitely a hard one to design. If I ever tried again I might do it VERY differently.
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THIS should have been how the Toa Nuva Phantoka and Mistika mask designs should have looked. At least keep some resemblance to their 2002 Nuva Masks
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I didn't actually change the Phantoka masks much. I sort of blended Lewa's mask from the canister set with his mask from Axalara T9, and I rounded out Pohatu's visor so it wasn't as much narrower than the rest of the mask as on the original, but otherwise I only stylized them slightly, as I imagined the original BIONICLE movie trilogy might have done.
The Mistika masks I stylized a bit more heavily, taking inspiration from the original Kanohi Nuva pieces, from the masks of the Mistika sets, from the Kanohi Nuva as they appeared in the BIONICLE movies, and from the masks of Solek, Tanma, and Photok.
On the whole I was not as happy with the Mistika sets as I was with the Phantoka. The forehead of Tahu's mask and its somewhat trapezoidal shape were the only strong echoes of the original Kanohi Nuva in the Mistika masks. In the case of the Phantoka, as I said, it didn't take much work at all to make them resemble the original Kanohi Nuva, because the most of the motifs are there, just warped slightly into a more angular form.
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Thank you! the Phatoka and Mistika were the biggest load of crap from bionicle; they looked nothing like the nuva >
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Eh, I liked the Phantoka myself. Mistika less so, but I still felt they were neat designs.
To a certain extent, the Toa Nuva didn't look very much like the Toa Mata to begin with, at least as far as their masks were concerned. As with the Phantoka and Mistika, there are similarities if you look for them, such as Lewa having air intakes in his cheeks in all three forms. But it always bothered me that the original Akaku Nuva was more Hau-shaped than Akaku-shaped, and that some of the masks looked even more organic than some of the Inika masks.
It's nice that with today's Hero Factory sets there's been more of an effort to make the characters' masks recognizable... the Breakout series used 1.0 helmets for those heroes who had them and mimicked the 2.0 helmets for Nex and Evo, and the Brain Attack series has new helmet molds for all the characters that really pay homage to their previous depictions. One wonders why this wasn't done as much with BIONICLE... perhaps the designers were worried that people wouldn't be as likely to buy new sets if their masks felt too repetitive.
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Very nice! If only the Akaku was more like the original nuva though...in set form.
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I know. It's really a shame that Kopaka was the only one of the Phantoka not to get a vehicle form. Especially since there were two versions of the Jetrax set anyway. I can understand why there might not have been the budget for a new Akaku mold after the Phantoka version, though.
I always had this idea that perhaps someday I could take an electric drill to the Phantoka version so that a Barraki eye could be placed in the eyepiece instead of a lightsaber blade, but I guess that's not going to happen. I still wonder if it would have worked, though.
The Phantoka version of the Akaku is still OK in my opinion. The most significant change from the older Akaku Nuva is that the eyepiece is on the opposite side. The most significant similarity (besides the presence of an eyepiece) is the extreme angle of the forehead, followed by the rough shape of the mouth.
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oh wow! awesome! they really look like the toa nuva masks!
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Interesting redesigns of the masks! You still kept the original Nuva flare with the adaptive bits of the new masks. Great job Sky!
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Thanks! I tried my best. The easiest ones were Tahu's, Kopaka's, and Pohatu's. With the latter two I could leave them mostly the same, while Tahu's was sort of an idea I juggled around even before the Mistika were revealed (back then, I was more blending Tahu's original mask with Solek's, which I thought could have made a great Hau Nuva on its own).
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I see! Well you certainly did a great job.
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Oh wow, awesome. I love how all of them are a perfect blend between the movie character and the canister sets, Lewa and Gali especially, in my opinion.
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Yeah. Really, I'm not sure if the set designers drew any inspiration from the movie, but I wouldn't call it an impossibility.
The easiest mask of these to draw (and probably my favorite in regard to the mask it's based on) was Pohatu's (although it looks a little squashed and baby-faced). Gali's was actually the hardest, so I'm glad it turned out OK. Lewa was fun because I was basing his mask on two different versions of the mask, plus the movie version.
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