Bionicle-Related Animation Tests + Renders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2025
- Music's from the game Bionicle Heroes on DS, downloaded from the BioMedia Project website.
Animation's been done in Blender.
Don't have any completed vids to share at this time, so here are some more test renders, both animations and just plain images. Some are over a year old, others more recent, so a lot of models shown here are actually unfinished. I didn't intend to reveal them until I have a mini movie out, but that's gonna take a while, and it was pointless to keep them a secret. Still got plenty of surprises left.
No idea if anyone really cares about this stuff, but at least I'm showing that I'm still alive and working on things.
I'm psyched to see your next mini movie!!
+Menacing Threat Same here!
You really improved your lighting in some of these. Shots like 2:24 look better than the old Bioncle movies.
+Minigun101 Thanks, though it was more a matter of luck than anything. The background is filled with colored lightstones and they just happen to produce that neat lighting effect. Other areas still look rather crappy.
+Vrahno amazing work! i look foward to seeing more! keep it up!
LEGO should hire you.
Damn right
These are awesome. I always look forward to any Bionicle/Technic content you release.
Music-Bionicle heroes ds soundtrack
This is some amazing stuff!
All the models are just great, super faithful to the source material while not being stiff or awkward, I'd describe the style as the one of the movie trilogy, only if they tried more.
I love what you did with the Pakari, with every matoran having a slightly different one - Onepu having a more square shaped mask, Taipu having one big opening at the top and overall more rounded mask (a nod to the MNOG mix-up?) and my personal fave - Midak having a lightbox-style mouth!
The animation is SUPER expressive too! Midak looks like he's telling Kopeke some kind of ghost story about the underground passage, I can basically HEAR the tone of his voice even though there is no sound.
If these renders and animations are parts of a bigger project then I hope you didn't put it on an indefinite hold, that would be a damn shame. I'd KILL for a new bionicle movie, heck, even a short film like this... And you've got what it takes, dude.
Thanks man! They're for a short movie I wanted to make a couple years back, but placing these models into one scene was a bit too much for the PC I used then, so I shifted focus to other, more important projects. I want to get back to it once I'm done with those.
Templar Studio's mask switcheroo was indeed the inspiration behind Taipu. Since there's at least 4 Pakari-wearing characters in this little story I planned out, I thought it'd be neat to differentiate them with more than just their colors, like by adding unique characteristics to each.
Well @@Vrahno i think its time to finish the mini movie now
Absolutely stunning work. Brings the characters to life in ways I don't think I've seen outside the Miramax films.
Oh my god. This is amazing. You've really outdone yourself here with the fluidity and motion of the characters. Keep it up.
amazing work! i just stumbled upon your channel and I am very glad I did. looking forward for more of your work!!!
+protogirl1231 Thanks!
Freakin' amazing. I cannot wait for future shorts if this is the talent and work you are putting into them, as well as the designs.
The first Bionicle films were an influential part of my childhood. I got into it around 2006-2007 though, so I came too late to get a shoe with a non-canon Kraata.
It's great to see another video of your talents, can;t wait till the next mini-movie comes out (:
Awesome vid! I love all your Bionicle animations.
The animations are beautiful Vrahno. They really spark the imagination to how bionicles moved.I especially like the Muaka walk animation, how the limbs work together with the treads in the back.
This is incredible... Wish someone would carry on your work!
This is amazing, you're doing mata nui's work man. Marvelous
Dude... you just keep getting better and better! :D Really can't wait to see what you've got in store for us. Keep it up! ;)
At 2:07, from left to right, I think the Matoran are Marka, Tiribomba, and either Kai or Nireta.
Interesting style you went for with Gali's mask there. An interesting mix of her original and the slimmed-down version from MOL.
+Damian Freeman (TheExceeder) Most importantly, she has no pig nostrils.
Vrahno Heh. I always thought her mask had sort of a cow-like look to it myself. I'm sure it would have looked better if they were able to give the masks more detailed colours rather than being a single block colour.
Fantastic work, as usual Vrahno!
Dude, that looks legit! I can't wait to see what you make with it!
I still really love the sorta 90s CGI esthetic you have going on.
Dude, keep going! Those renders look awesome, it actually reminds me a lot of the mask of light. I'd love to see The finished product.
Patiently waiting for the next Bionicle short.... :3
So excited!!!
You should be hired by Lego to create Bionicle movies
Has anyone ever told you that you are literally the best person ever
so you returned. and you returned in a glorious way. man, that is some good animation. and i say that as someone who has animated before. the models are great, the rigs are very well made (especially the face/mask animations) and the overall animation style is wonderful.
i just wish you had enough power to render all your stuff in 1080p. maybe you can split your next project up and let parts of it render on other computers? i'd definetly be willing to sacrifice my calculating power to help you finishing your projects faster.
keep up the amazing work, man
+SwongoBricks Thanks! And you know, it's funny seeing comments like "you returned", because though I check YT every day, I hardly every realize how little content I actually share. Can't believe it's been so long since my last finished video.
You're definitely right in that better rendering power would speed things up a lot, though at this point, I'm more concerned with animating rather than rendering things out. As it turned out, I got a little carried away with this project and my computer can hardly handle animating all these models, much less rendering them.
That's part of the reason for this apparent inactivity on my part -- until I get my hands on a better PC, this Bionicle animation thing has to be put on hiatus, and in the meantime I've been busy (busy as hell I can tell ya) working on other stuff instead.
Can't wait for whatever you're making!
Some of those scenes and characters are very reminiscent of MNOG characters, especially the Onu-matoran with the hay in his mouth. The toa remind me a LOT of MoL.
Cool stuff.
HE RETURNS
Can't wait to see more of these guys in action!
Mata nui... this is amazing keep up the great work!
great work as always vrahno
Awesome stuff man!
Amazing work.
You have so many variations on the Pakari! Interesting choice, to not make them uniform.
Such beautiful models...
I LOVE IT SOOO MUCH!!!!
Wtf, these look so awesome!!!!! ;p
Irdatlan jó lett :) Várjuk a folytatást :P
Whoa, Vrahno is doing stuff. Amazing
I swear you were asked to work with whoever made the three Bionicle Movies, those models are accurate!
It would be cool if there was a bionicle game that looked like this
You'll have to get a better computer soon. This stuff looks too good to not be rendered in 1080p! Great job and keep up the good work.
Great work. I wish I could have the same skills(and patience) to do some clips myself. But lazyness is always the worst when it comes to motivation.
Damn, wish I had thisk kind of skill. Nice work.
Maaaaan, that's top quality stuff. Were you an animator in the previous Bionicle animations? what are you intending to do with this work? a short? a game? I just got curious...
Thanks! I was thinking of making a short film. I've had it laid out in my mind for several years now, but haven't yet had the time to make it.
Just too good!
This is amazing...
I really like your matoren design.
At last there is hope after all!
Can we animate together? I animate bionicles too!!!
I'm a little bit of a HD bitch, so at least 720p would feel good (maybe I shouldn't try to describe how far I can go to download the 1080p version of the newest episode of my favourite series). But I already love it!! The model details are great. Just keep going you are awesome! :D
Love your work. I would love to see your interpretation of the Time Traveling Muaka from MNOG with Meso. :D
If this is the quality of your work, then yes I'm very interested. What's the finished project going to be?
+gilamasan Short film about some villagers getting into a whole lot of trouble. Can't show much of the main characters so far, most of the models in the video will just play minor roles.
Provided that I ever finish it, that is.
+Vrahno That sounds soo cool! Good luck! (thumbs up)
Leena Valtapaz Thanks.
+Vrahno Whee! I was noticed by the guy himself! :D
i can imagine a short film in the future involving muaka, whenua and gali ovo
Fantastic.
The nui jaga shot was good
Are you using Cycles for your final renders? The shots at 2:23 honestly look pretty amazing. Is this project you're working on similar in scale to Struggle in the Drifts?
+codee²¹² All done with Blender Internal -- can't really do much with Cycles due to technical limitations. All the different light sources in those renders just made them look Cycles-esque.
I'm trying to outdo my earlier fan film in several aspects. The models, environments, textures and the animation are way more advanced. But I'm hoping to keep it much shorter and the plot won't be anything special either. It will be more of a fun little side story.
That is, if I can finish it. Haven't done much work on it for near 9 months.
Gali Geez your animations are amazing. What music did you use for this video?
+Risebell The Great Random music from Bionicle Heroes on DS.
Thanks!
All my favorite Matoran will be in this new animations : Kopeke, Midak (I think), Nuparu, Tiribomba
Omg, it would be amazing if all of the matanui online game was remade in your style
The kana ra is awesome
I like Taipu's Pahari design
These look like they would have been in the canned 2001 movie
Hey Vrahno,
Your animation and CGI looks terrific! I love it and the animation seems very smooth and lifelike. Just out of curiosity, where did you learn to use Blender? I've tried self teaching myself it by experimenting and reading books on it like I've done with After Effects, but Blender is just a whole new ball game and much more complicated to learn than AE ever was. Any sites or tips you'd recommend for someone like me?
+DarkRavenFilms Yeah, it's a finicky thing. For the most part I just looked at video tutorials here on YT and browsed Blender forums (like Blender Artists), and gradually got the hang of things. Every time I run into a specific problem, I just run a Google search to see if any of these sites offers solution.
I've been using Blender for years but I still learn how to do very basic things on a regular basis and there's lots of more advanced features I haven't dared to tinker with yet. My learning-curve would probably look like a messed-up jumble of lines.
Vrahno Hey, thank you for responding! I appreciate that you took the time to respond! :). Anyway, thank you- I will definitely have to look at some tutorials here on TH-cam and sign up for some Blender forums. It's been a goal of mine to learn at least basic CGI but it's been very difficult for me to sit down and learn it.
I am sure a program as big as Blender certainly has a lot of features that would take years to discover them all and/or start getting good at using.
+DarkRavenFilms You're welcome, and good luck with whatever you'll be doing with Blender. I was impatient with it too, and jumped into more advanced stuff without having learned the basics, so I faced a lot of frustrations. On the other hand, at least this meant that I got decent at some stuff faster.
Some years ago I didn't even know how to make backgrounds, but now I'm making (admittedly very simplistic) city scenes and also trying to build up more detailed environments. Just gotta push my limits in a measured pace instead of getting overly ambitious and trying to do everything at once.
someone should hire you to make a bionicle series !
Wow! Tiribomba is surrounded by the ladies XD
Hola
I would rather wait a long time to see a short nuva movie
2:21 Tiribomba!
Now onua has more articulation! XD
Hey. I couldn't help but notice that you managed to get your hands on some clean Muaka roar sound effects. I'm gonna need some for an animation I have planned and was wondering if you could tell me where you got them.
I recorded them long ago. Here's a download for it, along with a bunch of other SFX from MNOG and the 2002 webisodes. A few may contain some static
www.sendspace.com/file/sgs7xf
Thanks, these are great. Between these and the archive at Biomedia, I should have everything I need.
Glad I could be of help!
Please make a movie
Open da mask
Cool animations, man. Would the actual Muaka/Rane Ra have the poles sticking out of their shoulders?
+SigmaShawn Since the rest of their anatomy is so damn weird anyway, they might as well have them.
Vrahno Yeah, I guess so.
+Vrahno
Y'know I do wonder how they reconcile the nonexistence of wheels in the Bionicle world with the Muaka design.
+Damian Freeman (TheExceeder) Guess they pretend that tank treads =/= wheels.
Vrahno Hm, I suppose.
Or...whoa, weird thought.
What if it's meant to represent something more like how a slug moves? That would also make sense for the Tarakrava as well...
blender cant do something like that! Or maybe it can, anyway it looked awesome! im impressed....
amazing stuff If I could to this ....
T pose nuparu
T pose nuparu
this video should be a screensaver for windows (I don't know if this makes sense)
Aw these look okay. Much okay. Let's like that much *click click click click click*
Do you use the Maya for the animations?
+Garmagic2yFhenrakh9 Blender, actually.
Vrahno I see. The animations are well done. I hope I can do similar things with the maya when I learn how to use it well.
Do more to mata and matoran animations.
Is there an endgame to this?
will their be voice actors I your next film?
I try to avoid that.
xD
When you get voice actors
UH WHATS A UHHH KAE NO HI? Okay where is my pay.
Looks good but I preferred it when the masks didn't bend like in the short movie
+Jake Zender It's okay, I always wanted to figure out how to animate masks rather than keep them static, so consider these something of an experiment.
it's cool your designs look great and I can take the bending it's a good way to add personality
You should get rid of those mask stalks on Cane-Ra. I know they're on the set, but they look out of place in the animation.
+thecianinator I know, but they're kind of a minor plot point in the short film I'm trying to make, so they gotta stay.
Fair enough. Either way, I gotta say amazing work! Are you doing this all yourself?
thecianinator
Pretty much, yeah. And thanks for the compliments!
wow
What will become of these, now that you're working on the Mistika era?
If I live that long, I'll try to make the video I planned for them.
What happened to this movie? I was looking towards towards it?
How long did it take to make that?
+Kohalok Dok Since this is a collection of all sorts of models/renders I made at different times, over a year.
Vrahno wow! Great job!
when will you launch this animattion?
Do you have a lewa nuva model that we could see by chance?
+PjangoStudios Only Gali and Onua.
+Vrahno ok thanks man, btw these look fantastic
Why don't you work for Lego on animations!
you should make a Bionicle x Hero Factory movie
what do you use to model ?
+Robot Cinema All done in Blender.
Why cant a pakari be done right? :/
Where'd you get the Muaka Sounds?
+Harrison Taylor (ARC9652) The BioMedia Project's sound effect archives.
+Vrahno I wasn't able to find them in the latest update on BMP
Harrison Taylor
On second thought, I could be misremembering. I recall having to record a bunch of SFX from the Flash animations once, so maybe that's where I got them from. I could upload them somewhere.
+Vrahno That could work. Or you can send me them via Gmail or just upload them on YT.
+Harrison Taylor (ARC9652) Went ahead and put them on here: www.sendspace.com/file/xwx7p7
Two Muaka sounds and a bunch of others I recorded from the old animations. There is slight static in some which I couldn't edit out. All my recordings had it.
what's music
Music from Mata Nui Online Game 2.
And bionicle heroes DS.
I need link music
You could have made galis hips bigger to make the female asset more appropriate
You should hit up Jocool1231 about helping out with that game he's making!
Gali got cheeks