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That's actually pretty cool. It would be awesome if you did make something with organs included.

 

Even though it is supposed to be more organic than canon Matoran, it looks to me like a good representation of them anyway (except I'd put more pistons and the like on, sort of similar to mechanical muscle tendons).

Interesting design, and good proportions. I typically liked to style my own Matoran drawings after the 2004 Matoran shapes and proportions. 2001 Matoran were cute, and 2003 Matoran did a good job beefing them up while maintaining similar body proportions, but I feel like the designers realized after Mask of Light that more lifelike proportions were more conducive to animation.

 

I wasn't nearly so fond of the increase in height in 2008 — I preferred the slightly dwarfish legs of the 2004–2007 Matoran, since it made the characters look short even without a Toa standing next to them for comparison. The BIONICLE Stars did a good job demonstrating why this was necessary. Unless you compared them to previous sets like the 2006 Piraka or 2009 Glatorian, there was nothing about their size or proportions that looked unusually small. Of course, this worked to the Stars' advantage — not so for the 2008 Matoran.

 

This drawing of mine from 2009 shows the Matoran and Toa designs I sought to emulate in my drawings at the time. I used those proportions for this Macku drawing which I'm still fond of, as well as my Jaller drawing from the BZPower Flash Fire contest.

 

I look forward to seeing what other drawings you might create based on this one. I'm curious, though: what do this Matoran design's feet look like? I hope you keep the two-toed look that characterized all Matoran from 2001–2006, as I was fond of that.