Just want to share this pic of my son playing with some Bionicle sets for the first time. It melted my heart, if anyone else will get it it's got to be you guys!
My plans to indoctrinate the babies are finally coming to fruition. 🤨
I was quite surprised when I logged on that I had the Premier Outstanding BZP Citizenship status today, and it was nice! =D Anyways, it's nice to be Premier agian. =) Another six months of joyous perks...
On May 15th I may be making the 8-hour trip to Charleston, SC, to see my oldest brother graduate from his military training, and after visiting for a couple of days I'll be returning with my belongings (PC & speakers & Midi keyboard & other things that I've missed dearly). I mean it's probably going to happen, it just depends on the condition of my parent's car. So I'm really amped right now and just wanted to share with someone! One or two or none of you may have noticed that my a
This has been sitting on my hard drive for a while so I'll just go ahead and share it.
It's a test-render of the 3D Okoto I teased a while ago. If I'm able to resume working on Creatures of Okoto, the render of the island will be longer (probably like 60 seconds), with an introduction to the project. And the title will look nicer. I've got some other animations I'd like to share (the region animations). If I don't get back to developing the combiner project then I'll share them as well.
But seriously. I just wanted to give a little update on Music of Okoto - I put it off for, like, two months, but I'm still going to finish it. Been working on it a lot the past few days. Music of Okoto is a series of in-universe songs from the G2 Bionicle universe, as in, the music that the villagers play. There will be one song for each Region, and maybe a few extras. Here's a detailed report of how much I have made: RoJ: 1 song finished. RoE: 1 song conceptualized, haven't really started t
The figure itself doesn't use any creative techniques or anything, I just wanted to share the shield design. Building this made me wish we got mask packs. I get why they're not a thing, but it sucks being forced to work gold into so many MOCs just so I can use different masks.
Unfortunately, I'm not able to be too intimate with BZP right now, yet with the initation of the tiresome intake of high school; however, I will be online throughout the lopping hours of the procastination-invokative climate of the weekends, so fear not. =)
Seeing as boasting on a nerdy level of academics, here's my Freshman schedule -
1st) Pre-AP Earth/Space Science Honorary
2nd) Drawing/Painting I/II
3rd) PE... =(
4th) Algebra I (I stink at math!)
5th) Pre-AP English Honorary I
6th
I'm planning a third installment to my Wildlife Combiners series, which will be called Creatures of Okoto. I'd like to make a video for the project, and what can I do to make the video special? Well, I decided to make a soundtrack for each Region. I've got some concepts for all six regions of Okoto, but the Region of Jungle is already a full song, and I'm going to share it here to hopefully get some feedback. https://soundcloud.com/nascentmusic/region-of-jungle/s-qCl4X The idea is that thi
About a year ago I was trying to learn some basic 3D modeling, going through the stuff I made I found this Bionicle thing. First, just a Huna: Front, Angle. But I also made the top half of a Bionicle character and gave him some animation (pardon the unfortunate camera movement): Video.
I got my signed LoSS like half an hour ago (https://www.flickr.com/photos/129809225@N03/16391291235/). I'm reeeaaallyy tempted to open it. I think I'll keep it sealed for now, and if that trans-orange Hau promotion comes to the US then I'll buy LoSS online and keep this one closed. The guys at LEGO have some neat signatures. MATT is the best I think
It's been over a month since I started working at McDonalds, and it's been going well. I seem to be doing better than some of the kids that work there. I've also been living with a friend, and I'm really excited to move into my own apartment. It'll be fantastic to finally have a space for my cat, and to once again have my own room. Getting sick and tired of living in other people's places. But personal space issues aside, living with the roommate is overall a lot of fun. You know those Monop
I was forced to take a hiatus from producing music, but as of a couple days ago I am able to make stuff again! Here's the first thing I've made in eight months. When I first got my computer set up, I started producing immediately, but it was awful. I couldn't do the most basic things. Fortunately I wrapped my head around everything pretty quickly, and right now I am working on a Bionicle song that I've been wanting to start for a month or so. It uses samples from the webisodes, and there are s
I've been building some Creatures with the new sets for my next combiner series, and here's an alternate for Melum...that I can't finish. Isn't it such a cute little snow turtle thing? There aren't any good parts left for a head. Poor adorable little snow critter doesn't get to be in the project.
Today, Black Six distributed the digital perks from the 2015 BrickFair Convention Circuit, which officially concludes the circuit (for me, anyway). I sent in three MOCs: ...and had them returned a little early, because I thought my return address might change. (It didn't.) Inside the package, along with the MOCs themselves, I got a few goodies: - Noble Ruru (Black) - Brain Attack polybag - Sealed Turaga Vakama polybag (awesome!) I also chose "Rahi Wrangler" as my member title. Since
I wasn't sure if I'd be able to see Force Awakens, but my brother decided to treat us to tickets tomorrow! Confession: I haven't even seen the trailer. I'm excited. And, I haven't even had anything spoiled yet. Wonderful.
Wildlife of the Ancient City is out. FINALLLY BECAUSE HOLY MONKEYTRUMPETS THAT WAS A LOT OF WORK Most of the combiners that I made were included in the final project, but there were a few that didn't make the cut. Figured I'll post them here because why not, a couple of them are kinda cute. I'll even make up some names and descriptions. Scuttle Found in and around the streams in the mountain range. These are a small and friendly Water Rahi which use a saw-like appendage to dig into the
Creatures of Okoto (...Preview.) I'm moving pretty soon, and starting to work, and having to leave some stuff behind, and probably taking a little hiatus from Bionicle, at least to some degree. I'll still log on here and do This Month in Bionicle, but MOCs will probably be difficult, so Creatures of Okoto is being postponed. But, since I have a handful of combiners already, I'm going to share what I've got, rather than just sitting on them. So, these are all made with the 2016 sets, and
My Mixels have been gathering dust so I built these savage little jungle-dwellers. Well I am heading off to Charleston on Wednesday, I'll only be there for two days but I am anxious to leave Florida. The time has come for me to get a job (I submitted a few applications, with reluctance), so I'll probably be locked down here for a while still. Did I say I'm trying to get a job? Oh god please someone stop me. I think that a nice long 16-hour road trip will make applications and such seem like
I just had to build something with that pretty transparent Mask of Fire. In my head this is just "trans-fluorescent-orange lava Toa," but officially he's a Tahu remake. For the most part there are no new tricks with this build, but I am extremely happy with those upper-arms (even if they are a major hassle to pose). Anyway, hope you like it, here's the topic in BBC. On a totally unrelated note, I've been producing a lot of music for the past few days, and I'm going to share one of the songs
Has that gold Skull Spider mask actually done anything in the story? I need to watch the rest of those webisodes. *** I just finished reading The Subtle Knife a few minutes ago, and can't wait to start The Amber Spyglass. I last read the His Dark Materials trilogy 6-7 years ago in middle school so it really feels like the first time reading it, yet there's a lot of familiar stuff as well. I also finished the Harry Potter series some time ago and shed more tears than I care to admit. After
So far I own Glomp, Wizwuz, Magnifo, and Niksput, and they are all super fun. Here are a couple little guys I made for fun this morning. Mixels are a lot of fun to build!
Long story short, I had to leave most of my possessions with my brother when I flew down to FL. So for the past ~6 months, I haven't even had my own computer! Well a couple of days ago he said he would go ahead and ship one of my PCs to me, so in a couple of weeks I'll finally be able to produce music again. After I set it up and start a project (because I've had an idea burning in my head for weeks...), I have a fun music-related activity planned that I will host on my blog. He can't ship my n
I've been busy as a Bohrok this year in my MOC building, so here's a little review of everything I made in 2015. Life is starting to speed up through January and February, so I don't know how active I can be in 2016, but I'll still be here on BZP. I know I couldn't live with myself if I faded away from the Bionicle reboot. Speaking of which, I'll be heading to the store soon, since the local Target supposedly has some 2016 Bionicle sets in stock. Time to spend that Christmas money.
