Vahkiti Master of Time

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This is actually a pretty neat idea. The Zamor mist is a really nice touch.

Haha, well TECHNICALLY I haven't sold anything, yet. And the images I've provided are too small to read anything but a sample. Regardless, the book is out of print, and has been so for ages, so it's a bit of a gray area one way or another.

I wasn't sure about the Zamor mist myself but thanks! ^-^ I figured that it was something that was a part of the original material, and I thought it looked a bit TOO minimalistic without something else there. It was more of a last minute addition.

Awesome idea, awesome execution. This must have taken ages! Very fitting that you chose Zaktan as the subject-- the whole "made of protodites" thing didn't even cross my mind until you pointed it out in the original post. My only question is if there is a more high-res version somewhere? I'd love to try and actually read the entire book through the image.

 

Kudos to you three for seeing this project through to completion.

Given how the text wrap works, it might be difficult to read, however we did render out both 4k and 8k versions. I just kept it small here to save on load times, and to ensure my work remains uncopied until I get around to creating merch out of it. I guess I can PM it to you if you're interested. Just ya know.. don't steal it on me. xD

There were also four of us btw. I forgot to link my friend Joe's BZPower profile cause I forgot he still had one. Whoops!

First off, my apologies for the long title. I couldn't come up with anything shorter that was adequately descriptive.

Anyways, some backstory on this: Nearly six months ago, perhaps more, I had come across a meme regarding somebody who had the entire Bee Movie script printed onto a tee shirt. It was a neat, albeit rather dumb idea, only really done with little effort because they could. From this I dawned upon the idea; what if I transcribed Legacy of Evil, and made an image of Zaktan OUT OF THE TEXT.

The result is as follows, after so much work, (and plenty of assistance from fellow coworkers like my dear friend -Whiplash-, Ranaki Pakewa, and JrMasterModelBuilder) what I believe to be a wonderfully minimalistic approach to such a vastly complicated concept, that perfectly encapsulates everything about Zaktan, right down to the text itself being reminiscent of the mass of Protodites that make up his form.

As usual, let your thoughts be known below. And to answer the potential question right away: No. I am not going to do a Bee Movie version. So don't bother asking. xD

Does it really print out that big without quality degradation? And what's that poster below it, on the right?

Mostly. if you get REALLY close up, it looks a little pixely in spots, but only if you're super observant. The poster on the bottom right would be the Tahu 2015 pullout from a Lego Magazine of that year. (I forget exactly which month)

I have the MOL promo CD. Would you like me to get a copy for you guys? 

If you can rip the iso in it's entirety and upload it to MEGA, that would be fantastic actually!

Thanks for your interest. As a matter of fact, I'd recently emailed JMMB asking about the Toa Inika CD, that I subsequently ended trading a trans-yellow Kaukau for.

 

My plan is to assemble a digital library of all the CDs with scans and ISO files. Once it is complete, I will share it here for everyone to enjoy, and you guys can update your own database.

Sounds good to me! Back on topic, great work finding all of these. An impressive collection to be sure. You wouldn't happen to have the Mask of Light promo CD as part of this as well would you? To the best of my recollection, it's one of the few CDs in our archive that's not entirely functional due to missing files.

I was not aware of this CDs existence. If you manage to get a hold of it, would you mind ripping the contents for us at BioMedia Project? Also, this probably sounds like a stupid question as well, but these CDs of yours wouldn't happen to include Legend of Mata Nui would they?

EDIT: Just got word from my co-worker JMMB, that we only count 29 CDs in our collection. Would you mind listing some of the CDs you have in your possession? It seems you have a lot more than we have archived.
 

They make me feel like I keep forgetting how useful the Style Guides are.

I would love to have a Bionicle poster on a wall in my room. Especially one as cool as this one. It would make my room look cooler IMO.

 

Also, congrats on making the front page!

HOLY- You know.. I didn't even notice I did that again until you mentioned it. The last time was my Vahi. I guess my "go big or go home" attitude resounds pretty well with the community. Also thanks!

Have you thought about framing it? I think it could make it look even better.

I have, but it would be expensive. It's an odd size, (about 24" x 82" if I recall) making it nearly half a foot longer than standard poster size, but no wider. As such, I'd need to have a custom frame made. The print alone was $35 at my local UPS store. :|

My 3DS is hardly tricked out. However, this looks incredible and I offer all my kudos. Does it have custom music or sound effects, too?

Custom music, yes. No custom sound effects though. It's not impossible to do, but my selection is limited to mostly things I would personally find obnoxious as menu sounds. The music is BIONICLE Quest of the Toa: Main Theme (DEMO) for the Kini Nui theme, and a loop of the drums from Move Along for the Inika.

Right, so some of you may remember a few months ago when I made an Inika custom theme for my modded Nintendo 3DS. Well I just recently got an N3DS, and decided to make something new and exciting for that to separate it from the other one. Here's what I ultimately came up with:
 

As with last time, if there is enough interest, I am willing to design more for each of the different story years/arcs. For those of you already possessing tricked out 3DSs, you can download both themes here: 

https://3dsthem.es/?q=user%3AVahkiti

Apparently, despite probably being designed for printing, this is getting a lot of attention on other sites, and I am apparently one of the only people to actually do it. So uh.. here's the 2010 GSR poster printed by my local UPS store. 

Note: Just to clarify in case there's any confusion, I didn't make this. It's literally just an official Bionicle.com image circa 2010, printed onto a giant sheet of poster paper. I just want to make that clear, since is seems like some people don't remember the original image. http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BIONICLE-2001-20102.jpg
 


Surrounding posters for scale:
 

Whoa, that's really neat! I don't think I could ever work up the courage to get a tattoo, but I'm glad to see you're not afraid to do what you want.

Oh don't get me wrong, I was anxious right down to the last second, and once the needle hit my skin, I wished I had brought something to bite down on. The only think that really kept me there was the sheer willpower to not screw up my arm and lose my $100 deposit. xD

Looks goodt.

 

 

Sigh...

 

As a person who has gone through far more painful events and physically-altering situations in my lifetime, i can predict you'll regret this one day.

 

Nothing else to say, really.

 

No, actually, you CAN'T predict that. With all due respect, please don't act like you know anything about me, or imply that I went into this without thinking. I may not quite look it, but I just turned 24 this month. I'm not just some stupid kid who got drunk one night and stumbled into a tattoo shop. I did in fact put many years of thought and consideration into this, and I would appreciate being addressed with a little more respect, and a little less condescension, thank you so very kindly.

 

 

It's about time somebody said that to Ghiddy.

Haha, I take it this is common behavior? I don't know the guy since I'm only online very sparsely these days.

Very cool! How long did the whole thing take? And also, if I may ask, why did you choose this particular symbol of bionicle over other ones?

The whole process took about an hour to complete. I'm still a little nervous about the healing process, but it should be fine. As for the choice.. I dunno. I just felt that it was the most iconic symbol for the series, and the one with the most personal meaning.

I'm someone who's flip-flopped on the idea of getting a tattoo (I love them, but I'd probably get cold feet if I actually tried to psyche myself up to get one =P), but I love how well your tattoo turned out.

 

And it does look great with that Vahi I see hanging over your shoulder. You made it yourself? Sweet!

 

-Inferna

Thanks! ^-^ It honestly took me quite a few years just go get the nerve up to do it, so don't feel bad. And that's not even counting the time spent actually considering it and getting the money together. 

The Vahi? Nah, I had that commissioned from various different sources and people over a period of about two years. One person made the model, then I did a Shapeways print, then that was made into a ceramic mold by somebody else and forged in bronze.

Sigh...

 

As a person who has gone through far more painful events and physically-altering situations in my lifetime, i can predict you'll regret this one day.

 

Nothing else to say, really.

No, actually, you CAN'T predict that. With all due respect, please don't act like you know anything about me, or imply that I went into this without thinking. I may not quite look it, but I just turned 24 this month. I'm not just some stupid kid who got drunk one night and stumbled into a tattoo shop. I did in fact put many years of thought and consideration into this, and I would appreciate being addressed with a little more respect, and a little less condescension, thank you so very kindly.

So I've been planning to get this done for years, (especially since the forging of my Vahi last fall) but recent events have finally allowed me the means to do so. I like to think of it as a slightly belated birthday present from myself, to myself. ...That being said, it still hurt like nobody's bloody business. xD

Now remind me to never do something this painful again. It was well worth it though. I have something new to wear with my mask.

Neat, this got front page! ^-^ I was actually kind of startled when I found the deleted scene because of how in-your-face it was, but at the same time, it makes that scene make far more sense.

On a semi related note, get back into the BMP GDoc when you get a chance. Idk, we should work on a project. It's been a thousand forevers since BMP's done anything worth anything. xD

 

they may also be hosted on BioMediaProject as soon as I get approval. (Even staffers need to ask first. )

 

I approve. 

 

We need more stuff like this on the site, everyone's tired of the same old media. We should start figuring out how to more prominently feature content like this that is both practical for general use and attractive.

In that case, I'll probably start working on the other 9 as soon as I get my FTP account sorted out. ^-^

 

 

Whoa, This is awesome, can I by any chance have some instructions on how to put it on my 2DS?

 

Assuming you're on the latest firmware and have a copy of either Cubic Ninja, Ironfall, or the YouTube app, follow the instructions here to install the Homebrew Launcher. After that, you should download CHMM and follow the instructions there to install themes.

 

For the record, btw, the program I used to make this is called YATA+, which has an extensive tutorial on the ins and outs of theme creation. This was the first theme I ever made, so it's quite user friendly for beginners.

 

Alright, Thank you!

Edit: And I'll also Be able to play portal on my DS!

Well that's still a very unstable demo that has to be compiled from the source code at the moment unless you know where to look, but yeah, homebrew opens doors.

Whoa, This is awesome, can I by any chance have some instructions on how to put it on my 2DS?

Assuming you're on the latest firmware and have a copy of either Cubic Ninja, Ironfall, or the YouTube app, follow the instructions here to install the Homebrew Launcher. After that, you should download CHMM and follow the instructions there to install themes.

For the record, btw, the program I used to make this is called YATA+, which has an extensive tutorial on the ins and outs of theme creation. This was the first theme I ever made, so it's quite user friendly for beginners.

Decided to test my luck the other day at making a custom theme for Ninjhax/Tubehax/Ironhax. I'm debating about making nine others to correspond with each of the ten story years, but first I wanted to gauge interest, and see how much of the 3DS/Homebrew community converges with that of BIONICLE to see if it would be worth the effort. If I do so, they may also be hosted on BioMediaProject as soon as I get approval. (Even staffers need to ask first. )




 
You can download the theme here: http://3dsthemes.com/Search/Bionicle
(Sorry there's do direct link. The 3DS themes site is designed a little weirdly. o-O)

EDIT: It looks like somebody else beat me to the punch on a Mata theme. I'm probably still going to do that one myself after. The bottom screen background bugs me because there's no display setting in which the text in the image won't be obscured by icons or folders.

This is wonderful. I'm an electronic music/digital music stuff in general nerd, so I certainly appreciate this. As said above, I'm pretty sure the complexity of this would be too much for consoles that used 8 bit sound. Now 16 bit, on the other hand...

I usually go for accuracy to the song rather than the console. If I wanted to go that route, I'd just as easily use Famitracker.

The tune works surprisingly well in 8 bit. Now make the Chroniclers Company theme 

That's actually what I was planning to do next. Either that, or Le-Koro Band. ^-^