Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)

That is a shell made of... wolf heads? I'm gonna say wolf heads. I like that. And the rest of it too, of course.

Reminds me of mollusks, the Matrix, and Giger all at the same time.

Cyberpunk Zelda when? Step on it, Nintendo!

Masterpiece.

Never seen arms that split at the elbow before. It's messing with me just a bit.

It's so blocky! Almost makes me feel kinda... nostalgic. Huh. I've been throwing around ideas for using Vahki heads as shoulders on occasion, but I've never managed to make them work. This should give me some ideas!

That's what I call an inspired design.

Tough choice, but I went with #1. Lot of great entries this contest.

Wasn't the deadline a day before? Ah, well. Critique time. These dudes look pretty cool! There's a really nice contrast going between Takanuva's ostentatious detailing and greebles and Makuta's slick simplicity, with the skirts and platforms being particularly striking. Also, Makuta looks amazing as a fiddler. Ironically, if I had to pick a single weak point for these two, I'd have to go with the masks- they clash hard with the rest of their bodies, especially the Mask of Shadows.

The greebles on the robot are beautifully intricate, and the parasite is a really slick fusion of those Hero Factory brain bug things and the AI drone bots from the Matrix with a Morbuzakh-like hand on its tail. They seem to fit together quite well, too!

Aloy looks really good, especially her hair. The Scrapper's design is too chaotic for me to like it as much, however.

This is possibly the most inventive idea I've seen in the contest, and the individual designs sell it well. The oil refinery is instantly recognizable as such and the smoke is well-done, and the kaiju is extremely visually striking, what with its smooth and bulbous skin and having a flowery maw for a face. And, of course, that fake poster is glorious.

Transforming MoCs are a solid hook, but Sahtet's a bit too messy for me to like her (not to mention her robo-chest looks really wonky, as robo-chests are wont to do), and Morak's design just isn't smooth enough for me to particularly like it. They're just not doin' it for me. :/

Not really sure what to say, other than that this is really solid work.

A band with just a drummer and bass player? A bold move. The models themselves, of course, are fantastic. A four-armed drummer is always a neat idea, and the drumset looks downright authentic; meanwhile, I love basically everything about Naraka, from the cloth pants and giant spiky shoulder pads to the excellent design of the bones and guitar.

That's a big dragon. O_O I'm honestly kinda impressed you managed to give it a recognizable head- usually creatures that size end up looking like a massive jumble of parts, but Reiz is on the cusp of overcoming it. It's fantastic that the wings can fold up, too. Pax is pretty solid, albeit blocky and with a head I can't quite get behind. That combiner is fantastic. How does it work? Do you need to take them apart to put them together, or do parts of them fold up to fit each other?

The old man's neck seems a bit off, but the design itself is superb, especially the legs and torso. The sea creature is another one of those huge shell-ridden monsters that I've seen a lot of in recent years, but that doesn't make it any less good, and I really like how the fins integrate those Mata Nui shoulder bits

Marvelous use of skintones and cloth parts on both figures, and I love the way you two used the golden Hau and Creature head as helmets. Apollo's lyre is downright inspired, although his arms and legs look a bit janky. Artemis is basically flawless- the beautiful bow and quiver, the flora, the archery glove, the way all the CCBS shells blend together so seamlessly. She's probably one of the best MoCs I've seen in recent memory, perhaps ever.

I think it was closer to 25, actually.

Once, Arthax the Annihilator was a mighty warrior. Now... not so much. (pardon the blur, it's the middle of the night and I was in a hurry and I'm not very experienced with cameras and stuff) He was the champion of a thousand battles in the Orthosen Colosseum, but his victories made him prideful, and one day he bet all the prize money he'd ever earned on a match between himself and Ser Galithoun the Soul Grinder. Galithoun destroyed him- took him apart piece by piece, quite literally. Humbled, stripped of two limbs and everything he had ever owned, Arthax vanished from the public view, scraping by on petty thievery, using what little money he could find to acquire prosthetics on the black market. Let this be your warning, ye who seek to fight in Arthax's place and see the Soul Grinder brought to his knees. Such pride is foolish, and could very well cost you... an arm and a leg. Haha. Ha. Ha. Uh. (plz love me) --- Mechanical limbs were made by the impossibly patient (seriously man you should be very angry at me all things considered) IvanisIvan; Arthax was scrapped together at the last minute by yours truly, as is the norm for me. Arthax was the result of me having trouble with our original plan (two robots of similar design, one a future version of the other), due in part to clashing styles. I eventually started throwing around other ideas after Ivan suggested we try something different; eventually, suffering from sleep deprivation and minor headaches, I suggested in a half-conscious stupor that we just build two parts of the same guy- one of us makes everything above the waist, one of us makes everything else. This idea eventually evolved into "dude that lost his limbs and had to get robotic replacements", I threw together a bare-bones story, and here we are now. I'm not entirely satisfied with my half- the torso isn't complete, and the arm and leg are basically knockoffs of designs used in previous MoCs I made rather than being wholly original- but when all is said and done, I think I did pretty good for a last-minute rush job. (ten minutes before the deadline wooooooo~)

And a really good-looking attack drone too. Nicely done.

Utterly smooth and ridiculously stylish. Not to mention I can't recall ever seeing a better blend of system and constraction. The only criticism I can think of is that the kneecaps look slightly too big; other than that, it's flawless.

I actually do kinda like most of the above-waist torso for the first one- it's a lot of parts that come together surprisingly smoothly, with the smaller details like tubing integrated very well. It's everything around it that throws me off- especially the crotch and legs. The feet look nice, though- I like the drill ankles. And Jayko's aesthetics are indeed superb- nearly perfect, in fact, you did an amazing job with him. But man oh man, when body parts are noticeably oversized or undersized in a way that doesn't seem to flow well, it's hard for me to unsee.

I really like the blue tubing. =D

First one's a neat idea, but too chunktastic for me to really get behind it. Third one's aesthetically pleasing, but the proportions seem wonky and the system on the shoulders sticks out with how blocky it is. I'm trying to pretend Galidor never existed, so that's all I got for ye.