BIONICLE Canon Contest #3: Honor Guard

[Winger]

@Hazash

Speaking of art entries and whether different people will win…

I happen to have seen a piece of artwork by someone who has yet to enter and suffice it to say, none of us stand a chance I’m 90% confident they’re going to win all four entries.

please, get them to enter before the entry period ends.

[KanohiReqi]

So a question about the art entries, since a contestants art style won’t be up to exact proportions, will there be a recreation of the art entries in stud.io so voters know how they look physically?

[Racie02]

Personally, I intend to judge art by the same criteria I have for mocs. I don’t care how beautifully it is drawn, I’ll judge it on the model itself, just like I won’t hold bad photography against a Moc.

Save the beauty factor for the final art.

[CMO]

@Atobe_Brick

Mhmm. It looks like I won’t finish my Kualus and Bomonga drawings in time. I think I had some good ideas, but I guess it serves me right for procrastinating so much.

Aw, I’m sorry. Did you get a Pouks and Gaaki done, or were Kualus and Bomonga the only ones you were planning on doing?

@Atobe_Brick

I wonder if reviewers/collectors like Duck Bricks will build the winning moc to a tee, or if they’ll use the mask, metallic color, and/or spear-tip from the winning artwork.

I’d imagine most people will base their recreations on the artwork, replicability of 3D pieces and color pieces nonwithstanding.

@Hazash

600th post bois let’s party

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[Atobe_Brick]

@CMO

Did you get a Pouks and Gaaki done, or were Kualus and Bomonga the only ones you were planning on doing?

Originally I was going to do all 4, but because of time, I decided to do the 2 designs that I liked the most.

[Fenrakk_Nui95]

@Huemus

Another thing is replicability. For example an entry use two golden Kraahkan as shoulder armor, and with all the respect to the autor, is too expensive to replicate.

I totally understand your point of view and I had even thought of removing the Kraahkans on my Bomonga at the beginning since I don’t own those pieces either. However, I decided to keep them because I’m planning to get 3D printed versions of the recolored pieces (not available in the mocs’ colors) that the winning mocs might have, including the Kraahkans. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s much cheaper than getting the actual pieces.

[Hazash]

@Atobe_Brick

Do you know for sure that they’re going to enter?

Yeah, they will (unless a terrible accident befalls them in the next 21 hours)

@Racie02

Save the beauty factor for the final art.

I wonder if (or when) someone wins all four, will we even have a final art stage?

@Racie02

I don’t care how beautifully it is drawn, I’ll judge it on the model itself, just like I won’t hold bad photography against a Moc

I agree. Though based on prior contests, I think most people will vote for what looks cool overall rather than what designs look good in vitro. That was my main motivator for giving my entries official-looking backgrounds.

While I’m here, you guys can check out my Hagah which I just posted. Haven’t officially entered them yet just in case something warrants changing based on feedback.

[Tarkur]

@Atobe_Brick

Duck Bricks

I mean it would be neat to have him build the winning mocs to review but

@Atobe_Brick

winning moc to a tee

I can’t say he’s much for accuracy, especially when it comes to the older dh and rahi builds or even builds like Miserix or Iron wolf.

He makes great reviews don’t get me wrong but he uses instructions that are partially old or just flat out inaccurate.

[Senit]

But on the newer TTV contest models they were accurate. But I can understand that the models have some inaccuracies.Edit: (Wrong letter on newer)

[SFtheGreat]

Rearding the spear tip, does the rule:

Feature a single-ended spear (I.e. One blade/attachment on one end of the staff, like featured on Norik and Iruini). Cannot be substantially longer or shorter than the preexisting Hagah spears.

Mean that only a single piece can be used, or just that the spear ca have one pointy end that is allowed to be made from several pieces?

[Senit]

Yes only one pointy end. But it can be made of multiple pieces

[Eljay]

It means don’t give a Hagah a Rahkshi staff.

[SFtheGreat]

Also about this:

Have metallic armor placement that is in parity with the two preexisting Toa Hagah sets. This means the metallic armor is restricted to the feet, thighs, chest, shoulders, mask, shield, and spear tip.

Does it mean that every simgle piece that is utiized as spear tip must be in metallic colour, or can there be a piece in another colour, if metallic is not available, such as connectors?

[Senit]

It should be primarily metal. Connectors should be fine

[SFtheGreat]

Another question, are secondary accent colours OK?
Speifically purple in Bomonga, becase alleegdly he had some in the film.

[Eljay]

These are all questions that have either been answered before here, or have been answered by previous entries. We encourage you to look at the entries that have been accepted to see what is and is not acceptable.

[SFtheGreat]

OK, thanks or the info.

[TheJerminator]

Sorry for another late question, but I might be in a gray zone for one of my masks.

I’d like to use the G2 Mask of Water, but I’m working in stud.io and the G2 head isn’t available in it or the Biopack. Would it be acceptable to simply position the mask over a G1 Metru head in stud.io without any connections? If allowed, would this have any impact on my mask-change permissions?

(Alternately, it would also work if someone knows about a G2 head model, or perhaps a Mask of Water model that I could modify to attach to a G1 head)

EDIT: (Also, I still have 1:45 to submit, right?)

[Atobe_Brick]

Lots of last minute entries! I predict that there’ll be exactly two more in the next 38 minutes.