thankyou, the head and shoulders were the closest I could get to a rahkshi like head and face that I could find, and considering there physical variety having esentaily the same face worked out well to show that they are intended to be together.
As for the rest of this I agree with it admittedly.
Looking at Makuta’s arms and see that the little lightning bolts I put on his hands didn’t really compensate for the weirdness of the whole “matoran upper body creature lower body” theme I just sorta ran with.
as for the weapon variation I had started by following already existing concept art for them where red was a spider with a staff, green was a snake with daggers, blue chuthuloid with combat tendrils so on and so on.
It also means that they can have more move sets applied to them in a melee fight with the toa
It was when I got to Vorahk and Kurahk, and especially Makuta that things fell apart.
as such I do intend on giveing all three of them a face lift. as for why I did what I did.
Kurahk was given two cleavers because I felt that would fit with his angry personality. and there was no one with them who welded a sword. the lower half was intended to be like a boar or some other wide, stocky creature that would fair well in a cold environment and had an association with rage, though at this scale and with his mini-fig half taking up the place where a recognizable head would be and the two cannons I put on his so he could go “guns blazing” into battle I can see how that didn’t read well
Vorahk was suppose to be a big brute, but that fell apart as I tried to make an axelfig torso mockup. or even just legs that were big and beefy enough to help make him stack up well beside the others. so I tried to go back to the drawing board and found that the grim reaper idea sounded cool. so I ran with it. again it didn’t work out that well for Vorahk, that and the picture does not do him justice.
as for Makuta.
I felt as though the lack of flyers on the villian side and the fact his ultumate form needed to -not- just look like a big dumb brute ment I needed to do something lighter and more skeletal. and eventualy I found those wing parts. so I started work on makeing him a dragon lower half, I had tried to just give him a head on it, so his body sprouted from its shoulders but that…
didn’t look right. would have given him the ability to breath fire while he just sits up top with a staff of shadows or something though!
either way I have more to make and I am far from done. so lets see if next time. I can blow your mask off
once I get a hold of the necessary software I will be making better renders, as for the mixel joints I have some on hand and they are surprisingly durable and stiff. though I do intend on reducing some of the weight on them by using other kinds of joints
Edited for double-post. --John Smith