So I’ve been seeing you posting this in the canon contest discussions topic and felt like I wanted to express my thoughts on this build. Since it piqued my interest.
So everything I’m gonna lay out here is going to be my subjective thoughts and opinions on your moc in a constructive and hopefully helpful or thought provoking way to some degree or not…
To make this easier I’ll split my critiscm and praise into three categories and don’t worry I won’t bring up the rhotuka launcher in this post since we’ve discussed that to adnauseum in the other topic.
Without further ado, I want to start of by saying that this will likely get at least one of my votes as a first or second preference at this point in time. I don’t know what the competitions like yet so things may change.
So the first category is design, in this criteria I’ll look into the models combosition:
At first glance your Lariska looks really good, it has an interesting colorscheme of black and teal but the teal is just dominant enough that the black doesn’t overpower it which I like. However I do find the triangular body a bit wanky and too grebbly its also a bit hard to find any patterns in the design. Which take away from the entirety of the model. For example the design patterns on the mata feet are not repeated or featured in any other part of the design making it feel a bit disjointed.
The second category is the build, here I’ll take a look at the LEGO side of things:
The build is very creative in my opinion, I like that you managed to make her thin and agile looking. Another favorite aspect of the build to me is the usage of the banana pieces for her torso and just the general use of standard technic. I also think that the mechanical arm is creatively built using the Hordika upper arm piece it helps sell the robot arm though on the flip side I can sometimes feel that its to large and takes away from the rest of the build. Similarly I’m a bit hesitant on the mocs stability and durability mainly due to those tiny bohrok feet and the system connected right arm joint. To the same point having a quadruple jointed arms feels a bit wierd(This is wildly personal however.). Personally I’d suggest bulking up the right arm would help this moc go along way and hopefully not make it a helryx class nightmare to pose. However take this with a grain of salt since I haven’t actually held the model itself so if you haven’t had any issues with it yet I’d trust you on that. Lastly I really l like the head, not as much the hair (Makes it looks too much like a vortixx impo), I for sure think it is cool how you probably unintentionally homaged the build of the shadowed ones crown in the head design.
For the third category its believeability, how believeable is this model to Bionicle canon:
And for this category I hace to say you did a good job, I think it works arguably well as a Bionicle characters and you’ve captured most of the essential aspects of what we know of her apperances. As for some things I think detracts from the believeability, I must say the interplay between parts doesn’t always work for the design and the hair makes her look a bit vortixxy and is just in general a detail that very few Bionicle species have which I guess plays a factor into this as well.
The very last nitpick I have is how the technic panels are used on the arms and potentially the use of the small black tubes for her hair that is becoming ingresingly rare due to helryx.
As for my final abritrary score I’ll give this Lariska a 8/10, so you should be proud not because I said so but because I think you made a great moc. If you have any questions or want me to elaborate please reach out.
If I in anyway sounded disrespectful or rude in this post I apologize before hand, that was not my intention at all. Also I hope that my feedback is appreciated and that it was useful to you in some way