Well, better late than never;- here are the renders of my WIP Toa Hagah (please ignore the fact that in most if not all of the renders Pouks’s kanohi is shaped like its regular design,- I had done most if not all of these renders before the current discussions of the upcoming contest had taken place, and I now understand that in-story it looked like a different kanohi, and as-of such, I will find a different mask shape to use for him) (please also note that so far, I’ve mainly made progress on 3/4 of the four remaining members of the Hagah, so these renders will not largely involve Gaaki).
Now, without further ado:
An early group shot I’d made of the three team-members.
As can be seen in this close-up of Bomonga, I based the design highly on @Kodiak’s amazing MOC of the character, attempting to capture its aesthetic and bulk despite the more simplified design I was using:
A close-up of the early iteration of Pouks, with a pose inspired by a MOC I saw online:
A close-up of the early iteration of Kualus, also with a pose inspired by a MOC I saw online (my choice of Kanohi shape for Kualus is not final):
Group-Shot of a later iteration of these MOCs, now no-longer using Rahkshi weapons, and the weapons they have now being the same colors as their respective armor colors:
And here we have Pic 1 again, with Pouks and Kualus having swapped metallic colors with each other in order to have the Earthshock Drill shoulder armor come in more than just one color (might swap 'em back later, though):
A few notes on the design philosophy I’ve been implementing:
I’ve been attempting to make these designs so that all six Hagah have an equally-proportioned number of leg/arm shapes, shoulder armor shapes, chest armor shapes, and metallic colors spread throughout the whole team.
The way I’ve proportioned these ratios out in the current version is as follows:
With this chart,
I’ve played a sudoku game of sorts where an item can only appear once in each column and only twice in each row.Below are some renders of my current chart in a more visual format, which also include what I currently have for each Hagah’s respective eye-color and staff head (yes, I realize that the staff head I currently have for Gaaki is a rahkshi weapon in these renders, and it is not my final choice):
Notes for future iterations (besides the changing of Pouks’s kanohi):
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I’ll probably want to make all of their spear-tips be '01-'03 accessories
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To add more variety, I might want to make it so that two of the four have the waists being the element of their builds that are black.
And finally:
A Question To You, Fearless Reader:*
- Keep Whenua’s Earthshock Drills as Bomonga’s & Kualus’s shoulder armor
- Keep Whenua’s Earthshock Drills as Bomonga’s shoulder armor, but have Kualus trade his shoulder armor with Pouks or Gaaki
- Change Bomonga’s & Kualus’s shoulder armor to the Kanohi Sanok as in @Kodiak’s MOC
- Change Bomonga’s & Kualus’s shoulder armor to the Kanohi Sanok as in @Kodiak’s MOC and then have Kualus trade his shoulder armor with Pouks or Gaaki
Disclaimer:
This is a survey for suggestion feedback purposes only, and does not necessarily guarantee that the winning suggestion will be implemented in further iterations of these MOCs.
*And also, here’s a Bionicle meme for your time, along with the format used to make it:
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