The Metru-Nui Flash Animation Remakes
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- BEFORE YOU COMMENT: No, This is not Disks of Power. Team Kanohi is 99.99% Positive that we'll never do a Metru-Nui game, this is a personal project I made as a way to learn Blender 2.8 and then to hone my skills with 2.9.
Six legendary peace keepers guard the heart of Metru-Nui. Turaga Dume will suffer no insolence. Only one opposes these cruel vehicles of justice...
Yes this is all six Vahki Flash animations from 2004 remade by yours truly.
I've put well over a month of work into bringing these animations into 3d, and while there is a little jankyness and some errors, I believe they are faithful enough to be good remakes. I would have remade the music but I just can't recreate music. Made for the 21:9 aspect.
I hope you enjoyed the surprise at the end, and then the one after that.
I would put links here but I don't have any that are relevant. :)
I still find it funny how little the Vahki actually mattered to the Toa Metru storyline in the end. From these trailers, you'd think they would be a bigger deal
From what I've heard Greg felt uncomfortable writing something that was pretty much obedient secret though police with bunch of mind bending and brainwashing powers into children story.
Can't blame him really. 2004 would be way more dark than it already was.
I think if the Metru storyline had more focus on the day-to-day of the Metru-Nui Matoran the Vahki would have had more emphasis, as they clearly are more effective at controlling the weaker Matoran than the Toa which the story focused on more. They really only seem to take on Toa in a swarm (like in the 2nd movie, but even then they didn't pose that much of a threat) so we didn't get a whole lot of opportunities to see how powerful the Vahki were individually and how they were even able to control the most populous city in the universe.
It's a shame really because the Vahki have amazing designs and unique abilities but against the main cast kind of just ended up as a weaker Bohrok 2.
I’m reading the books rn and I feel much more intrigue with the vahki then just being bohrok 2.0 in the movies. Sure they didn’t have an essential kills with the toa like the bohrok and Rahkshi but they did give a general uneasiness to what is supposed to be a dystopian or metru nui. With toa essentially never being regarded as heroes and being in hiding all the time and many times just running away from them. They also were the ones who manually put the matoran in the balls which is kinda terrifying how much they follow directions even when it directly ruins their own lives
Honestly, the Vahki were just a small part of a much greater whole for the storyline. The early Metru Nui storyarc was more about the conspiracy with the Teradax disguised Dume, the attacks from the Morbuzakh and the Toa Metru having to combat the Anti-Toa rhetoric he spouted to the matoran who followed him in both blind and fearful obediance.
@@thePanOfPans To Toa, Vahki were just fodder enemies. To Matoran, Vahki were literal terminator
Love these. Having read 1984 since the last time I saw these, it completely recontextualizes the slogans.
I was going to comment the same thing.
Yeah, I had no idea Metru Nui was so authoritarian when it came to this.
but that was the context
@@RHR199X of course. I didn’t know that originally.
I like to Imagine the Movies we're like the Textbook History/Matoran-Friendly version of what happened while the comics and my headcannon (something on the line of the Video Game Alpha Centauri and some of the FMVs like the Self-Aware Colony and the Virtual World and ofc 1984) are the versions you would hear about in the Archives or from a Turaga.
Still wild to me that Bionicle had an entire 1984/Orwellian arc that likely mostly went over the heads of its target audience
Okay that Lhikan animation caught me by total surprise, great stuff
I remember all the Vahki animations but had no idea there was a Likhaan one...
EDIT: Turns out there wasn't, it was created for this compilation.
We need a flash version of that one now!
@@Automatik234 flash is dead :(
@@sebastianthomsen2225 Adobe Animate still exists, and I think Newgrounds has their own custom version of the Flash player, so it might be possible to do something like this.
Simply incredible, however it's weird how well 3D in blender meshes with 2D animation
I know, right?
Holy Gadunka. These recreations of the Vahki animations are great and the last one was icing on the cake! Bravo.
I love how it combines the work or die idea behind the outer worlds but also the obey aspects of 1984
Man bionicle has to this day the coolest villains ever, going from the bohrok swarms to the vahki force, to the barraki rulers
What about phantoka and mistika makuta? Those are awesome too.
@@van-garrettjohnson6012 their sets were cheap and ugly I have no love for the line that sold soo poorly it killed bionicle
These animation made Metru Nui out to be an oppressive place but what we actually saw of it showed it wasn't.
really slick. and does a good job of giving the vahki an imposing movement, though it did seem that you struggled with some of the more dynamic movements. still great work!
The definition of big brother is always watching you. Great work dude!
These are AWESOME! Absolutely amazing the way you remade and interpreted the style of those animations, really fantastic work!
This is incredible! How did you load the bionicle models into blender?!
Well it's a bit more complex then just loading them in, first I import all the parts I can from ldraw, or community made packs, using a plugin that makes that possible, and then make any I don't have. Next I piece them together like a real Lego set, set up their skeleton so that they can be animated, set up their materials and then they are ready to be put in a scene and animated.
You can probably tell that the Vahki head, matoran body and some of the staffs are made by me.
Holy cow i didn't even realize until i saw your comment!
That Lhikan one was amazing! I love the walking shot past all the workers. The rest looked beautiful as well!!
I dunno how I feel to this. On the one hand these are absolutely amazing and I love them, on the other hand there is no beating the rose tinted nostalgia of the originals. Either way, excellent work
Wait, was there a Flash Animation for Toa Lhikan? I don't remember that.
Nope, there wasn't. :)
@@Jocool1231 awesome!
@@Jocool1231 That one was really epic!
These are so amazing
Quite a faithful remake! Great job!
You completely got that old flash vibe, also the animation, camera and editing is amazing!
Grew up with Bionicle but never saw these.
Absolutely fantastic, and great addition of Nuurakh+Lhikan short! The only problem I have is that at the set framerate the running signs blur and therefore are unreadable. There's nothing I can do about it unfortunately.
_Welcome to Metru-Nui, where might makes right, and you can take pride in the elite!_
*Obedience is happiness.*
_Remember that a busy Matoran is a happy Matoran. Work quick! Work good!_
*For peace and the law.*
_Here, our Vahki Enforcers loyally serve and protect Turaga Dume._
*Turaga Dume sees all.*
_Thoughts can be dangerous, so trust in Turaga Dume._
*Surrender or run.*
Those slogan go hard 😄
For peace and the Law
Might makes Right
Pride in the Elite!
Obedience is Happiness
Trust in Turaga Dume
Thoughts can be Dangerous
A busy Matoran is a happy Matoran
Quick work is Good work
And the best one: Surrender or Run.
how does this NOT have a million views!? this is epic as! that special animaton of toa lhikan was also amazing too
incredible job , i think this is more like a remastered version than a remake
This is amazing! You should make more :D I love how closely you've followed the original animations and the way you did the Lihkan one really fits!
gracias por revivir este maravilloso recuerdo
Dang, disappointed it took me this long to find this. Shame on you, algorithm!
These are brilliant.
thank you so much for this!
This remake looks absolutely perfect!
i remember these trailers
This remake is a master piece and great work good Sir!!
It's bring back many memories of my childhood when playing the Vahki.
The Rorzahk and Bordahk ones are legit scary
This hits me in the nostalgia. Really cool. :D
Daaaamn this is insane, amazing job on these!
This rocks so hard
Nicely done! Would love to see more of these!
The Metru-Nui flash animations way oversold the entire arc. The actual movie doesn't even compare.
Amazing. Nicely done. Though Lhikan is misspelled in the ending.
I'm discovering this video just now, my dude, this is on point, excellent job ~
Wow, really well done. I love these
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Instead of making the video higher resolutions,
you make them them in higher resolutions 3D model instead
Nut
I loved this era of Bionicle. Great to see it remade in 3D. It has that hint of what Legends of Metru Nui should've been; a fight against an oppressive, propaganizing corrupt reigime.
Yeah the movie doesn't really sell Metru Nui as the Orwellian police state it is, probably because it's a kids film or maybe the screenwriters themselves didn't pick up on it.
@@Willie5000 I would say the kids film part, and because they didn't want to go really deep into thinking about it. That was left to other areas of Lego, like the bionicle comics.
Even Vakama turned into Corrupt Leader which makes Turaga Dume look better when they have returned to metru nui, until Nokama and Takanuva has persuaded them to tell Toa nuva's wherebout to Jala. While Vakama used to Protect and teach Metru Nui's hearts evacuated to Mata nui Isle.
Rorzakh and Zadakh are still my favourite of the Vakhi animations.
Amazing talent and skills Bro, you are awesome, you can make games and movies with this!!
The Vahki were my favorite enemy type the Toa fought against. Their designs are sleek and in the books they actually were a bigger threat
this is awesome
beautiful, amazing, extremely sick!!
The song sounds similar to the original Spider-Man movie video game theme
Lhikan name was misspelt as Lihkan
Should be HI but they did IH
Excellent.
Great job
Nuparu would make Boxor spec 2 with Vahki remains in metru nui to use as support mecha of Toa, which is similar to Meteor unit in Gundam seed. With cordak blaster and elemental cannon/blade which can channel elemental power of Toa as Blade(Hammer for Earth and stone) or beam cannon. Based on meteor unit on gundam seed+exo toa+boxor.
Great job!
Those are epic! How long did they take to render? Did you use eevee?
I did use eevee, some of the shorter ones near the end were rendered in less than ~15 minutes.
The longer scenes taking about ~30-40 min.
It's really a great renderer, as it's basically just UE4's rendering engine, and it worked very nicely for the smooth untextured style I like to go for with the characters.
hell yea bionicle
These look Amazing
incredible work!
Those are VERY good remakes
I want to like this video, but Turaga Dume sees all
Big Sprit is watching you!
Cool! Nice work!
Now if only the Audio could be remade as well. Non-compressed.
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Vahki: Yes sire!
Honestly, the Rorzakh animation reminded me of the FNAF 2 trailer
That one time Lego just went full out on their consumers, teaching them about authoriterian regimes
I forgot how cyberpunk the Metru Nui saga was
*The Death intruders in The metru Killer hunt Arc* The Legacy of matoro toa of ice
Mask Maker: (melting down a disk, when a Vahki comes crashing in) What the...?!
quick work is nice but can be sloppy and rushed
hard work though
are you telling me metru nui was the equivalent of oceania in 1984?
Why is it that the Ga-matoran is the snitch?
Because of this passage from BS01:
"Bordakh were outfitted with Staffs of Loyalty. Lawbreakers in Ga-Metru knew that anyone they saw could be working for the Vahki due to the effect of the staffs."
Essentially Bordakh can do mind control.
Bordakh staff of loyalty.
@@evandenis5488 @Jocool1231 I guess.
(Also this was a stupid joke about how boncle is kinda sexist but not really)
was this made in response to the shutdown of flash?
Not really, no. Mainly just as a way to sharpen my skills and do something fun.
Did you ported the character models from stud.io and the rigged them in blender? Or did you sculpted them in blender directily?
Most of the parts are ones that are used in stud.io or community packs for it, I imported the parts into blender, put them together, then rigged them. Although, some parts I made myself.
@@Jocool1231 How do you rig them? I tried once to rig a takanuva fully made in stud.io but for some reason the skeleton wouldn't stick to the model. (I might be using wrong terms there)
You have to do a process called weight painting. It's where you assign different vertexes to different bones. For bionicles it's actually quite easy as every bone can be one piece, but it gets a bit more complex when you want to do something like a human.
@@Jocool1231 i'll keep that in mind. Have a discord or some way to contact you again in case i get stuck somewhere. If you want to help, of course.
@@returnedtomonkey8886 Yeah, here's the Team Kanohi discord server, you can DM me from there. Always happy to help. discord.gg/6TGPuye
I want more please.
I'm curious what you mean by this, do you want more original Metru-Nui animations, more flash to 3d recreations, more 3d animated Bionicle content, or just more content? :)
3d animated content
@@santawithsponge To be clear, Just 3d Animated content or 3d Animated Bionicle content?
If it's the former, then I do already have one other video in that regards: ua-cam.com/video/Ro5QRaRkeTU/v-deo.html
@@Jocool1231 bionicle related 3d animated content, it's just something that were just seeing emerge after stud.io
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Very good recreations in 3d! But the models of Bionicle parts could be more accurate. So called "Biopack" for Stud.io has all parts you needed, including matoran body and Vahki head
Yes I'm aware, I used the pack for Lihkan at the end, but I forgot it was a thing right up until then.
You should've replaced music with its HQ version
Are those Matoran models downloadable anywhere?
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1:08,1:17 North korea or P.R.china intensify
How'd you find the fonts?
I can't find the original lhikan animation anywhere
That's because it's an original.
@@Jocool1231 So this last animation is completely your idea?
@@bogdankrajisnik9436 Yep, put it together the day before I wanted to release this.
@@Jocool1231 Nice work
Well movement was too slow at times but other than that well done.
Umm, so turaga dume is a dictator...
When you dig deep, yes since he really is Makuta in disguise.
We know.
That's where the fun begins.
Lego bionicle remasterd