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I felt sad I couldn't contribute to this year's Bionicel Day celebration. But I had nothing new to show. Then I remembered I had something older lying around. This is a remnant of an old animation made between mid 2014 and early 2015. I've shared test clips and character models from it before but nothing complete. This beginning scene is all that was ever finished. It's Kopeke visiting the village Onu-Koro and meeting Midak. An unexpected adventure awaited Kopeke... but that part was never made. The video would have taken place during the 2003 Bohrok-Kal arc. The art style is based loosely on the Creative Capers Bionicle animated films, as this was made before I switched to a more rigorously toy-inspired style for my later Bionicle animations. I cleaned up the old animation a little bit, but you can still see it's rather awkward at points, especially the walk cycles. I also forgot what the characters were saying because I never wrote the dialogue down, so I tried my best to write appropriate subtitles for them based on what I could recall. I think I mostly got them right, even if they don't always match the mouth light movements behind their masks. Much of this scene plays out very slowly and some parts are fairly redundant and unnecessary. I'd have trimmed a lot of it if had ever finished it. As for why this project didn't go any further, it's because my old computer died in 2014, just after I had made Up until 2019, I cycled through about 3-4 other busted, barely functional hand-me-down PCs from the early 2000s, none of which were good for animation. As they had trouble handing scenes with more than a couple characters, I just gave up in frustration. But trust me, the rest of the animation would have been pretty nice to see as well! At least I liked how it went down in my head. I hope you like this little bit of it. Happy belated Bionicle Day to all the people who still care for this misfortunate franchise and its dilapidated fanbase.
