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IRON6DUCK — Metru Nui sights - An Island City
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Published: 2016-09-09 14:26:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 35724; Favourites: 999; Downloads: 770
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Welcome to the world of Metru Nui!I thought it was time to mix things up a little since I haven't made a major image in a long time. This image gave me actual nightmares one night. It took 2 whole months to make from start sketch to finish.
64 layers. Also, i made like 6 new brushes for this image
you see them as the waterlines, the sparkles and the city-texture.What I love about Metru Nui as a location is its purpose. it lies within the skull of the giant Mata Nui robot and apparently functions as his brain. A perspective I had not really thought about back in 2004 and 2005 obviously since it was a secret back then, but this gave me great inspiration of what the city is supposed to be like. Because, Metru Nui is not there for the matoran, the matoran is there for Metru Nui. For Mata Nui. This whole thing is a machine, and the matoran are its gears. In many ways this gets me to think in the lines of 'Osmosis Jones'. (Great cartoon movie, watch it.)
I imagine the matoran commonly live at the groundlevel, while they work machines, or whatever they do, up and within deeper levels of each metru. This doesn't mean they are slaves though. They are having perfectly comfortable lives and the whole place is streamlined for their sake. They wish to work the city and have their world prosper.
Since this is not a Mata Nui Sights, I felt more free to interpret what the city looks like cause.. when looking for references it was actually hard to find consistent images of Metru Nui. The best ones are the overall map of metru nui and the 6 opening shots from the film 'Legend of Metru Nui'. A little note here, from the original official bionicle art there are 2 types of coliseum. one where it is like a huge tower, those are seen in the comics and the movies, and a second in the images where the coliseum is typically in the background as this 3-tower-sillhouette thing (4 towers seen from the side).. I went with the second, because i feel it is more iconic to Metru nui, even thought it really makes you wonder what the composition of the structure is inside.
Now tell me, where would you, dear visitor, want to live in Metru nui? By the shore? Downtown? What Metru?
Background ambience for the mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3YdFn…
Step-by-Step: iron6duck.deviantart.com/art/M… and also check out this gif i made of the process iron6duck.deviantart.com/art/T…
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I'd like to live in Po-Metru. I've always enjoyed work that involves using tools and getting dirty.
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i can't decide on Le-Metru or Onu-Metru
i know trade and transport are a way to make a living but i like animals
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Christ. 3 years later... To this day. By FAR the best city painting I've ever seen. Believe it or not it's still on my desktop since the day I said i set it. You don't get enough credit. I'd expect this to have like 10K favs by now. You really gotta make an artstation page I swear you'd get lots of eyes from industry guys from this one :0 Just want to point out how great this still is.
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Thank you. much love Fotusknight
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My kind of city!
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I would probably live in Ga-Metru, both for the atmosphere, and the schooling, and might want to live near the shore. There's always the chutes to go see the sights, right?
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Nice. and yeah there would definitely be transportation options in any Metru id think :d
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This is SOOOOO COOL!!!! Could I use it as a wallpaper?
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Found a picture that satisfy my aesthetic feelings. Thanks
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I only see Ta-Metru and Le-Metru at this angel
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Ga-Metru, hands down... the quiet learning district but not as frigid as Ko-metru. From A Guide to Metru Nui, Ga-metru is super pretty
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This is just.... This is the best picture I've ever seen.
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It looks like a place you could get lost in if someone was trying to find you...Or A place to find yourself lost in without a trustworthy guide.
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Holy smokes! I just found this image here and searched up the rest of your Bionicle Sights pictures - how have I not found you before?! D:
Talk about a blast to the past and just AMAZING art and architecture! Insta-fave!
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Thank you very much. Yeah I'm not really the self-promoting kind of guy, I just like drawing stuff like this from time to time
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GOD-JESUS, I GET NOSTALGIC JUST BY LOOKING AT THIS!! 10/10!!
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This is so beautiful. Bionicle was childhood and seeing it's legacy being honored like this makes me smile. Please keep up the good work.
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Thank you! what an honour ^^
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I'm thinking about buying a print of this to hang in my room, because this is absolutely stunning work. I'm quite tempted to do the same with some of your other works, as well, but I'm not sure what material to print them on. Do you have any recommendations?
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Amazing! The perspective of the Coliseum gives the impression that it is menacingly towering over the rest of the city rather than merely a background piece. The layout is really well done and the design looks superb.
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faving without comm--oh wait.
man, this brought out the nostalgic fanboy in me to the max. Way to throw me back to 2004 all over again. Amazing job.
~=Z=~
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This is just absolutely beautiful; the lighting, the details, the atmosphere, it's all just spot-on. I'm not sure I would change a thing, maybe just zoomed out a little more to get more of the city in view, but that would likely remove much of the careful intricacies. This outdoes the second movie's representation of the city during its prime by far. Perfection can never be truly achieved, but this sure is damn close. I especially love the back of Mata Nui's eyes looming eerily in the sky...
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Thank you . Big words. I personally have great respect for the 6 city-scape shots of each metru in the beginning of Legend of Metru Nui. Those are hard to live up to..
The criteria for my images are always to have a couple of themes going on in them. For instance in this one I aimed for a grand open feel but yet feeling engulfed in cyberpunk city. So, If I had included the edges of the island I would lose that engulfed feeling, although i would gain some other themes like entirety and discovery. It's always a tradeoff.
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a beautiful city with a shady mechanical police force and an even shadier government.
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I'm loving the attention paid to theming each district (I see you've studied the concept arts too, good job!) so that even while they all have a unified silhouette cybercity motif, I can tell which district is which. Every single building and chute has the precision of an individual drawing. I'm extremely proud of you having undertaken the massive effort to draw all of this, I wish I could afford to get it printed out and hung up in my living room so I could look at it like the expansive masterpiece it is with the full range of my eyes. Its people like you who reaffirm my belief that there are still masters out there like the Renaissance had its own, even moreso with the wealth of technology and inspiration today.
Plus cyberpunk is my fave and metru Nui was also my favorite location <3
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Your words are heart-warming, thank you! I do put a lot of effort into balancing between elaborating the world and staying true to it's locations, vibes and architecture.
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