BIONICLE 2022 Fan Commercial

Made for the 90th Anniversary Tahu model. Animated in Blender in the style of the Bionicle commercials made by Advance/Ghost. Voice-over was stitched together from various lines read by Tony Wedgewood. Music is someone's old remix of Cryoshell's Creeping in My Soul, which you can find on these Youtube and Soundcloud accounts (not mine):

Models taken from BrickLink Studio and modified:

Some VFX from Production Crate:

Environment models and textures from Bridge:

Some smoke effects from Blender Market

Sound effects from Artlist:

[jmaster]

Not only is this shockingly well-animated, but it perfectly emulates and captures the style of the original commercials to great effect. Your work shall not go unappreciated!

[Al_Xe]

The little guy carries all 10 years of history within those cute big eyes. He was there at the beginning, he saw how it ended, now he’s the only one left. A true hero ladies and gentlemen.


Also I love how the soundtrack is a mix between the early and late Bionicle commercial music.

[BrotherhoodWorkshop]

This is hilarious and ridiculously well executed.

[Sandwich]

This is absolutely incredible, really brought back memories from 2001 of playing with my Toa Tahu and fighting off waves of rogue Galidor villains.

[LordFindogask]

This commercial oozes G1 charisma, it's so good.

[TY-PO]

The narration only sells this even further. It sounds like a genuine revival for Bionicle, as if the Toa woke up to a completely different world.

[iwanek]

That shot of Tahu running always gets me

[cringedefender]

Better then most of the newer lego commercials

[DrMadd]

As hilarious as this may be I do like how you edited the narration to make a hopeful statement about the future of the series. “No matter what the future may bring, some things will never change”, even when Tahu is depicted as a silly googly-eyed chibi, in spirit he’s still the heroic Toa of Fire we all know and love.

[jamodieus]

That last "Now you can prepare for the ultimate battle!" made me laugh so hard

[KingOfMumbles...]

Despite his appearance, Tahu is still a powerhouse like Kirby

[yrodriguez]

"No matter what the future may bring...somethings, will never change".

[underwater]

I just want you all to acknowledge the sped up and pitch shifted Creeps from the Deep blasting in the background that just ties this all together

[ToaBastignika]

I loooove how dynamic you made him look even tho his torso and legs can't move

[Taohe_Netrus]

This is why BIONICLE commercials were always supperior <3

[sarahfisher]

I just love rewatching this over and over. You just nailed it, complete with the “new from Bionicle” opener and the googly eyes animation. Keep up the amazing work! I want to see more Bionicle animation from you!

[MKSpartan]

"A Matoran has fallen into the river in Mata Nui"

"HEY!"

[Legomicroman]

this is actually epic, yet also charmingly goofy.

very cool!

[uniworkhorse]

This is textbook Bionicle, that battle slo-mo was so good

[vaimantobe]

That music is god-tier shitpost material.
The animation is too good to even be called that anymore. It's incredible!