Nuparu Mahri

 

Back at it again with another humanization OvO This time I've done Nuparu! I was really excited to tackle Nuparu ever since that video Brian Ellis had made on designing the figure - which it's also so cool to get that insight into a toy like Bionicle. Here's the link if you want to check it out, it's Part 2 of a 3 part series.

Anyways, I wanted to "steel" up Nuparu. I plan for her 2006 Inika version to be more punk-ish, so this would be a more subtle step down. And seeing as Brian mentioning he was taking a more "stealth" approach to this version of Nuparu, I wanted to hammer that in a bit here. I also based her Mahri mutations off of a Barracuda fish - it felt fitting with Nuparu's color scheme and the addition of silver scales seemed appropriate. 

Also, talk about a glow up, here's her matoran design so you can really see the difference :O