Bionicle 2001 Tribute: Face Me (Cryoshell)

One of my video tributes for Bionicle. None of the properties in this video, visual or auditory, belong to me--Bionicle and the videos are made by Advance for Lego, and the music is created by Cryoshell/other bands. Shout-out to the most excellent sites of the Biomedia Project and Biosector01, as well as certain biotubers for their archiving all the material I was able to use. It's been nearly ten years since Bionicle ended, and about a decade since music was ever released for Bionicle, and while we are still hotly anticipating the promised second album, perhaps this will help satiate some of the nostalgia buds in the mean time. So far, I've made ten videos themed around each of the ten years of Bionicle, as well as one overall video dedicated to the whole of it. The challenge is to take Bionicle CGI (minus the movies, including those would provide their own complications that I don't want to address at the moment) and string them together to songs that aptly fit their year. Most of the time, these are the ones that coorespond to the year they promoted, but sometimes I take a few liberties--I think to much success. Personally, I'm surprised no one has done this already. This has been something I've been meaning to do for years, and now that I have the training to make it happen, I've been thrilled with the results. I hope to do a two more for Hero Factory (Come to My Heaven and Breakout) and probably one for G2 (and G3?), but I'll tackle those down the road. 2001--Face Me. Although perhaps not the song most frequently associated with 2001, there is a sort of charming defiance about the song that strikes me as making it perfect for the first year of Bionicle. The Toa have just emerged on Mata Nui and dare to face the shadows, unwitting of the trials about to befall them. Perhaps because I ultimately relied upon using material from the Legend of Mata Nui game (something I may end up going back and changing if I sufficiently feel like it) this was perhaps the one where I had to sort through the most material--although the fact it was my first run and I was still figuring out how to best organize my materials didn't help either. Sort of regret speeding up the commercial animations and putting more emphasis on the game animations, but this was still when I planned to tell general stories of each year with the videos, something that ended up being impossible with future videos. Still, I'm quite proud of how it turned out, and it was a nice beginning entry to this series.