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Submitted: March 30, 2012
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Date Taken:Mar 30, 2012, 1:38:27 PM
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Lego System: Matteo-netteby *3rdeye88

Traditional Art / Sculpture / Lego

This is my second submission to

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Scrapworld Bio
Matteo, once a powerful Makuta was yet another notable victim to the mutagen, turning him into a disfigured slave to the horde. Matteo went from being another scrap beast, wondering the wastelands of Bara Magna to becoming Arachnes's pet. Peering into the mind that used to be she found him peculiar and interesting. "Such a dignified mind would be delightfully cruel jest." So she made him her puppet. reshaping his body, leaving just enough biological components to sustain his life, and just enough of the mechanical ones to have limited movement inside a wooden casing made of wood from a few trees recovered from what was left of the jungles of Aqua-magna.
As Arachne stripped away the infected parts of his body, and thereby the mutagen, Matteo slowly reclaimed his mind, such was her intent.

I know not what is a worse fate, having become a slave to that terrible mutagen, or having survived it, only to return to a body that is not my own. ~Dottore Matteo"

about the MOC
I've wanted to do this for a while. In the picture of Arachne(linked above) You can see that there is "mini-Matteo-nette", which I still have, but is no longer strung. This was my first attempt at this concept. After trying it out with him, I knew that I had wanted to come back to this idea and reattempt this concept since I wasn't satisfied with the results. This version is a lot better, but still has some slight issues. Once I have more string parts, I may give this a version two update. But overall, I'm very satisfied with the MOC.

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~Raps555 Mar 10, 2013 Student Digital Artist

I love the contrast between the two versions, at first I couldn't even tell the difference! I get a very Legend of Zelda puppet boss feeling from it, which I really like a lot. Nice use of the clock on the Bio version! xD A tip for photographing reds - don't put them on a white background. Put them on dark grey, it allows the camera to focus better on not blowing out the reds and keeping details instead of trying to filter out the white glow. Also, great use of the lego strings, that was a very nice touch.

*legoland5254 Jan 4, 2013

it's amazing how you made a puppet of your own bionicle! I tried somethng like that once, it didn't work out

*3rdeye88 Jan 4, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks. Not only did I make a puppet of Matteo, I made a marionette without using non lego parts. That's what I'm really proud of with this MOC.

~st3vethesquid Nov 5, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

Haha, nice brick built matteo

*3rdeye88 Nov 5, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Hehe. Thank you. You really should browse my gallery some day. Your gallery is pretty small, all fits on one page for me. But I also have my page setting set to 100 per page cause of the premium account. But still, your gallery is small.

And FYI he does work as a marionette. I've since repositioned the connections of the leg strings to better make his legs work. Now I just need to get more string parts so that I can do dual control sticks and really be able to make him move right.

~st3vethesquid Nov 6, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

Aaaaand I just figured out how deviantart works. I seriously did not notice that when you look in the gallery it's on 'featured' by default. I thought I had seen everything!

*sigh* it's gonna be a long day.

*3rdeye88 Nov 8, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Yeah. The main page is the featured. Then there's the folders on the sides. And now premium members have access to sub folders, so I do have a few things separated into sub folders.

But browse does put everything in chronological order descending from most recent.

Well I haven't seen any new comments, so I'm guessing you haven't bit the bullet and browsed yet?

~st3vethesquid Nov 9, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

nah I'm too lazy to comment

~Sandtrap Sep 14, 2012

That's freaking hilarious, man.

*3rdeye88 Sep 14, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks.

And as you saw, it actually works.

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