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Not to be confused with Overheat.
Ember is a female fire demon, born of the flame and, unlike the explosive personalities of her element, is reasonably quiet. Her demeanour is more of a glowing coalfire rather than a raging inferno.
As a MOC, Ember began as nothing more than Overheat 3.0., which I had wanted to do for some time; I disliked Overheat's head and arms, and wanted to clean up the colour scheme a little. After deciding to redo the torso as well, I resolved to remake the entire MOC, meaning that Overheat and Ember are completely different structurally. The only trait that they share is the basic concept.
This is, of course, the colour scheme: coal-black at the feet, gradually rising through shades of red and orange until we reach wisps of yellow at the top. I'd say that Ember's transition is far smoother: see this comparison to see what I mean. Perhaps the only thing I miss from Overheat is the digitigrade feet, but either way Ember is supposed to be more humanoid, and extra joints in feet tend to be less stable. I'm also happier with the parts usage on Ember, like the brain slug used as her spine!
Ember was made as a sort of counterpart to another MOC of mine, Fissure. Fissure's concept was centred around colour distribution too, except that his was the segregation of it as opposed to a steady sweep through a spectrum. I hope you like them both!
Update 14/09/2013: Made a few changes which I thought were significant. The lower HF armour piece on Ember's head has been changed to yellow and there are a couple of other minor adjustments, but the major changes were the hips and upper legs. Her hips are now wider and more rounded (to the point where I think they may be too fat), which gave me room to stabilise the hip joint as well. Note that the critiques by ~Rannok and ~Vedkarrtheunbroken were written about Ember's previous version, which can be seen in the above comparison. As I have already photographed Ember's involvement in Hero Faffory, I highly doubt that I'll change anything else, so I hope you approve of the updates!
Bionicle (c) Lego
Designing, building, photography (c) Me
Ember is a female fire demon, born of the flame and, unlike the explosive personalities of her element, is reasonably quiet. Her demeanour is more of a glowing coalfire rather than a raging inferno.
As a MOC, Ember began as nothing more than Overheat 3.0., which I had wanted to do for some time; I disliked Overheat's head and arms, and wanted to clean up the colour scheme a little. After deciding to redo the torso as well, I resolved to remake the entire MOC, meaning that Overheat and Ember are completely different structurally. The only trait that they share is the basic concept.
This is, of course, the colour scheme: coal-black at the feet, gradually rising through shades of red and orange until we reach wisps of yellow at the top. I'd say that Ember's transition is far smoother: see this comparison to see what I mean. Perhaps the only thing I miss from Overheat is the digitigrade feet, but either way Ember is supposed to be more humanoid, and extra joints in feet tend to be less stable. I'm also happier with the parts usage on Ember, like the brain slug used as her spine!
Ember was made as a sort of counterpart to another MOC of mine, Fissure. Fissure's concept was centred around colour distribution too, except that his was the segregation of it as opposed to a steady sweep through a spectrum. I hope you like them both!
Update 14/09/2013: Made a few changes which I thought were significant. The lower HF armour piece on Ember's head has been changed to yellow and there are a couple of other minor adjustments, but the major changes were the hips and upper legs. Her hips are now wider and more rounded (to the point where I think they may be too fat), which gave me room to stabilise the hip joint as well. Note that the critiques by ~Rannok and ~Vedkarrtheunbroken were written about Ember's previous version, which can be seen in the above comparison. As I have already photographed Ember's involvement in Hero Faffory, I highly doubt that I'll change anything else, so I hope you approve of the updates!
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Designing, building, photography (c) Me
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Overall Vision Originality Technique ImpactSo, I am a fairly inexperienced MOCer, and as you all know (or assuming you know that), I don't make as good MOCs as I could. But put that aside, because THIS particular deviation can have a critique from a novice writer.
As far as vision goes, Rahiden knows, what he is doing. The colour gradient is continuous, but is slightly off on the thumbs. These branch off just a little bit, but as I could imagine, that's okay. I really like the comparison between her and the minifig, showing his back. The brain bug has a nice attribute not to be a brain bug. I might take this as an idea, how to make a brain bug based spine.
I only can assume that this is a breakout from the "raging inferno"-type of Overheat and her 2.0 version. Still, pretty original, parts are used in different ways than they would be used. (I looked on my brain bug and that reminded me to this deviation.) Refines the "Staring too long at a single piece" technique to the limits.
The used technique "STLAASP" (as mentioned above) is a great way to develop (for a lack of better word) awesome things. We can really see that the articulation is neat, but it (I think) fails in the abdomen region. As some of the commenters before me wrote, we don't really see the digitigrade feet, and that bothers me a little bit. The pistons are a little bit off in colour, and the shoulders are just a bit too broad for a female.
As you pointed out in a really nice comment on my Savage "redone", exposed ball joints are never good. And there jumps the monkey into the water (this will be a little bit harsh, but) you've done the same mistake. On the hips, you left the ball joints hanging, not covered up, and therefore obstructing the view of those body parts. I would say, that they're connected to the bottom of the abdomen in a strange way, leaving the ball joints (also) uncovered.
Impact-wise this is a really nice attribute of the blazing coalfire. The colours go very well with each other, not distracting the viewer, and this doesn't really mean that she is a demon. I could imagine her as a Fire-goddess. From toe to hair there are a lot of colour changes, but this isn't bordered sharply. They fit together as smoothly as they can, leaving the feeling the force obtained from the life itself (in Layman terms: we sigh with the feeling).
This was my first critique, please let me know if you have different opinions! Thank you: Mata4Nui is signing off!