Awakenings

What is Awakenings?
Awakenings is a comic series dedicated to the early years and adventures of the Toa Mata, as they trained and protected Daxia, and Karda Nui. The newly formed Toa will start by getting in trouble in their first home, Daxia, where they will be trained by Hydraxon.

'Karda Nui' is all about the Mata fighting the Avohkah, sentient beings of lightning created to prepare Kard Nui for the launch of Mata Nui, but instead have gone mad.

You can join the Art department or the writing department and help in the development of this project.

The Toa Mata were created in Artakha around 100,000 years ago, as a ‘failsafe’ Toa Team.

“Awakenings” follows the Toa Mata’s creation, until they would come to sleep on Karda Nui. Divided into two series, Awakenings will be a drawn comic by the fan organization known as Mata Nui Inc, released on KanohiJournal Publications.

In the first series, called Daxia, the Toa Mata are awakened for the first time in their lives, and learn what means to be a Toa. Incharge of their training will be Hydraxon. He will send them on various deadly challenges, with purpose to master their powers, and collect all the Great Masks need to control the six powers. After completing the training, the Toa Mata will learn what it means working as a Team – but as well as respect the three virtues, Duty, Destiny and Unity.

With time running out, and Mata Nui’s launch coming up, the Toa Mata will arrive in Karda Nui, were they will sleep until they are needed. Unfortunately, by-products left by the laborious preparations to launch Mata Nui, the Avohkah, will go on rampage and try to prevent Mata Nui’s launch by killing the Av-matoran responsible for the launch of Mata Nui and the Avohkah’s creation. The Avohkah are pure lighting energy, and thus are not killable. Only the energy storm that will be created upon Mata Nui’s launch will be powerful enough to stop them.

Is there enough time for the Toa Mata to hold off the Avohkah, so the Av-Matoran can escape and prepare the launch of Mata Nui? Even more, can the Toa Mata reach the Codex and sleep until they are needed? Time will tell, in the first tail of the Toa Mata, before even Time begun.

We have a collection of drafts, designs and pages. At first, Dark Hunter designed them to be more set-like, although later on, he made them look more blocky to add a nicer touch. As of late, those are the only real drawing changes. The first page was recently made, colored, and drawn, while the second page has yet to be colored or finsihed.

Drafts

Original:
Preliminary sketch (Colored) -- The original Page.
Mata Redisign Sketch -- The Second Design
Tahu Charging WIP -- A WIP Test
Poses, Actions -- Some actions, and movement

Reworked Pose -- Latest pose
Newer design -- Final Design

Official

Pages:
Page 1
Colored Page One
Page Two WIP
Colored Page Two

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Spoiler:

Around 100,000 years ago, the Toa Mata were created on Artakha as a ‘failsafe’ in the case of Mata Nui’s downfall...

Awakenings follows the legendary team of Toa before their launch into the Endless Ocean following the Great Cataclysm. Divided into two series, Awakenings will be produced by Mata Nui Inc, and released as a part of KanohiJournal Publications.

In the first series, the Toa Mata are awakened for the first time and learn what it means to be a Toa. Trained by Hydraxon, they will be embark on deadly missions and engage in various challenges in order to discover and master their powers. After completing their training, for the first time the Toa Mata will learn what it means to work as a team – and to respect the Three Virtues.

The second series will see the Toa Mata in Karda Nui, where they will have to protect the resident Matoran workers and prepare to fulfill their destiny. Unfortunately, by-products left by the laborious preparations to launch Mata Nui, the Avohkah, go on rampage and try to prevent Mata Nui’s launch by killing the Av-Matoran. The Avohkah are sentient creatures made of pure lighting energy, and the Toa Mata must figure out how to stop them in a race against time, in the Time Before Time!

*Awakenings (Series 1, following Toa Mata before Karda-Nui) Oct 2011-Dec 2011
>Chapter 1- they wake up
>Chapter 2- they get trained
>Chapter 3- they collect masks
>Chapter 4- they discover something important/get assigned to Karda-Nui

*Hiatus (placeholder title for Series 2, following Lesovikk and his team) Jan 2012-Mar 2012
>Chapter 1- introduces all the new characters
>Chapter 2- shows them becoming a team, shows the difficulties of learning to face powerful enemies as a team
>Chapter 3- some exciting adventure
>Chapter 4- something dramatic, possibly setting up that fatal confrontation with hte Zyglak that only leaves Lessovikk alive

*Awakenings P2 (placeholder title for Series 3, following the Toa into Karda-Nui) Apr 2012-Jun 2012
>Chapter 1- Toa arrive in Karda-Nui, sets up how matoran live here
>Chapter 2- shows the Toa helping around, sets up the Avohkii problem, some interesting sub-plot
>Chapter 3- Avohkii unleashed, Toa are having a hard time
>Chapter 4- Avohkii defeated, Toa go into stasis...

*Prebuilding (placeholder title for Series 4, following the First Toa)
>Chapter 1- shows Toa being created, establishes early MU as a peaceful era of building
>Chapter 2- delaing with being different, cause you know, only Toa
>Chapter 3- shows the first Toa of other elements, sets up the idea of a Toa team, but it gets dismissed to show that the eras are clearly different
>Chapter 4- something goes wrong...? Who knows!

Legolover-361 wrote:Rig: What's wrong with naming the various story arcs. We wouldn't say, "This is Awakenings of Time Before Time," but rather, "This is Time Before Time: Awakenings." Simple, and it allows readers to easily distinguish between various comic arcs.

Though, DH, I do think we should only focus on the Mata right now. I'm not saying you should scrap your current story ideas -- I'm just saying you shouldn't work on them any more, until they're needed.