u/AggressiveSail8142

https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/s/Ht8e4QB1mb

^ you can see the before and after type shit here.

So basically not a lot has been done since I last posted about this, but I did some more UV unwrapping, texture cleaning crap most notably:

- adding back the blue warp coil light details from the SNW enterprise.
touching up the impulse drive just a tiiiiiiny bit to make it more like it isn’t slapped on the back. (The UV map is fucked on that one…)
- Swapped the impulse drive texture for the disco one… again not my best UV work.
- The shuttle bay doors textures I realised I dun goofed hard so I redid it.
- the ends of the nacelles for now I’m using the disco warp coil texture which adds a surprisingly nice glow to it.

And now the comparisons. Obviously none of these are to scale with one another but it’s moreso to show how I’ve studied and changed the proportions.

I rushed this post lol

Ivy Walker is Jay’s older sister, and a computer scientist prodigy in the making, and even scored an internship at Borg Industries for her talent. She did not inherit the elemental power from her mother, Libber Gordon, as Elemental powers have been known to skip generations.

Although she doesn’t know how to fight, she supports the Ninja from behind the scenes. (Essentially taking Nya’s old place as the supporting character in this AU.) Specifically with programming, communications and hacking stuff. 

Although she shares her younger sibling’s excitable personality, compared to Jay she is more confident and rational, being the responsible older sister as she helped look after him in their childhood in the absence of her mother, with the help of her uncle Edd and aunt Edna. Something of which Kai feels kinship, and the two quickly became friends.

Being the other girl in the group, she gets along the best with Nya.

While Jay is an inventor, he’s more of a mechanical engineer who designs tech and equipment. She’s the programmer and computer wizard, although she begrudgingly helps code for his projects before he became a ninja. Before joining the Ninja, her dream was to be the lead programmer at her mother’s company. 

Also being known to be exasperated with her brother’s goofs, she also joins in on the playful banter with Cole and Kai at Jay’s expense at any opportunity. She is also a massive fan of clutch powers and had a crush on him when she was younger.

Kitbashing… a staple of starship design. But I’ll admit that I always loved the SNW design, but I wanted to make a few adjustments that combines a few elements of design from every iteration of the classic NCC-1071. This is my first time working with these STO model rips done by my brother u/AndyDatRaginPyro (yes, that AndyPurro) so forgive me if it looks a little… slapdash.

So what did I do?

- Took the base model of the SNW enterprise and swapped the pylons out for the straight ones as featured on John Eaves original concept model
- The Registry textures were swapped out for the ones featured on the Kelvin Timeline Enterprise, which makes her look fresh but also familiar
- Repositioned and resized the registry number and designation on the Saucer to closer match the original 60s model.
- I like the sleeker proportions of the SNW enterprise but I also wanted to make it closer to the original proportions, so I adjusted the positioning to reach a sort of middle ground.
- the neck was a rough edit to make it closer match the look from S3 of SNW which has a more natural curve.
- Removed the Bridge window, even though I did like it… but eh.
- the impulse drive housing on the back of the saucer has been reworked to be sleeker and more close to the original 60s model while taking a few cues from the kelvin enterprise… and its entire impulse drive since I always thought that looked like a more modern version of how it originally looked.
- the nacelle tips here reworked to resemble the kelvin timeline ones, but I’m yet to make that gradient effect.

The UVs and texturing needs a bit of work but overall this is pretty dang close to what I had in mind for a slightly more ‘faithful’ redesign of the original Connie. But until I can finish that up and figure out how the hell my bro does it, enjoy this proof of concept!

Imagine going back in time and saying this is Lloyd to someone who’s watching rise of the snakes for the first time.

Whether you love roodaka revamps or are just sick of seeing them, either way here she is. The quintessential, and the absolute “worst” roodaka revamp to ever exist. And theres absolutely nothing you can do about it. Sorry not sorry.

Brought to you by the same jackass who made that Rebrickable Roodaka…. Comes… Roodaka Ver.Lth v2! Which is another… eventual… Rebrickable… roodaka…

Eugh.

she’ll come with an additional set of set-inspired weapons and a toy-inspired head that you can swap out. And I fuckin forgot to snap the photos of those but eh.. I prolly won’t post those here.

I swear this is the last roodaka moc I’ll make, I just wanna move on to actually finishing my toa mata/nuva revamps…

Completely redid the hips and thigh connection,owe arm design, head connection and a bunch of other stuff. Close to finished but I gotta refine the arm design and the back detail a bit. Maybe the torso could use more reworking too? And some of the other gadgets idk.

Sooo considering for my AU I want to have Skylor as the main part of the Ninja team early on, I wanted to rewrite her elemental power, since I think having ‘amber’ as an element alongside the others with all naturally occurring elements would be a bit jarring.

That and the power of amber conceptually could be kind of broken, and considering I want Lloyd’s element to be able to retain the four elements of creation as part of this AU like he did in his early days… having two ninja with essentially the same powers is kinda weird.

And as far as existing elements go… I’m kinda limited. What do you guys think Skylor, the orange ninja’s element should be if it was not amber? I’d prefer if it’s something that’s naturally occurring.

Can’t be wind unless you want a little bit of a Jojo reference (golden wind lol) and I don’t wanna leave out Morro lol. And it can’t be stone in the bionicle sense as Cole’s earth element basically is both bionicle’s earth and stone elements combined…

Also the reason why the snake symbol is the one from Lloyd’s final battle kimono robes rather than the funny oroboros one is because I don’t think the symbolism of oroboros would translate well for her. lol. But if I were to redesign this from scratch it would also take cues from the anacondrai symbol.

Coming… when it actually arrives on my doorstep. Not for a while it seems.