Mask Of Life Concept

Designing the mask of life was one of the coolest assignments in the many years of working with Bionicle. It is fantastic to work directly with the LEGO designers to bring real plastic elements to life. Especially when it is an element with that epic importance to the whole legend. It was great to be able to take the early Vitruvian robot logo and incorporate the idea into this mask. So the secret idea of resurrecting the giant robot Mata Nui was moulded straight into the plastic.

Bionicle Planet System concept

These 2 sketches try to explain the planet system and evolution of the Bionicle universe at an early stage. It also shows the way the characteristic shape of the BB logo reflects the shape of the planet system. The rotation results in the symmetric shape that can also be seen in the shape of the island Mata Nui and the city of Metru Nui. The idea was that the reassembled Spherus Magna would have a compressed logo where the 2 “B”s were joined together.

Photo realistic oil pastels

Ever since the early 80ies I have been fascinated by photo realistic illustration. I tried airbrush but found that oil pastels gave the best and most flexible workflow. I tried to hit the exact detail, texture and lighting. Here is a very reflective chrome fire hydrant from Florida and a Danish fire hydrant from Copenhagen and a traditional danish mailbox on a wall in the city.

Karda Nui concept

This is probably the tallest concept drawing I have ever done. It depicts the entire year of 2008 in side view. It shows one of the many stalactites with the Matoran villages on top and the great swamp at the bottom where the Codrex would later be found. I know that a stalactite is supposed to hang from the ceiling and that was also the case with this piece of rock but it broke off from the ceiling and got stuck vertically in the deep swamp.

I had a 2-meter tall print of this drawing hanging behind me in the office for years.

Hatching Bohrok

This is one of my favourite visuals of the whole legend. It is the moment when the first Bohrok hatches in the cave beneath Mata Nui. This moment holds all the mystery and epic action of Bionicle in one frame. It is biotech at its best in the middle between organic life and mechanic reflex. It also had one of the best taglines of the 9 years: “If you wake one – you wake them all”

Bionicle Sunglass concept

Back in 2002 Bionicle was booming and all kinds of merchandise was possible so I did a sketch for some special Bionicle shades. Could have been cool to wear the "B".

Mata Nui Fauna concepts

It’s been a while since the last post but here are some concept drawings showing the life forms on Mata Nui. It was the original intention that everything would have a bio-mec original design so no ordinary palm trees but only strange new species with new features.