#hoverbike

I wanted to try to animate the Akira Slide with the hoverbike I have designed. A combination of 3d models and 2d handdrawn animations, what do you think?

3D Turnaround of the hoverbike:

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a 'Marlin' ultralight personal hoverbike. Most commonly seen in urban areas. Its open tail can hold a drone or a trunk module. It is most commonly seen as a razor quick scout/messenger vehicle when used away from urban settings. Its secondary hover devices under each wing allow it to turn on a dime, using the same principles as a tracked vehicle.

I don't make nearly enough Legend of Zelda stuff to put in my shop. I've been a huge Zelda nerd for DECADES, played nearly every game on every system (never had a DS, and never mind those Phillips CDI games). Currently, the only thing I really have are a couple of 3D printed custom Hood ornaments; an adaptation of a Hylian crest and the King of Red Lions head from WindWaker. But I have dreams of so, SO much more! I'm starting relatively small, though. Tears of the Kingdom gave us a lot of potential for creating stuff with it's Zonai devices and Ultrahand. One of the most popular and widely used constructs in the game is the hoverbike- an incredibly useful vehicle made form a steering stick and 2 fans. It can be tough to assemble well, and has a tendency to drift if everything isn't perfectly lined up, but when you save an autobuild that's stable and balanced, it literally changes the game! So I made a 3d Printed version!

I scaled it for the 5" tall action figures (currently available at Walmart for about $10) but it works pretty well for my Figma Skyward Sword link too. I started with 3d models ripped from the game (Thanks, The Models Resource!) and played with the sizing a bit; after taking some screenshots and doing the math, I found most of the zonai devices would be kind of ridiculous to keep in scale. If Link is 5 ft tall in the game, the fans would be about 4 ft in diameter, and the Zonai wing would be over 22 ft wide. Canonically, they all change size depending on how they're used anyway- the rocket might be 4 ft tall when used on a vehicle, but only about 2 ft long when attached to a shield. So I reduced things to what felt managable while keeping as much detail as possible. I shrunk the bottom plate of the steering stick and stretched out the yoke, for example, and added some reinforcements to make it a little more durable. The thing that really inspired me though was finding out glue sticks for hot glue guns came in different colors. Now I could add the Ultrahand goo to anything I made, and still have it look as organic as in the game! And the fan blades even spin!