The Flash Episodes archive has been updated to fix an issue with audio files not playing in the 2006 Piraka Animations (thanks for noticing fishers64!). I’ve also moved the rather-large video recordings of the animations out of the archive, but they are still available as a separate download. I’ve also moved the 2006 Character Bios to another download, replacing the broken Kongu SWF with the functioning one from the Inika Promo CD. Additionally, I’ve added new HTML viewers for all the animations, so they can be viewed without the off-screen graphics if desired.

It’s been a few months since our last update to the audio archive, but we’re finally about ready to release a new version. There are still a few things to take care of, so it’ll be a little while before the time comes for it to be publicly released. But in the meantime, check out the trailer we put together to let you in on what material will be included! And make sure to watch until the end for a very special announcement…

Here’s a quick crawl of the BIONICLE Style Guide images that we have to date.  This includes:

• The 2001-2003 Style Guide images from this BZPower topic
• The 2001-2003 Style Guide images from the promo CDs from the same topic
• The 2006 Style Guide images from Crunchbite Nuva’s crawl of http://www.ulkutay.net/styleguides/bionicle/

The images from the Style Guide CDs are notable because they are the first PSD images we have ever seen officially released, with layers too.  There are a lot of new images in there that we’ve never seen before.  These images will be included in our next version of the picture archive and will be added to the streaming image gallery.

We’ve added download links for the BIONICLE Style Guide CDs released by Torsti of BZPower on our Promo CDs page.  There are a lot of never before seen images there, in original PSD format too, something that we’ve never seen before, which we’ll be adding to the next release of the G1 pictures archive.

I’m considering making some changes to the serials archive, please login and cast your vote on the forums.

We are opening up our previously private Staff Googledoc to the public, allowing anyone to see, edit, and contribute to our work.

This is different from what we offered previously, which was simply allowing users a look at the To-Do and Voting pages – Now, we’re letting everyone see us as we work and chat about the site in real time, as well as the ability to join in and help us make the BMP better.  There are no requirements for viewing, and those who wish to contribute need only a valid email.

The BMP Staff will be using this gdoc the same way we did previously with our private staff gdoc, allowing users to see that we do hold frequent discussions and make some form of progress on the site on an almost daily basis.  You’ll be able to chat and collaborate with us like never before, with all of our most relevant site information all in one place.

Click to visit the BioMedia Project GoogleDoc!

Our goal with this is to lower the barrier of entry for contribution to the BMP, for those who wish to help us but don’t have the time to become a staff member.  If you wish to help us with tasks, you’ll be able to work on your own schedule, without anyone telling you what to do or when to do it.

We are also making use of revision history and moderation to prevent vandalism.  This is the BMP’s first foray into allowing users to edit our Staff GDoc; if this goes well, we will continue to use this open model for the forseeable future.

Pictures Archive 0.1.1 G2

EDIT: v0.1.1 released.

Vahkiti’s assembled together the new (useful)images we’ve seen so far from the BIONICLE unveiling and put them into a new image archive, for the second generation of BIONICLE.  We haven’t seen a lot, but we have a few images for our artwork folder as well as some new high-res wallpapers from the new site.  This is the first of a new series of archives covering BIONICLE – we’ll be creating others for the other categories of media as we see them.  You can also browse the archive’s contents here.

Check out the BioMedia Project’s Official Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/biomediaprojectyt

Dan Kubat and Duane Loose, concept artists for the LoMN and MoL movies respectively, have updated their personal sites with artwork, which we have added to our galleries.  Thanks to CrunchbiteNuva of BZPower for letting us know.  Check them out on the Creative Professionals page.  We have updated our Artwork archive accordingly, our main image archive will be updated with the new images on release of the next version.  If you’ve downloaded either the Artwork or entire Images archive, you can download our crawl directly here if you wish to download the new images separately.

Check out the pictures page for downloads.

Changelog:

0.9.0:

• Integrate Tahu Nuva and Tahnok-Kal Toyspins
• Integrate CrunchBiteNuva’s artwork crawl:Move Leigh Gallagher 2008 Comic Artwork to Creative Professionals
o Creative Capers
o BIONICLE Style Guides
o Blacksheep Productions
o Chris Aguirre
o Christopher Woollett
o Dan Kubat
o David Bird
o Duane Loose
o Enrique Barahona
o GuuPress Blog
o HeavyMetalDesigner
o MonoRed Labs
o Pedro Ruiz Reyes
o Toby Dutkiewicz
o Richard Aidley
• Integrate new Posters
• Integrate new Faber Files artwork
• Integrate Vahkiti’s Bara Magna Saga #2 scan
• Remove MNOLG Wallpaper from main archive
• Remove Mata-Nui Matoran from main archive

0.9.1:

• Integrate The Quest for the Masks Card scans from Screenguy

0.9.2:

• Added full size Faberfiles images
• Converted wallpaper PNGs to JPEGs