organic. Metru Nui is more mechanical, so it has a different feel". Talking about the camera work, director Terry Shakespeare said: "We really concentrated on depth of field with the camera". Comparing the two Bionicles, he felt "the first film had primary colors that were coded to the areas and a younger feel. For BIONICLE 2, we opened it up – the palette had to be more sophisticated, more realistic with earth tones, so we desaturated the characters". Most of the animation was created in Taiwan by a company called CGCG. The process of creating the movie, from storyboarding to delivery of the film took 12 months. Molina additionally added that the pipeline and process for creating this film was faster and more refined than the original Bionicle movie. Shakespeare added: "Our strength is bringing characters to life and not just robots". Release Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui was released on DVD on October 6, 2004 in the United States. The DVD included a number of documentaries including the making of the movie and associated toy line. There is also a featurette entitled "The Legend Revealed" that has a brief question and answer session with the production team. Some critics were concerned that the DVD makes too much of an attempt to sell the Bionicle product. Like the first film in the trilogy, the second one was also released by Miramax Films and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment under legal entity Buena Vista Home Entertainment, for its Direct-to-video release. Cartoon Network's Toonami aired several scenes from the film along with the first Bionicle movie Mask of Light. The film was first screened on October 6, 2004, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. Cartoon Network aired the movie for the first time less than two months after its release on December 18, 2004, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. The movie aired on Toon Disney in the U.S. from 2006 & 2007. RTL Disney Television Limited Partnership’s Super RTL also aired the movie from Germany in 2005. Soundtrack Nathan Furst, composer of the first film's soundtrack, returned to score Legends of Metru Nui. In place of the tribal elements used in Mask of Light, Furst integrated electronic and techno sounds into the second film's music to accommodate its futuristic style. The Legends of Metru Nui score was released as a digital album on December 12, 2017, thirteen years after