tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761399683105095052024-03-05T20:32:17.804-08:00Comic & Concept: ClassicLevi Hoffmeier's portfolio and blog, concerning comic book/graphic novel art, concept art for video game design, as well as writing for such entertainment media.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-57159123894082823452016-07-11T18:21:00.000-07:002016-07-11T18:27:45.900-07:00One Last Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://leviwastaken.blogspot.com/">Comic & Concept has evolved</a>. But this version of it will remain as it was, now as the 'Classic' iteration. If you want to know why my brain needed a full refresh to kick my inspiration into gear, you can read <a href="http://leviwastaken.blogspot.com/2016/07/once-more-with-feeling.html">this</a>.<br />
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There's still some good stuff here though, so it'll stick around as a back issue (until the paper dissolves). It served as an oft-forgotten journal from the end of my college days to years later as a somewhat-freelance illustrator. It covered fan-art and ambitious fan-projects like <a href="http://leviathan.bungie.org/">A Fistful of Arrows</a> to original creations like the first issue of my comic, <a href="http://mayflowercomic.com/">Mayflower</a>. Each entry is a signpost along what I think is an important transition in (and perhaps maturation of) my art. I <i>still</i> don't know what I'm doing now, but I do know that it is at least a significantly <i>different</i> thing that I'm doing.<br />
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So it's time for this blog to rest and lay still, making room for something new - which isn't an easy thing to do.<br />
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Enjoy a half of a decade below. If you want more, follow the <a href="http://leviwastaken.blogspot.com/">sign</a>.<br />
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The first spread of the first issue of my first original series was... <i>important</i>, to say the least. After an opening page full of dialogue and vague shots of a city through clouds, I needed to grab the eye of the readers as well as give them some space from dialogue but at the same time make sure they see the explosion that was happening on the page. That explosion subsequently leads to the events in the following pages so it needed the highest attention, but at the same time, needed to be somewhat withdrawn so the rest of the scenery could be soaked up and the comic didn't say "Look, explosions - great, huh?"</div>
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I thought using 'letterbox' bars would create that panoramic view I was going for, as well as a cinematic one, which often doesn't hurt. It adds a focus, it sets the table. The black is the basic canvas in a way- it's what happens when you don't make art, so it brings attention to what is there and makes it seem important. At least, that's one idea. Maybe it's just because we have the black bars so associated with films that we just expect it to mean some benchmark of quality.</div>
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Either way, I began with some soft morning colors. I quickly blotted some cloud rolls in to show me how high these spacescrapers were going to be. I also started to play with different building designs.</div>
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Here you can see some of those buildings getting detailed. The tallest building on the right had already received its design years ago in sketchbooks as I came up with this universe. It's the District Control tower and it's shape is iconic to the Mayflower story. Especially because it's the one that gets blown up.</div>
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But the problem with all that art was: I hated it. I started again almost completely from scratch and set up a much more interesting cloud system. I was worried about the sun, as when I would eventually get to that said explosion, and it would be competing with it. So I kept it subdued for now. Eventually I'd add a few freckles of intense white where it breached the cloud line.</div>
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It was also at this point in the creation of the comic that the beginning sequence switched to dusk as opposed to dawn, for various story and visual reasons, hence the much darker image.</div>
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This can especially be seen once I got to the engine glows and trails, and began to add in more details across the whole image. The little bridges and suspension structures in the mist really helped it feel expansive and interconnected.</div>
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The explosion itself was fairly easy, but towards the end of it you have to find that perfect balance of contrast to make the explosion look active and dangerous without making the colors just white and orange. There has to be some gradation in there or else it's simply not very pretty to look at it. That's a mistake I was making across all my art not long ago.</div>
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You can also see above that the letterbox bars became slightly transparent and grabbed hold of the title text for the story arc. This version was used for the preview edition of issue #1. </div>
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After extended viewing, I wasn't quite happy with it and had the opportunity to revise it for the release of the full issue. As I said, this image was more important than almost all of the other pages, so it required my obsessiveness.<br />
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I detailed the ships a bit more, tweaked the fireball, and added more convincing sun glares on the metal and glass buildings. You can also see that tweaked sun that I mentioned above. The sun also go its own ray of light heading down between the farthest clouds to add another diagonal to move your eye around the pages.</div>
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The clouds themselves had the most important revision. By simply becoming far more detailed, they were able to convey more scale to the image. These are massive, dynamic clouds, and these spacescrapers are breaching them. It needs to be impressive.</div>
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The transparent letterbox became white like many of the paneling frames of the full issue. White borders seemed to match the style and themes of Mayflower better, because of its association with optimistic, golden age sci-fi.</div>
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Here you can see the final pages with new, more subtle title text overlaid on the art.<br />
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You can find out more about Mayflower and read this first issue for free at <a href="http://www.mayflowercomic.com/">www.MayflowerComic.com</a>.</div>
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I've been working with Claude Errera (Louis Wu of <a href="http://halo.bungie.org/">Halo.Bungie.Org</a>) and a great team on <a href="http://destiny.bungie.org/">Destiny.Bungie.Org</a>, a fansite dedicated to Bungie's new IP, "Destiny".<br />
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I pitched the background and basic design of the site. They'll be more to it in the future as we learn more about Destiny.<br />
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Lately I was tasked with creating a background for the DBO Twitter feeds the staff was readying. My first step: procrastinate and work on other things.<br />
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... <i>After that</i>, though, I sat down and got my butt into gear. I was going to be out of town in a few days and I wanted the piece done by then so that the Twitter-addicted Mr. Errera could have his account as soon as everything else was prepared.<br />
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I started sketching, obviously inspired by the amazing concept art Bungie has posted, especially this <a href="http://destiny.bungie.org/galleries/announce_assets/images/fireteam.jpg">piece</a> and this <a href="http://destiny.bungie.org/galleries/announce_assets/images/vex.jpg">piece</a>. I was also trying to think in terms of a Twitter background; since the center would be obscured, I would need the best parts of the picture on the left and right.<br />
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Originally, I was just going to do this piece in black and white and match the news sketches I've been doing for the front page. "Fast and easy" and then I could get onto other things. But then, logically, I made it a hundred times harder and started playing around with colors.<br />
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I got rid of the good-guy in the middle and replaced him with more incoming Vex robots. I also moved away from the ship graveyard I was imagining in the original sketch's background and towards a Martian volcano (not sure if it really ended up in Mars...).<br />
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I continued solely on the background for a while. I find it relaxing to paint <a href="http://bobross.paintings.cd/images/artists/bob-ross.jpg">happy</a> mountains, rivers and waterfalls and it's one thing I consider myself decent enough to the point where I'm not constantly criticizing every move I make.<br />
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I switched back to the characters and had a lot of fun fleshing out the Vex on the right. The action and posture from the initial sketch yelled 'drama' so I tried hard to not kill that as I laid the digital paint atop it (I also don't always capture that kind of action in my non-comic art so I'm trying to get more of that dynamic movement in my concept pieces these days).<br />
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Some laser blasts were added on the left for more diagonals to draw your eye in. I started experimenting with colors and new designs for our left hero. He started to look a little like a Carter/Jun hybrid! :)<br />
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Continued to design-as-I-painted this attacking (<i>or fleeing?</i>) soldier as well as carve out the background Vex. The soldier's gun started to pick up some of Halo's assault rifle but I thought the bayonet and extended barrel would pull it away from that.<br />
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More work on the left soldier. Hard to see in this format, but I also shrunk him down a bit.<br />
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Here I made the middle Vex bigger, trying to create a better rhythm for your eyes (I went back and forth a lot on this - I eventually made him smaller in the latest version).<br />
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The left soldier also received a nice heap of texture and scratches on his armor at this point. His weapon grew a number of crooked wires which at first seemed strange in my mind's eye but as they were implemented I fell in love with them. I'm going to be using them on more of my artwork, I can guarantee you!<br />
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I also tried to bring his cape to life at this point and got distracted for a while by trying to melt the rocks directly behind him on the left. I think it might have worked...<br />
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A moon was dropped in above and I added a few spaceship/missile trails to help it feel like more of a battle.<br />
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By this stage, it was late into the night before my trip and in a few short hours I needed to drive to St. Louis. After a few more refinements, I spent an hour or more tweaking the levels and colors of the entire image (I can get stuck in this stage for way too long). The main thing I settled on was an orange filter to 'heat' up the piece. I uploaded the piece to DBO_tweets and fell asleep.<br />
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The artwork had been posted for a week, but I was looking at it again the other day and found myself dissatisfied. It felt too washed out in some areas and too dominated by the orange filter in others (although I did like the 'heat' of it).<br />
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Hesitantly, I worked more purple into the background and covered our closest soldier with a rough coat of blue paint. I also shortened his gun's barrel and elongated the bayonet to make it more practical.<br />
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I also refined a number of little things here and there across the piece that I probably didn't need it and were completely impossible to see by the viewer... I have a problem with doing that!:)<br />
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Here's the final piece (At least, that's what I'm saying right now).<br />
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I kept the heat of the orange but tempered it with lighter and cooler colors at the top (I especially liked how the blue drifted in on the top-right). I also redrew some of the cliffs in the middle as well as our hero on the right (almost completely).<br />
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I pushed the middle Vex further back and changed the posture of his arm a bit to make him seem like he was reacting to the scene instead of motionless. I also motion-blurred the right Vex's flying, dismembered arm as well as the rocks he was knocking off the sinking boulder.<br />
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The hero on the left received more contrast to make sure he was the first thing you see and to make sure he appeared closest to you. I blurred the entirety of the background just a hint as well.<br />
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Happy for a few brief moments, I quickly saved and ran away to something else!<br />
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Thanks for reading all the way down. :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-73925026859696388552013-02-23T15:51:00.000-08:002013-02-23T15:55:59.019-08:00The Future: "Mayflower"<i><span style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 19.488636016845703px;">Originally titled "</span></span><a href="http://leviwastaken.deviantart.com/journal/Over-70-000-profile-views-And-Beyond-354076665" style="color: #262424; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none; width: auto; zoom: 1;">Over 70,000 profile views... And Beyond</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">" on my <a href="http://leviwastaken.deviantart.com/art/Over-70-000-profile-views-And-Beyond-354076665">DeviantArt Journal</a>. Going to try and keep that and the blog unified from now on.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 19.488636016845703px;">But I've now gotten another 'day' job and finally moved out of the parent's house after college. While this means I have less time to do art, it also means I now have a little room dedicated to art-making (I'm looking forward to hanging up some whiteboards and corkboards on the wall soon to cultivate more creativity). It's helped things.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 19.488636016845703px;">I've been able to do art a bit more consistently now - especially the main project that was intimidating me for so long: <b>Mayflower</b>. I want it to be exactly what I've been envisioning, but it never felt like I could get there last year. In the last month, I feel like I'm getting a little closer, at least. Enough time has passed since the the worst of last year that my brain now throws a few encouraging thoughts at me from time to time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 19.488636016845703px;">The positive note though? Since we didn't pay for out votes - we saw that we had managed to scrounge together a huge heap of earnest, kickass support from people, like the person reading this right now. That's really encouraging! So The Seeker is still quietly being toiled on at the moment, despite our loss and lack of resources. Expect more on that front in the future!</span><br />
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DYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING by Burne Hogarth</div>
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Combined with the book below, Dynamic Figure Drawing gives you a great layer of facts and images to keep your brain powering through all the terrible sketches an artist makes before finally finding that halfway-decent one. This book is more on the text side, but it's easy to pick up and read as you learn the human figure and all its weird littler intricacies. Even if you don't find yourself a huge fan of the nude figure, learning to master it is just about the best way to become a great drawer or anything in this universe.</div>
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Compared with Hogarth's work, Anatomy for the Artist is almost entirely pictures, including a few hundred beautiful sketches of the skeletal and muscular systems, each segment noted with their names and purpose, as well as plenty of depictions of humans with their skin actually on. This book was given to me by my art teacher in elementary school and it slowly fed into my work as I began to delve deeper into art as I grew older. By the time I was in college, it was required reading. Literally! This was the textbook for my anatomy drawing classes at the University of Missouri. I still reference it constantly and it's always on hand.</div>
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BOLD VISIONS by Gary Tonge</div>
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Like the first two books were great on helping you master putting the pencil on paper, this book is a great little intro to putting the stylus on the graphic tablet. Photoshop, Painter, Layers, Filters, and all the other important elements of digital art is presented here, accompanied by plenty of beautiful art. Tonge gives different ways to approach the empty canvas and also touches on color and light and finding references. A number of step-by-step walkthroughs are also presented. Seeing the steps an artist takes, even just visually, without the details, has always helped me think up new ways to approach my own art.</div>
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THE DC COMICS GUIDE TO DIGITALLY DRAWING COMICS by Freddie E Williams II</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/DC-Comics-Guide-Digitally-Drawing/dp/0823099237/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353119915&sr=1-1&keywords=guide+to+digital+drawing+comics"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61acgZSdYbL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div>
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Another great introduction book that helps you tackle digital art whether you're new or just find yourself intimidated. This is almost a more simple approach than Bold Visions, as its solely focused on comic art. There are a lot of nifty tricks Freddie E Williams shows you in this book that helps you speed things a long so you're not repeating yourself or struggling with annoying details. He also talks about your desk, your workspace, and backing up your work. Williams also shows a few different ways to do digital comics, whether its completely digital or a synthesis with your penciled work.</div>
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MECHANIKA by Doug Chang</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mechanika-Creating-Science-Fiction-Chiang/dp/1600610234/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353120083&sr=1-1&keywords=mechanika"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EsR4bVJGL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div>
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Doug Chang follows in the footsteps of Ralph <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">McQuarrie and other great concept artists, as he knows when to go crazy and when to be subtle. This book is a series of walkthroughs of his process, as he takes on robots, cars, jets, and builds up to more epic battle scenes. Besides Anatomy of the Artist, this was one of the first art instruction books I bought and I fell in love with it. I still return to it and Chang's work to help figure out challenges I'm having with my current work.</span></div>
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DIGITAL PAINTING TECHNIQUES</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Painting-Techniques-Practical-Collection/dp/0240521749/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353120011&sr=1-1&keywords=digital+painting+techniques"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NndlNY%2BcL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div>
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This is one volume from a series of books that tackle the processes of many different and talented digital artists. It's basically an anthology of sorts, tackling custom brushes to matte painting and more. It's fun to just pick up and read a section randomly. It's also a great introduction to all the artists featured within.</div>
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The walkthrough that led to the cover art displayed here (by Daarken) acted as the guide to painting this <a href="http://levihoff.deviantart.com/gallery/39645355#/d2xlfgv">piece</a> a few years ago.</div>
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That's all I've got for now. Got plenty of more books on my Christmas List so perhaps I'll post an updated list later on. I also plan to post a guide of the "art of" and "visual guide" books in my collection sometime soon.</div>
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<b>Mission Eight:</b></div>
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<b>THE BEGOTTEN<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Master Chief stands on a black
hill looking out helplessly as the UNSC Keyes drifts into a quaking sea as it
disintegrates into heaps of metal and flame. A dozen Pelicans and lifepods flee from the fire, as a cruiser in the
background is obliterated by another
controlled pulse from the Halo. Reconciled ships push forward as the Sangheilli
Corvette covers the retreating UNSC fleet.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana:
"What can we do against that?" A shot of the Halo, as the rip in the
Shield World grows and distorts the fabric of the sphere.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Master
Chief: "Fall back; regroup. And find a way to strike back."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana:
"There's nowhere to fall back to. And no way to fight back. I may still
have control of the Sentinel Army, but it is no match for a Halo. It's
destroying this world... Emergency procedures will use all remaining power to
retain gravity and atmosphere local to the surface, but that will only last for
a few hours. "</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>War
Sphinx: "My father, the Begotten, can help us."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana:
"And where is this prodigal savior?"<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War Sphinx: "Not far."</i></div>
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A
purple atmospheric light. The world slowly shattering above, the War Sphinx
touched down upon the peak of a small city of towers bound together by
hard-light walkways. A heavy fog infests it and Sentinel factories and
Reconciled sentry-ships drift between the towers, battling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx: "The Life-shapers and Builders that created and studied this world
and its machinations lived here."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana:
"The Forerunners are dead or gone. This place is nothing but a tomb."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx: "Yes, but death to my kind does not fit within your narrow
definitions. Follow."</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Master
Chief disembarks from the War Sphinx as the two explore the Forerunner City, starting
from the high balconies and then weaving around the structures toward the dark
fog below. The Reconciled are present, arriving in dropships and sentry-ships
that drift between the skyscrapers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As
mentioned before, Sentry-ships are basically massive dropships - a huge exposed
deck atop it carries a handful of plasma batteries. The ship can be jumped to with
boosters or reached with a vehicle. Banshees tend to populate the deck if you
need to get away quick after destroying it. It's sort of a flying Scarab. Or a
Covenant pirate ship...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Though
departed from the UNSC for the moment, Sentinels are still on your side and
will stop the large enemy forces from focusing solely on you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You'll
explore a museum at one point, with a massive hall full of holographic
recreations of a number of sentient species from the galaxy: Ungoy, Sanshyam,
Sangheili, Human, and even a Drinol. Beyond this hall lies another grand room
where different forms of Forerunner life are presented on one side, and on the
other stand the various versions of the Flood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Reaching
the ground, you'll exit out into a garden area. The fog is heavy here, but
above, you see that a storm is rolling in. Lightening is striking the towers
now high above. Beyond that, a web of cracks spread through the Shield
World’s structure.</div>
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<b>That Is Not Dead
Which Can Eternal Lie…<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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This is a garden of tombs where black featureless wings
float a foot above the grass, marking the tombs of the fallen Forerunners. A
path between these monoliths lead you to a hill with a vault set into its side.
Stairs lead down into the ground until you hit a wall.</div>
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Upon
close inspection, there appears to be no door in the deep black metal-stone.
But after a few moments, the wall begins to change and adjust. A door is
outlined and a panel forms outwards. A holographic projection appears, indicating
a Reclaimer's hand.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx: "This Cryptum requires a Reclaimer to activate the waking
protocols. It is fitting that it is you, the one who brought him here in the
first."</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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As
the door opens...<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Master
Chief: "I didn't..."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx</i> (ignoring him)<i>: "Before my father's race took their Great Journey,
you entombed my dying father here, where he would serve
his penance under the eyes of the Monitor."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Master
Chief: "… Wait, the Monitor we just disabled?"</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Silence. The War Sphinx is moving forward into the structure, into
darkness.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Inside, John activates revival
protocols in an upper control room as the War Sphinx watches over the process
inside an inner chamber. Upon
activation, the lights in the lower room begin to brighten blue. A dome is
raised out of the floor as mechanical arms bend down from the walls. They begin
to unweave the dome. There is soon a bright light from inside as this casing
is dismantled; a figure as well. But it is too bright to see exactly what
it looks like. Tentacle-like wires inch towards the figure now suspended in the
air, wrapping themselves around the figure, becoming the figure. Metal armor
floats toward the Forerunner and encases him in a new, living
"casket".</div>
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A strange groan.</div>
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The process is failing. It’s been
too long. The Begotten is weak. The War Sphinx initiates an emergency process.
A hive of legeklo are released into the pool. Together they wrap about the
humanoid forming a parasitic hive, bounded in form my the living Forerunner
armor.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Forerunner:
"Why was I awakened? Does he wish to taunt me - embellish my
failure?"<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx: "The Array was activated and the Flood defeated. Your swords
succeeded where the shields could not. And the Forerunners are gone. It is but
his echo that remains."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Forerunner:
"Only a geas? Then let him rot in his descendance." </i>The armored Forerunner
leaves the lower room, though still struggling to move. The War Sphinx follows
him.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Cortana:
"Chief... I think we need to leave."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Master
Chief: "This is what we came for."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Forerunner
</i>(over a comm system)<i>: “Your hopes to achieve a balance with the Mantle was in
error, old friend. It is either acceptance or obliteration.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana:
“This man, this Forerunner, I think I know who he is. And I don’t think he will
help us.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx </i>(over the comm system)<i>: "My father will want to meet his wakers. Do
not be frightened."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana
</i>(over the comm system)<i>: "You said he was serving a penance, Sphinx. What
was it for? What crime did he commit?"<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx: "His crime was only confidence. He built the Great Array. He
showed us the way... But we would not listen. We could not grasp his designs
and we declared him 'traitor'. And then he was lost to Bias and the Flood. But
not long after, he was discovered and brought back here on the edge of life and
death."</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Cortana
</i>(pausing for a moment)<i>: " I know their history, John… This is the Master
Builder, the one responsible for the greatest weapons ever made. We need to get
as far away from here as possible."</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Cortana
opens the exit to the control room and leads you back out through the darkness,
all the while voices enter your mind and disrupt your HUD.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War
Sphinx: "Lay down your will beside him, he will take the Halo from the
miscreant's hands. He will show humanity their place in the void."<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana:
"As slaves?"<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Faber:
"Such harshness in your code, such trouble and anger in your core - an
ancilla should never be allowed so much freedom. I learned this the hard
way."</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Cortana finds you another route
out of the garden of tombs, escaping through a series of dimly lit tunnels as
Faber continues to speak to you, declaring his intent on reclaiming his rings
and belittling you as if you were an old rival. Cortana takes this time to ping
the UNSC’s battlenet to try and find some remaining forces able to assist you
in your new mission: stopping Faber, along with everything else.</div>
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You resurface into the fresh air
some distance from the towers into a deserted field as a smoking Albatross
finds you. Inside, Buck and a group of ODSTs and Marines, falling back from a failed
skirmish.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Buck: “What the hell is that?”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
A Forerunner ship launches from
between the weaving of towers, heading towards the Halo.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Master Chief: “Trouble.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Buck: “Yeah, we really needed
more of it.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Mission Nine:</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>FORERUNNER<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The shot slowly fades in from
black. The Master Chief has returned to the Monitor’s core. Cortana displays
near the hard light ring. A few marines stand in the background. Lights are
coming back on in the room. The Monitor’s eye rises and awakens. By now, most
players have probably recognized his voice actor for sure: Tim Dadabo.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Monitor: “Faber has been
released. A Halo will soon be in his command. And the Shield World is dying… Oh
my, and I was only asleep for a day. You have been busy.”</i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana: “We need your help to
stop him. You’ve been studying the Flood, studying his tactics and trying to
find a way around the activation of the Array. He’s been resting here under
your nose for thousands of years. You must know something we can use.</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Monitor: “With the Shield World
inoperable, my… your Sentinel Army remains the only active weapon. But the odds
of mounting a successful attack on a Halo… are not in your favor…“</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana: “There’s something
you’re not telling me.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Monitor stares silently at
Cortana, then turns to the Chief. Then, back to Cortana.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Monitor: “You must call for aid.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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--------------</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Signal Station from the level
“<b>Broken Chord</b>”, the Resonance Cascade, has been unearthed by the Shield World’s
destruction.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Monitor: “Inside the Resonance
Cascade exists the power to summon the Forerunners. It is the only resort you
have left. All of your ships and warriors will not be able to turn the tide
against the Master Builder and the Array without their knowledge.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Zooming out, we see that the
Resonance Cascade is kilometers away, fragmented from a dozen or more shards of
the Shield World spinning away from each other. And the Installation’s sun-portal
is dying out (have I mentioned that it’s just a slipspace portal letting in
light from a real star lightyears away?).<br />
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Master Chief and Marines gear up
inside their Albatross as it flies towards the drifting island. Looking out the
window of the rear hatch, John sees a host of Sentinels trailing them. In the
distance beyond, more ship-to-ship battles rage on between the UNSC and Reconciled.
Even further, the Halo is spinning, charging for its next controlled shot.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Pilot: “Brace yourselves!!!”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Through the cockpit, John sees a
Reconciled Sentry-ship charge straight towards the Albatross. The pilot pulls
up in time but smashes alongside the larger ship’s hull. Marines are thrown
from their seats, floating in zero gravity.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Sentinels engage the
Sentry-ship as Banshees unlock from the latter’s hull. The Albatross manages to
cross through the fray, but on the other side a wave of Seraphs ambush from
both sides in a pincer attack.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Pilot: “I’ve to got to set her
down! We can’t take on all this on our own!”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana: “I’m in contact with
command. I’m trying to see if we can get air support.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Albatross, now smoking,
glides down to the surface of one of the floating shards. Three more separated
shards stand between this one and the Resonance Cascade.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The large dropship plops down in
a cloud of smoke. Just a moment later, the hatches of the cargo hold slam to
the ground and three Warthogs come barreling out.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Buck: “If we can’t fly there,
we’ll drive!”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana: “We need to keep
pushing. When air support arrives, they me able to give us enough cover for a
pick up on the way. If they can’t…</i> (looking at the massive gaps in the surface
as the shards tangle apart) <i>well, I guess I’m going to need to figure out how
to make us fly.”</i></div>
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--------------</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The first shard is populated by Renconciled forces encamped
on low Forerunner structures shaped like great arms stretched out over a small
canyon. Moving parts glide back and forth along the structures as the Warthog
convoy navigates between them, all the while Jackal Snipers try to pick them
off.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Faber: “I am your living god, the truth you have searched
for all your lives. This Covenant, these Reconciled, you were all waiting for
me.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Passing through this gauntlet, dropships land Ghosts and
Wraiths to confront you. Past them, you’ll reach the limits of this shard, as
the land is wrenched upwards into a mighty ramp. Two of the Warthogs
successfully make the jump, landing on the next shard. It’s gravity is oriented
differently as the shard is almost at a 90 degree angle to the last shard.
Landing on it usually means you’re crashing on it!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
This second shard is a beautiful green area with a lake in
its center. Mountain ridges rise on its extremities. With the Warthogs crashed,
you’ll have to go on foot, passing through another test of your abilities, this
time focused your gunplay. Brutes and Captive Hunters are dropping in all
sides. Defeating these enemies, you’ll need to allocate some of their vehicles
to make the jump to the next shard.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Faber: “I reclaim this ring in your honor, for you have been
faithful all these eons. The Forerunners will protect you and deliver you peace
and serenity. But first we must defend ourselves and our relics.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The last shard before the Resonance Cascade is a hilly
desert. Passing through another vehicle battle, you’ll see Longswords and
Hornets arrive to meet the battle in the air above you. Which is good, because
the gap between this shard and the Cascade is enormous. You’ll need to line up
your vehicle with a Pelican as it flies down, grapples you with its magnets,
and ferries you over to the Cascade.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
During the short flight, you see the Sangheili Corvette rise
up from behind the shard, joining the battle as drop-pods are launched. By the
time the Pelican drops you off, you’ll have ODSTs and Spec Ops Elites at your
back. Can’t ask for a better team!</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
As you make your way up a mountain side to the unearthed
Cascade, the Monitor arrives.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
As you draw close the peak of the Cascade, Faber’s ship
returns from the Halo ring.
Continuing forward, you find a room broken free of the structure. The
Monitor informs you that this room holds the machine you need to summon the
Forerunners. But Faber and the War Sphinx have touched down, curious to see
what you’re trying to do against their new army.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Cortana: “We trusted you. You manipulated all of us to
revive Faber.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>War Sphinx: “I gave you all the answers and services you
required. I cannot be blamed if they are not what you expected.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Faber steps around the Chief and the Monitor.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Faber: “My kind is done. Their era past. There is no one to
call for. What are you trying to accomplish with these communication machines?”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Monitor raises a series of hard lights around the Chief.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>The Monitor: “It’s quite simple of course. My old friend has
stirred in his sleep too long, manipulating events only in the shadows. It is
time to give him control.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
And then the Faber realizes what the Monitor is attempting
to do.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Faber: “You will not awaken him. Not yet!”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Faber pulls apart the War Sphinx and wraps it around him,
engaging its weapons and abilities of flight, and tackling the Chief.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
They are launched off the side of the Cascade’s peal, down
to the surface of the shard. On this beach on the tide of space, you’ll fight
your last battle of the game against the War Sphinx–Faber. You’ll need to
engage your thrusters continuously as Faber goes from the ground to the air,
moment to moment.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Once you’ve beaten him down enough, Cortana and the Monitor
will lead you back up the Cascade from another side. But Faber is not defeated,
and he is moments behind you.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Reaching the room at the peak of the Cascade again, you’ll
need to activate the Monitor’s hard light terminals before Faber can destroy
you. Doing so, you’ll start the ending cutscene.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Halo ring spinning behind him, Faber halts as the Chief
falls to the ground. Voices rise up inside of John’s head. Not just Cortana’s,
but the Didact and his many facets.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The voices begin to converse, to unify. Cortana sees the
knowledge and the code becomes reality. She infects Faber’s armor, breaking it
down. Faber falls to one knee as John rises.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The spinning Halo slows down.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Didact </i>(voices combined)<i>: “You are outdated, Faber”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Faber: “I needed more time.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
With the Halo out of his control, Faber sees only one
alternative. Over the battlenet, Faber calls for aid from his faithful. He
stands again, face to face with this rival, on the edge of the room looking
over a ruined Shield World. Reconciled ships muster behind him, as dropships
draw near.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Didact: “Go then. And be ready for war. But the Array is
mine now. You were never worthy of them.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Faber leaves in a dropship and heads towards his ship as the
Reconciled turn and dive into slipspace.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The enemy defeated for now, the Halo ring reclaimed, and a
Forerunner returned, the Master Chief falls to the group, incapacitated.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Epilogue<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Timestamp: "24 hours later,
onboard the UNSC New Mombassa"</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
The Master Chief is under observation in a guarded cell.
It’s not just the Reconciled who are afraid of him anymore…</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
There is a sliver of movement, a ripple in the air past the
guards, and inside the cell the Arbiter materializes. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i>“Spartan, I have need of you.”</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p>--------------</o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>THE FUTURE<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
What will Faber do with his covenant? What weapons will he
use against the UNSC and their rings?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
What will remain of the Master Chief? Will the Didact
consume him? Will the Didact be able to be tempered by the will of Bornstellar
and John?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
(Maybe it wasn’t just “luck”… Maybe the Didact and the
Librarian’s will moved John 117 through his life, to every moment of great
importance that he faced.)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Will Cortana become the new Gravemind? Will she rule over a
new form of cybernetic Flood? Is the Flood more of an idea than a species? A way
of thinking? Maybe the Precursors, the Forerunners, the Humans are far more
related to the Flood than we realize.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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-------------</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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Well, that's what I was imagining Halo 4 could be about year and more ago. Just took me a while to explain all the details to you! Thanks so much for reading it all! :D</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On <a href="http://halo.bungie.org/">Halo.Bungie.Org</a>, I've been posting design ideas I had for what Halo 4 might have been like for some months now. Obviously, as we've gotten closer to the real thing, the more outdated my scenarios have become, but I still believe that elements of these designs might find their way in, maybe even in future sequels. No matter, it's been fun! But <a href="http://halo.bungie.org/">Halo.Bungie.Org</a> is on a bit of hiatus, so I'll be posting my final design brainstorms here on my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1148666">Mission 5: Reconciled</a></span></div>
<a href="http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1158459" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mission 6: The Monitor</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Halo 4 hits Tuesday and there’s still three<i> Shield and Sword </i>missions left off that list. Time to tie up all the loose ends! Since we’re short on time, much of these last few missions will be swift summaries and outlines, focusing mostly on the story and some of the big action set pieces. Some of the more integral scenes are fleshed out with illustrations and dialogue that I have finished. Perhaps in the future I’ll go back and expand further on some of the ideas I glance over here. <br /><br />But before launching into the deep end, let’s go back and summarize where we’ve come from:<br /><br />-The Master Chief and Cortana have floated in the void for years, with no idea if their distress call has reached the UNSC. During this time, John has slept while Cortana has improved upon his armor, his weapons, and his vehicles. <br /><br />-Cortana awakes the Master Chief as Forward Unto Dawn reaches a mysterious Forerunner planet. A gaping port opens in the planet’s surface and the ship is drawn towards it as Sentinels and Enforcers begin to tear the Dawn apart as part of a ‘quarantine’. Master Chief leaps into space with his new thrusters and finds another way into the machine planet’s interior. <br /><br />-The planet is revealed to be a Shield World, and the first one built at that. Its interior, inverted surfaces sweeps around a central slipspace portal that captures the light from a distant star. As Master Chief explores this planet, a massive Forerunner army of various robotic sentries continue to hunt him down. During his explorations, Master Chief sees signs and murals of someone called “The Begotten.” <br /><br />-Eventually, John and Cortana establish a base at Hub Station 42 where Cortana can hide their presence from the Forerunner army and the presence that is leading them. Cortana sends the Master Chief to the Resonance Cascade to shut down the Shield World’s block on outgoing communications. <br /><br />-Master Chief makes contact with the Sangheili, who are now on their way, but is ambushed by the peak of Forerunner robotics: the Proto-warrior. Master Chief cuts a swath through these humanoid adversaries as he races back to Cortana before they find her. The Sangheili, led by Shipmaster Rtas, enter the Shield World secretly with a new cloaked corvette and unite with the Spartan to push back these Proto-warriors. <br /><br />-The Sangheili did not arrive alone though. The Reconciled, reformed remnants of the Covenant, tracked the Elites to gain control of the Shield World in the continuing post-war arms race of Forerunner weapons. They were also somehow able to enter the planet without contest and are mysteriously at peace with the Forerunner guardians. <br /><br />-The Chief and Shipmaster lead an attack on the Reconciled’s foothold before the UNSC fleet arrives. In the battle, John discovers that the Reconciled had brought with them a Forerunner War Sphinx named Recondite Clairvoyant. This massive sentient machine was using the Reconciled that discovered him to reach this Shield World and was able to protect them from the Forerunner army. But now that he has a Reclaimer in his hands… <br /><br />-With the Reconciled now pushed back and hunted by the Sentinels as well, the War Sphinx leads a small group consisting of Master Chief, Shipmaster, and a few Elites into the Monitor of the Shield World, a massive complex housing the data core of the A.I. in control of the Forerunner Army. Shutting him down will at last pacify this planet and allow the UNSC to arrive in something other than a hornet’s nest. <br /><br />-Inside, John finds that the Proto-warriors have been learning from the Master Chief and improving. But why all this hostility from the Foreunners? It is revealed that the Didact, who shepherded the Shield installations placed the Monitor here to study the Flood and discover new ways to defeat them. A 100,000 years later, and the Monitor is as obsessive as ever, believing he is fighting a new form of Flood with Cortana as its Gravemind and her soldiers as her combat forms. Cortana shuts down the Monitor’s core and gains control of the Forerunner army as the UNSC finally arrive.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mission Seven:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">UNITED</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reunion Tour</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A grey storm is drawing close. A massive UNSC cruiser hovers above
a vast, empty ocean. Four frigates are moving in formation alongside her. New
iterations of Longswords, sleeker and more maneuverable, patrol the air. As the
camera zooms in on this mustering, radio chatter starts to fade in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"I'm reading four destroyers, five cruisers."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"They're amassing thirty kilometers east of here."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Deciphering any of their communications?"<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Only this, sir..."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Prophet: "The Great Demon has subverted our own living gospel
and deceived our Gods. But we know the way. We walk the path. And those that
would halt or turn us deserve the greatest punishment..."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pelican starts a descent towards the top of the massive cruiser
. Towards the center of the spine lies an open deck like that of the Spirit of
the Fire. As the bird lands, a receiving party stands at attention nearby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Master Chief, on behalf of the UNSC and all of humanity, I'd
like to welcome you back from the dark. We missed you."</i> The admiral
reaches out a hand to shake John's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"The name's Moreau. Admiral Moreau."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief: "Thank you, Sir. Awaiting your orders,
Sir."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Admiral: "Orders? Hah, I think you've deserved a very
long-overdue shore leave. Captain, show him to his quarters--"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief </i>(unmoving)<i>: "The Reconciled are here. You need
me on the line."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Admiral: "No disrespect, Chief, but we came prepared."</i>
He moves slightly out of the way and behind him two Spartan IVs walk forward,
their advanced MJOLNIR armor gleaming in the sunlight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"It's an honor and a privilege to meet the greatest of the Spartans,"</i> says one of the S-IV's as she extends a hand. She's actually
slightly taller than John.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief </i>(a little taken a back)<i>: "Not the greatest. Just
the last."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana </i>(through John's helmet speakers)<i>: "But his line lives
on, doesn't it? You </i>(towards the Admiral)<i> just had to keep playing with
people's minds and bodies didn't you?"<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Admiral: "Ah... Cortana </i>(slightly condescendingly)<i>. It's also
an honor to have you back, of course. But I'm afraid you've been out of the
loop for too long. All of our Spartans today are volunteers and experience only
small and safe procedures. The new MJOLNIRs do the rest. By the time I retire,
I think every one of our soldiers will be a Spartan."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana: "There's more to it than just shiny armor and fancy
toys."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Admiral </i>(ignoring the last comment)<i>: "I'm afraid we'll need
to take a look at <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana, Chief. She's been gone a long time and seen things the UNSC
has never been able to confirm."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two technicians approach from behind the Chief, who uneasily takes
a step away from them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana: "It's okay John."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief: "Cortana - she's past seven years... Can you
help her?"</i> He takes Cortana's data core from the back of his helmet,
looking at it before handing it over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Admiral: "We'll do our best."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An elevator lowers through spinning red lights to a lower hold.
The Chief and two Marines exit as the player resumes control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You take control of the Chief with no weapons. This first part is
all about re-immersing yourself with the UNSC and getting up to date on all
their advancements in technology and what's happened to your old comrades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This ship you're exploring is the UNSC Keyes. The Marine escort will describe to you the
breakthroughs in Slipspace travel, the miniaturization of MAC technology, and
the advancements of point-defense lasers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll also pass by hangars full of troops preparing for battle
and overhear some familiar voices like Sgt. Stacker and That Australian Marine.
Eventually you'll be left in a ready room with a handful of ODSTs. One notices
the Spartan and approaches. He wears short brown hair and a trimmed beard. And
he's voiced by Nathan Fillion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Sergeant Buck: "The Master Chief. I... I can't tell
you how much of an honor it is."</i> The Master Chief just stares. This whole
experience has been more surreal than exploring a small Dyson Sphere for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Buck: "I... uh... well. Whatever you need Chief, you've got
it. A lot has changed since the war, and I have to admit, I'm still not used to
most of it. So I can imagine what you're feeling right now. Well... I'll let
you be."</i> He begins to walk off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief: "Admiral Hood. Did he...?"<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Buck: "He survived. And he led us all out of the dark after
you left for the Ark. But the times changed and Hood was a leader of war, not
peace. And folks like Moreau here forced him into retirement once things were
settled with the split-chins."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief: "Why are you still fighting?"<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Buck: "Could have settled down I guess. I got a wife, but
we're both still married to the UNSC. I guess once you experience thirty years
of non-stop blood and glass, you never get to believe in 'peace'. It's just a
breather."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A TAC device on Buck's wrist sounds an alert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Buck: "Speak of the devil."</i> He turns around to face his
ODSTs. <i>"Time to drop boys. We got uglies prepping bases on the nearby
peninsula. Let's make sure they don't get too comfy."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The troops begin to issue out a far door. Buck has to tap a
sleeping ODST in a corner, and then they both head out, leaving Master Chief
alone in the ready room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana: "They're coming, John. And they don't know what
they're dealing with."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief looks around. It's either being broadcast to him...
or a telepathic message.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief: "Cortana. Where are you?"<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana: "Here with you. Not far. They think they've given me
over to the ship's AI, but really, they just handed me the keys. But they're
facing a massive fleet of Reconciled. They may not like it, but they need you
out there."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master: "They can fight this battle without us.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana: “No they can’t. They have learned a few tricks, but they
don’t have the experience. The Admiral is actually trying to negotiate with
them--"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thunder rocks the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Over speakers) <i>Admiral: "Red alert. Multiple explosions in
deck eight and nine. Emergency crews, on the double!"</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Cortana: “You need to get out of here and help while you still
can. I’m downloading my core to a new datapad on a terminal nearby.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Master Chief is hesitant to disobey, but another rocking of the
ship and long, low groan moves him. This isn’t the same UNSC he left years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A door opens in the room. Lights begin to blink on and off,
showing you the way. Through a few hallways and an armory of weapons to stock
up on, you begin to cross a catwalk above a hanger, but an explosion tears
through the ship to your left. Through the fire, the War Sphinx steps into
sight. You're on even ground with his eyes now. On the other side of the
catwalk, two technicians approach, but halt, startled by the freed War Sphinx.
The War Sphinx turns to observe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>War Sphinx: "They will not keep me from my duty."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Master Chief: "Calm down. They're Reclaimers, just like
me."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>War Sphinx: "<b>They</b>
are humans.<b> You</b> are a
Reclaimer."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hangar bay doors to the right of the catwalk open to a grey
sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Master Chief hops off the catwalk to the hangar floor and
walks to the edge. Kilometers away, a fleet of Reconciled cruisers and
corvettes are assembled across from the UNSC ships. The War Sphinx steps up
behind him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lights issue forth from the enemy, straight towards you. But they
are absorbed by an energy shield around the UNSC ship before it breaks down
once and for all. UNSC frigates pass into view and return fire, grabbing the
oncoming enemy’s attention. One of them is destroyed as a number of the
cruisers concentrate fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the midst of the chaos, the War Sphinx becomes a vehicle for the Master Chief to
wreck havoc upon the Reconciled in a massive aerial battle. Soon the Sangheili
Stealth Corvette arrives to flank the enemy and Cortana brings in the
Forerunner army to drive the Reconciled back.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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ten. It is a massive aerial battle, with a huge number of both friendly and
enemy AI as well as number of capital ships engaging one another. Imagine the
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engagements in different areas of the open level, with smaller objectives innerspread
randomly between, a la New Alexandria’s mission structure. You’ll even land on
the hull of a few ships (like the levels in Halo Wars that take place on Spirit
of Fire) to protect or attack them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Eidolon”, which is about three times the size of a Phantom. It’s a heavily
armed, moveable launch pad for Banshees and soldiers. It has a pulse canon like
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their ultimate weapon: a captured Halo Ring. The next controlled burst cuts
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-1826341887977744692012-08-07T20:17:00.001-07:002012-11-13T19:22:34.144-08:00Artwork Round-UpA crazy, dark, and dreary last few months - and it's sad to think that I haven't produced much art since the last post here in May. But I'm working to change that...<br />
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Back to coloring a Batman piece full of his allies and enemies:<br />
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And also continuing work on my Shield and Sword project, speculating through text and images what Halo 4 could be like:<br />
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Then there's the Seeker, a game I'm working on. The story and art is my side of things. Besides writing a 50-page reference document for the universe, I'm also working on the game script. I've also recently painted portraits of the two main characters, a piece I'm pretty happy with:<br />
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And of course there's the <a href="http://www.shadowrun4.com/">Shadowrun</a> work I've been doing. They've already started to appear in a handful of PDF downloads, paperbacks and hardbacks.<br />
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The Mayflower Project!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-32985682901370875012012-05-10T19:28:00.003-07:002012-05-10T19:28:52.435-07:00Artwork Round-UpGathering all the work that's been scattered around the interwebs in the last month or so:<br />
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So there's this game called Skyrim...</div>
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Ahh, the night before - printing and going crazy trying to get the portfolio in the best order for the coming portfolio review with a Marvel editor the next day.</div>
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Awesome Doctor Who cosplay. I couldn't help but shout out "K-9!" as they walked by.</div>
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Captain Adama...</div>
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... and Lando!</div>
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Even some family made it out, sporting some interesting shirts...</div>
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Well, I think these did a better job than what my rambling could have conveyed. I was definitely nervous beforehand, but I ended up having a blast meeting people and drawing them stuff. I even made enough to pay for the table!<br />
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Next up: St. Louis's Project Comic Con.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-50226515765180518392012-03-12T22:30:00.003-07:002012-03-25T21:28:13.041-07:00Latest Work Round-UpI thought I'd be more active with my blog than lately, and try to do posts of recent, random artwork that doesn't fall into a category of big news, or will be a long time coming before it's added to the portfolio website.<br />
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"Inspector" design for hypothetical Halo 4 ideas.</div>
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This image pretty much sums up the highlights of what I've accomplished in the 1.5 years since graduating college. I think I'm most proud of finishing <a href="http://leviathan.bungie.org/">Halo: A Fistful of Arrows</a>, the largest project I've ever embarked on. Anything that could spawn such rabid support, petitions, soundtracks, etc, is something to be satisfied with, I think.<br />
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Of course those jobs that actually paid weren't too shabby either. :)<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Anubis.Comic">Anubis</a> can now be added to that list... well, at least for my part. The art is all complete, the actual comic won't be released till the spring, though.<br />
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We'll be starting up a Kickstarter project soon to help fund the initial print run.<br />
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Too many ideas, too many things to work on, not enough time... :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-26122558557110780532011-07-03T14:53:00.000-07:002012-04-03T23:29:23.237-07:00Anubis, the Comic Book....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm in the throes of illustrating the first issue of the comic book "Anubis" from creator and writer Sage Howerton. (The final cover is shown on above.)<br />
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Every interior page has been thumbnailed and laid out and now I'm diving into fully rendering each page.<br />
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You can see from these images the process of jumping from those initial rough marks to the final interior art, full of texture, color, and life. I hope, at least. :)<br />
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And here's some more promotional art that features the title character, Anubis. His costume and staff has evolved a little since this pic.<br />
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Check out the latest updates on the project at <a href="http://facebook.com/Anubis.Comic">Facebook.com/Anubis.Comic</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-51604861547183690872011-03-23T13:19:00.000-07:002011-03-23T13:19:23.884-07:00Halo: A Fistful of Arrows now has a permanent home......at <a href="http://leviathan.bungie.org">Leviathan.Bungie.Org</a>!<br />
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Where you can read the entirety of completed pages for my fan-created graphic novel that details critical moments before and after the events of Bungie's Halo: Reach.<br />
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Huge thanks to Halo.Bungie.Org for hosting it!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-56306908372919706492011-02-23T18:36:00.000-08:002011-02-23T18:36:54.558-08:00Timelapse VideoA much better version of the type of video I was trying to do last time. Watch in HD to really see the change in details.<br />
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Here's the art that the video shows the making-of.<br />
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After getting the idea of what the piece should be worked out with him, I started sketching thumbnails, eventually getting an approved shot like this:<br />
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Where the Elite aliens are gathering together one last time before shipping out to war. Alien spacecraft are launching in the background to head to the front lines.<br />
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I created the background when I had sometime, before heading into the harder work of the characters themselves.<br />
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Some time passed before getting back to the piece, and when I did, I felt that the shot was too far drawn out to really capture the emotion of the characters - the most important part of the piece. So I cropped in close, stretched out the background to fit, and started reworking it. I sketched the Elites out first on paper with pencil, then scanned it in with my large-format Brother MFC-6490CW (college graduation present-boy is it helpful!). Here you can see the piece with some base colors thrown into the sketches.<br />
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After getting some feedback from Bry, I revised a bit and then started in with the details, trying to perfect every centimeter of the piece, from really rendering the characters to detailing the background and the spacecraft.<br />
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I'm particularly found of the sky. It turned out beautiful, I think. Definitely not what I had started out trying to do - it just happened in the process.<br />
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Here's a little experiment. I created a basic little video to show the rough draft fading into the final piece...<br />
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The comic had started out as something I was doodling while waiting for the next Halo multiplayer match to start. Originally, it was going to be between 10 and 15 pages long (around the same length as <a href="http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=26718">an older Halo fan-comic</a> I had done some time ago) and was going to just be a fun little story showing a super-soldier named Jun and Dr. Halsey, an important scientist, getting to a secret base. It was a loose end that the game did not tie up... so I thought I should try my hand at it.<br />
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It was going to be simple, really, more an excuse to doodle spaceships blowing up and super-soldiers shooting at aliens than anything. I was also going to try and make this real quick, with a hasty-but-pretty style. I originally felt that I had already made too much Halo fan art - I needed to spend my free time doing other things, perhaps (something that could get me a job, for example) so this would be might last, great, Halo-fanart farewell... So I sat my sketches down next to the computer and opened Photoshop and started to draw/paint<br />
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And then I made this:<br />
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Which is NOT a simple or quick style, nor the first few pages I had sketched and planned, nor pertaining to the story I had originally set out to do. Nope, I had created a monster...<br />
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Now 23 pages later, I'm still only halfway done with a story that 'grew in the telling' and now encompasses flashbacks and flashforwards (thank you past-Levi for watching hours and hours of <i>Lost</i>), main plots and subplots, themes of sympathy and honor in warfare, and personal character development delving into guilt and cases of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder... Yep. What the hell is wrong with me?<br />
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... But I'm just having too much fun. :)<br />
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I'll be posting again sometime soon about the process of making these pages, going into the planning and thumbnailing, to getting references and then the actual digital-painting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-43120913607812432752010-11-23T20:01:00.000-08:002011-02-13T11:44:46.028-08:00"Learning to Fly" Character Design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7qqZ1No-llPxeNovMcSLBhDzdM0VpyKpaz2Dp46qAywlF7NyxvGgfGx41d4nmeAOvp8sYW3ry8p9iy9BlHwI_FrJ9X5_zlimNDyUWJKHKj0Dogj5pvI1LizWIas-cXX9w-55OQ1O8EeTR/s1600/Master+Craw+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7qqZ1No-llPxeNovMcSLBhDzdM0VpyKpaz2Dp46qAywlF7NyxvGgfGx41d4nmeAOvp8sYW3ry8p9iy9BlHwI_FrJ9X5_zlimNDyUWJKHKj0Dogj5pvI1LizWIas-cXX9w-55OQ1O8EeTR/s320/Master+Craw+%25283%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's a character design piece I made for <a href="http://animationrigs.com/">AnimationRigs.com</a> 's "Master and Student"-themed contest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I started painting a background and got to the great point where I loved it so much I didn't want to put anything on-top of it... but alas...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Came up with some poses that seemed dynamic but also straightforwardly describing the figures - since it is a character design after all, and not a 'standard' artwork. These started out as pencil sketches that were scanned in and colored (like a coloring book!).</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">And the final step: Take forever finishing it up and tweaking every detail until you can't even tell what you've done to the piece for the last 20 minutes - that's the sign to STOP.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">~Here's a link to the DeviantArt post:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://levihoff.deviantart.com/art/Learning-to-Fly-187054811">http://levihoff.deviantart.com/art/Learning-to-Fly-187054811</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-45670070736447255492010-11-06T13:32:00.000-07:002012-11-23T15:53:16.970-08:00Halo: Evolutions Volume One, available now.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This pocket-sized edition of Halo: Evolutions features an illustration of mine for B. K. Evenson's short story "Pariah." If you like sci-fi or Halo, check it out in book stores everywhere.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-74062899783984461662010-09-29T21:30:00.000-07:002010-09-29T21:35:07.615-07:00Art Recap: September<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Here's a recap of recent work that's gone up around the internet in the last month.</span><br />
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I decided upon crafting a near-futuristic (is that a word?) assassin. Now, I figured a futuristic version might be popular, very popular. But the execution of a piece of art is just as important as the initial idea, right?<br />
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So i opted to do something subtle. No giant cities and flashing colors or giant mechs. Just a hologram HUD and an electrified blade, with the real time and setting to be interpreted by the viewer. Give it a bit of mystery and keep the viewer engaged (like making them have to read the text backwards to figure out what it says).<br />
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I started off with a rough sketch and fell in love with the idea (first idea included said 'gaint cities and flashing colors or giant mechs')<br />
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Then I broke the piece down and deleted the Googled lightning I had used as a placeholder. I'm mostly just using a custom brush here to smudge the hell out of everything.<br />
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Really worked hard to capture a realistic likeness using a custom smudge brush, some thinner brushes for the hair...<br />
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...and some spotted brushes to add in some skin texture. Started adding in some color as well so I could start to figure out its affect on the piece. I was trying to create an assassin with a darker skin color... but with all the reflections and lighting that came later, that was kind-of lost.<br />
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The hologram was a lot of fun to do. Used a number of built-in Photoshop filters on colored shapes to give me the effect I wanted.<br />
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Painted in his glove. Looks really strange and doesn't fit at the moment so...<br />
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... I added shadows and details and highlights to immerse it within the work. I also added the electrified blade and tweaked the whole image. A scan of a sheet of paper that I wiped ink across in various ways was used atop of everything to give some slight texture to everything. And it's done.<br />
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And then two months later, rejected! Hah.<br />
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Here's a link to the piece on <a href="http://levihoff.deviantart.com/#/d2yqp8f">DeviantArt</a>, as well a shot of all these in-progress pics <a href="http://levihoff.deviantart.com/#/d2zkc64">laid out next to each other</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-91697408875421906342010-09-19T20:59:00.000-07:002010-09-19T21:00:49.483-07:00Larvoid Follow Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowWrvNdfHhyphenhyphenYcsmD3mVYBrM8XjxoYEw61zTsCbfuO9x5wXDhjs5B8c02iBR3zQvGDJHNgjB7xB2RoeyEslhMjG2KMiDaXIVCRcHcR6YMWXCA3I_vaRY3PtaTXqAU4pruPbvt64v0GAxml/s1600/Larvoid_art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowWrvNdfHhyphenhyphenYcsmD3mVYBrM8XjxoYEw61zTsCbfuO9x5wXDhjs5B8c02iBR3zQvGDJHNgjB7xB2RoeyEslhMjG2KMiDaXIVCRcHcR6YMWXCA3I_vaRY3PtaTXqAU4pruPbvt64v0GAxml/s200/Larvoid_art.jpg" width="165" /></a></div><br />
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From<a href="http://levihoffmeier.blogspot.com/2010/07/just-some-good-ol-alien-insectoid-art.html"> a post a few back</a>, I featured my Larvoid illustration for TGB Customs. Well here is one of the actual figurines with the artwork on its packaging! Very cool!<br />
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Sketching randomly led to an interesting portrait that seemed to work for a character from something I've been working on.<br />
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I then started on a more polished character design piece that would have a close portrait and a full-body design next to it. He grew a bit younger as I worked on it.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The full-figure was fun to do, with a lot of temporary layers here and there that demoed wild and weird ideas as I worked on him (think that shoulder plate on the left, but all over).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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"<b><i>Fires, Still Burning</i></b>" - Concept art / matte painting practice<br />
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"<b><i>Virgil</i></b>" - Character design<br />
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"<b><i>Watchful Protector</i></b>" - Batman fanart, experimenting with using Google SketchUp to aid in the art process<br />
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"<b><i>Cyclops</i></b>" - X-men fanart<br />
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You can now follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/LeviWasTaken">twitter</a>, by the way. I'll update it whenever I upload a new piece anywhere on the web.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76139968310509505.post-89777558387812835392010-08-24T22:22:00.000-07:002010-08-24T22:22:54.281-07:00Commander Gloop!Another piece of art for<a href="http://thegodbeast.blogspot.com/"> TGB Customs</a> packaging! Continuing with the theme of doing these like a horror movie poster, like the '<a href="http://levihoffmeier.blogspot.com/2010/08/mammoth-monster.html">Mammoth Monster</a>' before...<br />
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After some feedback from TGB Customs, color started to work its way in.<br />
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</div>This was a blast to do - especially the glowing Dr. Brain!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354775367278049820noreply@blogger.com0