Spartan Ops Episode 9: KEY comic book

Palmer goes after Halsey, Laskey sends Majestic to save Halsey, Halsey get a KEY piece of Forerunner technology. All this and more in “Spartan Ops episode 9: Key” the comic book. (Click thumbnails to make bigger.)

What do you think about this episode? The comic book itself? Please reply below or tweet me @HaloFanForLife.

-Sal

Concept art of the Halo 4 live-action commercial…and space toilets!

Last article from “Shae” of 343 for the day:

HALO 4 COMMERCIAL STILLS

These images were production stills taken during the construction and shooting phase of the live action set which was being shot in Budapest, Hungary 2012. It was tremendously rewarding to see sketches and paintings (see HALO 4 2012 E3 Commercial) be of help to the folks that fabricated this structure.

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Source link: http://shaeshatz.blogspot.com/2013/02/halo-4.html

Now in case you were wondering about the bathroom design, that’s actually real, as in real life working on a space station today!

Want proof?

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Source link: http://sciencedude.blog.ocregister.com/2008/06/02/fixing-the-toilet-but-not-flatulence-on-space-station/

or

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Source link: http://www.hightechscience.org/zero_gravity_toilet.htm

It’s wonderful when art imitates life to the fullest!

-Sal

 

Production stills from the set of live-action Halo 4 commercial!

Here’s another article penned by “Shae” of 343.

HALO 4 COMMERCIAL STILLS

These images were production stills taken during the construction and shooting phase of the live action set which was being shot in Budapest, Hungary 2012. It was tremendously rewarding to see sketches and paintings (see HALO 4 2012 E3 Commercial) be of help to the folks that fabricated this structure. 

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Source Link: http://shaeshatz.blogspot.com/2013/02/halo-4-commercial-stills.html

I think it’s so cool to see how things are created. Now that I’m working on developing/producing a machinima series, this becomes even more relevant.

-Sal

Spartan Ops: Apex concept art

One of the folks at 343 posted a link to these.
As a person who absolutely loves viewing concept art, I had to repost these here.

Description by “Shae” of 343:

Spartan Ops: Apex

HALO 4 Spartan Ops pre-production paintings. Early on, we were seeking to create a mini-narrative that would make for a compelling multi-session based experience, where players could take over an outpost one week, fly a pelican mission the next week and fight their way up a hillside where they could infiltrate a forerunner technology compound. The paintings that follow were the result of various collaborations with BJ Christian, Nicolas Bouvier, Kenneth Scott. This level went on to become as “Apex.”

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Source Link: http://shaeshatz.blogspot.com/2013/02/apex.html

Such rich and wonderful colors. I can’t help but appreciate this as an artist myself.

Screenshots from Skyline

Okay, so by now you may have seen numerous screeshots on Skyline of someone standing with the Hornet off to the side. Have you taken a look around this wonderful small map for yourself though? There are lots of opportunities for cool screenshots. Even ones of just the stuff on the map, not Spartan Action/Posing shots.

Here are two that can be found on the map.

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Here’s the unedited version:

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Also, take a look at the floor once in awhile. I found these four pages just tossed about on the map. Even though they are low-res, they’re still pretty cool, IMO.

Skyline 4 pages on floor

And the two of the unedited versions:ugcuserfile-db755db5-84cf-4332-af7f-a00b058e7cd2-1b6795f5c43cf099-fullugcuserfile-97785648-0ee4-49ca-9e10-a4bdf026e685-1e1a25003761b418-full

 

I’m SO happy the fileshare is able to be accessed via Waypoint web!