Early Forward Unto Dawn concepts by “Sparth” of 343.

Once again, we are treated to more awesome concept art by Nicholas “Sparth” Bouvier, Halo 4 Lead Artist.

tumblr_mjvfaiNCh81r5ajivo1_1280 tumblr_mjvfaiNCh81r5ajivo2_1280

 

WOw, can you imagine if one of these made it into the game? Such a departure from the original blocky Bungie version. Sleek and stylish these concepts pieces are.

They kind of remind me of future rifles as well.

I’d love to see these designs used somewhere. They are just TOO awesome to be kept as concept ships.

-Sal

Spartan Ops Season one Graphic Novel update.

It’s been a BUSY weekend here at HFFL. Work is progressing on the complete season one graphic novel. I’m about 95% of the way done (literally, not just pulling that number out of thin air). Sunday’s HFFL community Playdate did cut into the time I could have spent working on the Graphic Novel, however, I wanted to have that time with friends and fans alike. To which, I do want to thank all of those who came out for the playdate. I had some great fun, especially being GREEN!

Back to the Graphic Novel and contest for a minute. The contest as stated before is for blog subscribers only. You need to register here to be eligible for the prize packet of McFarlane series 2 Avatar figures. While normal retail would be around $30 for the set, since they are blind packaging, not to mention there are two rare ones within the eight made for this series, you’d be hard pressed to pull all eight in on shot. The Gold Master Chief and Warthog prop from the first series of Avatar figs from McFarlane are hard to find.  The Gold Master Chief goes for around $17-20 on eBay, while the Warthog isn’t even listed as of this writing. Suffice to say the Gold ODST and Banshee will also be hard to come by and for cheap, let along FREE. Again, this is the chance to win the whole set of eight minifigures and prop vehicle.

To win, you will need to download the Spartan Ops season one graphic novel. From there, you will need to identify how many NEW pages I put in the graphic novel versus the original ten comic books. As well, you will need to identify which pages they are by page number.

For example, the cover will be all new, so that would be one page and page one per description. Another example would be (and this is NOT the correct answer)

5 new pages – page numbers 1, 7, 30, 35, 60

The above is how I’d like for you to format your answer for the contest. To enter, you must reply to the official contest article that I will be posting soon. It will be labeled as the official contest article, so it won’t be hard to miss. Shipping for the prize packet is at the winner’s expense. If you are under 18 years of age you must have written permission to enter. (I will need to see a hand written note (can be sent as a scan by e-mail) by your parent or guardian giving permission to enter. Over 18 no note needed, LOL. (Well, unless you want to…)

Any questions, please either reply to this article or e-mail me at: sal@halofanforlife.com

-Sal

St. Paddy’s day GREEN!

If you played Halo 4 yesterday, depending on the playlist, you were greeted with some very VIBRANT GREEN colors in matchmaking. I of course wore green for my armor color is observance of St. Patrick’s day. Beyond that though, I happily enjoyed the ultra green color change when either in a hill or carrying a flag. Below is but a sampling of me playing yesterday.

St Paddys day green St Paddys day green3 St Paddys day green2

 

I really like the 343 did this. It was a nice change of pace. I hope they do more special traits like this in the future. Just a fun way to break things up a bit. Hmm, now if only WE gamers had the ability to make those changes in forge for custom games…

-Sal