I just LOVE Sparth’s artwork. He tweeted a link to his page earlier tonight. As always, I just HAVE to share this with all of you!
I totally see why 343 hired him. I keep asking if he/343 will put out a Halo 4 concept art book. I’d love to see all of his and the other concept artist of Halo 4 have their artwork in one huge Art book volume!
-Sal
So I was able to break the barrier on Forge Island last night and took several screenshots.
First here is a view showing the three islands (top center). The white faded area is the boundary/barrier of Forge Island.
From here, I looked up to see the inner hull of the Shield Wall. 
Then I zoomed in to see more of the detail: 
Here is nearly the same as the first pic, but a little higher up and turned almost 180. The island on the left has some of the “anvil” type islands attached to it, or very near it. The big island to the right is the same as the other island with some minor derivations. The size is a bit smaller and the texture shaded differently. However, since their orientation to the 3 “Great Anvil” islands of Forge Island themselves are different, these far off islands appear to be different somewhat when view from the normal map level.
Finally, there is one of these same islands further off and MUCH MUCH bigger. So much so that it follows the curvature of Requiem. I’m calling this island, “Epic Island.” It’s quite beautiful. (Click to make bigger)
In that above panorama, I had to piece together 4 screenshots and rotate slightly to get to line up.
I wish THIS island was for use in Forge. Given the size (even if it was one of the smaller, but same shaped cousins, we would have a gargantuan island to forge on with some truly unique play spaces. Not to mention beaches by which to forge next to, instead of the anvil islands, which have no beaches persay.
Hmm, maybe we can convince 343 to give us this too? It’s already made… Heck make it much smaller so the texture appears as high-resolution. I’d be fine with that. I want to play/forge on this island!!!
-Sal
legoboy12345678 created this video. While I’m not one to support unlicensed toys of Halo, the video is pretty darn cool.
Thanks to littleenglishhaloblog.com for tweeting this earlier!
-Sal
First, thanks to HaloBungie.Org for tweeting about this.
I happen to really like this song. So having it used in a Halo video montage is extraordinary to me.
Great job to the artist who put this together! TheSparbiter on Youtube.
-Sal
So I was on Twitter earlier when I noticed one of my pieces of artwork was mentioned…and credited to someone else…
Here’s the artwork: 
Here’s the link I saw on twitter:
Here’s the link it went to: http://fyfps.tumblr.com/post/44918953431/just-saying-i-would-really-love-a-shirt-based
and another person linked to the same: http://mythic-on.tumblr.com/post/46723389252/fyfps-just-saying-i-would-really-love-a-shirt
This was liked and reposted/reblogged by dozens. Yet, I wasn’t given credit by any of them. Hmm, you’d think with my logo and text on the graphic that would be enough right?
Well, just incase there is ANY doubt I did this, here are screenshots of my artwork showing them opened in Photoshop (still as PSD files with layers opened) as well as the Illustrator file showing the title, this also having part selected, again to show that I created the artwork).
This is the title, opened in Adobe Illustrator.
Here it is with some of the elements selected for proof that I can manipulate this part of the graphic:
Here are two of the files I worked on in Photoshop for this. The one on the right is active and showing the layers fully opened to show the work I did on the graphic:
In this next screenshot, the near final is opened, again showing the graphic with layers opened:
And yeah, I watermarked the above graphic too so it couldn’t be outright stolen.
In the final (the first pic in this article), I added my signature logo and website logo as I do in graphics I put on the blog. Hmm, now let’s see how many people steal THESE pics and crop them, calling them their own…
Sorry, but I’m just a bit pissed that my graphic was thrown around without one of the dozens of persons giving me proper credit. I posted this on Waypoint around a year ago as well. Not to mention this is in my Flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23683004@N06/page7/
OR
GIVE PROPER CREDIT!
UPDATE: Since this article @chickswhoplayhalo gave me their apologies for giving the wrong credit. Though they were expressly mad for me creating this article feeling I was bashing them.
With respect to CHPW, I called out several links here. Yours was the initial source, but not the only one I mentioned. If you feel upset about this, take that into account when moving forward and posting links to people’s graphics. I wasn’t bashing your facebook page. I was correcting a wrong done to me.
-Sal