Daily Archives: 01/07/2014

Halo: Moral Dictata coming in 2 weeks!

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HALO MORAL DICTATA

The last of the Kilo-5 trilogy will be out on January 21.

Here’s a text blurb about the book from Amazon:

Wars end. But hatred, guilt, and devotion can endure beyond the grave.

With the Covenant War over, the Office of Naval Intelligence faces old grievances rising again to threaten Earth. The angry, bitter colonies, still with scores to settle from the insurrection put on hold for thirty years, now want justice — and so does a man whose life was torn apart by ONI when his daughter was abducted for the SPARTAN-II program.  Black ops squad Kilo-Five find their loyalties tested beyond breaking point when the father of their Spartan comrade, still searching for the truth about her disappearance, prepares to glass Earth’s cities to get an answer. How far will Kilo-Five go to stop him? And will he be able to live with the truth when he finds it? The painful answer lies with a man long dead, and a conscience that still survives in the most unlikely, undiscovered place.

If you want to get a step up on this, you can pre-order from Amazon here!

I can’t wait to read this final book of the trilogy. I love the stories of the Halo universe!!!
-Sal

HaloFanForLife’s Minimalist Halo Characters: #7 Crawler

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Is it day 7 already? Wow…. Now I’m wishing I made more of these! Well, there are still 7 more reveals, though only 5 days left of showing them as I’m revealing the last three on the 12th day of this Halo minimalist art project.

Yesterdays sneak peek should have been pretty easy to guess based on the appendages. Why it’s a Crawler of course!

Minimalist Alpha Crawler_sm

I went back and forth with this one. I had got it down to 5 colors, but it was looking a bit washed out. TOO minimalist, if you ask me. So I put in two more colors and BAM, it popped out more. I realize this may not look as minimalist as some of the others.

Here is the first one I did of this with less colors:

Minimalist Alpha Crawler_sm v2

So which do you prefer? The more detailed, more color version? Or, the less detailed, less color version?

The preview for day 8 is definitely a bit fuzzy, intentionally. Do you have a guess as to who, what it is?

day 8 blackened

I have to say that I’ve been enjoying showing these to you all, even if in low-resolution. Again, the reason for them being so lo-res is so that if someone else tries to “steal” the artwork for themselves and post it elsewhere, they’ve only got the lo-res version. I don’t mind if people share, but many won’t give proper credit, not link back to the original site they found the art. So I’m curtailing that as much as possible here. As I mentioned, the hi-resolution versions of these will be made available  (of a sorts) after all have been revealed.

Are you liking this series so far? What has been your favorite? Any guesses as to who/what may be in the rest of the series?

A bigger version of this and all of the other minimalist pieces will be available after they’ve all been shown. Stay tuned for more details on that.

I recreated these in Adobe Illustrator using some fun techniques and refining some of the shapes. I tried to use as few colors as possible yet show enough detail so that each character was instantly recognizable.

-Sal