Mrs_Doublefire's blog

I was the third person hired on for the contract 3D Artist position. Total, I think there were 11 of us hired on at different times over the period of about 6 months. The first hiree was "really" promoted and hired on full time when he hit about 6 months on his contract. Us contractors were seated upstairs with the testers, away from the full timers. There was definitely a disconnect. We only talked to our leads and art directors. Well this first guy went downstairs when he was hired on full time. No biggie, it was expected.

Known internally as the BFG, the Covenant AA Battery was my last official object as a 3d artist. Not to worry we're only about half way through my contract. This was another doosie to make. Bungie was big on dropping me in the deep end but I guess that was them testing my limits. As you know, until the flood door, I had been doing nothing but human objects. Now I have to make a Covenant object, but not just any Covenant object. No, this is the size of a Scarab with moving parts and destructibility.

Known internally as the BFG, the Covenant AA Battery was my last official object as a 3d artist. Not to worry we're only about half way through my contract. This was another doosie to make. Bungie was big on dropping me in the deep end but I guess that was them testing my limits. As you know, until the flood door, I had been doing nothing but human objects. Now I have to make a Covenant object, but not just any Covenant object. No, this is the size of a Scarab with moving parts and destructibility.

If you ever wanted to play Halo in an ass, now you can. Come jump through my sphyncter to escape the flood.

If you ever wanted to play Halo in an ass, now you can. Come jump through my sphyncter to escape the flood.

I still call it Zanzibar but Last Resort was my other substantial contribution to multiplayer, after High Ground. Destination one was the rotating fan. The first thing to do here was to res up the center and make it more round and generally make the whole model a little more eye pleasing. Next up was the texture shaders, These took a major jump up to twice the resolution. Basically, I remade the whole thing and used the original for reference. You also might notice there is some color on it now, as with a lot of things in Halo 3.

I still call it Zanzibar but Last Resort was my other substantial contribution to multiplayer, after High Ground. Destination one was the rotating fan. The first thing to do here was to res up the center and make it more round and generally make the whole model a little more eye pleasing. Next up was the texture shaders, These took a major jump up to twice the resolution. Basically, I remade the whole thing and used the original for reference. You also might notice there is some color on it now, as with a lot of things in Halo 3.

Today we come to the extent of my military objects. All of these appeared in the beta and I've pointed them out to a few of you. This first one was fun because it kind of took me back to the armory on the Pillar of Autumn. It's a mobile version of that where the designers can put any number of different weapons in different configurations. I only wish they could have made this and the drop pods work for multiplayer. It would have been cool to be able go to a case or pod to get a weapon like in the campaign.

Today we come to the extent of my military objects. All of these appeared in the beta and I've pointed them out to a few of you. This first one was fun because it kind of took me back to the armory on the Pillar of Autumn. It's a mobile version of that where the designers can put any number of different weapons in different configurations. I only wish they could have made this and the drop pods work for multiplayer. It would have been cool to be able go to a case or pod to get a weapon like in the campaign.

Here are a couple of more images from the Crow's Nest suite.

This fuel tank ultimately became the fuel bomb that gets detonated to blow up the base. This is what it looked like when I first created it. When they repurposed it they just stuck a bunch of detonator crap on it.

Here are some UNSC missles and missle racks. These can also be seen strewn about other levels such as The Storm, Floodgate, and The Pit.