Year: 2006

redstormrisen found a Halo-related comic at Doctor Daemon – I think it’s taking a shot at Mac users, too.(Louis Wu 22:22:20 UTC)

BLackout77x, of Clan Third and Long, submitted ‘Youth of The Nation’, a tribute to the Columbine shootings, to the MPRRS; the reviewers felt it was touching, and well-filmed. You can grab a copy in WMP9 format (49.6 mb) or QuickTime format (53.2 mb).(Louis Wu 19:16:42 UTC)

Stuntmutt updated his blog today – a bunch of submitted strips, a recap of the One One Se7en-related winners from the mow your lawn contest (and a great little bonus), plus some submitted animation stuff – go look! (There’s also a ‘lost strip’ – a strip he submitted, but never aired, along with the story…

Jinno went to the Video Games Live concert in Indianapolis this weekend – and came away with an iPod signed by Mike Salvatori, along with concert founders Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall. (Jinno supplied the hardware – the other guys just signed. Don’t want you thinking you could have gotten a free iPod out of…

Nice – kevinp15 dropped into the thread discussing the Tyler Kirkham Halo artwork from yesterday, and clarified that 1) the original image was created for him as a Christmas present a few years ago, and 2) that there’s a more dramatically-colored version (and a pencil sketch) of the color image in his Red vs Blue…

RidgyMrPeepers submitted a highly-compressed version of his movie, ‘The Red’ – a music video set to the song of the same name by Chevelle; it examines a schizophrenic faced with a series of murders. Nice editing, though I wish we had a higher-quality version to serve you… The MPRRS reviewers gave it a thumbs-up, so…

Quantifier heard about a Halo-related question on Jeopardy – and Miguel Chavez confirmed it (while at the same time pointing out a pretty cool Jeopardy archive website I’d never seen before) – I can’t believe that was worth $800. Plus, all three blew the Leeroy Jenkins question!(Louis Wu 19:16:11 UTC)

Psychophan7 found some folks working on porting Mjolnir Armor into the Oblivion engine – love the sword!(Louis Wu 19:12:17 UTC)

GruntKilla ran across some really nice Halo artwork in the portfolio of Tyler Kirkham, a comic artist (Master Chief B&W | Master Chief Color) – awesome stuff!(Louis Wu 19:10:21 UTC)

Jean-Luc returned with a new Master Chief animation – it’s huge (1600×1200, requires the XVID codec), but it’s pretty slick! Grab a copy from FileFront.(Louis Wu 19:08:11 UTC)

Some interesting goings-on in our forum over the last day or so… let’s start at the top and move down. Feenix noticed a cel-shaded pelican (and Pillar of Autumn) in a fan-made Halo animation on YouTube… fun!(Louis Wu 19:06:35 UTC)

Not directly Bungie-related, but there’s a lengthy post-mortem on Stubbs the Zombie, written by our old pal Alex Seropian, over at Gamasutra. For folks interested in some of the aspects of game development done by a small team, there’s some solid info in there. Not to mention a whole mess of cool art, too. Go…

WikiRiot Episode 11 has been released – I’ve seen Star Wars/Halo comparisons, but this is the first X-Men/Halo matchup that I know of. 36 minutes, under 15 mb. Thanks, Sigafoos.(Louis Wu 17:43:05 UTC)

TheGhost writes in to let us know that Project BlueStreak, previously mentioned for its easy importing and exporting of models between Halo and 3Ds Max and Gmax, has been updated with an animation importer! He’s firmly on the way to a sweet suite of third-party Halo development tools. Go check this stuff out, and chime…

Frankie stopped by the forum earlier to note that the Bungie Weekly Update is up. Tidbits on everything from the newest Halo novel, to Halo 3 combat dialogue, graphics, and AI, to Halo 2 for Vista, and some various goings-on in Bungieville. Everything, that is, except info on the Halo movie. Nope nothing about it…