Unfortunately, Some of these sites are blocked from my school's campus servers most of the time, which means I have less time to read everything I's want to. Unfair? Sure, but whatever, I guess I'm supposed to be doing homework or something, and not reading. Oh well.
Today, I actually did get a change to completely catch up with pretty much everything, including Bungie.net. Don't know who Bungie is? I forgive you. Don't know what Halo is? YOU'RE DEAD TO ME! I'll save my love for that game for some other time; I have something else to say today.
Recently, Bungie has been hosting weekly events calling all Halo fans to participate in what they call "Bungie All Stars." This is where fans can submit screenshots or other artwork for a contest (of sorts) based on certain criteria for that week. Bungie will then post the best submissions onto their next website update. 6 weeks into the "All Stars", I finally had the opportunity to read the criteria and also have time to make something fantastic!
For week 6, the criteria were as follows:
"Using Halo assets or your own original art, create a forum avatar measuring 90 x 90 pixels"
We all had until February 17th (today) to submit our results. I went to work.
The first thing that came to mind was the classic "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" phrase. Hmmmmm. How could this apply to the halo universe? What keeps the Covenant (the bad guys) away?
Oh, of course! GRENADES! Here's an initial concept sketch:
About half way through the creation process, I decided to screen capture it, so show progress and my process of making my Halo avatar. Check out the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXvlGFS9Qbo
And here's the final product. What do yo think?
For week 6, the criteria were as follows:
"Using Halo assets or your own original art, create a forum avatar measuring 90 x 90 pixels"
We all had until February 17th (today) to submit our results. I went to work.
The first thing that came to mind was the classic "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" phrase. Hmmmmm. How could this apply to the halo universe? What keeps the Covenant (the bad guys) away?
Oh, of course! GRENADES! Here's an initial concept sketch:
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| The whole page. |
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| Close-up. Original slogan was "On 'Nade at a Time" Do you think that's Better? Worse? |
About half way through the creation process, I decided to screen capture it, so show progress and my process of making my Halo avatar. Check out the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXvlGFS9Qbo
And here's the final product. What do yo think?
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