Mrs_Doublefire's blog

Well, it's been a while. I'm sorry I can't go into detail right now but you can see some of my newest work in the ODST trailer, E3 Demo, and screenshots. It's probably easiest to refer to the E3 Demo. I was responsible for the exterior portion of the ONI island. It's what the two ODST's ran to after setting and blowing the detonation charges on the bridge. That's just the beginning of that level. It continues on inside the boundary wall. That work can be seen in items 6-10 on the new ODST gallery page.

Halo 3 ends a lot like it did in Halo Combat Evolved, minus the countdown timer. The Halo Hog run was by far my largest assignment and most crucial. With most of the Studio Artists finishing off the other more highly detailed levels, I along with another noobie, Dave Dunn, and designer, Dan Miller, embarked on finishing the fight with this ambitious level close to the last hour. Really, the last month before polish, but you get what I'm saying. Where some levels have had years in development, we had a month.

Halo 3 ends a lot like it did in Halo Combat Evolved, minus the countdown timer. The Halo Hog run was by far my largest assignment and most crucial. With most of the Studio Artists finishing off the other more highly detailed levels, I along with another noobie, Dave Dunn, and designer, Dan Miller, embarked on finishing the fight with this ambitious level close to the last hour. Really, the last month before polish, but you get what I'm saying. Where some levels have had years in development, we had a month.

I guess I did too good of a job on terrain finishing because I did a lot of it as an environment artist.The next such case is on the last level, Halo. As with my other assignments, I finish modeled, UV unwrapped, and did initial shaders on the exterior terrain leading up to the control room. This includes the Pelican approach, crash site, skull trench, drop shaft, and the control room, snow bowl.

I guess I did too good of a job on terrain finishing because I did a lot of it as an environment artist.The next such case is on the last level, Halo. As with my other assignments, I finish modeled, UV unwrapped, and did initial shaders on the exterior terrain leading up to the control room. This includes the Pelican approach, crash site, skull trench, drop shaft, and the control room, snow bowl.

If you remember back to my first post about environments, you'll recall my discussion about work that changes. That first interior Forerunner space had a floor element that ran through it, and still does. However, it now closely resembles the underglass machinery on the level Construct. Originally it was the image below with the round ends continuing to the disk shaped entances and exits. It, along with my holo projector, were re-formatted for use in the ring hall's sub-rooms. Of course, my hologram was was replaced by a hologram of the prophet.