GuiltySpark
08-19-2004, 01:58 PM
So Zoe at Bungie Studios is leaving, but she left this behind for us. First I will tell you what Bungie said:
It's a sad day in Bungie Land today as Zoe, our contract artist extraordinaire, is wrapping up her tour of duty with our Studio and moving on to new assignments. As a special farewell treat to our fans, Zoe is leaving behind what is (in my opinion) her most badass creation yet. Here's a quick explanation of how this project came to be... (prepare to start drooling)
Over the past 9 months Zoe has been in the trenches with us here at Bungie helping out with a number of cool projects. She created all of the visuals on this here website along with a whole slew of badass screenshots, comics, wallpapers and other things you won't even see for a few more months.
Naturally we're sad to see her leave but lucky for us, she's left behind this awesome reminder. Here's a word from Zoe about what this wallpaper is and how it came to be:
A few weeks ago I put up a poll in my 7th column chapter “Zoetest” hinting at a project I was working on. The idea was to do a concept rendering of the Masterchief in an alternate paint scheme, something really –blam!-ing cool for all the fans who support Bungie. At first I was keeping it secret so as to not get things too riled up, but my 2nd hand man MakaVeli4LIfe1 decided that just wouldn’t do and got things going. Within a matter of hours Zoetest jumped from a few members to around 80.
Well today is my last day with Bungie =( -sniff- and I’ve worked my ass off to complete my crowning artistic contribution to the Bungie fan community. The results of the poll had ranked “battle damage” and “desert camo” as the most desired alternate paint schemes for an art piece, so I decided it would be even better to combine the two together. Keep in mind of course that this is just a concept art piece, so don’t too hyped up expecting to see this version inside the game, but you’re more than welcome to keep it on your desktop as long as you like… I insist
>^-^< Zoe, [former] Bungie web artist and Freaky cat girl gamer
Please Note : In case you didn't read it above - this is a purely fictional creation, done for fun for our fans. This has NOTHING to do with Halo or Halo 2. This is not a picture from Halo the movie, it's not a screenshot from Halo 2, there is no desert camo in the game... this is purely a work of art inspired by Halo and the feedback of our fans. But you gotta admit.. this is totally badass! (it's in the Halo 2 wallpaper gallery because it does use the underlying 3d model of MC from Halo 2, that's all)
Head over to the Halo 2 wallpaper gallery and scroll down to the bottom and prepare to be blown away by Desert Brigade.
Thanks Zoe!!
Click for the bigness. And trust me. This 1600x1200 is beautiful!
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo2/wallpapers/brigadedamaged-thumb.jpg (http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo2/wallpapers/BrigadeDamaged-1600.jpg)
It's a sad day in Bungie Land today as Zoe, our contract artist extraordinaire, is wrapping up her tour of duty with our Studio and moving on to new assignments. As a special farewell treat to our fans, Zoe is leaving behind what is (in my opinion) her most badass creation yet. Here's a quick explanation of how this project came to be... (prepare to start drooling)
Over the past 9 months Zoe has been in the trenches with us here at Bungie helping out with a number of cool projects. She created all of the visuals on this here website along with a whole slew of badass screenshots, comics, wallpapers and other things you won't even see for a few more months.
Naturally we're sad to see her leave but lucky for us, she's left behind this awesome reminder. Here's a word from Zoe about what this wallpaper is and how it came to be:
A few weeks ago I put up a poll in my 7th column chapter “Zoetest” hinting at a project I was working on. The idea was to do a concept rendering of the Masterchief in an alternate paint scheme, something really –blam!-ing cool for all the fans who support Bungie. At first I was keeping it secret so as to not get things too riled up, but my 2nd hand man MakaVeli4LIfe1 decided that just wouldn’t do and got things going. Within a matter of hours Zoetest jumped from a few members to around 80.
Well today is my last day with Bungie =( -sniff- and I’ve worked my ass off to complete my crowning artistic contribution to the Bungie fan community. The results of the poll had ranked “battle damage” and “desert camo” as the most desired alternate paint schemes for an art piece, so I decided it would be even better to combine the two together. Keep in mind of course that this is just a concept art piece, so don’t too hyped up expecting to see this version inside the game, but you’re more than welcome to keep it on your desktop as long as you like… I insist
>^-^< Zoe, [former] Bungie web artist and Freaky cat girl gamer
Please Note : In case you didn't read it above - this is a purely fictional creation, done for fun for our fans. This has NOTHING to do with Halo or Halo 2. This is not a picture from Halo the movie, it's not a screenshot from Halo 2, there is no desert camo in the game... this is purely a work of art inspired by Halo and the feedback of our fans. But you gotta admit.. this is totally badass! (it's in the Halo 2 wallpaper gallery because it does use the underlying 3d model of MC from Halo 2, that's all)
Head over to the Halo 2 wallpaper gallery and scroll down to the bottom and prepare to be blown away by Desert Brigade.
Thanks Zoe!!
Click for the bigness. And trust me. This 1600x1200 is beautiful!
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo2/wallpapers/brigadedamaged-thumb.jpg (http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo2/wallpapers/BrigadeDamaged-1600.jpg)