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Artist's CommentsThis image depicts an ODST risking life and limb to rescue a wounded child while taking fire from a low-flying Banshee fighter... all from the POV of the trailing Shock Trooper. Holy crap, what a HUGE learning experience! This image started with an extremely crude hand-drawn image (think stick figures... bad stick figures), and slowly worked its way to full-blown concept art. It was posted here on DA, but I wasn't content with the then-finished image, so I pulled it shortly thereafter and went back to (almost) square one. What you see is the product of 5 photos, 2 screenshots, and 11 total hours of slaving over a hot computer. There were so many flippin' layers I actually got a "low memory" warning... a first for me. There was also a lot of homework done for this image: I studied dozens of motion-blurred photos here on DA to ensure the effect was applied realistically. I purposely left only the child's/ODST's face in-focus to draw the viewer's eyes to the subject of the action (and the emotional element). This artwork is a labor of love, both for the ODST fans and for the fans of my work. The concept art for this piece can be found here. Inspired by Neil Blomkamp's Halo: Arms Race and Bungie's upcoming title, Halo 3: Recon. Detail work inspired by OmeN2501. I listened to a continuous loop of Clint Mansell's "Aftermath" while creating the image to put me in the proper frame-of-mind. Halo 3 & related imagery ©2008 Bungie Studios LLC and Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This artwork follows the Microsoft Game Content Usage Rules, BigStockPhoto.com Image Usage Agreement, and deviantART Copyright Policy. This artwork was created strictly for noncommercial and personal use only, and by downloading this image you agree to the terms listed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. |
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November 9, 2008
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So many great things about it. I love the focus on the child, the Banshee and dirt explosion and the hand of the POV ODST which has a nice resemblance to the "Starry Night" ad.
It also had a great amount of emotion to it.
Keep up the brilliant work.
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