Nathan Walpole
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- "You always want to try to put in, y'know, a bit of ourselves in the character... at least that's what I'm trying to do... with the Brute, as well."
- — Nate Walpole[1]
Nathan "Nate" Walpole, aka Bentllama, was an artist who worked as Senior Animator for Bungie during the production of Halo 2 and Halo 3, as well as an animator for 343 Industries during the production of Halo 4.[2]
As Senior Animator under Bungie, Walpole animated the Brutes in Halo 2, such as the scene of a Brute hijacking the Master Chief's Warthog in the Halo 2 E3 Demo, as well as gathering hands-on references for firearms and the Marines that wield them in South Carolina.[1] He contributed to the production of Another Day at the Beach, a pre-rendered cinematic that came with the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack, where he lends his name to Walpole, one of the ODSTs in the cinematic.[3] Under 343, he worked on a previsualisation for an unannounced Halo project that preceded Halo 4.[4]
Walpole left Bungie in 2008 and 343 Industries in 2011; he became a freelance artist and later an animation professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont.[5] Walpole passed away in April 2026.[6][7]
Trivia[edit]
Aaron Walpole, Nathan's younger brother, is an actor and musician who notably finished in third place on the third season of reality competition show Canadian Idol.[8]
Sources[edit]
- ^ a b YouTube - Bungie, Behind the Scenes Making of Halo 2 (Retrieved on Apr 7, 2026)
- ^ Bentllama.com, Resume (Retrieved on Dec 7, 2021) [archive]
- ^ Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack, Halo 2: Killtacular
- ^ Vimeo - nate walpole, Unannounced Halo Project - PreVis sequence (Retrieved on Apr 7, 2026) [archive]
- ^ Bentllama.com, Main page: Time. (Retrieved on May 16, 2014) [archive]
- ^ Reddit - r/halo, We lost an OG Halo developer (Retrieved on Apr 7, 2026) [archive]
- ^ Twitter, Marcus Lehto (@game_fabricator)
- ^ Bentllama.com, sing'r giv'r (Retrieved on Feb 9, 2006) [archive]
