The Art of Halo
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November 9, 2004 |
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176 pages |
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The Art of Halo: Creating a Virtual World is a collection of concept art used for making the Halo games, along with commentary by Eric S. Trautmann. The book includes a foreword by Jason Jones and a preface by Marcus R. Lehto. An updated version, titled Halo: The Great Journey: The Art of Building Worlds, was released on October 18th, 2011.
Official summary
Content
The majority of the book focuses on the development of the major aspects of Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, from the Weapons, the games environments and the Character designs. There are many early sketches and concept art for these things, much of it by Shi Kai Wang and the Bungie art team. Certain sections show the influence of earlier Bungie games on Halo's design. One section shows a timeline of Bungie's history. The ideas are shown as they evolved, from a series of sketches to storyboards and their amazing animation. Finally, some screen shots are included to show how the ideas were eventually incorporated into the Halo games.
There are also many explanations for the processes and the development. For example, the role of Grunt Ultras. They also explain what the intentions were for many of the ideas and how they changed over time.
The final section of the book contains a few full-page pinups of various concept art. Including some scenes in the levels of Halo and ideas of new characters. There are also several images of character design from when Halo was going to be an RTS game.
Gallery
- Art of Halo Marine Study.jpg
UNSC Marine Study
- Art of Halo Uniform Study.jpg
Uniform Study
- Art of Halo Flood Human Transformation.jpg
Flood Human Transformation
- Art of Halo Gas Giant.jpg
Concepts for the Threshold gas mine
- Art of Halo Machine gun.jpg
Design work for various human weapons used in Halo 2
- Art of Halo Jackal Study.jpg
Jackal Study
- Art of Halo Hunter character design.jpg
Hunter character design
- Art of Halo Prophet character design.jpg
Prophet character design
- Art of Halo Flood study.jpg
Flood study
- Art of Halo New Mombasa.jpg
Design work for New Mombasa, as seen in Halo 2
- Art of Halo Human structures.jpg
Human structure concepts for Halo 2's levels Cairo Station and Outskirts
- Art of Halo Animation study.jpg
Animation study
Trivia
- There are many errors in this book, such as a caption pointing at a Plasma Grenade, but pointing it out as an Assault Bomb. However, the Assault Bomb is also present on the page. Another mistake consisted of calling the Prophet of Mercy the Prophet of Truth.
- While the book shows ranks of certain species within the Covenant the Elites' section is missing the ranks of Ultra and Councilor.
- This book shows the Easter egg on the Assault Bomb, where it has writing on it.
- The Sangheili Zealot shown on the Elite ranks has black as its secondary color, although the secondary color for Zealots in-game is brown.
- The level "Assault on the Control Room" is mistakenly titled "Attack on the Two Control Rooms".
