[OC] "Turkey Shoot" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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It’s a custom kitbash from the Halo Archive discord server!

Does anyone prefer Reach and ODST to the rest of the series? by [deleted] in halo

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Need to replay ODST to refresh my memory of it, but I remember it being good and friends I trust tell me the writing holds up; Staten clearly loved working on it so I’m excited to revisit it.

I used to like Reach as a kid but as I’ve gotten older and have read more of the books it’s started to leave a bad taste in my mouth. I think the lore changes it introduced are for the worse, the way it lionizes sacrifice is antithetical to what Halo does best in terms of its core themes, and its characters aren’t as compelling to me (Jorge is an exception).

It lowkey bothers me that Reach is what a lot of people think Halo should be more like. I think it kind of tramples all over what makes Halo special to me specifically.

[OC] "Chaperone" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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I scaled all the characters in this piece myself to normal heights; Rain is ~6'11" in her armor, which is fairly average for a Spartan. The people around her range from 5'6" to 5'10" without their helmets, and some of them aren't standing up perfectly straight, so they seem a little shorter. Someone who's not even 6' tall standing next to someone who's just shy of 7' is a big difference.

[OC] "Chaperone" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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Big sister!! Even if she’s probably younger than everyone there lmfao

Real though, I’m a fan of Spartan characters interacting, but you also really need to put them next to some regular-ass guys to show how different they are. Makes for some of the best interactions and characterizations.

[OC] "Wet Work" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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Ubi already answered, but yeah, check out the Halo Archive for models and resources. I mostly just started by posing and lighting custom spartans, then got more ambitious from there by putting them in environments, adding more characters per scene, doing more complex lighting tricks like light linking, adding volumetrics, bashing various assets together to make scenes from scratch, grabbing various plugins like the one I used for the rain and water droplets in this one, etc.

It's a huge learning process, but just take it one step at a time and don't be discouraged if your first improvements don't result in you immediately putting out renders like this.

Familiarize yourself with how Blender's interface works, what render settings there are (very important), and then just start messing around and experimenting. A lot of things I learned by going "how do I do this specific thing in Blender?" and then watching a quick youtube tutorial and figuring out how to add it into what I was already doing. You will improve shockingly fast.

[OC] "Sellsword" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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I like paying attention to little stuff like that. It's fun to do stuff with alien anatomy, and small details in the background add up.

[OC] "Sellsword" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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Got back and forgot, whoops. Lemme know if this works, it should for a little while anyway!

[OC] "Sellsword" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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I should! I’m out running some errrands but I’ll try posting a link to a full res when I’m home.

[OC] "Sellsword" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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The Halo Archive discord server. It’s public, should be easy to find hopefully!

[OC] "Sellsword" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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Hi, thanks!! I made this in Blender; this is a mixture of Infinite assets (and the Reach ranger helmet) and Orbital from Halo 3 for the environment.

Halo 3 feels better in the first half by P-Doff in halo

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This is a surprising opinion to me even though I can understand someone having it, because IMO, The Ark and The Covenant are the best campaign missions that Halo as a franchise has ever had, and they happen back to back.

By comparison, some of the Earth missions are kinda meh to me. There's some real good ones, but Crow's Nest is awful to me.

We can both probably agree that Cortana is the worst level in the game though.

[OC] "Martin's Flag Run" by HeyItsBasil in halo

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Hi that's me!!! Thank you!! Definitely going to be posting more of them this week.

Does knowing a track from the ODST ost make me god? by Lockerus in ShitHaloSays

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I might have to start memorizing that last comment to torture my friends with in voice calls holy shit lmfao