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Subject: A Gift from Zoe
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all i have to say is W0W!!! this is amazing

  • 08.17.2004 5:46 AM PDT
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hey that wall paper is f**kinA i would like to say that look so totally real
and here for my own touches a joke
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( @ Y @ )
Trim Spa Baby lol

  • 08.17.2004 5:53 AM PDT

4Base Avalanch MELTDOWN
battle is only a prayer.....
.......Better Start PRAYING!!!!!!!
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Good Luck where ever you go to next. Take it easy and thanks (for HAL0 and everything to do with bungie)

  • 08.17.2004 6:06 AM PDT
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*sniff*

That was the most beautiful wallpaper these eyes have ever seen. I'm definately going to keep this one up for a while.

Zoe, why must you go?! I have used all of your wallpapers at one point or another. Oh well, I guess all good things must come to an end. I hope you have luck in the future. Stop by here soon :)

  • 08.17.2004 6:48 AM PDT
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Simply Amazing!

  • 08.17.2004 7:01 AM PDT
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That is fu**ing awesome. I love you Zoe.

  • 08.17.2004 7:38 AM PDT
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It'll never leave my screen thanks Zoe

  • 08.17.2004 7:46 AM PDT
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It's... So... Beautiful...

Nice work Zoe, we'll miss you.

  • 08.17.2004 7:53 AM PDT
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this is a tru piece of art...its gonna stay on on my desktop for a long time..

  • 08.17.2004 8:43 AM PDT
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I have a question, Maybe I could get a response from shishka but is this art using the actual graphics engine as in the game if so...W0000T!!...o yeah and Zoe I LOVE YOU

  • 08.17.2004 9:05 AM PDT
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that's some sick up art piece.

  • 08.17.2004 9:08 AM PDT
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This is the most amazing shot of H2 art I've seen. Really, I wish that was a skin for the game.

Oh yeah, and the setting totally reminds me of what I imagined it would look like for the part in "The Flood" where they went to the PoA and got weapons, ammo, and all the vehicles they could get....too sweet.

  • 08.17.2004 9:12 AM PDT
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Jebus Christ, that brought tears to my eyes...that's right girl, GO OUT WITH A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION!!

  • 08.17.2004 9:56 AM PDT
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Beautiful. Just beautiful. Joyride better make a toy out of that, because I want one on my desk.

  • 08.17.2004 10:12 AM PDT
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wow that was an amazeing pic! good work!

why would you let her leave before halo 2 being finished?

thz zoe!

  • 08.17.2004 10:33 AM PDT

Or what? You'll release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
Well do your worst. [DOOR SHUTS!} Hey, he locked the door.

that is the most perfect wallpaper i have ever seen. its perfect in every regard. looking at it makes me feel like im really playing the game halo 2.( even though its not a real ingame picture.) this is some very nice work Zoe. you'll be missed greatly by all and i hope one day you can make another wallpaper for us. great job and have a good time.

  • 08.17.2004 12:19 PM PDT
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*blushes*

No guys, it isn't bult up from screenshots, it was rendered in 3d studio Max, with a little bit of Photoshop help. The textures on the masterchief are all upgraded from what's in the game. I did the texture upgrade a while back for the Chief's rendering on the ad posters that are out now as well as the cover of the box, and then for this of course I changed the colors and added the battle damage. The background desert is mostly from scratch.
The scorpions and the warthog, while they of course don't have motion blur in Halo2, are pretty much the same geometry and textures [with of course the color changes]. There's a little bit of tweaking on those textures to make sure 3d studio rendered them correctly but they are taken from game data. But sorry, the same vehicles won't have a desert camo paint scheme option in Halo 2.
The Master Chief's pose is actually the same pose [posed by Lorraine McLees] as the cover of the Halo 2 box, just from a different camera angle. Shouts out also to Eric Arroyo who created the game engine models for the Scorpion, Hog, and MasterChief, and Rob McLees who created the SMGs.
But wherever I end up next, I hopefully will still have time to come back and do a few pieces for Bungie, I'd be all for that.

zoe

  • 08.17.2004 12:36 PM PDT
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Hey Zoe, are you married....oh, wait...never mind, I'M married. It would never work.

  • 08.17.2004 1:13 PM PDT
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i love u zoe. Marry me.

  • 08.17.2004 1:28 PM PDT
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That is the MOST Amazing thing I have eveR SEEN.
I don't think I'll see anything better for the rest of my life...simply Awesome
<o (salute)

  • 08.17.2004 2:51 PM PDT
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Dear Lord !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zoe sad to know your leaving you will be missed
And for the record homegirl you got down on this pic.
I wish it could be in Halo 2 but hope fully it could end up
as a downloadable camo

  • 08.17.2004 4:08 PM PDT
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Zoe, you are VERY, VERY talented.

Outstanding work! I really am looking forward to seeing the fruit of all of your hard labor as we draw closer to Nov. 9th.

Thanks, Zoe!

  • 08.17.2004 5:04 PM PDT
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too awesome. i am in love. not with the chief (gross) but with the desert theme scorpion. i love scorpion tanks. and i love you, zoe. not in like a gross stalker way. i love your work. friggin awesome. i resized my desktop just for the high rex version.

  • 08.17.2004 7:05 PM PDT
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That is, without a doubt, the best piece of artwork I have ever seen. I was so awe-stricken by its brilliance that for a fleeting moment my insatiable hunger for Halo 2 dissipated and I was left in a silent rapture not knowing whether to look away or dive in. Great job.

  • 08.17.2004 7:37 PM PDT

Bend a knotted oak.

I love it Zoe. We'll see you again soon, I'm sure of it.

Good luck.

  • 08.17.2004 8:58 PM PDT