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Subject: My Halo 3 Cover
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I made this cover for the HaloPlanet contest. It took me a LOT of time, a 100MB .psd and more than 100 layers. All in this, including the masterchief and the Xbox 360 cover layout, is created from scratch or modified, nothing was completly taken from a Bungie picture or a Xbox cover scan.

Tell me if you like it, what you like about it or what I should improve. Also if anyone did or found another good fan-made cover, post it.

-g1g010

EDIT: The contest is now over so I removed the huge watermarks.

[Edited on 6/27/2006]

  • 06.20.2006 4:10 PM PDT
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Beautiful!


Good job, your a shoe in to win that contest.

  • 06.20.2006 4:13 PM PDT

I'm blue da ba di da ba dai!

Its relly good but theres one error it was not under the sand they found it but under the city there was no sand.

  • 06.20.2006 4:13 PM PDT
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Wow dude, thats pretty amazing. Keep up the great work.

  • 06.20.2006 4:15 PM PDT
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VERY TIGHT

  • 06.20.2006 4:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: halo04
Its relly good but theres one error it was not under the sand they found it but under the city there was no sand.


Yes but the city is in the desert, anyway I copied this from the trailer Xbox Live Marketplace description, so it wouldn't really be my bad.

  • 06.20.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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excellently crafted.

however, more than ahundred layers is nothing, the images I do, small sprites for my garage game design company, aer often in excess of one hundred layers, and they are only 45x45 pixels.

Ive done images of full sized people, from short stories I have written, that excess more than a thousand layers, like this image.

  • 06.20.2006 4:24 PM PDT
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ehh its ok...

  • 06.20.2006 4:28 PM PDT
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thats awsome, great job.

  • 06.20.2006 4:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Black October
excellently crafted.

however, more than ahundred layers is nothing, the images I do, small sprites for my garage game design company, aer often in excess of one hundred layers, and they are only 45x45 pixels.

Ive done images of full sized people, from short stories I have written, that excess more than a thousand layers, li ke this image.


Oh, that's a lot of layer. Most of the time I merge layers when there is too much, otherwise it gets confusing and hard to organize. And by the way, I wasn't trying to do competition by saying it has 100 layers, it's just that some people post covers they did in 10 minutes, with uncutted-out logos, that are not worth the watch.

  • 06.20.2006 4:34 PM PDT

Hail to the Victors! Reppin' that MAIZE n BLUE!!!
Perfect Grenade
Chill bro. Gotta get my bowl.

Sexy.

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the only prob i have is the chief on the fron it doesnt really fit with the background i mean like graphics wise. exept for that its amazing.

  • 06.20.2006 4:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: g1g010
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I made this cover for the HaloPlanet contest. It took me a LOT of time, a 100MB .psd and more than 100 layers. All in this, including the masterchief and the Xbox 360 cover layout, is created from scratch or modified, nothing was completly taken from a Bungie picture or a Xbox cover scan.

Tell me if you like it, what you like about it or what I should improve. Also if anyone did or found another good fan-made cover, post it.

-g1g010


dude, beautiful, loving the front cover especially. The grungy look of Chief really makes it look real good. Very nice cover, and if you dont place in atleast the top 5 of that contest ill be surprised.

  • 06.20.2006 4:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: hommas
the only prob i have is the chief on the fron it doesnt really fit with the background i mean like graphics wise. exept for that its amazing.


The masterchief is Halo 2 spartan, modified to look more like the Halo 3 masterchief (armor color, scratches) holding the Halo 1 battle rifle. The full size image is 3366x2283 and I had to stretch the original Halo 2 masterchief to about 500% of it's size, so yes it's not as clear as the rest of the cover, but I tried to adjust it and hide the lack of resolution with light. I wanted to be original and didn't feel like copiing it from the trailer screens (like almost everybody did).

  • 06.20.2006 4:49 PM PDT

Procrastination never ends...

NICE!

  • 06.20.2006 4:52 PM PDT

my god thats the best thing ive seen about halo 3 so far

  • 06.20.2006 5:01 PM PDT
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omg simply amazing.Im putting this as wallpaper lol

  • 06.20.2006 5:04 PM PDT
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where is this cover contest, by the way?


Here. If you want to participate, you're a bit late, the contest ends up today.

Posted by: Halo Master 59
omg simply amazing.Im putting this as wallpaper lol


I don't know if you were serious but you can use the full size version of the masterchief walking in the back.

Wallpaper
Wide


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  • 06.20.2006 5:10 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

Awesome!

I especially like the front cover!

I wonder what th official cover design will look like.

  • 06.20.2006 5:11 PM PDT
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Really good detail...amazing cover idea...great summary of game...AND ALL FROM ONLY WHAT WE KNOW OF HALO 3 SO FAR!!!! ;)

  • 06.20.2006 5:11 PM PDT
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Wow. You might get this mentioned in the next Frankster update as a "leak." Mabey you should try and get this more out there than just the forums. I won't say Bungie will actually use this, that is out of the question, legal issues, of course.

  • 06.20.2006 5:18 PM PDT
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great job

although creating and sharing maps is wishful thinking ;)

could someone give me a link to the contest page so i can see other entries or something

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  • 06.20.2006 5:18 PM PDT
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Wow, you have some talent man. You should join my group. It's for artists, and people who like to do Halo related art. Anything you want, even this kinda stuff, it's great.

  • 06.20.2006 5:24 PM PDT

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