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Subject: Halo 3 Cover Art Contest Results
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Over at HaloPlanet today, they've announced the results of their Halo 3 Cover Art Contest. Bungie is not affiliated with this contest and has nothing to do with the selection of the winners nor will we use their art for the cover. Congrats to the four winners and keep checking back at Halo Planet for honorary mentions throughout the day.

No, that's not our Frankie. It is likely one of the many free-range Frank O'Connors, running naked and untamed about the internet. None of the information on those boxes is from Bungie, simply the wishful thinking of some very cool fans, so do not believe it.

[Edited on 6/28/2006]

  • 06.28.2006 9:24 AM PDT
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You could have always posted the winners here too, ya know...

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In Frankie's first art piece he reveals some information on H3. It might be just a filler, but I'll post the obvious:

1. 15+ single player missions (campaign)
2. Online Co-op, with up to four friends (you and 3 others)
3. 20+ maps, including previous maps (I do not believe they're part of the 20)
4. And, 32 players a game! Yay...

I do get the feeling this is a cover for the text you should put, however. Maybe not.

[Edited on 6/28/2006]

  • 06.28.2006 9:36 AM PDT

oh really, its not frankie? i was gonna be upset that he won...

Although if it was him, he could have probably just taken a picture of his head and sent that in and won.

  • 06.28.2006 9:49 AM PDT
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true. you'd think he'd let non-bungie members win, not trying to be offensive.

  • 06.28.2006 9:50 AM PDT
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frankie's cover is pretty sweet mabey he'll pull some strings and it will be the actual cover.

i think that the fact earth is on the cover of frankie's gives us a hint that most of the game is going to take place on earth

  • 06.28.2006 11:27 AM PDT
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Honest commentaries

1st cover : Really good cover. The planet is very realistic and the text behind is easy to read (unlike others) because he added a drop shadow to it. you can see he put a lot of details, like all the copyright writings behind, if it had, like all the other Halo cover, the masterchief in the front, it could be the real Halo 3 Cover.

2nd cover : The Masterchief doesn't fit in the front, the lighting on his armor is not the same as the scene, I like the design from the back with the curved line. This guy forgot to put the MS game studios logo in the front, the logos in the back and also the rounded rectangles written things like "Players 1-4" and "Memory Unit" are different for the Xbox 360 covers. The original cover scan could have a better quality.

3rd cover : If the creator of this cover made the masterchief in the cover, I say he's an ARTIST! If he took that from a magazine frontpage or something like that, this cover is not that good because the text behind (I speak french) has a lot of grammar mistakes and talks about things like the cinematics that the average consumer doesn't care about. He also forgot the "LIVE" logo on the front cover. And where the hell did he take the "3" from?

4th cover : WTF?? This isn't the chief! It's a monster robot! At least he took his time to make it instead of putting the same Masterchief looking up picture that a lot of people put. The 3 in the logo is not the official, it's the one from the unoficial Halo font. The MC image in the back has a bad quality, the text is incoherent, and there is no logo and text execpt Halo 3 and the description, no ESRB rating , no nothing.

I think that the only believable one would be the first one, it's the only one with no mistakes and with a lot of details. Sorry if I complained a lot , but if anybody wants to do a cover, I just dont want you to do the same mistakes.

I also made a cover for that contest LINK

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Posted by: sir_brilliant
oh really, its not frankie? i was gonna be upset that he won...

Although if it was him, he could have probably just taken a picture of his head and sent that in and won.



If the winner was not the real Frank O'Connor then who could it be? hmmmmmmm....Anybody?.......

  • 06.28.2006 11:33 AM PDT

Sarcasm does not work well on text. Is it Frankie Frank? or Frankie Stranger?

kEwL cover.

BTW g1g010, your cover is badass.

[Edited on 6/28/2006]

  • 06.28.2006 12:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: sir_brilliant
oh really, its not frankie? i was gonna be upset that he won...

Although if it was him, he could have probably just taken a picture of his head and sent that in and won.


Ahahah, if it was Frankie i could already start to imagine if the stuff on that box was really going to be material in the game. Darn!

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Posted by: g1g010
Honest commentaries

1st cover : Really good cover. The planet is very realistic and the text behind is easy to read (unlike others) because he added a drop shadow to it. you can see he put a lot of details, like all the copyright writings behind, if it had, like all the other Halo cover, the masterchief in the front, it could be the real Halo 3 Cover.

2nd cover : The Masterchief doesn't fit in the front, the lighting on his armor is not the same as the scene, I like the design from the back with the curved line. This guy forgot to put the MS game studios logo in the front, the logos in the back and also the rounded rectangles written things like "Players 1-4" and "Memory Unit" are different for the Xbox 360 covers. The original cover scan could have a better quality.

3rd cover : If the creator of this cover made the masterchief in the cover, I say he's an ARTIST! If he took that from a magazine frontpage or something like that, this cover is not that good because the text behind (I speak french) has a lot of grammar mistakes and talks about things like the cinematics that the average consumer doesn't care about. He also forgot the "LIVE" logo on the front cover. And where the hell did he take the "3" from?

4th cover : WTF?? This isn't the chief! It's a monster robot! At least he took his time to make it instead of putting the same Masterchief looking up picture that a lot of people put. The 3 in the logo is not the official, it's the one from the unoficial Halo font. The MC image in the back has a bad quality, the text is incoherent, and there is no logo and text execpt Halo 3 and the description, no ESRB rating , no nothing.

I think that the only believable one would be the first one, it's the only one with no mistakes and with a lot of details. Sorry if I complained a lot , but if anybody wants to do a cover, I just dont want you to do the same mistakes.

I also made a cover for that contest LINK


I agree. I like the first design. I like the one with it actually spelled out "Halo 3."

I don't know if anyone has noticed this, but on the back of the winning cover, "Frank" spelled Covenant wrong... "Convenant" Oh well...

And g1g010, I like you design it's pretty good looking... I sent in a design, but I didn't take the time to do a back cover, or all of that official stuff...

  • 06.28.2006 12:45 PM PDT

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I like the winning cover. I would like to see that as the final cover it just fits the role.

  • 06.28.2006 1:23 PM PDT
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They all (except for the fourth place one) spelled Covenant wrong. lol

  • 06.28.2006 6:37 PM PDT
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One of them spelled it "Cononent"

  • 06.28.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Proteus736
One of them spelled it "Cononent"


Which one? I don't see it

  • 06.28.2006 7:15 PM PDT
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This one. It's in the blurb; the second last line, second last word. It's actually spelled "Conenant", sry

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  • 06.28.2006 8:02 PM PDT
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are the honors up yet?

  • 06.28.2006 9:06 PM PDT
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the fourth place entry is a definate 4th place. or lower..
Im not diggin it.
and where are the honorable mentions?

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um, Proteus? did you not read the part where the man (Kpaul) said that its not frankies?
if so, then be sure to read this: its not frankies.
to the rest of you: its not frankies.
and to the people who hold themselves outside the "rest": its not frankies.

and the first one is really good.
I wanna see someone submit a collectors' case, you know, an embossed alluminum one thats shiny and metallic. mmmmm.

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http://www.haloplanet.com/features/contest/h3cover_2.jpg

Wtf this guy cant even spell on his -blam!-.

  • 06.29.2006 3:51 AM PDT
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Yeah i'm kinda disapointed that the winners don't even have that good covers, they can't even spell Covenant and they forgot to put a lot of things (see my first post). And the 4th did a nice Masterchief fan art, but it doesn't represent the game at all. I don't want to sound jealous but I prefer from far my cover than the 3 last, and even the first because a Halo cover without the masterchief would be impossible. Imagine someone gets into the store and sees this cover and doesn't know Halo, he won't know the type of game it is just by seeing Earth, but if he sees masterchief on the cover he'll know it's a futuristic action game.

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Hey guys, Kenny here. I just wanted to apologize for the whole Frankie name mix-up. I only used the name in attempt to keep my contact information somewhat anonymous until the winners were announced. I know that some people are curious about the choice of not having Master Chief on the front cover, so I figured I'd give a short explanation. When coming up with concepts for a Halo 3 cover, I was certain that I didn't want MC to be the center of attention since the game has been hinted at focusing more on the crisis of Earth and its existence. Also, I figured that Halo was popular enough to rely on just the Halo 3 logo to get the message across (just look at the Limited Edition case that came with Halo 2). As for the lack of screen shots on the back cover, I knew that most of the participants would more than likely take pics from the trailer, so I went with an approach to give some imagination to the onlookers (not to mention I couldn't make the boxes look right). Anyway, I want to thank everyone at haloplanet for hosting the contest and look forward to working on more Halo related art in the future.

P.S.- My bad for spelling Covenant incorrectly. I'm always critical of my artwork and hate it when I make mistakes. I'll try to post an updated version later along with a Halo 3 desktop using the front cover design.

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Here's my entry... I hope it shows up in the Honerable Mention area. I spent forever on it.
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/996/michaelcoffing039sk.jp g COPY PASTE and make sure the jpg part doesn't say "jp g", but "jpg"

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  • 06.29.2006 12:47 PM PDT

Posted by: _Wheels03
Hey guys, Kenny here. I just wanted to apologize for the whole Frankie name mix-up. I only used the name in attempt to keep my contact information somewhat anonymous until the winners were announced. I know that some people are curious about the choice of not having Master Chief on the front cover, so I figured I'd give a short explanation. When coming up with concepts for a Halo 3 cover, I was certain that I didn't want MC to be the center of attention since the game has been hinted at focusing more on the crisis of Earth and its existence. Also, I figured that Halo was popular enough to rely on just the Halo 3 logo to get the message across (just look at the Limited Edition case that came with Halo 2). As for the lack of screen shots on the back cover, I knew that most of the participants would more than likely take pics from the trailer, so I went with an approach to give some imagination to the onlookers (not to mention I couldn't make the boxes look right). Anyway, I want to thank everyone at haloplanet for hosting the contest and look forward to working on more Halo related art in the future.

P.S.- My bad for spelling Covenant incorrectly. I'm always critical of my artwork and hate it when I make mistakes. I'll try to post an updated version later along with a Halo 3 desktop using the front cover design.


lol, nw. Though it is interesting you they frankie's name...i mean, not that anyone wouldn't, but still...

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