Well Ive completely revamped the concept. Its still a crash site of a flood infested pelican, but now its in a covenant forerunner-like open mine. Caves underground, big mining device makes the first base, and the crashed pelican makes the second. Ill upload pics friday night probably.
DBProgrammer: Ill be modeling all of the props and assets in Wings 3D, things like the fusion coils, buildings, the pelican, anything thats rigid basically.
I'll make the terrain in bryce, uv map everything in 3ds max, animate in 3ds max, and then do some final renders in max, and hopefully get it into Halo CE to get the gameplay working well.
Ill also be normal mapping with zbrush. I love having access to my brother's college software
. Im going for a finished product to show bungie exactly what I can do.
Then when its all said and done for, Ill make a video showcasing the map, along with an over view of the story, all of my concept work, renders, screen shots, tactics, and game play ideas, in a big document that ill email to bungie privately at first.
If I dont receive any sort of response after a week, Ill just make a post on the forums and show off my work, and then maybe someone will take notice.
Im not trying to land a job at bungie, it'd be almost impossible to do that this way. But I figure if I can get them to see that I can design and create a fully functional game-ready map that fits with halo's style and would provide a lot of fun gameplay / gets a lot of good feed back, all by myself, that they might keep their eye out for me after I graduate from college, or at least remember my name, when I do go to apply in the future. But then there's always going to be a secret wish that they'll hire me in on the spot
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Here are a few pics of my rough concept I threw together in school today:
And a quick flesh out of the terrain in photoshop:
There will be underground caves, caves through the mountains, a big mining mechanism that smashes down every few seconds, similar to Waterworks from Halo 2, although I may change it to be a burst of energy since its covenant-made, flood growth near the bottom of the mine with a lot of flood growth in the underground cave... supply crates near the pelican and a tipped over warthog to make it look like it was holding a hog when it crashed, and fusion coils placed around the map for explosion fun =D.
Hopefully Ill finish this. Should be fun. Especially if I get it into Halo CE.
