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Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |  |
Halo opening cinematic, credited
Whoa - great find by Ghôlsbane. If you visit COMPUTERCAFE.com, and navigate your way through gallery -> broadcast -> Bungie (in the Flash version, it's the first icon), you'll see the opening movie (the cells morphing into the earth, with a Bungie logo), and its credits.It was created by NoiseTV, for Microsoft/Bungie. Interesting that nobody involved is credited anywhere in the Halo manual. Anyway, if you have need for an opening cinematic that has to capture the attention, now you know a company to call! (Louis Wu 20:51:50 UTC) (permalink)
Movie Mirror picks up the slack
That Weasel, enjoying the newfound space on That Weasel Television, has added two new mirrors; the OXM Warthog Jump movie and Jackass. Links have been added where appropriate. He's also put up a movie we decided we didn't have space for; The First Time Playing Halo Online, by Assassin X. It's 20 mb, 8:25 long, and in .wmv format. Once again, the community thanks you! (Louis Wu 20:22:28 UTC) (permalink)
A story and a poem
Just a couple of entries in the Fan Fiction database today:
- HALO: Pilots of Autumn, by Jake Anderson
- Sestina to Master Chief, by Megan Swaine
For those who don't know what a sestina is, you should read this. (Louis Wu 20:11:36 UTC) (permalink)
Noc on Live
Interesting forum post from Noctavis, on Xbox Live, and his first few days' worth of impressions. Worth a read, if you're contemplating jumping into XBL. (Not Halo-related, but hey, Noc's been around a long time, and XBL is the FUTURE of great Halo (2) gaming.) (Louis Wu 17:11:15 UTC) (permalink)
Not-Silent Jay
Bungie rocks. I think that's what this website (this family of websites) comes down to. Latest example: When Jay Weinland, Bungie Audio Gnome, learned that forum regular Hedgemony was on a quest to catalog all the existing lines of dialog in Halo, he popped into our forum with some targets to shoot at. The basic numbers:
- 153 AI categories (i.e. killed enemy with mounted weapon)
- ~5600 combat dialog speech files
- 1,238 scripted dialog files (cinematics and set in-level dialog)
- Dialog attributed to 4 marines, 2 sargeants, grunt, elite, jackal, flood, Keyes, hunter, and the Monitor
There are some caveats explaining why all of the dialog can't be found... but this should help Hedge get a lot farther along. One source for AI categories which hasn't been tapped yet, I don't think, is Marty's speech at the Game Developers Conference last March... I'm pretty sure all 153 are visible there. Bottom line; this is a huge project... but not one that Hedge can be helped with, except peripherally (like this). Here's hoping he gets there! (Louis Wu 15:18:07 UTC) (permalink)
Have you got a savage breast?
Back in August, Silverbrin turned in a piece of music called 'Mahdrigalo'. It was well-received... but SB has built on it.
A few months ago I uploaded a piece of fan music called "Mahdrigalo". It was a combination of the Halo gregorian chant with the Siege of Madrigal. Both (in my opinion) are some of Marty's best works. Both songs are also on the Halo soundtrack. After releasing the somewhat crude midi, I got a surprising amount of requests to rework the piece into a more high quality audio effort. Months passed and I came to own some new software. I decided to start from scratch and bring the old piece to life through more powerful software; the way it was meant to be heard. After a a few days of tinkering I was able to recreate the original Mahdrigalo and maintain a duel Myth/Halo aura. The main differences between this sequal and the original include a much higher quality of audio and a new ending. I hope you enjoy Mahdrigalo2.mp3.
From where I sit, it's definitely a more polished piece of work... check it out, it weighs in at 4.8 mb. (It's currently hosted here, but if bandwidth issues get in the way (and we'll only know if you tell us), we'll move it to another server.) (Louis Wu 14:45:44 UTC) (permalink)
Mmmmm... cake
Forumgoer Mr. Poke held a party for the Xbox (and Halo, of course) - check out the pictures. (Louis Wu 14:29:48 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday's news in brief:
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And so it goes... Samus and MC... whatta combo! That Weasel is Back! |
Monday's news in brief:
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Hey - he's cute! Halo: The Movie. (No, not that one.) Kind words... |
