Finished birthday present for another friendo.

A personal challenge to see if I could switch from heavy art to humor since I want to make a gift for a co-worker who's retiring this year. She ain't a dark art kinda person.

Something I've earnestly been wanting to try for a few years. Making a rendition of a forerunner or promethian that's not overdesigned in 343's approach.

The truly ironic thing was that I used Didact's undersuit, and Halo 4's Spartan Forerunner armor with a dirty retexture and I thought it looked pretty fucking rad. I chopped off a watcher's head to make a support ancilla, and surprisingly it doesn't look bad although I botched colours because there's an issue with the model, but eh, this was a test.

I also feel kind of bad for the artists that worked on halo 4-5, because while everybody bitches that everything is overdesigned into visual noise, working up close with some of the ported models gives me a view of just how much fucking detail was packed in, which is really sad in a way because it probably goes under everybody's radar.

They must have worked so fucking hard making the complex textures for all of it to pretty much go to waste.

Been a while since I had time to make anything. Perfect excuse to practice and portray movement, which I'm slowly finding I like quite a bit.

Finishing up some stuff before am homeless bum in a couple months.

Learned some new tricks. First time in a while that I've made something specifically focusing on my own feelings about something.

I've been wanting to do some work on Dark Souls stuff for a gorillion years, figured I finally had the skill to give it a go.

Between all the shit goings on I've been putting work in. The first picture was experiment involving metallic reflections, and the second was the theory I took from the first picture. Overlay photographs over 3d models for a surreal but not too uncanny valley effect.

While not what I'd consider clean or finished, it's proof enough for me that I'm on to something interesting.