Wow, it's been a while, huh. My goal for the Halo video was to have it be done by the time Halo Infinite came out in December. Well, Infinite came out around three months ago and the video's still not done. Whoops. I still should have done more either way, but my job got kinda crazy late last year and earlier this year. I'm most of the way through a month-long break from work now, so I've taken the chance to get some work done at home, both on the video and some IRL stuff. The video likely won't be done until after my break, but I expect to have made some progress on editing the video by then at the bare minimum. The script, VO, some editing of the VO, the thumbnail, and most footage gathering is done.

In the meantime, I've also taken some time to redo some of the visual assets a bit. My old background was a poor attempt at making something look grungy from scratch, but it just ended up looking kinda cloudy or something instead. I was still figuring out how everything should look, but I've slowly tweaked things over the years and I figured it's about time I updated the background to better match the rest of the art. I ditched the low-res grunge texture I was applying to the white parts of the image before and replaced it with one that's both higher res and a bit more subtle, which I'm not applying to the entire image evenly instead of just the white parts. I also replaced the shades of green with more tasteful and less garish ones. I think this looks much more like it's actually painted onto a concrete wall instead of the white parts just sort of floating in a weird green void, and I'm happy with how it turned out. Attached is the ref sheet I made earlier redone in this style, with the old one for comparison, as well as a few other random art assets including the current draft of the Halo video's thumbnail because why not. I also tweaked the pup character themselves so make them symmetrical, so they don't always look slightly off-center anymore, which is something that's been bothering me for a while.

Anyway, that's all for now. Hopefully the next post you see on this Patreon it the finished Halo video.