HALO Pitch Trailer

[Pappa Midnight]

Our only questions regarding the paint are why not chroma key, and wouldn't the keying out of those stripes just create holes rather than semi-transparent parts? The images of Cortana look as though there are still hints of her body there, whereas a key-out would create significant gaps.

these pics that you are talking about must be unofficial artist renders. Cortana is completely tansperant in the darker areas throughout the bulk of all of the games and especially in Halo:CE. You cant see her body through , uhm..., her body. she didnt even have that subtile glow back then. ( but for live action I would suggest adding that in after affects(post-preduction). it helps to convince the audience that she is a hologram. what you maybe refering to are the streams of meta code that move about these void areas. As far as the code that streams up and down her body you will have to use an alpha or mask to create this or a 3d model composited behind the shot.(I wld do this before throwing the comp into Holomatrix)
some pics:

notice in the last one where her arms come across her body and her hands on her head.
As you may already know using black to key things out works really well if you want to "keep" the light that your object may be emitting. so this Key only make sense because Cortana visualy percieved as being made of only light. You would want to bulid the projection platform for your actress to inteact with, helps with the lighting of the character, and so that you have something that is easy(grounded) to do your motion-tracking with. Ugh,I Also have an Idea of a farely cheap way to build her projection platform. If you send me a picture of the variant that you want to use i can draw it out for you.

 

[L3X BLU3R1V3R]

So ive been putting off doing this for at least 3-4 days just because i didnt know how i wanted to do it... Id say, that i hit it pretty dead on.

 

[chrisrunner55]

looks awesome!

 

[L3X BLU3R1V3R]

99% assembled!

 

[BLACKULA727]

L3x, this is looking fantastic! Excellent foam skillz. Are you using your latest version? I think I'm going to give it a try. I love the results I'm seeing on these foam builds. Again, excellent work.

-Tony

 

[digitalskylight]

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to really quickly direct you to check out the build that Hyperballistik is doing for us:
http://www.405th.com/showthread.php...-build-4-Genisis-Fan-Film?p=562839#post562839

Original file by RoadWarrior, updated by L3XBL3R1V3R, we've got a wonderful collaboration going on just with this helmet for the film!

 

[BLACKULA727]

This thread needs an update…lol. With that said, here’s one. Brendan and I were talking about 3 weeks ago and it came up that he was in need of some shoulder and thigh armor. I’ve never actually built the armor before, so I figured, why not. Tell me what you think.

3d Model by Forgedreclaimer, I believe the EOD shoulders,

Thigh armor, 3D model by our buddy Satchmo, I had to do some mods to this because I had a scaling issue, I need to learn how to scale better..lol,

Keep in mind these are still in their rough shape, I need to fine tune some issues and then we can move forward and mold these bad boys.

Also, good luck Brendan, I believe in your film!..Lol

Thanks guys,

-Tony

 

[digitalskylight]

These are coming along very nicely. We will now be able to outfit our 12+ marines properly! Thanks for all your hard work so far!

 

[braggkid9]

I remember reading that you may have trouble with getting the hair right for the male/female marines.

If you check the books they talk about the hairstyles for several of the spartans. Kelly was nearly bald due to the bio-augmentation, for Cortana's hair, you would be better off usng the style from the game that your clip is closest to. Sam, I don't know if you are filming him, had 3cm hair length and sandy blond hair. Fred, same with Sam, had black hair with silver streaks and John thought that if any of them had to hide in a crowd, that Fred could do it the easiest, so you can assume that Fred is Just slightly bigger thana normal person. Hope that your vid goes well, I'll be watching for updates.

 

[BLACKULA727]

These are coming along very nicely. We will now be able to outfit our 12+ marines properly! Thanks for all your hard work so far!

No problem man, Like I said, I believe in your film and I like your ideas that we talked about. Also, I can't really do to much with these untill the weekend. I plan on using some more magic sculpt to tighten up the lines on it. Hopefully once I do that it will only take one more final pass of glazing or bondo to blend everything and then we can have a decent piece. I would like to start molding next week. I wish I could have been faster for you, I just keep finding things that need to be corrected.

Be good!

-Tony

 

[BLACKULA727]

Updater!

Okay, here is the thigh before molding. Molding starts Monday.

I'll be completing the shoulders tonight and tomorrow in order to have them ready for Monday nights molding session.

Wish me luck...lol

-Tony

 

[BLACKULA727]

OK, tad bit ahead of schedule. Here is the thigh completely covered in Dragon skin. Jacket goes on it monday night and I'll get the shoulder siliconed up too.

 

[BLACKULA727]

Ma again...lol (Sorry for the Tripletacular posting).

So, I stopped being lazy, woke up erarly and did all this before I came in for work.

Prepped Thigh mold

Poured Box mold (Shoulders)

& Dragon Skin fast is so Retard fast, that when I left this morning I had this:

I think I'll pour a couple shoulders for quality control testing, While I wait for the thigh's jacket to cure up later tonight.

Stay tuned!

-Tony

 

[Hyperballistik]

Looks good Tony, Im pulling the first test cast from the helmet mold today, looks like your mold is going to produce nice casts

 

[BLACKULA727]

Looks good Tony, Im pulling the first test cast from the helmet mold today, looks like your mold is going to produce nice casts

Thanks man, I hope so. First time using the dragon skin, but I think I like it, we'll see when I run some casting. Also, good luck on your casting session! I'm sure you will do well.

-Tony

 

[Will Turner]

Dragonskin is my favorite molding compound. I love the ease of use and particularly enjoy Dragonskin quick, you ought to get some good casts out of it

 

[Hyperballistik]

Here is the test cast I just pulled from the helmet mold, this is the first pull, the white one is the original helmet

If you want to read about the build of this helmet and progress pics please go to this threadhttp://www.405th.com/showthread.php/34034-Reach-MKV-A-Helmet-build-4-Genisis-Fan-Film

 

[Will Turner]

That's an awesome cast, are you happy with the results?

 

[Hyperballistik]

That's an awesome cast, are you happy with the results?

Yeah, I just need to grind out some of the fiberglass in the outer shell where the jacket mold is pushing in on the silicone mold, but nothing major and an easy fix, it made pretty much a perfect reproduction of the original, so im happy especially since it is the first mold I have ever made, just hope the film guys like it

 

[Will Turner]

I'm sure they will, would you mind posting up a couple more pics for all of us to enjoy?

I can tell you that I'd love to pay for a cast, looking good!