Hey Guys,

Long time no post. I thought I would finally post some of the assets I created while working on Halo Wars. Most of these are posted on my site, but a couple images aren't. It was a really fun project, and I learned a lot from it. It's a shame Ensemble had to shut it's doors.

As always with stuff like this, the art was created by me (unless otherwise noted), but is property of Microsoft and Ensemble Studios.

You also may notice some weird normal errors on any images with wireframes. That was because the normal map the engine read was slightly different from what Max reads, so there are some errors in those angles that weren't present in the final results.

UNSC Airpad


UNSC Field Armory


ODST Drop pod


UNSC Building Socket


Oni Control Tower


Oni Observation Tower


Arcadia Rail Station


Covenant Methane Refinery


Covenant Methane Storage Tank


Forerunner Hook


Forerunner Light Elevator (I do not believe this asset was in the final release)


UNSC Hawk


UNSC Base Turret


Arcadian Civilian Car

SWEET!
sweet work Josh! Loves me some halo wars!

Great work Josh.

very nice

It's like xmas in here, so many cool goodies. I really love the clean chunky beauty of them all, though the building sprocket takes the gold star, really strong plane work, theres a real layered charm to the piece that many of us try to pull off but rarely does it come out as effortlessly cool as this.

Hey Josh, What were the texture sizes for these.

Love it all man.

oooh sexy stuff : D thanks for the post! lovin the elevator : D

RENS WHERE ARE YOU ?!

Strong work. That smashed car rocks. I got to visit Ensemble and play a QC build of the game a couple of years ago and was amazed at the quality of the artwork even then. I was very sad to hear about the closing.

Thanks for all of the kind words guys, I truly appreciate it!

Salman: The majority of the assets above used One 512x512 set (Diffuse, Normal, Spec). A few of the larger ones used Two 512x512s, and smaller ones would use 128-256. It was a lot of fun and challenging to work with lower res textures. I really learned a lot from that though, that I apply to my work today on higher res textures.

nezach: Thanks man. I remember being quite impressed myself on my first day there. The art went through a lot of iterations throughout production, and each iteration was a positive change. There were certainly a talented bunch of artists at that company!

DUDE, thanks for posting that. Nice artworks instantly put that to inspirationfolder :P

Nice stuff, i'm not a halo fan but these are solid pieces.

Cool stuff Josh, good to see some of the Halowars work out here. Had a lot of fun playing the campaign!! Agreed with Ror, that UNSC Building Socket is fantastic

nice looking scifi there.

So I'm stealing that Socket piece ok?

K thanx bye

LOL!

Beautiful work, the Covenant Methane Refinery is my favorite. Thanks for sharing this with us

Originally Posted by Razorb

oooh sexy stuff : D thanks for the post! lovin the elevator : D

RENS WHERE ARE YOU ?!

IM HERE!! (its funny that the word "halo" was the first thing i noticed when opening this part of the forum)

this really makes me feel all funny inside
will take my time looking over your work man!

allways good to see how things are build up, thanks alot for sharing!

lol, this stuff looks better and higher detail than the bog standard stuff that shipped with Halo 3... Yet its an RTS. Really was let down by Halo 3's art.

Great job on these, they look stunning.

Originally Posted by odium

l Really was let down by Halo 3's art.

hey! you can go too far ;)

really cool work. one of those games I keep meaning to try but haven't got around to it yet

Good work mate! A lot of references here!

sweet!! It's so sad ensemble had to shut the doors. Anyhow, nice work!

Are these still available?

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