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Paul Russel

@docabominable

3 years

OH MY GOD. my beloved, Chris Carney, and me, as a baby.

Paul Raynaud

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3 years

@docabominable One of my favorite parts of the Bungie Behind the scenes videos

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 years

Random sketchbook dump 1999: After Halo was picked as a title and the logo design company sent back awful ideas, I did a page of some and gave it to Lorraine, who used some of it to make the final logo. Other sketches of spacesuits; a Mjolnir design; a ship; forerunner ideas.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

Way back in 1999 we had just taken headshots for the marine’s faces in Halo. Great opportunity to have some fun! See who you can spot!

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Paul Russel

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3 years

I’m not sure why I suddenly care about this but Halo would be called Covenant and the Forerunner architecture would be… not great without me. It’s weird, I don’t want to be unsung, anymore. I contributed most of the foundational environment art languages to halo.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

When developing Halo in Chicago, one of the first exterior designs for a forerunner structure I made was based on a Bates model B wire spool stapler my grandfather left me. It was different than the one pictured as the handle cowling on mine exposed the mechanics.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

Heh, I just remembered that the texture I used for the membrane on the flood infection form’s sac in halo was a photo I took of this film that had formed atop Stephen Okasaki’s congealed and moldy cup noodles he left on his desk, it was perfect reference.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

Watching the first episode of Halo was so moving, I felt joy for everyone that ever worked on the games. Seeing @shiekthegeek , @game_fabricator , Eddie Smith, and my work (screenshot is one of my creations, verbatim) onscreen, was indescribable. Grateful.

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

3 years

Listen up! HOW THE NAME “HALO” CAME TO BE:

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@Halo posted this image, yesterday, so I’ll add that I built and textured the flood elite combat form and did the textures and materials for this environment.

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Paul Russel

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1 year

@haileyx24 This kind of division is sad for both Bungie and 343 devs. We all worked really hard to make games that people would hopefully enjoy, many of us are friends. I hope to see more of that kind of energy among the fans. Halo is for everyone, no matter who develops the games. ❤️

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ Hi John! So there might be some misunderstanding and a time lapse. In 2010, one of the reasons I didn’t get the 343 gig was they didn’t want anyone instrumental in the creation of the original game. As far as I know, skilled task specialists were welcome.

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ A lot of years have passed. Of course devs are professional and friendly across studios. Any friction between 343 and Bungie is only between lawyers. There was a very specific team philosophy at 343 that clearly loosened over time. Fans need to stop arguing about this. Seriously.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@thicc3dexe @franklez @bryansbane @evolved117 No, 343 ran with lore developed by Bungie alone. The Forerunners changed for the Halo 3 terminals. I know everyone responsible for that. It was a change that was vetted and approved by Bungie long before 343 was even an idea.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

I know why, to some degree. I didn’t like the idea of putting individual game devs on pedestals, and I still don’t, but I do have a more significant role in these games than many who are… I worked hard and quiet, the guys who liked the spotlight are the ones you still hear from.

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ I have no idea what happened after 2010. I was told “no Bungie people” and the elaboration was what I said above. Specifically they worried about my objectivity regarding the new art direction. This translated to all Bungie’s original creative team. Programming was agnostic.

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Paul Russel

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2 months

I am so not into getting drawn into a conflict that doesn’t exist IRL, or having my words used to prop up one side or the other. With every word I am trying to get everyone to chill out and let it go. No ifs ands or butts. Go pet your dog. Stop using my words as a weapon.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

What else? I put the spines on the back of the hunter. I built all the covenant species and vehicles for the first game plus the flood infection, carrier, and elite. I did a whole bunch of animation back in Chicago. I also built and animated the thornbeast.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

Hey hey hey! Hubba hubba hubba! @haruspis ’ team at 343 have been working around the clock to recover a ton of experiments and concepts that @Bungie had in engine, but never shipped. The suit on the right was designed by @shiekthegeek , built and textured by yours truly.

Chris Aiken

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2 years

@Halo @docabominable so recall that spacesuit art ya showed us! I never knew it got a model! :D

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Paul Russel

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2 years

I have a spartan medic design somewhere, the chest plate would open out with a medical scanner and a surgical tool tray. I’m still looking for that.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

MY SUBJECTIVE OPINION: The way to kill a franchise is to answer questions and world build. Mystery and an intimate perspective is the way I like horror and sci fi. I connect with the everyman. I don’t care about corporations. I don’t want to know how and why Xenos exist.

The Playlist

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3 years

Noah Hawley Says ‘Alien’ TV Series Is A “Reinvention” & Will Focus On Corporations Trying To Create Immortality

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ Dude. I totally hear that. It was a thing that was said to me at the time and I’m not sure what happened even a day after being told that. I actually get it, it also comes down to personality. The original team, me included, were generalists with little to no supervision…

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@haloboy817 No! Please read the whole thread, then my post about not wanting my words twisted into a cudgel. I DO NOT HAVE A SIDE IN THIS AND DO NOT AGREE WITH OR ENDORSE THE USE OF MY WORDS IN THIS CONTEXT. I beg you to delete your post.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@game_fabricator Remember the ONE time we let the player punch open a door and how cool that was? I’m sad we never did that again. Isn’t that weird? I think I made a two node, ten frame animation of a door on the pillar of autumn. Two states and some vertex weighting.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

Hi! In the thread about terminals, I want everyone to know that I’m remembering more things as it goes, and adjusting to new information as it comes up. I may contradict myself slightly from time to time. The truth is a journey as much as a destination. Thanks for your patience!

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 years

Theory: We’re talking about evolutionary timescale. Precursors pick 3 out of 10 Sapiens and advance them as Forerunner. Millions of years go by. Forerunners evolve under Precursors perhaps differently than Sapiens alone. Not all humans are Forerunner, but all Forerunner are human

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

1 year

The game industry must unionize. • Profit sharing, regardless of employment status for credited developers. • A year’s insurance and a year’s salary as part of every severance package. • A preservation of original credits in all future releases/ports/remakes. Retroactively

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 years

FULL DISCLOSURE: Each of these is two faces photoshopped together. 😂

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 months

I was digging through an old folder looking for the thing @jtimberlake signed at Bungie way back when, “where have the years gone?” I haven’t found it, yet. But I found some other stuff you might like. Here are the pre halo name proposals, and an early logo design. More to come…

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

5 months

Let me explain… 😂 I had always wondered about the efficacy of illegible signatures. So I was talking about this when the machine rolled in and said, “for it to be of any value, it should be printed legibly… LIKE THIS!” And I grabbed the paint marker and had my way.

TheFoxEssence

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I Hope This Halo 2 Mountain Dew Pop Machine Is Safe And Sound @docabominable @vicdeleon @game_fabricator @shiekthegeek Who did it miss tagging?

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ Bullheaded, stubborn, confrontational, we mostly did what we wanted, often by brute force. Would you want to hire that if you were building a professional team? It was really about, “are you 100% on board and willing to be a team player?” …

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ Alternatively, hire a really talented team of hungry newcomers and seasoned professionals who want to build their favorite game into something new. If I were Kiki, I would’ve gone that route.

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 years

@cia391 @Halo Oh, yup. I made that model and texture! That wasn’t my design, it was ShiKai’s. We only had four artists at the time, @game_fabricator and I were pulling a lot of weight on environments, vehicles, and characters, @shiekthegeek did 2D concepts, Robt did weapons.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

Holy shit what a night! I’m off to bed. Thanks for being cool, Halo fans!

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@Halopedia There’s a slim chance I may have that 3d model. But it’s going to be some time before I have access to the contents of that drive.

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

3 years

@Designatedkitty When I created the forerunner architectural style, Frank Lloyd Wright was my inspiration for many of the motifs and textural pattern. The devs at 343 know this so I think they paid a great homage to FLW’s sculptural work here.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@C3Sabertooth @thicc3dexe @Halo_VFX @Dat_Jebus My friend who was on the terminal writing team said they’re not a separate species, but a group of early humans who were uplifted by a more advanced civilization.

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Paul Russel

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5 months

Another piece of my art made it into the halo tee vee show!

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@hardtmannn I love this specificity and personal interest! We spent A LOT of time looking at Angkor Wat for inspiration in Chicago, and @game_fabricator definitely revitalized it in Halo 2. We definitely wanted any journey into a forerunner structure to feel like opening a cursed tomb.

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

3 years

Hey, this is kind of about me! Nice video about 343i doing amazing things with the forerunner aesthetic I invented 20 years ago. Boy they’re doing great work. ❤️

John "The" Wilson

@johnthewilson1

3 years

It makes me so happy to see that people are digging the Forerunner art style in this game! As halo fans ourselves we wanted to stay true to the original style. Its a hard style to capture but it really goes to show the talent of the art team!

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@Halo_VFX @shiekthegeek @game_fabricator Absolutely! I wasn’t expecting to see everything we worked on recreated with almost no artistic license! High Charity looks exactly the same as Eddie’s matte painting from Halo2. @shiekthegeek must be so proud right now! #chintestes

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@SpartanSam1337 @thicc3dexe @franklez @bryansbane @evolved117 Damian and I once talked about how interesting it would be to do a panel on the making of the terminals. Not so much to settle these things, alone, but also to discuss the production of a single asset in AAA game development.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@Rythayze I forgot I put these online years ago. It’s missing a couple things, but most of it is here:

Halo3: The Lost City

16 new items · Album by Paul Russel

photos.google.com

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 years

Happy birthday, Marty!

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@game_fabricator , one of my biggest regrets is not putting enough greasy handprints on the glass of the Autumn.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@Yanderose I‘ll tell you why this didn’t happen at Bungie, we were all bummed out about it. Even the people that had to say no. We wanted it, but it’s not just an armor option, that part is easy, but a whole new character animation rig, new animations, weapon proportions, camera height. 1/2

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Paul Russel

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3 years

Hired!

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@game_fabricator Truth Paul sounds like the very serious cousin of Ru Paul.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@franklez @bryansbane @evolved117 You shouldn’t shoulder this, even sarcastically, Frank. We were all there when the change happened for the H3 terminals. I had a big part in getting those in the game, more responsibility lies with me than anyone else because the terminals were on the way to being cut. I pushed.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@SValkiri @Halo Not so much. We showed the infection forms attacking, and indicated how they burrowed their tails in, but honestly, we were lucky to get that much done. We made 90% of that game in nine months, it was insane.

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Paul Russel

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11 months

@NathanFillion The time you stayed with us for a week at Bungie, and drank with us at the Central. You showed us all how to take selfies. Not technically a Firefly memory, but tangental, as it brought you to us!

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Paul Russel

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2 years

My stapler may be floating around Bungie’s offices, still.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

Part of another thread, but bears repeating. Every day away from my Bungie family is a day too many. Miss you. ❤️

Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 years

@lastfire77 @Worthduck101 @LegitimatNoodle SENTIMENTAL NOTE: As an only child, my friends and coworkers at Bungie are the brothers and sisters I never had. Out of everything I experienced there, that’s the most important to me. We are a family. We get together every couple years on my birthday, and it feels like home.

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Paul Russel

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2 months

When I was in my teens to early 20s I used to redesign Daleks, Cybermen, Trek, and Wars… I wanted things I loved to be cooler. If someone had paid me to do it, I would’ve. I know fandom well enough to know people would’ve gone to war over my choices.

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Paul Russel

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2 months

Hey! So, the only reason I’m on this platform is to be available to answer questions relevant to my work on Halo. I ask not to be tagged in any post that isn’t germane to that topic, please. Thank you! Much love!

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@masters1337 I was interested in cantilevers, dynamic angles, the visual tension of drawing the eye along an angle then up, and the tension of these structures balancing on an impossibly small base. Like ship sails, lamps, umbrellas, mixed with Wright motifs, and a little Doug Chaing.

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Paul Russel

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2 months

@Scourg3y @Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ I think devs look at these things more dispassionately than fans. To devs this isn’t a death match between bitter foes. It’s just “you got this? Cool, we’re doing Destiny.” Most creative professionals understand the need to take ownership of something. I used to redesign Daleks.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@evolved117 There were definitely priorities, the terminals were meant to be a nostalgic nod to Marathon. More things get cut from games than end up shipping, I really thought it was cool, so I stayed late a week to make the art assets, and Damian did the coding. But it was IN DANGER before.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@Yanderose My personal opinion about Waypoint locking the threads? I’m livid. 343i should know and do better. There’s no excuse for it.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@Yanderose 2/2 it ended up looking like a butterfly effect that would’ve effected design, art, animation, production. With the small team and limited time, we had to jettison the idea. It sucked, and we felt bad every time we had to punt the idea.

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Paul Russel

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1 year

@cgbarrett CE has bugged me from the beginning because Chief is running away from the action. I had proposed making the cover art a closeup of his helmet, with the covenant attack on him reflected in his visor. I have several cover art mockups from CE and 3.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@DecepticonCobra Bungie was VERY split on this. There were two teams, 1) the 1,200 PAGE SCRIPT for Halo 2; 2) make a fun to play game with no deep lore. The big quote going around was “pac man doesn’t have a backstory.” Games weren’t yet about storytelling.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@scifi_fan_kat Well that’s disappointing. We made these games to bring people together to have fun, this doesn’t seem like fun to me, and a super surreal bar to set. Sorry you’re experiencing this.

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2 years

@jpansparkq Nooo! Bungie totally wanted the terminals! We didn’t initially have time or resources to get them in. I was asked if I wanted to help and jumped in. Frank, Damian, Robt, Stokes, Bertone, Jaime, and even Jones contributed to the writing of the terminals. All vetted by management.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@game_fabricator @TheReverendJim I remember thinking, because we always had an absolutely crazy deadline for 12 people, “how the heck are we gonna pull this off?” I think we had three trees, and a whole lot of terrain. Remember that massive tree? Like, a no man’s sky random terrain generator would’ve saved work.

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Paul Russel

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1 year

@haileyx24 Thank you for the mention! Marty and I had a lot of really great conversations about the integration of music and architecture as environmental storytelling, and how he approached scoring environments.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@RocketElijah We never talked about Doom. The only game we did talk about was Marathon, in terms of alien design. The architectural stuff came together slowly. Back I’m Chicago we had weird alien plants, but once we got to Seattle, Marcus fell in love with cedars.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

@joestaten @leslee_annsh That was pretty much my rationalization for the Bungie whiteboards.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

I want something bigger than me. My friends have a lot to add, whether they want the exposure or not. The exposure helps with validity. The story won't be told until everyone tells their story. One can’t solve a crime with one witness, the truth lies in the common parts of many.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@C3Sabertooth @franklez @bryansbane @evolved117 Oh boy is that wrong. Bungie’s halo was a continual clusterfuck of making shit up as we went along. Hell, I wrote shit that ended up in the games. Email brain farts that Joe liked. Please, if you weren’t there, DO NOT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED OR WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE.

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@AshKi54 @Unyshek @SB3forever1 @Mr_Rebs_ I don’t know, I don’t feel like I’m on the defensive here, and neither should he. I get what he’s saying. And there are things I’m probably wrong about. I’m willing to explore that. There isn’t any competition or dispute happening. We’re all trying to understand each other.

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@jpansparkq There were five people involved with the terminals. The reason why they shipped is because I thought they were cool enough to work extra hours to model and animate them, create the font, and work with Damian to make it all work right. They were on the chopping block.

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2 years

@Adorabirb Bungie might have them. I was only able to keep a tiny percentage of my own work. I have these sketchbooks because they’re my personal books. If I had done these in photoshop, Bungie would’ve never let me keep a copy.

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2 years

@jpansparkq @franklez @bryansbane @evolved117 A lot of this should highlight the loose relationship Bungie had with its own lore. Remember, we retconned Fall of Reach because collectively, the studio HATED the book. We just did what felt right, and every story decision happened on the fly. Rules were there, but flexible.

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@thicc3dexe @Halo_VFX @C3Sabertooth @Dat_Jebus From what I have gathered by talking to people involved offline: The game and terminal writers were separate teams with overlap; they didn’t think the discrepancy would matter; management vetting never read or cared about continuity; morning bagels were more important than canon.

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Paul Russel

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3 years

Today I explain NFTs:

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2 years

I don’t think about these things very often, so it’s like cracking open a storage unit and rummaging through dusty boxes to find smaller ones within. As I contribute to the thread I find myself saying “oh yeah!” a lot.

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2 years

@pizzaparker62 @Winterscale1482 @MakirMakino @SValkiri @Halo We had fun most days. There was always time for tomfoolery. I remember the day Jaime made some tweaks that made the game fun for the first time, I think right before content complete, he shouted, “HALO IS GONNA MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS!”

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@sarahcjohnson I was at a film festival having a lousy day, sitting outside the theater, and @scottEmovienerd was walking past. He stopped, walked back and said “hey, you ok, man?” I had no idea who he was, but his first instinct was to help. Person and Persona are distinctly different things.

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@loriabanole I interviewed with 343, but they were reticent to hire Bungie people. Also, full disclosure, my presentation wasn’t great. No one at Bungie wanted to make halo after CE. Bungie was asked to do halo forever, which was why the split happened.

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Paul Russel

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@TheIshikawaRin There are a lot of hands on that one! @Isaac_Hannaford did the adaptation for Reach, Eddie Smith designed the original, the execution was great!

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3 years

Hey hey hey!

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@pizzaparker62 @Winterscale1482 @MakirMakino @SValkiri @Halo We’re all a bunch of nerdy game devs that lived in a cave, getting off a tour bus to lines a mile long and screaming fans. Getting celebrity visits was weird enough, but this was surreal. We were signing autographs, people were crying, it was not in our job description, heh.

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Paul Russel

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@Aegis_Mind @Himjamin777 @MartyTheElder So when we switched, we all put a piece of tape with a dot on it in the center of our screens until someone made a reticule. Bungie didn’t talk to Microsoft until ‘00. That all happened really fast. They made no suggestions about gameplay. We got no directives from them.

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Oh! I didn’t have room to add: • credited devs should get a cut of related merchandise, books, toys, soundtracks, in perpetuity, regardless of employment status. • royalties for public exhibition in things like esports or movies and tv.

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@drniol The Drinol designed by @shiekthegeek and originally built by yours truly back in 1999, back when Halo was in the Marathon universe!

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Paul Russel

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2 years

@JulianHartinger 😂 No. Almost every spacesuit I’ve ever drawn since the 80s has been influenced by Moebius’ work on Alien. Was honored to sit next to him at dinner at Comic-Con in 2006. Some of his work for that film:

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Paul Russel

@docabominable

2 years

@game_fabricator might remember this structure. It lived in the old engine very briefly.

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Paul Russel

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1 year

@covert_ops_47 @haileyx24 I do understand that feeling. I see you. @haileyx24 I hope you don’t see my reply as a rebuke in any way. As a general observation, I’d prefer to see both fandoms meet as one.

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@Aegis_Mind @Himjamin777 @MartyTheElder We always had a first person mode, just no reticule or weapon, Jason had switched to fps while we were playing 3rd person and he smoked everyone. That’s when he yelled that. The change from rts to 3rd person probably happened shortly before I interviewed, maybe late summer ‘98.

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@C3Sabertooth @Dat_Jebus I don’t remember. I wouldn’t give Joe too much power here, either. He had to go through the same approval process as everyone else. Making games is a democracy. Joe wasn’t the keeper of the lore, that was a collective effort. He wouldn’t have been able to do anything.

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@LateNightHalo @lord_duxin @Halo @officialKingIce @32nds It wasn’t just Jaime and I, it’s everyone in the industry who has ever endured crunch. It’s a novel experience the first time, and one feels a little bit hardcore, but after a couple more times you wonder why time management isn’t better prioritized so that crunch never happens.

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@C3Sabertooth @Dat_Jebus See, Marcus had said “him or me” after H2, and Bungie chose Marcus. They put Joe out to pasture to chill, kept him on the payroll to write Contact Harvest, out of the loop.

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@crisperstorm Nice observation!

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@pizzaparker62 @Winterscale1482 @MakirMakino @SValkiri @Halo Seeing those lines felt really good, like we all accomplished what we wanted, we did something that brought joy. That’s a good feedback loop. We should all lean on the positive. (A message as much to myself, as anyone else)

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@docabominable

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@Rythayze My versions of the forerunner cities on the ark had them living in small apartments with a flat societal hierarchy, big courtyards and parks, market stalls, and open air amphitheaters. All part of a single megastructure, repeated around the center. Wilderness was off limits.

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@JustPlants31 @haileyx24 That’s the hard part, letting go of our own urge to win. We can’t change others, but we can change ourselves, and sometimes that means taking stock of whether or not taking place in these fights is healthy for us, or accomplishing anything. In the end, what brings YOU peace?

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@Adorabirb @cia391 @Halo @game_fabricator @shiekthegeek Nah. It was supposed to be a pressure suit for longsword pilots, only seen in cutscenes, I think. We were just throwing interesting ideas in. There was never any master plan for anything in Halo, we made everything up as we went along.

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@C3Sabertooth @Dat_Jebus I think that another way to look at it is that Joe was on “administrative leave” when he wrote the book, and wasn’t in the studio during much of H3. He honestly had no position at Bungie at the time and wasn’t privy to what was happening with the terminals while writing the book.

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@StrikeAxl Marty! I love him for unexpected reasons. Most love his music, as they should, but I love him most because of his empathy and humor. He and I sat and talked, sometimes fought, over very important things of personal and professional. As “ombudsman” he was always there for me.

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@InnominateTM @DecepticonCobra I don’t think anyone won. The fight caused a lot of internal tension and kept us from finishing the game, because story demands assets, assets take time to create, and while managers and producers debated with story and design, production halted. I’m relieved the game did well.

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