Halo 5 Guardians: Beta Nightfall
The original model, which mine is based on, was created by Josh Harvey (https://www.artstation.com/beefbyproducts) I'm very thankful for Josh's assistance in providing me additional reference material of the model to aid my project.
This Beta Nightfall project has been in the works for roughly 2 years, which is a substantial amount of time given the project, but I was juggling grade 11 & 12 at the same time so that substantially hindered my ability to dedicate time towards the project.
Given the amount of time, I spent meticulously crafting this model, it feels surreal for me to be finished with it as I have dedicated so much time to it over the past two years. When I started on this project, it was well out of my capable skills, which actually resulted in me having to start all over again after about 6 months into my first attempt, as the quality I was hoping to achieve wasn't quite there.
Though all the modelling, UVs, texturing, rigging, and weighting was done on my own, I am immensely grateful towards a handful of people in which supported throughout the duration of this project and provided invaluable feedback to me so that I could achieve the best results possible.
A huge thank you to the following people who helped and supported me throughout the entirety of this project (in no particular order):
Josh Harvey (https://www.artstation.com/beefbyproducts)
Abimael Salazar (https://twitter.com/AbiSV1)
José Connolly (https://www.artstation.com/ratdadjoe)
Joshua Ezzell (https://www.artstation.com/ezzellvfx)
Vin Gattuso (https://twitter.com/VincentGat)
Justin Guerrero (https://twitter.com/danger_wasp?lang=en)
Kevin Anderson (https://twitter.com/BossVeteran134?s=20)
Tillice (https://twitter.com/_Tillice_)
Lysander (https://twitter.com/Lysanders_Cry)
MonkeyRebel117 (https://twitter.com/MonkeyRebel117)
Reidawen (https://www.deviantart.com/reidawen)
HP viewport model
Wire + AO
I was very proud of the topology I managed to achieve on the leg armour, they were a relatively complicated design, took me roughly a week to complete.
Detail separation
Pose inspired by some of the first previews made of the armour back in 2014 (https://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141111162455/halo/images/1/18/H5GMB_Armor_Nightfall.png)
Nightfall - Warehouse Animation
Ambient occlusion render of warehouse (Design inspired by Paul Campion https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lVL3mz)
Additional composition of my favourite frame from the warehouse animation
Loopable turntable (inspired by an initial preview of the model back in 2014 https://youtu.be/nFRpz9Kf4xs?t=24)
Render courtesy of Josh Ezzell (https://www.artstation.com/ezzellvfx)
Render courtesy of Vin Gattuso (https://twitter.com/VincentGat)
Reference board, some renders of the original HP model generously provided to me by Josh Harvey (https://www.artstation.com/beefbyproducts)
2 Years worth of production in a single image (all out of order)