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1. Re: The Environment Art of Halo 4

   

   Reply by King Mango · May 31 2026 · Home› Articles

   I've been getting back into texture work and am always interested in reading ANYTHING about HALO art. Even this old stuff! :) I noticed one of the screenshots, https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/polycount/halo4/m80a.jpg REALLY reminded me of DOOM 3 and I checked and sure enough Kenneth Scott was a senior art director on…

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   Reply by Lucas Annunziata · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   Phenomenal work! Halo is what originally made me want to pursue a career in games, and all this new work is super inspirational. Congrats to all the artists at 343 and their contractors! WOOOO!!!

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   Reply by Autocon · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   Phenomenal work guys. Playing through the game now, beautiful work. Really dose the Halo world justice, cant wait to see what you guys have instore next!

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   Reply by reneemars · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   AMAZING work.

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   Reply by matt luxton · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   awesome work!

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   Reply by R00 · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   Mind blowing work guys and thank you so much for the breakdown! :)

7. The Environment Art of Halo 4

   

   

   Topic by adam · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   Do we ever have a treat for you. Some members of the amazingly talented environment art team over at 343 Industries have put together an article on creating the environment art for one of the largest releases in video game history - Halo 4. This article was written by the artists at 343 Industries - not us - specifically…

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   Reply by A-Train · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   Awestruck!! Such beautiful work. It's inspiring stuff. The team at 343 should be really proud :)

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   Reply by MeintevdS · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

   Battle of the best art dumps/info dumps has begun! Nice to see so many studios/employees/artists sharing their work/experiences!

10. Re: The Environment Art of Halo 4

    

    Reply by dtschultz · Nov 2012 · Home› Articles

    "The majority of the game was lit statically using a baked-in lightmap method. This static lighting solution allowed us to achieve very realistic lighting results with full global illumination and ambient occlusion. A specular term extracted from baked spherical harmonics helped bring out the forms in the modeling work and…