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| Re: ANN: Forerunner Terminal Network Archives | |
| Posted By: Capt Spanish <jon.wilcox@gmail.com> | Date: 5/5/08 8:14 p.m. |
In Response To: ANN: Forerunner Terminal Network Archives (Louis Wu) Thanks Louis for that grand introduction and for all your help. To OboeCrazy and her people thank you for providing the videos, they were an invaluable asset and their addition to the archives makes it complete. You guys have widened the scope of my work far beyond what I ever thought it would be. And thank you all for your kind words; I’m glad that you all like them. The Terminal project was most definitely a labor of love for me and was always meant to be for all of you. I consider the Halo Terminals to be works of art. Not just in their amazing content but in their incredible execution. I don’t know the story behind the creation and inclusion of the Terminals in the final cut of Halo 3, but to mehve and all those responsible Thank You. Your labor is appreciated. Your work is beautiful. MY hats off to you. Stunt, you’re more right than you know. This has been a long six months coming. The Forerunner Archives is by no means an exact copy of the Halo Terminals. The text transcripts can be taken as accurate (I even left a double “the” in there, see if you can find it). But I have taken certain liberties with the images and even the interface itself. Think of it more as paint-by-numbers of the Sistine Chapel. The images and icons contained within the Forerunner Archives are an interpretation of what I saw within the Terminals. I’ve made every effort ensure the authenticity of the images, but I am after all only human, and my digital camera’s just not that great. My goal was to try and preserve the spirit of the Terminals. There are two glaring departures from the original Terminals. The Forerunner Archives don’t have the seek feature that is in the originals. (The hex-web that flies by at the beginning and after the error redirection.) And then the Forerunner glyphs that decode the text when you switch between pages. The hex –web was abandoned because I couldn’t find an accurate way of recreating it that wouldn’t have required you to watch it on a supercomputer. Substituting the Forerunner glyphs for a simple @ symbol was a necessary decision I made early on to solve the problem. Prior to this project I hadn’t touched Flash. So the learning curve was/is very high, I’m not a programmer either. At the time I didn’t have access to any hi-resolution images of the Terminals, so I didn’t even know what those glyphs looked like. One of the disadvantages of working in secret. I could only see enough to know that they didn’t repeat. So I went for reproducing the feel, since I couldn’t duplicate it exactly. There you have it... Oh and I’d like to thank my wife for not committing me over this obsession. ~Capt Spanish
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