HALO: CE’S LOST STORY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
03:02 - Pillar of Autumn I
07:20 - Pillar of Autumn II
10:40 - Pillar of Autumn III
14:01 - Interlude
15:06 - x40
19:27 - x50
25:38 - Interlude
26:46 - x60
31:46 - Interlude
32:07 - x70p1
34:08 - Interlude
35:35 - x70p2
36:47 - Interlude
38:29 - x70p3
42:12 - Conclusion
Original Storyboard Artist, Lee Wilson (IMDB):
www.imdb.com/name/nm1844307/
Download the storyboards and more!:
www.c3sabertooth.com/halo1sto... - เกม
Frag blast the vent core. Nice.
Joe, Lee, and I should do a commentary version of this.
Also, I think I still have all the storyboards and scripts laying around someplace. I’m sure Lee has them too.
Oh and Spark thinks MC is a “Reclaimer” which is why he assumed he already knew.
Marty, you’re the man!
A legend has entered the room*
Please do a dev commentary on halo 3 like you guys did with halo 1 and 2. Those videos are awesome!
Marty PLEASE
I need to start saving everything about my life like you do. I’m impressed that you’ve kept so much of what you’ve done over the years. I just lose everything.
Marty O'Donnell brought me here. He said you deserved more subs. He is wise. You do. Was not disappointed. Nice job bud. Seriously. I'm sharing this.
I'm only a few minutes in but duuuuuuuuuuuude... HOLY SHIT this is incredible, I cannot imagine the amount of time this must've taken with all the individual frame masking, transitions, audio syncing etc. Absolutely incredible and more than iconic!
Indeed this is more than just I C O N I C
Maybe you could share it as a community post HiddenXperia - it could really help him out. I think he deserves it don’t you?
There’s nothing _more_ than iconic.
Xperia dont tell me you never saw these
Dude I love marty he brings light to a lot of these small channels thats how I got here
Nice job! That's quite a project that you took on. I am Lee Wilson, and yes I did do the storyboards for Halo 1, 2, and 3. Halo 1 were all on paper like traditional movie shooting boards. Halo 2's story went through a lot of changes and so I ended up doing them in a comic panel style, since we weren't in a place to do shooting boards. Halo 3' boards I did in color to work out the lighting and inform my final cinematic lighting. By Halo: Reach, I was directing the story and cinematics, so they were mostly scribbles and notes in various notebooks. It's certainly a trip down memory lane, and I little tough to look at some of my old artwork.
What?! These storyboards are AMAZING! It was damn near effortless to translate your drawings into animatic form. I’ve exclusively used computer tablets when making storyboards myself, and despite having that advantage I _still_ couldn’t hope to make boards half as fluid as yours. I know you’re probably about two decades past caring to hear this, but sincerely - great work.
Although comic-style storyboards would undoubtedly be more difficult to translate into an animatic, I’d love to give it a shot!
Seriously, send me whatever you still have. I’d happily take your _Reach_ scribbles.
@@C3_SABERTOOTH that's very high praise, thank you. You're clearly a very talented artist and animator.
You'll be pleased to know that your work on this has inspired me to rummage through my old stuff and start an artstation page to post some of it. I threw most of my old storyboards out long ago. Back then they were all on paper and that stuff would mount up. I also lived in NYC and storage space was limited. I do have a bunch of stuff on a hard drive somewhere and I'm pretty sure I have the H2 boards. The Halo Reach ones are scribbled notes mostly. I'll post a selection at some point and you will see that they are not worthy of an animatic.
@@dangerousonion That's incredibly exciting news for the entirety of the Halo community, thank you so so much, Lee!!!
@@dangerousonion Yesss! I’m looking forward to it!
@@C3_SABERTOOTH I uploaded all the Halo 2 boards I had to my new artstation thingy. There's a ton of them. I think the ones with X in the name are the version that shipped, the rest are from earlier drafts. Have fun! dangerousonion.artstation.com/
I've always had the impression that it was called 'Two Betrayals' because, from their perspective, both Chief (because 343 wants to use Halo to snub all life in the galaxy to stop the Flood) and Spark (because Chief ultimately doesn't go through with the 'plan') are 'betrayed'.
Yeah, that was my thought too. Admittedly I think his theory is probably true in regards to the origin of the name, but I never really questioned it because it still kinda made sense (at least in an abstract way).
Exactly. I have thought this to be the very obvious understanding since I was 5 fucking years old. It's called Two Betrayals because from Guilty Spark's perspective he got betrayed and from Chief's perspective he got betrayed.
SIMPLE!
Halo has a growing history of covenant drop ships accidentally flying backwards in cutscenes
This reminded even more of 'Aliens' than the final game did. It's also interesting how this explains why there's a massive gap in the pillar of autumn connected by a tiny bridge due to the damage. We see the massive gap where the ship was split in half in the storyboard.
HOLY SHIT. I know I’m late but fuck man that makes so much sense
I can just see the 90’s feeling in the cutscene’s style.
Phenomenal vibes. 90's sci fi is just... chef's kiss!
So the final level of Halo 1 was going to end just like the game began. In a sense, it was like poetry, sort of. They rhymed. Every stanza rhymed with the last one.
It was gonna be great.
Found George's hidden TH-cam account
One could even say the plot of Halo could have come...full circle... 🙄
The sentinels are pretty useless, john halo cuts them down like butter.
The trilogy ended like it began... Also 117 likes on your comment, not gonna ruin it
I've sent this to Lee and asked him about it, great video! This deserves a huge amount of views
How is it that everyone in this community is so well connected? Thank you very much!
@@C3_SABERTOOTH Linkedin ;) And i work in the same industry which helps
Man, you can tell that Bungie's ambitions were sky-high even back then with just how cinematic these cutscenes would have been if it weren't for the technological limitations at the time.
Dude wtf this was an incredible video to watch. The effort must had been INSANE.
Marty O Donnel apparently still has the original Halo 2 script and even the voice acting for it I believe. He's been pretty active lately so if we have any shot of getting it now is the time.
I love the greater emphasis on the Marines in awe around the chief and the helplessness. Characters like Johnson obviously boost morale but the feeling these guys are shaken up is much stronger
Damn, now I really wished they brought back that "This war has enough dead heroes" line at some point, either near the end of the game or in another game, like when Chief rescued Cortana in Halo 3. I also like how Reach added a lot more weight to that line. Amazing work, I can't imagine how hard making all this had to have been, you're doing the Lord's work
Its crazy how actually Halo was gods own personal anti son of a bitch machine.
I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this video. The animation quality, the attention to detail, your take on the progression between the storyboard pieces, the intro and outro notes for each cutscene, all of it.
Mighty fine work, and I hope this video gets more traction. I’ll certainly be spreading this around.
Dude! I wish I had seen your 1749 breakdown before I posted this!
Remember how, in the beta, you can see Guilty Spark and a couple sentinels leaving the cryo chamber when you enter? I think these storyboards have an answer for that little oddity.
Also in your breakdown, you point out how the “fire control officer” has no dialogue in the Autumn’s bridge, while in the concluding notes of x20, I posit that it was actually _Cortana_ who had no lines prior to the officer’s speaking.
I think we’re both correct, and we’re seeing the exchange as it evolved over time. I’m guessing the Fire Control Officer originally addressed the dialogue to “sir” rather than “ma’am,” which is why they needed a Bungie employee to re-record the line.
@@C3_SABERTOOTH yeah I was thinking about my analysis during those scenes. The fact Spark didn’t have a name during story boarding was also, somewhat, another reminder for me consider his name in 1749, which was compiled in August 15th, 2001, was “342 Guilty Spark” before Jason requested it to be 343 instead. Spark’s name was practically made up last minute.
@@TheVengefulVadam Think you could send me the audio files for that version of the game? I’m curious if any of the deleted dialogue is relevant to these animatics.
7:13 Actually, Cortana was purple in Halo 2 as well. It was only in Halo 3 she looked more blue. In both Anniversary games, she is indeed blue due to using her Halo 3 hologram and a similar design to her Halo 4 one respectively.
shamelessly admitting i used to scour the bungie sites back in middle school when halo CE and 2 were still fresh and...I printed out a lot of these storboards cause i thought they were cool
...yes i taped them to my walls. I was a nerdy kid.
I think the level was called "Two Betrayals" because Cortana was actually intended to become overwhelmed with power and knowledge after integrating with the Control Room. The developers mention this in CE's Developer Commentary but it is possible that they were simply joking around.
343: "Write that down, write that down..."
The way I interpreted it, was that they planned for Cortana to go mad with power but then some relationship drama happened between a dev and their partner that made the plot point feel a little too personal. The way they discuss it in the commentary makes it seem like both poking fun at the trope-yness of it as well as poking fun at one of the Bungie devs.
How about combining the lines: "No, the protocol is clear. No more dead heroes.
...
I'll yank you real good."
Unfortunately, that’d require the Master Chief speaking more than 5 words in a row. Which is impossible.
@@C3_SABERTOOTH Not in the 343 games! Chief be spittin generic military jargon like he's Spark on Adderall...
I'm not usually phased by the Flood, but that storyboard art for the parasite's introduction legitimately freaked me out. Really loved the editing overall, and you made the Flood look like the terrifying force it should be. Awesome job! :)
I actually saved making that cutscene for last because I wanted to get it right. Glad you appreciated it!
This has so much unapologetic badass style from early 2000's. I miss the focus on Marines, the quirky quips, chief's 80's action hero attitude. This is what made Halo what it is.
The forerunners being human and the lost cinematics of Halo 2 were absolutely perfect IMHO. This is what we all fans miss and what 343 will never understand.
Not sure how many people actually understand the work put into these videos (animation takes a hell of a lot of time and effort). I'm not joking when I say your format and presentation is some of the best I've ever seen. I highly respect it and your knowledge of halo.
I busted a gut laughing when I saw the caveman.
Overall, excellent work. It's great to finally know what that missing cutscene before the Silent Cartographer could have been. You have some slick animation, which is probably why you saw so much potential in these storyboards. No way a guy like me could have extracted so much detail out of them.
You could say these are some nice "CUTscenes".
Jokes aside awesome work, really cinematic. This would be amazing in a modded version of the game, because the modern tools could actually pull these amazing cutscenes of.
This will go down in Halo history forever, great work man!
Seeing this put to audio and motion really shows the vision Jason Jones & crew had for this game once they'd crystalized the details in such a way that the art books never could. This is Halo .5!
I'd love to see Halo 0 one day, those bonkers RTS and TPS builds lol!
This is really high quality dude
& ur a high quality dude
I wish this quality had been used for aniversary.
I know I am late to the party here, but I was under the impression it was called two betrayals because Master Chief thought that Guilty Spark lied and tricked him into almost firing the rings, acting as an ally the entire way (betrayal one), while Guilty Spark allied with a Reclaimer to do his job only to have this Reclaimer backstab him last minute with this construct that was illegally input into the core (betrayal two).
That’s really the only interpretation that makes sense!
"No...the Protocol is clear."
This is such a fitting one liner for MC I can almost hear it.
Given that in the game’s files Chief is referred to as “Cyborg” your second possibility for the MK-VIII is probably the right one
Vengeful Vadam confirmed this to me! There’s actually audio files in the 1749 beta referring to him as an “M.K. 8!”
36:54 “The protocol is clear” is legit a perfect one liner
Crazy to imagine what this game would have looked like if they had the tech when it was made. I know storyboards are always more detailed then the final product, but that opening sequence with keys and chief with all the reflections and shit, that would look so cool on todays gen games
Apparently, there was one scrapped idea where Cortana would go mad with power while in the Control Room, and become the Chief's enemy. Don't know when this idea sprang up, but 343i later salvaged it to create the "Created" storyline in Halo 5.
Chief shooting that Floodster at the end was a solid touch. The parasite paused when faced with the awesome might of a CE pistol, and no doubt "Blow Me Away" was the last thing running through its mind.
I think the original design for 343 Guilty Spark and his Sentinels in this version are supposed to be either a reference or a holdover of the design of the S'pht Compilers from the Marathon games, since they very closely resemble them, albeit oriented with the length of their body parallel to the ground rather than the vertical orientation of the Compilers. The Compiler design was also somewhat referenced/reused for the cut Guardian Sentinel enemy from Halo 3.
I always assumed the first betrayal was denying the monitor the index/firing the ring
And the second betrayal to be guilty turning hostile/'lying' to us about the ring killing the flood and omitting that all sentinel life would die.
“But you already knew that. I mean, how couldn’t you?”
I suppose each party may feel “betrayed,” but neither the Master Chief nor Guilty Spark intentionally misled the other!
You are probably right, though. That’s the only interpretation that makes sense.
Honestly, I would've liked the cutscene in-between "Truth and Reconciliation" and "Silent Cartographer." The crowd of marines would've given a sense of scale of the number of marines that Keyes had to work with since we aren't sure of how many survived long enough to get to the surface of the ring in the actual game.
"Effecting repair sequence now." Oh god, that was so funny. Thank you so much for animating the 343 battle part!
Glad someone appreciated it!
[HAPPY MARINE NOISES]
You've got some real talent dude. Liked and subbed.
I kind of wish the actual game’s cutscenes were this in-depth. Obviously a lot of the stuff in these scenes changed because of technical limitations but this seems like a way cooler version of the actual cutscenes. The Keyes speech preceding The Silent Cartographer would have been awesome
I am beyond happy that you made this available for Halo fans. Thank you for taking on such a difficult task in order for us to enjoy these storyboards!
While this is awesome, I would love to see a "cinematic cut" where you play out all the cutscenes without slides or commentary (though I did pause and read them all! Fascinating stuff!)
That was my original intention but I felt like a fair amount had to be explained in order to enjoy them! I’m happy to make a cinematic cut now, however.
Out of curiosity, what do you think of the occasional subtitles? Think I should remove them for a “cinematic cut?”
Love, love, LOVE this! Thank you for adding so much more depth to my favorite and most played campaign of all time. Hopefully some Bungie folks see this and get you what you need to do this for Halo 2 and 3.
I’m so happy you enjoyed it! Here’s hoping!
I like to imagine the spirit was positioned like that so they wouldn't be shot down by friendly forces. Which is why the longswords didn't shoot them down immediately.
Re: the spirit's flying direction, I am like 99% sure there is dev commentary or an interview somewhere where it was stated that it was originally intended to fly how it's shown in the storyboards but it got turned around in game by mistake. I know for a fact I've read that before... Anyways, I left a much longer, and more interesting comment, on your Halo 2 Part 2 video which I am interested in your thoughts on!
Seeing the x40 cut-scene, I really wish Bungie would have found a way to leave it in. It's cool to see how the survivors of the Pillar of Autumn come to regroup and conduct a guerrilla war against the Covenant presence on the ring. It drives the point that they are desperate determined human survivors and not just an endless stream of Marines being dropped off at various parts of the game.
Why not ask Marty O'Donnell about the stuff you were unsure about when making this video he literally knows everything
He probably didn't want to bug Marty too much, which is the right thing to do. While developers will sometimes be polite and answer questions about the development of a game, there have been occasions where fans went overboard and developers ceased communicating with everyone.
"Lifeboat 68"
You're telling all this time they were one off from the funny number
26:27 you had me fooled for a second
i have rewatched the 'we were forerunner' video twice and listened to it about 3 or 4 times now.
and i was like "wow this video is edited really well."
but seriously, its really stunning to see how much work effort and time mustve been put into a video like this and this was two years ago and youve kept the qualitye to the videos that have been released.
initially it was like, oh wow cool videos. but more so now than i realized before - holy shit this is simply amazing. you should be very proud
WhAT? Halo: Combat Evolved content in 2020 and ALSO that's at such high quality? I can't think of anything that hasn't been said already in the comments other than you are worth my subscription to your channel.
Outstanding effort you made with this, thank you.
Amazing video.
At 15:21 I'm pretty sure the bungie team have said a few times that Halo: CE originally had 25 missions, which was cut down to the released 10 due to time and budget constraints. You had said you think the scene was due to a deleted scene rather than the stated deleted level, but I wouldn't assume he misspoke right away. The referenced scene might have just been part of a larger mission. I'd assume one of the last missions brought to the cutting room floor since it ended up with a storyboard where most of the other 15 cut missions didn't.
Thank you so much!
I feel like I know a lot about Halo, but I have never heard that Halo: CE originally had 25 missions! Are you sure about this?
Not sure if anyone has brought it up yet, but Lee Wilson just a few hours ago dropped the Halo 3 storyboards at www.artstation.com/artwork/B1ewzm I’d love to see your take on these, though they’ve got significantly less direction to them on a frame by frame basis.
THE MADLAD ACTUALLY DID IT
I really wish the x40 cutscene had made it into the game. It’s a level of world building I craved when playing it.
That was so damn cool!
I remember a story board on B net with Johnson holding a "heavy weapon" during the intro cutscene, SPV3 made an attempt to re add that idea in. But it is noticeably absent from these 1999 boards, perhaps it was added in 2000 and cut out last minute?
Do you have a link to this image? I’m not aware of it and would love to see!
@@C3_SABERTOOTH Alright, I just did a few minutes of digging and I was totally wrong! They way you cut X10-19 barely makes the "huge weapon" viewable. But I did find some interesting things you may enjoy!
starting off from a 2008 post www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/1194813?sort=1&page=4
we're led to a super old Bungie website that's archived -
It's their official newsroom from 2003! Maybe some Bungie guys can comment?
web.archive.org/web/20030428061216/www.bungie.net/perlbin/blam.pl?file=/site/1/site/halo/features/storyboards01.html
So it seems like at one time Bungie had all there storyboards neatly arranged for us to view, super weird it turned into the jumbled mess today. Sorry if that kind of pops your bubble, I was not expecting to find that archive at all!
Also, about four years ago Masterz1337 put together the X10 cutscene (much cruder than yours of course)
th-cam.com/video/t6kSDLEmDE4/w-d-xo.html
I can't stand him personally, but he does know a lot about those early days of Halo
These links may or may not come in handy for your fact finding endeavors, good luck on your future projects!
halostory.bungie.org/resources.html
web.archive.org/web/20170902152320/halo.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27197879
Ah I think the original halo newsroom died because Matt Soell left in 2003
Honestly I kinda find it interesting how much pull and respect Keyes had over the people on the Pillar of Autumn that simply by standing at a large piller he was immediately able to get everyone to stand at formation and listen to give an epic Lord of the Rings or Dune styled speech over the entire army simultaneously.
I have no doubt that he was well respected and a major figure during the conflict on Installation 04 but man when was the last time you saw a US general do that?
There it is, Dustin Echos! We gotta go back and save him!
Subscribed because of how much effort you put into animating guilty spark, he is one of my favorites and that was absolutely impressive.
For reasons that I can't entirely explain, I think he's my favorite character, too.
I really felt that when he said [[insert badass one-liner here]]
So this is where Blur got the backwards flying dropship from lol
I just realised in the 1739 early release of CE that leaked a while back Spark DOES briefly appear in the cyro bay during The Maw, being escorted by sentinels, which doesn't make sense if he's already in engineering.
This is incredibly high quality, great work dude!
"Next to nobody is actually going to pause the video to read this." -C3 I paused and read the slides did some other look ups like watched the Macworld trailer and the E3 2000 trailer. But I did in fact cringe.
“The most authentic _Halo_ experience possible.”
fml
Dude this is like the smoothest animation I’ve seen, great video!
Great video homie, it’s easy to see the passion that went into this and I hope more people end up seeing this :)
bruh this is fantastic, amazed at how much effort you put into this. ez sub.
This is such an amazing video. I haven't seen an animation explaining something that well like this one. You got one fan! :)
This absolutely insane and so awesome to see this stuff brought to light and presented in such a thorough and high quality way. Great work!
Absolutely fantastic work. The recomposition as well as the analysis was amazing. Thank you for this.
This is crazy, I can’t imagine how much work you had to put into this. Easy sub from me :)
The amount of work you must have put into this is insane. Watching these animatics has invoked some real nostalgia in me for Halo. Thanks for your hard work.
This was amazing, the storyboards and this video!
Now that's some dedication for Halo that I love from the community!
Truly extraordinary work you have on display here!
The amount of effort that went into this video is insane. This is so good
Absolutely amazing video! Quite insightful and funny to boot.
Installation 00 sent me, and wow... This was amazing. Really great work here. Thank you for bringing this to the Halo community. Subbed.
Also I'll go with A) "the protocol is *clear* ."
I feel obligated to sub now after this masterpiece of a video.
This is amazing. It’z beautiful that you did all of this.
Incredible work! Many thanks for bringing attention to this little-known piece of Halo history.
Hey mate, I have to say that I haven't enjoyed a Halo related video as much as this one in a long, long time, if ever. I love everything you did and I have to say that you absolutely nailed it! That deleted scene of the backward flying spirit you animated and set music / voice to was nothing but pure joy for me. Well done! Really keen to see more if you're up for making them / get sent further storyboards/scripts.
LEE WILSON HAS RELEASED THE HALO 2 BOARDS!
And yeah and super down to make more!
As someone who lives and breathed Halo for so much of my childhood, it blows my mind that I’m still learning new things left of the cutting room floor. I’m just mad it took me 3 years to find this vid!
Glorious work done here
This was amazing. Thank you for all your hard work!
This is crazy awesome! Even Marty shared this! I liked and subbed :)
Really cool man! Great work!
This was fantastic bro
SUCH a good video, fucking hell mate the effort that went into this.
What a gorgeous rendition, thanks for making it!
You are very talented at your craft, by the way.
Thanks, Elena! I've got a number of similar Halo 2 videos coming out now, if you're interested!
the editing in these videos are professional level!!
Only 7 minutes in so far, but oh my GOD this is so incredibly polished???? I'm absolutely in love with your editing style dude, this is super super cool!!
37 minutes in now, option B is my favorite personally :)
Outstanding work!
Amazing work. Love how the covenant dropships fly backwards in this.
Dude your job its amazing, i just came here bc a in the coment section of vengeful vadamm someone mentioned you, so i had to see ... keep it up!
Thank you! I’m happy to hear people are talking about me!
Awesome stuff!! Thank you for your effort :)
This was really cool, especially the X40 cut and X70 changes
Really good stuff
The amount of time, effort, and dedication needed to make this video is absolutely off the charts. It’s a privilege to watch it. I sincerely mean that.
Why am I just now finding out about this and WHY doesn't it have more recognition?? Amazing work!
Thanks! SHARE IT TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
Good job. THe quality of the content deserves a lot more views. TH-cam algorithm sucks
This work is PARAMOUNT, thank you.
Nice job man, honestly my respect to you