Protector

This is one of the rare instances where the person who commissioned me and I are on the exact same wavelength. For a long time, I'd been meaning to do something like this, so when this person commissioned me to "reimagine the Halo 3 Manual artwork", I was off the walls excited.

The biggest challenge came when figuring out how to make Cortana look like her concept art counterpart. It came down to creating a simple, but custom material, sculpting, then doing a bit of compositing work to bring it in line with the original piece.

I think the biggest deviation from the original would be the lighting. In this, I wanted virtually all of the light to be coming from Cortana. The original remains unrivaled, but I felt this was an appropriate change from 2D to 3D.