HL2 wallpaper, Combine Soldier

looks nice. did you choose for that leveled clowd effect? or is it beause it was saved badly
 
Maybe he intended it to be fog...like a combine walking through mist on a cold morning in City 17 waiting to kill Gordon.....anyways good work.:)
 
No the host compressed the pic horribly! Its a fog effect but I didn't create it I just cleaned it up and made it suitable for a wallpaper. I still need to clean up the hl2 logo and host it myself, but I'm having problems getting to my ftp site....

When I do I'll post it again here so ppl can see it and really judge it or use it.
 
Lets see if it will allow me to attach this wallpaper... Hope You like it. Like I said I'm a noob so be gentle....

[edit] W00t! It works! enjoy!
 
hehe, nice cloud and masking effects, looks awesome :), yoo good 4 a n00b might i say..

Gr8! would set as walpaper if it wasnt my custom doom3 walpappy ;)

o well, good work m8..
 
I'm STILL working on this... I redplaced the HL2 logo altogether and I am shifting around some of the Logos, but the Combine Soldier is done unless anyone has any sugestions.

I need to emphasize that I did not create this from scratch! The fog effects were already there. This image started out as something else. I took that base image and retouched, restructured, edited, changed color values, sharpened, changed the contrast, removed material that wasn't needed in a wallpaper, and then I replaceed the logos and added one more. I'm still workig on this, I wasn't happy with the HL2 logo at all.

I made the image into a functional wallpaper for the community to enjoy, but I don't want to take credit for someone elses work. Someone else created the fog, and blended the combine soldier into it, and made the halflife2 title. I replaced everything else and restructured it. Aside from the fog and the soldier it LOOKS like a completely new image. I changed the pictures contrast and color values to be more blue for that colder effect like you see on high end TV's. I don't like warm colors, and I was trying to make the soldier look more real. The original soldier need some work, you could see alot of errors when it was sharpened so I had to manually edit the mask, body, and other areas so that it brought out the details. The original was very blurry and sharpening just made it worse. I had to do alot of work to bring out the details.
 
Here is my latest edition. The logos are totally reworked. I learned at TON about editing layers, how to to change luminostiy, how to properly blur, and how to effectively shade. You look at a tool, but then you play around with the options and you find you can do many other things and get the same effect. If you are struggling with a tool its probably because there is some quirky option with another tool that does it much easier. Atleast thats how it is for me while I teach myself photoshop.

Hope you like it, sorry to the hardcore Nvidia fans out there. I decided to add the ATI logo just because of the buisness relationships revolving around HL2. That deal was a ton of money and was something we don't see often so I put the logo in for that reason. Its not a statement to which brand is better of anything. Although at the moment ATI is more effective at DX9.0, but in the near future that will undoubtable change.

I will say however that although I use a GF4600ti for DX8.x games (it was the best I believe for DX8.x), I do plan on using a ATI card for DX9.0 games. I plan on buying ATI's PCIexpress card when it comes out and hopefully it will be bundled with HL2. I just feel that ATI has earned my trust with DX9.0 applications and shows a working familiarity with the new standard, where Nvidia currently does not.

Enjoy the wallpaper!
 
Well I emailed Munro to request that the 15 minute time limit for editing our threads should be removed for the ART forums so that we can update the first post in the thread with the latest version of our work.

I have yet again tweaked the half life font and touched up the ati logo. I think I am done for sure now.

I also found a screenshot on the net of the Steam wallpaper for HL2 and I want to make that a wallpaper too. Do the Admins have any objections to me posting an edited version of that wallpaper? I took the steam menu out of it and placed the title on the top.
 
Of course its low qual. There isn't a whole lot of high res images floating around the net. Atleast not the legal ones. This image appeared around E3, so I think it's damn good considering. I think it looks good enough to put on my desktop and drool for the official release of HL2...
 
Originally posted by Jhahn2k4
It's still low qual :P
Click to expand...

You were right, but after much searching I finally found the high quality original concept art and I totally replaced the image of the Combine Soldier!

I want to emphasize that I did not create the iamage of the soldier. I only incorporated everything into a wallpaper and another person created the fog effects. I just kinda cleaned it up by starting from scratch with all the parts of the image.

I really think this is as close as I can get to a final product here. If you have any suggestions PLEASE don't hesitate to post.

One of the reasons I search so long for that pic was because Jhahn2k4 brought up the quality of the image and he was right. Thx, for the feedback!

BTW have you guys noticed the number gets larger on the file names... Yep thats how many times I have thought this was finished.
 
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