I've just bought a copy of the regular edition of this game, and was rather pleased to see Bungie have finally opted to separate the multiplayer/campaign by putting them on two disks. It would've been great had they done this for Halo 3, as I think it would've added some longevity to Halo 3.

I'm quite impressed with the gameplay and I really enjoy playing as an ODST. They're not as strong as a Spartan, so more care is required to deal with the enemies. Being a normal soldier means less armour, less strength and no shields!!! So I like relying on stealth and using headshots to make quick kills. The other aspect I really like is when you hang around too long, enemies will eventually come at you from behind. Nasty stuff!

The vehicle driving parts are a lot of fun, not long like in Halo 2 but much more enjoyable than Halo 3 for some reason. I also like playing from the perspective of the different squad members. Too bad Halo 3 couldn't have been more like this.

Overall, Halo ODST is harder but more enjoyable than Halo 3. Only thing it lacks is pretty forest and different localities. Fighting in a city gets a bit boring after awhile. Also, shouldn't Elites still be your enemies in this game? The Covenant civil war doesn't start till near the end of Halo 2, and this game starts after the Covenant capital ship jumps into slipspace over Mombasa in Halo 2 - just a third of the way into Halo 2.

No Flood, and no Sentinels... well, I'm glad the Flood were left out, I get tired of fighting tentacled screaming zombie lunatics. Sentinels are a bit more dignified in their killing habits

Thankyou to for featuring my new artwork here [link]
This was drawn with my brand new tablet... the colouring and everything is a lot easier to do now without fiddling around with a mouse!

SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
I was rather impressed by this movie... it had everything a fan of science fiction movies would ask for... loads of guns, aliens, fighting, CGI, oh and lots of gore. Sounds almost like Transformers 2 but this movie was much better presented, especially in the gore-factor and swearing department.

Firstly it was shown as a kind of documentary with news casts, and an official from a government agency is filmed by a cameraman as he goes through an alien refugee camp handing out letters to evict the tenants from their shanty homes. He gets this alien fluid on him which infects him and turns him into an alien. This ends up with him able to use the weapons the aliens have been trading with the humans for food and stuff (humans can't use them, only alien DNA). It starts this huge war between the criminal human gangs running District 9 and the government military and the aliens are caught in the middle.

The aliens were particurlarly well presented, ugly looking giant cockroaches living like roaches. You expect them to turn on the humans, but they don't, the humans end up killing each other for control of District 9. They all get shipped off to District 10 (a new shanty town further out of Johannesburg) and when the mother ship leaves, none of the aliens are willing to go anywhere near it. Thats because 20 years earlier, the aliens were packed into these giant pens on board the ship in pitch dark and left to rot in their own excrement before the humans rescued them.

The movie was also a lot longer than I expected... and very much like how I expected the Halo movie to look if it got made. There's a number of Halo-esque references throughout which were rather cool. I wonder if this is how we would treat Sentinels if they were on Earth (hopefully not for refugee reasons )

WOOOOAAAAH HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Whoops! I seem to have made a certain young someone very very angry for mentioning Halo over District 9's creation! Not to mention the Deviant who drew the Poleepkwa is a halo fan as well... I wonder if a new rule has emerged that the mention of a game should not be inserted into comments made on how awesome you think another Deviant's artwork is... ho hum. He hates on Halo, thats fine by me... but no need to swear rant and rave about it good sir. Anyhoo, I drew my latest deviation in response to his wailing on me... what incredible FUN!

Thankyou to for featuring my new artwork here [link]
This was drawn with my brand new tablet... the colouring and everything is a lot easier to do now without fiddling around with a mouse!

Wow, have just watched the trailer on the home page for this movie, and am rather excited about seeing it. It looks like one of those Halo videos that Weta Workshop did quite awhile ago, lots of explosions, rather evil-looking aliens and spaceships floating around in the sky. This movie is Peter Jackson's newest flick and the effects were done by Weta so I'm guessing the flick was made in New Zealand. I find it bizzare that the humans won't let the aliens leave though - they look like pure evil!

Also, perusing the website killed my computer's internet connection so don't click on anything that shows up on the map thats in a red area - its a 'human violation'. If you do, your internet connection kills itself straight through the middle of its tiny-minded brainpan. How dumb - don't the movie makers want you to check out their home page, so you'll go spend your $15.50 willingly?

The other movie that I'm waiting to see is another Weta workshop creation, the movie adaptation of a kid's TV series from the early 1980's - Under The Mountain. Its rather amusing seeing today's metropolitan Auckland (Sky Tower and all) featured in a major movie and underneath it are these horrible, monstrous alien beasts.

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◆Your name?
Doctor Sky Tower please, or Doc will do fine.

◆If possible, your age?
Classified.

◆When did you start drawing?
The moment I could pick up a pen.

◆Which hand do you use for drawing?
Right.

◆Which is easier to draw - male or female?
Male Sentinels, of course.

◆Which is easier to draw - long hair or short hair?
Short.

◆Is it easier to draw the head facing towards the right or the left?
It depends which picture of Sentinels I'm currently copying

◆Is it easier to draw the side view of the face or the front view?
Sentinels are a lot easier to draw from the side.

◆What problems do you have in drawing?
Getting all those Sentinel dimensions just right.

◆What do you like to draw?
Halo Sentinels. Sentinels. Sentinels. Sentinels. Ad nauseum infinitum. Oh, and dripping blood and ripped apart bodies. I have a wickid dark sense of humour

◆Are you a traditional artist or a digital artist?
Both! I use a tablet, mouse, pen and pencil!

◆Where do you start drawing from?
Usually with the eyes. That way, I can work out the size of the head, and body, and arms etc. Also goes for Sentinels

◆What is your drawing habit that you are aware of?
Head getting close to paper whilst drawing on paper (traditional). Developing square eyes whilst staring at computer monitor (digital mouse/tablet).

◆What do you keep in mind when you do lineart?
I don't like the way this looks, do it again!!! Digital line art, I completely get rid of the whole thing and start again (even if it took half an hour to create).

◆Any tips for coloring/shading?
Use lots of variations of the one colour to get different depths of shade on something.

◆How long does it take to finish a piece of art?
Usually a week to two weeks.

◆What music do you listen to while you draw?
All the stuff I got on my itunes (all sorts)

◆How long does it take you to come up with an idea?
Instantanious. They usually pop up in microdats. For example, I'm trying to work out how to do a comic involving a Brute, some Jackals and Grunts, being attacked by a Sentinel Royal Lancer, and their first encounter with the thing.

◆Your favorite drawing utensils?
Mechanical pencils for traditional, then black biro pens for outlines, tablet for digital arts.

◆Your favorite color/the color that you use a lot?
Various shades of grey, brown, purple, red.

◆Your favorite style(s)?
Most of the style showing in my recent submissions. Its my own, I don't copy other art mediums (like anime for example)

◆Are you satisfied with your current art?
Nah, I'd like to learn how to make my stuff really stand out.

◆What kind of artist are you aiming for?
Comic artist

◆Thank you. Now please fill in the next columns by writing the names of the artists that match the criteria. Artists tagged must fill in this baton.
Everyone who reads this annoying thing and its TWoD
tl;dr

Am learning how to use a tablet to draw stuff directly onto photoshop! My art is coming out lookin like a toddler drew it, so am currently getting used to the shortcuts you can make with the stylus!

Now have moved on to colouring line art, and trying new techniques, I discovered the pen size was too small which is why it looks like a tiny tot drew it! Wobbly lines and retarded pictures does not make a good artist! Now I'm trying to separate the line art so I can colour it, but doesn't work dammit. The technique I learned seems to be only for line art that was drawn on a piece of paper, then scanned, then saved to computer harddrive dammit. When I try to separate line art with drawn directly-to-photoshop picture, there's nothing there, no black outline of image. baaaaaw.

So I can't see what the F I'm doing. Daaaaaam. Still gonna have to stick to the ole scan-em-in-first, and then use tablet to colour the stupid things (which, up to this point, I've been feeling like I'm colouring pictures in a tot's colouring book). Hopefully will make tot-book-colouring easier at the least.

Transformers 2 was better than the first one... there were a few WTF moments that were cringeworthy (Michael Bay must really like cringeworthy moments in his movies) that were enough to make me squirm with discomfort... these were the poorly executed lovescenes which I hoped Mr Bay would've had removed. He doesn't seem to have much idea on how to deliver intimate moments between two characters without making it look diabolically bad and utterly cliched. Unless he likes to look at young girls in shortie torties sitting in suggestive positions on little motorcycles. Euugh. Puke.

However, Terminator Salvation was good

Wow, I can't believe it... Every single one of my line drawings look terrible! They are just unrecognisable pieces of crap, even AFTER they get clicked on in the gallery and the user is taken to that pic's page! They STILL looks like low res, pixellated crap until the user bothers to click on it! Now, Deviants will only check out the thumbnail of an image, if it doesn't catch their eye they move on. With this eye-watering, cringe-inducing, low res, pixellated bullcrap not a single pencil/colour pencil/pen drawing will ever get clicked on, ever!!!

Also, the sitback slideshow of my gallery has gasped its last chest-heaving breath and up and died on me. It now requires that I visit another website that hosts RSS feeds, hand over details of my credit card, pay the money required to subscribe to said website that hosts afore-mentioned RSS feeds, come back here, and reactivate my newly-subscribed RSS feed so that stuff will work on this website again. This is a feature I neither need or want. Why are other websites required to host user features on this site? And I'm subscribed for a year... and I have to pay moar money to use said feature only available to subscribed members on this website. So I open one of these sites, and it takes me to something that looked suspiciously like a Phishing Website. Here's my bank account details! And all my money! Oh, and you can take my identity too! I'm pretty kewl with that

WTF...?

I partook in a competition hosted by and won, wow, thankyou for the sneak preview on your new Halo-series fanfic story! Can't wait to read it!

Krikey... I've been featured in a few journals from fellow Deviants! Can't believe it!

Thankyou to [link] and [link]
Oh and thankyou to [link] for featuring some of my fanfiction/literature pieces!!

Have been rather busy this time round, making artworks for fellow Deviants' birthdays! So happy birthday to you both



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