Dia de los Muertos 2009

Half-Life: Opposing Force 10 years now!!! Happy Birthday Adrian Shephard!

Today it's the 10 years of the Half-Life Opposing Force, and we decided to present a new media release to celebrate it.




A little step back into 1999




Opposing Force; critically acclaimed expansion pack for the award winning Half Life, you play as Corporal Adrian Shephard, a United States Marine, sent into an underground facility known as the Black Mesa Research Facility on a classified mission. Things go horribly wrong though, and Corporal Shephard, finds himself fighting for his life and lives of his comrads against hordes of alien creatures and government agents bent on making sure nothing escapes intact.


You can see the wonderful work of my teamates on our website http://obmsource.com/

About Operation Black Mesa
Operation Black Mesa is a Half Life 2 modification; the second installment of the award winning Half Life. Utilizing the immense array of features of the Source engine, the Operation Black Mesa team plans to remake Opposing Force in all it's glory in the Source engine. What we plan to do is remake everything from the 3D models to the maps, so that Opposing Force can once again be praised as one of the best expansion packs for any game to date. We here at the Operation Black Mesa team wish to comprise both single-player and multi-player elements into our modification. We may be adding a Capture the flag mode, but don't quite count on it at the moment.

What is Half-life: Opposing Force?
Half-life: Opposing Force is a expansion pack to the award winning Half Life created by Gearbox Software and published in November 1999. You play as U.S. Corporal Adrian Shephard, from the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU), sent in mission during the fictional Black Mesa incident. There are 11 chapters :

* Welcome To Black Mesa
* "We Are Pulling Out"
* Missing In Action
* Friendly Fire
* We Are Not Alone
* Crush Depth
* Vicarious Reality
* Pit Worm's Nest
* Foxtrot Uniform
* "The Package"
* Worlds Collide


Here's a few artworks i've made that are presented in the MR:

Operation Black Mesa - Nuclear incident

Bibiiiiiiii <3 <3 <3

The barman is drinking too much

Pyrenees - suite

Some others photos of this trek, you can notice the variation of the vegetation, i love the photo with the numerous plants and the moss, it's very sweet, it's like miniature backgrounds sometimes. There is many things that gives you inspiration up there, again feel free to use these photos.

Clouds studies

Pyrenees

I make a post this time a bit different, i love trekking and especially in my region in the Pyrenees Mountains, there's numerous little ways and trails to make, a lot of possibilities, some tracks are difficult, others more adapted for the family, you just have to choose! many lakes can be founded higher and new valleys and landscapes.

Here's a little selection about some photos i've made, feel free to you use them for your matte paintings, textures, etc...

Projet bd-Prologue

Les recherches de persos et de props sont pratiquement terminées, bientôt les véhicules et en attendant quelques planches!

Operation Black Mesa- mission

Oldies...

Recherches décor

Le terrible Marcus Mifunus: légendaire et titanesque!

Recherche décor

Coastal village

ptite princesse

Operation Black Mesa- An aircraft concept

A speedpainting i did yesterday to try new stuff.

Operation Black Mesa: sniper

Operation Black Mesa- Xen Worlds

A few concepts about the Xen worlds. They are composed about various organism, abundant vegetation, floating isles and desertic places... there's a lot of sketches and concepts, we'll get onto many ideas later, there's a lot to do!

EON: Final- the short

The short movie is now finished! i would like to thanks Jean-Vincent and Tania, it was great to work together on this student film during these months, a lot of good moments!

Enjoy!

EON- The boy's turnaround

An anim example of the boy exploring the archipelago and the world with the monsters. Jean-Vincent and Tania made the animation, with Tania we coloured it.

EON- additionals bg ideas

EON- last improvements...

EON- Creatures and floating elements

Coloured and completely crazy, an example of the creatures that appear on this sequence, coming with multiple elements..


Actually we are finalizing many things on the whole project, there will be a lot of little surprises, in that sequence and before it, in the first part of the short movie.

Stay tuned!

EON- some little elements

Various little elements which compose the background.

EON- some creatures

Some examples of creatures..

EON- Backgrounds

Heavenly, strange, multicoloured and abstract: the main atmosphere of the EON BG.