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April 3, 2024 Link to this post
Loftus charts Zeta Halo's solar cycles
Resident technical expert Stephen Loftus stopped by to let us know he did the hard work of figuring out the rotational dynamics of Zeta Halo from Halo Infinite. Turns out a day in the day/night cycle is an hour of real time. Neat! (fuchsdh 21:00:08 UTC)
February 15, 2024 Link to this post
Halo Signs - Refreshed
After an 8-year hiatus, Stephen Loftus is back with around 100 new Halo signs, downloadable in high quality if you so desire. Unfortunately, the page navigation is somewhat clunky (100% my fault, not Stephen's, it was built well over a decade ago), so finding the new stuff means scrolling to the end of each section (Civilian, Covenant, Miscellaneous, UNSC) and checking out the latest entries. Sorry about that! Newest Civilian images begin at the bottom of this page, while Covenant is here, Miscellaneous is here, and UNSC is here. (Louis Wu 21:09:11 UTC)
July 12, 2021 Link to this post
Canon Fodder celebrates issue 117 with oodles of Chief content and announcements
This week's Canon Fodder is issue #117, so Grim pulled out all the stops. In addition to a ton of Chief-focused community content, there's word of a new, beefier Encyclopedia (checked over, of course, by Stephen Loftus,) and some thoughts from Claude himself on our favorite green-armored Chief. (fuchsdh 19:40:01 UTC)
October 17, 2017 Link to this post
Halopedia Interviews the Scale Master, Stephen Loftus
He's a cruncher of numbers and savant of scale, so Halopedia interviewed our very own Stephen Loftus about the contributions he has made to the universe we all love. Give the interview a read and let him know your thoughts in our forum! (MacGyver10 21:24:02 UTC)
August 29, 2017 Link to this post
A Tease of 'Halo: Warfleet' Shared on 343's Twitter
Paging Stephen Loftus and all other Halo ships fans! 343 Industries has put up a tease of their upcoming 'Halo: Warfleet' guide to the spaceships of Halo. Go drool over the diagrams and cross-sections before the full thing comes out September 5th!
(MacGyver10 23:26:57 UTC)Want an awesome high-res tease for one of Halo: Warfleet's gorgeous upcoming technical deep-dives? Of course you do: https://t.co/8lcKOBI3dN pic.twitter.com/JRDYFX5yau
— Halo (@Halo) August 29, 2017
March 3, 2016 Link to this post
The Signs of Halo get their first Halo 5 update
It's been two years since Stephen Loftus updated his 'Signs of Halo' page - but he's turned in a number of new Halo 5-based graphics, and they're gorgeous! Several new civilian signs can be found on this page, along with one new Covenant sign, while a number of Miscellaneous signs are on this page, and a number of UNSC signs are here. Don't forget - larger versions are visible (and downloadable) beyond every thumbnail! (Louis Wu 19:29:55 UTC)
February 21, 2015 Link to this post
Scale Comparison Gains New Data
Stephen Loftus made some updates to his Halo Scale Charts, based on the information released with the announcement of the Spartan Games tabletop offerings - swing by the main page to see the newest work! (Louis Wu 21:23:39 UTC)
January 26, 2015 Link to this post
The Solar System, over Halo Time
Stephen Loftus put together a few maps showing our solar system for various dates featured in Halo fiction - intriguing stuff! (Louis Wu 21:46:58 UTC)
January 21, 2015 Link to this post
The Name of the Thing
Stephen Loftus has released a couple of images that might help you if you're not up on your ship nomenclature. These are great! Swing by his UNSC Ship Callouts page for full details. (Louis Wu 21:35:14 UTC)
December 1, 2014 Link to this post
How big is that thing, anyway?
Stephen Loftus was messing around with 3ds Max and decided to put the interior portions of the Forward Unto Dawn (the game spaces we play in at the start of Halo 4) into a model of the ship, to see how big it actually needed to be to fit what we saw in-game. The results are... surprising. Go see! (Louis Wu 23:26:54 UTC)
August 11, 2014 Link to this post
Finding Heretic
Stephen Loftus stopped in with an old image he'd whipped up in the late Halo 3 days... where he had been trying to pin down where the multiplayer map Heretic had come from. Pretty cool stuff! (Louis Wu 23:44:15 UTC)
July 4, 2014 Link to this post
The Scale Keeps Changing
Stephen Loftus has upgraded his Halo Scale Comparison yet again - this time, there are two new pages added in the front, showing off the scale of the Forerunner shield world described in 'Ghost of Onyx', and the more familiar Sun in our own solar system. (He's also corrected a couple of small errors, but most of you will have serious trouble finding them.) Check 'em out!
(Louis Wu 17:57:47 UTC)
June 28, 2014 Link to this post
Halo Scale Comparison - Now Updated with Halo 4 Objects
Back in 2005, Stephen Loftus created a Scale Comparison in Halo article - showing you how various structures and vehicles and characters fit together, size-wise. Over the years, he's improved this project, adding new items from later games and slotting them into the existing structure. He's done this again, and it's a HUGE advance; at the time of the last update (January 2013), there were 27 pages of images. Now there are almost 50. Swing by and dive in - it's fascinating! (If you've explored the collection before, you'll want to scroll down to the bottom of the main page - click on the Ark to get started on the cascading scale pages. That's where all the goodies are hiding.) (Louis Wu 21:46:05 UTC)
February 17, 2014 Link to this post
More pretty pictures
Stephen Loftus submitted another batch of high-resolution images for his Halo Signs collection - you'll find the newest additions at the end of the Civilian section, the end of the Forerunner section, the end of the Miscellaneous section, and the end of the UNSC section.
(Louis Wu 16:18:03 UTC)
September 27, 2013 Link to this post
Essential Interview: Loftus on the Visual Guide
Posting this a little bit late... apologies. Been one of those days. davidfuchs pointed out an interview that the Forward Unto Dawn crew did with Stephen Loftus, focusing on the Scalemaster's contributions to the recently-released Halo 4 Essential Visual Guide. Great read! (Louis Wu 23:50:16 UTC)
July 12, 2013 Link to this post
Space Blimp? Whoa.
Stephen Loftus was poking through some Halo 2 game files and ran across an ambient life form that I have never seen before - even now, 9 years after the game's release! Amazing. Swing by and take a look; it's likely it was actually cut from the game (nobody's been able to see it in-game yet)... but even so, you'd have thought that SOMEONE would have noticed it before now. I learn something new every day!
(Louis Wu 17:47:17 UTC)
July 1, 2013 Link to this post
Still no 'Keep off the Grass', though
Stephen Loftus found another batch of vectorized Halo artwork he hadn't posted - and we've added 18 new images to his 'Signs' collection. Check the end of the Civilian collection (here), the end of the 'Miscellaneous' collection (here), and the end of the 'UNSC' collection (here). Great stuff! (Louis Wu 20:50:54 UTC)
May 19, 2013 Link to this post
CRS-class Light Cruiser - scale comparison
Stephen Loftus stopped by with some new scale comparisons he put together after hanging out in the Waypoint forums for a bit - they look at Covenant Light Cruisers, and show you just how small they really are. Pretty cool! (Louis Wu 23:00:04 UTC)
January 23, 2013 Link to this post
Scaling the Heights, and Then Some
Stephen Loftus has completed a massive update to his Halo Scale Charts - the total number of pages has increased from 12 pages in the last version to 27 pages in this one! It contains a mountain of new items from previous games, plus most major vehicles from Reach and Halo Wars. Go take a look! (The original article is unchanged; only the Cascade Scaling images are new. You can jump right to the top level of this series if you're in a hurry.) (Louis Wu 20:52:39 UTC)
September 7, 2012 Link to this post
Special Edition Halo 4 Xbox Mag
There's a new Special Edition Halo 4 Xbox Magazine on newsstands now... and you can get a preview of what's inside by watching mrkevinhurd's video. Stephen Loftus' scale drawings are just one set of goodies!
(Louis Wu 18:48:33 UTC)
March 27, 2012 Link to this post
What If I Watch Videos About Halo? Does That Count?
Stephen "SoundEffect" Loftus brought to our attention an article from the LA Times discussing new data on Xbox usage for Games vs Entertainment. While - as Stephen notes - Halo is really only a passing mention, it's still some very eye-opening information about the general population'x Xbox habits. Go and check it out! (GrimBrother One 13:17:28 UTC)
February 26, 2012 Link to this post
Capturing Subjects Both Vague & To-Scale With Equal Brilliance
Some say that his screenshots are laced with libido, and that if shown his artwork, patients once thought comatose awaken with all the knowledge in the universe. All we know is he's called The Hedge. Don't miss his newest batch of highlight shots of HBO Community Customs madness, as well as a Special Tribute to Stephen "Actually, I'M Correct" Loftus. Check them out! (GrimBrother One 18:13:31 UTC)
February 9, 2012 Link to this post
Teaser Galaxy Map
Stephen Loftus posted a sample of his Halo Galaxy map - pretty mindblowing stuff! Take a look. (Louis Wu 07:26:01 UTC)
January 21, 2012 Link to this post
Getting a sense of scale
Stephen Loftus put together an image that shows you just how big AotCR/Two Betrayals are, in the context of the entire Halo ring. Pretty cool! (Louis Wu 22:46:26 UTC)
December 16, 2011 Link to this post
Pelican Data Sheet - now printable
Stephen Loftus reworked the opening graphic in his 2005 article on the Pelican Dropship in response to a fan who wanted to print it out as a poster; it now scales very nicely. (It also contains some new info, and the silhouette is of the original Halo Pelican, rather than the Halo 2 version shown in the article.) The PDF is available from the original article, if you'd like to print your OWN poster!
(Louis Wu 17:05:27 UTC)
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