Halo Elite Cosplay Puts Others To Shame

AndrewGOO9 writes "Pete Mander, a special effects artist from Ontario, Canada seems like he might have either had way too much time on his hands or just really enjoys Halo. Either way, this is one of those costumes that makes all of the cosplayers at a con feel like their best efforts just weren't quite up to par."

Comments

PWNING NEWBZ

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you imagine those great, big foam rubber balls being dipped in your face?

Re:PWNING NEWBZ

[Myopic]

You're projecting.

No. He's male.

[Anonymous Coward]

The only people who don't look ridiculous doing cosplay are young, attractive women playing the roles of young, attractive, scantily clad female characters. All other cosplay is pointless.

Re:No. He's male.

[garyisabusyguy]

Yeah, let's get some Cortana-Flood tentacle action going on... Maybe a Sailor-Moon/Bleach crossover and some fatass dressed as a Panda Bear just for fun

Re:No. He's male.

[X0563511]

I may not like Halo, and may I'll leave my opinions of COSplay out of this.

But I recognize art when I see it. That man knows his craft. Holy-shit. (I bet he does or did work in special effects or costume design)

Re:No. He's male.

[jon3k]

I bet you didn't, or have not, read the article summary.

I think all coplay

[adeft]

puts itself to shame

Re:I think all coplay

[Blakey Rat]

Any of the ones that made the genre?
Halo just brought FPS to the fratboy set.

Two points:
1) An accomplishment is an accomplishment.
2) The Halo series are really good games. They've brought tons of new ideas that many, many other games have emulated (recharging shield/health, realistic weapon load), and obviously they've sold very well.

Most people just hate it because they have some "PC Game 1337 Gene" that makes it impossible to appreciate anything involving a game controller.

(Ironically, they much prefer to play games on controllers designed to run office applications... but console players are less 1337. Go figure.)

Re:I think all coplay

[Monkeedude1212]

One might say that. Keep in Mind Halo (the original) that spun everything into play first came out for the Mac, then the PC, and THEN the X box - so it's as much the "Blizzard for the console set" as much as it is a "Blizzard for the PC" - also keep in mind Blizzard made Starcraft64 so its not like they are free of the console bash.

Re:I think all coplay

[Blakey Rat]

Recharging shield and health was around before Halo,

In what game?

I like Halo, and it IS a good game, but one thing I can't ever give it credit for is originality - which ripped a lot of stuff from Aliens and Predator films, the same way Starcraft did.

If you're including "ripping off films" in your list of original games, even if they really only take the setting and wide-brush concepts, what game would you consider original?

Let's put some money where your mouth is.

Re:I think all coplay

[Blakey Rat]

Well you could take the Armor and/or health recharge mods that have been in every Unreal Tournament game since the beginning, you could look at one of Bungie's older titles, Marathon

UT mods maybe, although I've never played any and you haven't named any.

But I've played the shit out of Marathon, and it didn't have charging shields. You had to go to a socket in the wall and manually charge them up. So... wrong.

If I want to think of a game that didn't really rip off the films, I might say something like Mirror's Edge? Don't get me wrong its not the greatest game in the world, but it certainly was a little more unique in it's style.

Yeah, it didn't ripoff films, but it came pretty goddamned close to Bungie's Oni. You might even say it... ripped off Oni.

(That said, I haven't played it; I don't buy EA games. I'm just going by gameplay footage.)

What else should I say...

Well, for starters, you shouldn't lie about Marathon. I love that fucking game, man. Love it.

Look, anyway. Here's the deal:
1) You don't hate Halo games, but you have some kind of vague "oh it's inferior because frat guys play it" thing going on. That's stupid... just man-up and admit you like the game, stop kowtowing to your geek friends who criticize you for it.

2) Your standards on "ripoff" are pretty crazy. By your standards, pretty much every work of media ever is a ripoff of something or another-- the real world doesn't work that way. No reasonable person would say that Halo is a ripoff of Aliens. They might use the word "homage" or "in the same genre as", but ripoff is definitely going too far.

3) Don't lie about Marathon, man.

Cheers.

Re:I think all coplay

[quantumplacet]

Umm, no. Halo was made by Bungie, which was prior to Halo primarily a Mac developer. They started making Halo for the Mac, but then signed with Microsoft who made it an XBox launch title and an exclusive. It was then ported to PC and Mac two years later, in 2003.

Of course, he's a professional...

[Aereus]

Imagine that -- a professional special effects person spending over $1000 was able to make a costume able to put all amateurs to shame. It's still amazing, but the guy obviously does this kind of stuff for a living and has lots of disposable income.

That is seriously a lot of wonderflex, foam, etc. I wonder how he stilted the legs to get himself that high. Or if the extended arms will actually have articulated hands.

Re:Neat

[Jarik C-Bol]

no joke, if you look on his youtube channel, there are a couple videos showing how the jaws are anamatronic. absolutely incredible suit.

You don't say?

[geekoid]

A special effect professional did better then some amateurs? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked~

Re:Giant Cardboard Robots

[ChinggisK]

No, I think he does indeed have something on those.

Re:No good work....

[Sta7ic]

Why would Bungie bust out the lawyers? When the Demon? Devil? Armor guys wrote them about the Spartan armor, they invited the guy to their offices to show it off.

Odds are they'll give this guy a ticket to show off and talk shop as well.