Spotlight: April 9, 2025

Community Spotlight

Spotlight: April 9, 2025

Master Chief consults with a projection of Cortana standing in his palm as he leads UNSC Marines across a ring world.

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The Community Spotlight series showcases a selection of awesome fan art, videos, crafts, and other creations by the Halo community. Share your work with us on social media using hashtag #HaloSpotlight to be considered for the next Spotlight!

The mission always changes, but the Halo community never fails to deliver. Our latest Spotlight features battle-ready renders, inspired illustrations, and several homages to the legendary members of Blue Team.

FAN FILMS

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Engineers are mysterious, industrious—and evidently adorable. Animator TimotheosFraser delights us with the tale of Buoyant Enough, an Engineer whose free-floating spirit won't be kept down (or up too high). For a double dose of Covenant cuties, check out Getchi the Jackal's disastrous driving lesson.

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Part kill compilation, part soundscape, and all avant-garde. Stockholm is both montage and homage to Halo 3’s theater mode, featuring an opening credits sequence straight out of 70’s Italian cinema and a pastiche of absolutely kino kills. Starring N00bSlayer, Puba, Behr, and Zhestal with help from countless contributing montagers, Stockholm goes down smooth like a Killtacular on Energy Sword Sunday.

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For the latest entry in their “Spartan Force” fan series, GonXxo created this painstakingly realized stop-motion video of an alliance between Spartans and the Arbiter using Halo Mega Construx figures.

The Arbiter speaks to a dying Elite comrade. Rendered with Mega Construx figures.

Flipbriks525 recreates a pivotal moment from the Halo 2 campaign mission "Uprising"—when the Arbiter Thel 'Vadam discovers the treachery of the Brutes—with Halo Mega Construx figures.

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This machinima by MellohYelloh illustrates the many benefits of arriving late to the group photo.

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Enjoy the rest of the gallery with musical accompaniment! This cover of “Under Cover/In Amber Clad" by Malleyricon delights with a sampling of face-melters and synthy grooves.

SEEN ON SOCIAL

Ianpestyart shared a tribute to the luckiest Spartan, seen here in his modern Mjolnir armor against a backdrop inspired by the cover art of Halo: Combat Evolved.

From Ian’s post: “Whenever possible I look to illustrate a subject that has had a profound effect on me as a creative and as a person passionate about games & movies. Halo is one of those.”

Two katana-wielding Spartans clash, Their blades emit sparks as they collide.

Render wizard SilentMeow lets sparks fly in this fierce standoff between katana-wielding Spartans.

A Spartan in snow gear finds a slain comrade at rest in the snow beside a crashed Pelican transport ship.

A winter-spec Spartan discovers a fallen comrade in this somber scene from Spartan Sets.

An advertisement for the fan-made Aegis MARPDW weapon by Hannibal Weapon Systems.

A sporting goods ad from thegamejockeybu shows off an original weapon design.

A portrait of a Spartan ringed with flowers, rendered in colored pencil by spartanca.

Spartanca crafts a traditional illustration of a custom Spartan ringed by flowers.

A team of four Spartans moves in formation down a staircase flanked by overgrown flowers in a human city. The central Spartan carries a wounded ODST soldier on their shoulders.

A troop of Spartans escorts injured ODSTs through a besieged human settlement in this scene from Hartwell Design.

Master Chief consults with Cortana as he leads UNSC Marines across a ring world.

NSClark98 takes us on a trek through timberlands with some old friends.

Master Chief carrying a Plasma Rifle and a Battle Rifle, as seen in a worn encyclopedia entry. Three entries read as follows: 1. "Spartan-117: The Master Chief: The Master Chief is the last of the elite SPARTAN-II soldiers. These genetically superior, highly trained super soldiers stand easily 7 feet tall and, in MJOLNIR Mark VI powered assault armor, weigh almost 1,000 pounds. Spartan-117 is an expert in all weapons and combat systems and can run faster, jump higher, and hit harder than any normal human. Honed by years of battlefield experience, he has an unparalleled natural talent for war." 2. "Battle Rifle BR55: Fires 9.5mm rounds from 36-round magazine. Mounted with a 2X optical scope for targeting. Fires in short, automatic bursts of 3 rounds. Very accurate, relatively high rate of fire makes it a useful all-around infantry weapon." 3."Plasma rifle: Core power output: 100–150 kV : 2-3 dA/ This is a directed energy weapon. It is capable of either semiautomatic or automatic fire (click and hold the left mouse button for automatic fire). Continuous rapid fire overheats the weapon—this in turn depletes the weapon's power core. We currently do not understand how to replace or re-charge a power core. Note: This weapon will deplete its energy source as you use it. It is wise to replace it as often as possible."

Rythaze displays an encyclopedic interest in the subject of this slick digital painting.

Spartans engage Brutes with jetpacks beside a Wraith tank. One Spartan has leapt onto the Wraith to hijack the vehicle.

Spartans commandeer a Wraith from a sortie of Brutes in this art by InvestigatorSedra. Check out their deviantArt gallery for more Halo-inspired battles.

Cortana holds the Index aloft, a sword in her other hand, against a celestial backdrop.

Voidspawn01 captures Cortana’s celestial ascension into the Domain. (Props where they’re due: Void’s tablet almost died in the making.)

A cross-stitch of the Master Chief's helmet signed by Steve Downes ("Master Chief 117") and Jen Taylor ("Cortana").

This incredible cross-stitch of the Master Chief took CraftingGeek over 200 hours to create! No wonder she took it to GameOnExpo to be signed by voice actors Steve Downes and Jen Taylor.

Spartans pile out of a Hornet transport. The leader in red armor boldly strides forward, flanked by two teammates in gray.

Spartans touch down in a hot LZ in this impressive composition from MrGruntington.

Four Spartan action figures move in formation through a snowy cave. In the background, a Forerunner structure emerges from the rock wall.

Expert toy photographer odst1701 creates true-to-life tension in this snowy recon mission.

PoisonVirgoo has the blues no more with the return of Fred-104 in Operation: Blue Team.

IamFile is intently monitoring the situation in this stunningly photorealistic render.

Two Spartans pose with their weapons in neon armor against the backdrop of a cyberpunk city.

HowlingTes76440 embraces the night with a pair of neon-camouflaged custom Spartans.

Three Spartans in brightly colored HAZMAT armor stand atop a rock surrounded by the shadowy silhouettes of Elites wielding energy swords.

A trio of kitted-out HAZMAT Spartans get ready to take on a dirty job in this recent offering by iExaminar.

Kelly-087 depicted in a traditional illustration by thehaloenthusiast.

Thehaloenthusiast more than earns his namesake with this detailed art of Kelly-087.

A group of Spartans poses for a wartime photo on the tarmac beside a waiting Pelican.

Thoro_blend stages a group of intrepid Spartans on the tarmac in this wartime memento.

Two Spartans clad in white stand back to back as enemy Covenant forces close in around them. A cherry blossom tree blooms in the background.

With fates intertwined and enemies inbound, H_Ghost_B204 reminds us that love is war.

COSPLAY CREATIONS

AndrewDanforth wears his Banana Spartan cosplay in a shadowy room.

Cosplayer AndrewDanforth looks appealing (and...revealing) in his Banana Spartan cosplay. (Photo by @EmperorFrosty)

RadMax117 cosplays as a Spartan with papabear_117 as Jorge from Halo: Reach.

Recon Spartan RadMaxCosplay locks eyes with papabear_217 as Jorge in a recreation of that scene from Halo: Reach.

Foam_Forge reunites with Spartan ally JsLund for a photo-op at Emerald City Comic Con.

WatchBenGo struts his Spartan stuff as the Master Chief.

Sylvacan's August-099 cosplay. A red Spartan stands in a field of trees toting a long-barreled sniper rifle.

Sylvacan debuts this impressive August-099 cosplay and a genuinely imposing sniper model.

Master Chief cosplay by Rifter666. He poses against a curtained backdrop while hefting with a green assault rifle on his shoulder.

Rifter666 suits up for one last mission as the quintessential green man.

FROM THE FORUMS

Recent shares from the r/Halo subreddit and the official Halo Discord server. Join up and drop your creations for a chance to appear in a Community Spotlight!

Blue Team's Fireteam emblem as rendered in woodwork by OnePixelArt. A raven, a star, and a lightning bolt inscribed within a circle.

In honor of Blue Team’s enduring legacy, OnePixelArt created this woodwork emblem.

DOOMSIR1337 captures Chief in a moment of quiet contemplation, beset upon by otherworldly horrors, with the quiet hum of Sentinel Beams to guide his meditations.

Art by Hervis1234. A menacing android, a Wendigo-class Executor, holds a Spartan aloft by their throat.

Hervis1234 showcases a Spartan who is about to have an incredibly bad day as an Executor WENDIGO unit gains the upper hand.

A Jega 'Rdomnai figurine repainted by NerdyLilFella.

NerdyLilFella debuts a spiffy repaint for this figure of Blademaster Jega ‘Rdomnai.

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