Halo 3 storyboards

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The Halo 3 storyboards are a early version of Halo 3's story. The storyboards were created by Lee Wilson.

Overview

Lee Wilson's approach to the Halo 3 boards varied depending how they were going to be used. During the story writing process Lee did quick sketches for meetings. When Lee knew his in-engine cinematic lighting role for the game, he began to work out the lighting plan within the boards also, beginning with grey tone on scanned sketches, then moving on to fill color.

A booklet containing twenty-six pages of storyboards for Halo 3 was included in the release of the Halo 3 Legendary Edition; more were additionally included in The Art of Halo 3.

Various animated and voice acted storyboards were discovered in a playtest build dated September 21, 2006.

Storyboards

E3 2006

These boards were produced for the Halo 3 announcement trailer.

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  Storyboard01_chiefwalk

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Sierra 117

These storyboards were created for the campaign level Sierra 117.

First revision intro

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Outro

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Crow's Nest

These storyboards were created for the campaign level Crow's Nest.

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Tsavo Highway

These storyboards were created for the campaign level Tsavo Highway.

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Outro

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The Storm

These storyboards were created for the campaign level The Storm.

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Floodgate

These storyboards were created for the campaign level Floodgate.

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The Ark

These storyboards were created for the campaign level The Ark.

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Guardian Forest

These storyboards were created for the now-cut campaign level Guardian Forest.

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Alpine

These storyboards were created for the now-cut campaign level Alpine .

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Forerunner City

These storyboards were created for the now-cut campaign level Forerunner City.

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Second revision intro

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The Covenant

These storyboards were created for the campaign level The Covenant.

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Outro

Cortana

These storyboards were created for the campaign level Cortana.

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Halo

These storyboards were created for the campaign level Halo.

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Epilogue

These storyboards were created for the final cutscene of the game; found at the end of the level Halo in the Xbox 360 release of Halo 3 or in the Epilogue level in The Master Chief Collection.

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Legendary Edition booklet

These are a handful of the storyboards included in the Halo 3 Legendary Edition storyboards book. For the most part, they are simply repeats of the ones featured further up this page.

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External links

• Halo 3 September 21 2006 Cutscenes - A playlist containing all animated storyboards found in the playtest build.