William O'Brien

Screenshot from ViDoc: Et Tu Brute, camera opens on a table with four Bungie staff being Interviewed from left to right are Nathan Walpole, John, Bill O'Brien, and Jermey

William O'Brien is an American animator, artist, and video game producer. He is also a current employee of Bungie Studios. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, he attended art school and majored in animation. He specializes in both 2D and 3D animation.

He was credited as one of the animators for Halo 2.

Trivia

• "Robt McLees is definitely the go-to guy for the gun stuff," says William O' Brien, part of Halo 2's animation team, "I wanted to come up with an animation for the sniper scope, an 'idle cycle'. If you activate the scope, and then sit too long without doing anything, the animation would kick in periodically, just to keep things interesting... Simple, right?... He replied, 'No way. If you adjust your scope in the field, you're dead. Snipers don't do that. That's how detailed his weapon designs are -- not just guns, but how they work, and how a sniper would fire them. Amazing."
• O'Brien had an ODST don his name in the short, Another Day at the Beach. His ODST character died in a Pelican crash in the events.

Links

• Bill O'Brien at Bungie.net