Halo-Themed Forza Cars: A Winner is Who?

"While I haven’t got around to making a car of my own yet (trust me, your eyes are ultimately grateful that I haven’t spent too much time in the livery editor), a bunch of folks from the Bungie community have been crafting beautiful, in some cases simple, in others intricate Halo-themed designs using Forza 2’s editor.

Originally, there were only going to be three prizemobiles handed out, but I caved and begged Che for some bonus treats because I had to include a fourth car. Before the grand reveal, a few notes on how the livery editor in Forza 2 works, so the images below can punch you in the face with the correct amount of velocity.

Designers often start with a car like the Mini Cooper (I’m told, I didn’t get much further than placing a single hexagon on the hood of a Volkswagen Golf), because the roof is a large virtual canvas to work with. Shapes are placed on top of one another in various layers eventually forming shapes and images like those you are about to see. The following images are not scanned in, nor drawn free-hand – instead they are the product of hours of work, work that is placing shapes on top of one another and adjusting their colors to make these small shapes into a single, complete image.

Seenfromplanes did a supremely realistic mock-up of three"