WETA Makes Fully Functional Warthog
- Scribbled on July 21st, 2007 by Devin Grimes
- Filed in Microsoft Xbox 360, Shooter
At Microsoft’s E3 2007 press conference, Director Neil Blomkamp fulfilled every Halo fanboy’s inner dreams by bringing the series out of its polygonal past and into the real world, using fully-functional models. Among them is one of the most iconic vehicles in Halo: the Warthog.
Peter Jackson’s WETA workshop didn’t mess around with computer generated models. Instead they took the hard route and came up with a pretty damn impressive rendition. Bungie’s Frank O’Connor shares a reaction with all of us:
Um. The dudes at WETA made a Warthog. I don’t mean that they made a big plastic thing that looks like a Warthog. I mean they built a fully-functioning, four-wheel steering, powerful, off-road vehicle with a machine gun on the back. At the correct scale. If you live near Wellington, New Zealand, you might even see some crazy machine-shop dude from WETA fishtailing around your base, ahem, I mean neighborhood….Goddamn. It’s a Warthog.
The vehicle was created for a series of short films that will slowly funnel out onto the Xbox Live Marketplace, building up to Halo 3’s eventual release on September 25th.
July 22nd, 2007 at 3:19 am
Looks like a puma
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 am
I know it’s knit picking but I wish someone was standing beside it for scale.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
That’s pure badassery at its best. WHY WAS THIS MOVIE DELAYED?