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Jack | Strider
@striderau.bsky.social
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Writer/narrative design, video editor, 3d/irl creations. Bird parent, drifting through life with ambientcosplay. Living in Sydney, AU.

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I bought, read and finished Arborescence by Rhett Davis today - I don't even know where to begin on how I feel, other than being totally annihilated.

Some books make my brain feel content, but this hurt my heart in a way that it hasn't been in a while, and made me cry. Thanks Rhett!
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
striderau.bsky.social
got some actual variations going now 🏃
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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main base of the suit is the vacsuits you can find on Perimeter inside the Hauler - took a really long while for me to sculpt the body to fit the original BoB I did from years ago, but it's a pretty solid start to my collection of classic assets in the new artstyle 🙂
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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BoB has been BBQing my brain the past 24 hours, but the main base is finally done. Will be doing gender variants + headpiece / eyepieces tomorrow maybe.

#marathonthegame #wip #fanart #3D
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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doing something different for once 💚

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #animation #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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what to save and throw away
#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
fanart of Bungie's Marathon game - featuring 'Thief' and 'Void'. Thief stands in the foreground, surrounded by mist and smoke - she holds a small coin-like object in her right hand, her eyes piercing through it like a sword. Holding her rifle in her left hand, its held low - all her attention focused into this little thing. In the background, Void lays dead by her hand (or her rifle, if you prefer). He's bled out quite significantly, his loot bag hardly even touched. She was after that 'coin'. It has some value, maybe more than others realise.
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Twice betrayed, and then some

#halo #combatevolved #campaignevolved #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
3D rendered fanart of Master Chief from Halo: Combat Evolved, depicting a scene from the level Two Betrayals. The lighting has harsh contrast, highlighting his upper body and helmet, while the background is dimly lit but appears misty/foggy. In the foreground, he fires rounds from his pistol into a Flood Combat Form, while another tries and fails to grab onto his gauntlet - flaring his energy shields across his arm and chest. In the background, he’s surrounded by Infection forms and a Carrier form. Overall, they appear more sickly than usual, slicked and hardened by ice and snowfall outside the room.
November 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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did you know that CE Anniversary doesn't have a Library page for the Master Chief? I decided to fix that 🙂

#Halo #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
Image depicts the Master Chief from Halo: Combat Evolved, with text descriptions informing the viewer of who he is and what he's experienced. The visuals of the image are meant to harken back to the game's instruction manual and associated marketing materials, featuring cool alien metals, indecipherable codes, and references to the past. TITLE: MASTER CHIEF: SPECIES: Human, Homo sapiens(?) FULL NAME: (REDACTED) SERVICE NUMBER: S-117 BRANCH: UNSC Navy HOMEWORLD: Eridanus II DATE OF BIRTH: (REDACTED) HEIGHT: 7’2” (218.0 cm) WEIGHT: 994.9 lb (451.3 kg) BIO: Known mainly by his rank, the Master Chief is now the last of his kind... a cyborg super-soldier bred for combat - and built for war. Possessing mastery of all weapons, and able to pilot nearly any vehicle, he and the other surviving defenders of the Pillar of Autumn narrowly escaped from the Covenant’s extermination on Reach, forced to leave his fellow SPARTANs behind. Now stranded on an ancient ringworld, the war continues as both sides fight to uncover the mysteries of HALO.
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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to clarify, I don't want to be antagonistic. But what does frustrate me is how what originally influenced and informed the design of everything from CE was wholly inspired by other forms of media, not inspired by itself.

All it takes is returning to those roots, that's the fix. Genuinely.
Blender viewport image of three different Halo designs of the Mark V. The left is the original CE Chief model, the middle is a modified version of Halo Infinite's Mark V model to match the proportions and details of the CE model, and the right model is the original unmodified Mark V Infinite asset.
October 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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F.E.A.R. turned 20 recently and I completely missed it thanks to the haze of root canal pain and creative obstruction.

To say that it had a massive influence on me would be an understatement. I'd planned to do a commemorative artwork but hadn't found the time. Upscaled textures, kitbashed parts.
October 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Spoilers below regarding the movie intermixed with my rambling thoughts and feelings. Don't venture in here unless you know what you're looking for
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Rescoping projects isn’t fun, I don’t enjoy it. But given how much content exists for it, it makes more sense to do it than throw it away.

So, my personal project is now becoming a novel! In-between reconsolidating and rewriting all existing content, I’m also working on its cover art. Very much WIP
White text on redacted black lines at the top of the image reads ‘CASSIDY VALE’. Dozens of cables coil and snake their way across a dirty, sandy road. Static pages sit in the middle of the road in-between two cables, flanked diagonally by bush, debris, rock and scrub.
September 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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close-ups of the kit-bash for those curious 🙂

Inspired by @rythaze.bsky.social's depiction of the MJOLNIR cyborgs in the new artstyle, as well as the color scheme of the original sprites / Craig Mullins artwork for the Marathon Trilogy's CS release. Uses Locus, Blackbird, Void and Lukas' parts
September 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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That Old, Familiar Feeling

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
Fanart of Bungie’s Marathon reboot - the figure standing in the foreground is a revised appearance for the classic trilogy’s playable protagonist ‘Recon 54’, a Mark IV MJOLNIR Cyborg. This is also normally where I would write up lots of descriptive imagery, such as the shade of white on his helmet, or the cool blue fabric bands around his biceps - but there are many secrets in this image that must be found 🤫
September 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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let me cook
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Sph't Happens

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
Fanart of Marathon (2026?) - runner character 'Glitch' pilfers through the contents of another runners 'corpse-bag', finding an item of interest. In the background, a Sph't Compiler rises from the depths, no longer curious but hostile.
September 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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green
September 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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help me decide what my next artwork will be!

I'm not capable of picking it myself as I am cursed with pickiness and can never decide one option when multiple are in play)
September 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Bob's Big Comeback

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
Fanart of Marathon (2026?), very vibrantly red lighting and environment, featuring Locus and a BoB. Locus is heavily armed and ready for a fight, and BoB's got a brand new gun. The Marathon looms overhead, as does one of Tau Ceti IV's many moons. A human skeleton lays crumpled against a log, water lapping at the bones.
September 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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rat
August 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Thanks 🙂 definitely think this latest one is more 1:1 compared to the other pieces I'd done, the others were mostly derived from his vibes, environments, or atmosphere.
July 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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!2@!`~*(_ Use %``934~ autom#tic
teleporter to ~l1leave

#MarathonTheGame #fanart #artwork #3D #BlueskyArt
Depicts the character Blackbird, from Bungie's Marathon. The environment a recreation of an earlier Craig Mullins piece of fanart for the original games. A highly cybernetically augmented figure stands in the middle of a circular structure, lined with pipes, decals, and curved ridges in the walls. The figure has a feminine figure and appearance, and stares into the camera, their helmet opened up to expose electronics and emissive materials. The light from the helmet is spread within the helmet itself, their upper torso, and some reflects on the barrel of their rifle, held in a high-ready position under one arm, the other having touched panels in their hand to activate the function of their helmet opening.
June 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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more long distance action
June 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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still alive, just been trying to stay busy 😪
June 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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modded Helldivers 2 with a LOT of Halo assets and now I'm pining for a franchise experience that's never existed before
screenshot of a modded version of HELLDIVERS 2, almost every single asset has been replaced by models and textures from the Halo series. A covenant ship hangs in the sky, while a human UNSC ship orbits near it. On the ground, a warthog races past quickly, the driver wearing ODST armor. The player character runs adjacent to the warathog, wearing Macworld 1999 (Orion) armor and carrying both a Halo 2 machine gun and Halo CE Magnum.
May 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM