TEAM BEHIND HALO ARMOR BUILDS ZOOM SUIT

Nightmare Armor Studios, the team responsible for the creation of the real life Master Chief Armor from the video game Halo, has built a life sized replica of the alien suit featured in the award-winning animated short and soon-to-be comic, Zoom Suit.

The creation of the Zoom Suit took master sculptor Sid Garrand and six artists and craftsmen approximately ninety days. The complexity and high tech aspect of the costume, such as the moving parts and numerous lights, made the task even more challenging.

“I think it’s exciting and very original,” said Garrand. “We’re excited to deliver the best armored Zoom Suit possible. We came up with some very cool concepts for the costume. The suit has chrome plating on numerous parts, candy apple green and blue automotive painted parts and green LEDs to match the alien glow featured in the comic and animation. It’s awesome and we’re thrilled to be the group chosen to bring the Zoom Suit to life. We received a tremendous amount of attention from our work with Microsoft and expect a similar reaction to the Zoom Suit. This project is by far the highest quality of work we’ve ever done.”

The award-winning animated short Zoom Suit, created by John Taddeo, can be seen online at http://www.superverse.com/. The Zoom Suit comic book will be solicited in the February edition of Previews for items shipping in April 2006.

“I saw the Master Chief Armor at MegaCon last year and knew instantly that Nightmare Armor Studios were the guys for this job,” said Zoom Suit writer and director John Taddeo. “This is a work of art. Sid and the guys did a great job. We’ll be bringing Zoom with us to MegaCon 2006, so stop by for a photo.”