I'm in my pajamas.

: Oh. My. Glob .

I now know what your more fashion conscious Spartans are like...

: It is no joke to say that the attention paid to the details in this
: particular pursuit (female S2s) has made what could have been something
: "quick and easy" take a tremendous amount of time to get right.
: This is also why the image seen of the physique is described as the
: initial piece -- we're still applying what we've learned to the design.

I have no doubt that this fan project has nothing but extensive research put behind it for absolutely everything. I'll speak for everyone here (whether you peeps like it or not) and say that it's something we dearly appreciate.

: One thing I will say of that initial character art, though, is that that is
: one dense body. It's not yet the crazy-detailed sort of image that you
: got with the S2 Content Creation Guide, but all of that visual information
: is definitely in the design -- it's just not expressed, yet.

Like I said, your representations are very similar to Reach. You can sense the mass in the bodies just by looking at them for both male and female models.