Editing Dhabih Eng

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|name=Dhabih Eng
|image=Dhabih Eng bust.jpg
|imagesize=200px
|birth=
|birthplace=[[wikipedia:Taiwan|Taiwan]]<ref name="About">[http://web.archive.org/web/19990417200932/http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/about.html About] on Dhabih Eng's personal website</ref>
|occupation=Conceptual artist
|timeperiod=1998 - Present<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20140820163114/http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html People] on valvesoftware.com (August 20, 2014)</ref>
}}
'''Dhabih Eng''' is a conceptual artist who works at [[Valve]].

==Biography==
{{ParagraphQuote|Dhabih, who's been playing games since he was six years old, has a degree in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Washington. He started making a name for himself by doing freelance design work for gaming magazines (Electronic Gaming Monthly, Official Playstation Magazine, PC Gaming World) while still in school. Dhabih has also done web design and worked on the ''Quake2 TC'' pack ''Zaero'' from Team Evolve. He started at Valve by doing freelance work in mid-1998, and signed on full-time in early February of 1999. Dhabih is truly a world citizen, having grown up in six different countries (Australia, Macau, Canada, China, Taiwan, and the USA).|[http://web.archive.org/web/20140820163114/http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html Source]|August 20, 2014}}

===''[[Half-Life]]''===
Promotional artwork and texture work (with [[Chuck Jones]]).<ref name="Raising the Bar">''[[Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar]]''</ref>

====Gallery====
<gallery>
File:Vortigaunt silo.jpg|Promotional artwork for the Vortigaunt.
File:Vortigaunt water.jpg|{{Abbr|Another version|It was used as a cover for the Game Developer magazine, December 1999 issue.}} with a different background.
File:Alien grunt concept black.jpg|Alien Grunt.
File:DhabihEng AgruntGordon.jpg|Gordon facing off against an Alien Grunt.
File:Gordonclose2.jpg
File:HL boxart inside.jpg
File:Gordon game of the year.jpg
File:Art-gordon-greybg.jpg|Gordon Freeman standing.
File:Art-gordon-greybg glassless.jpg|Edited version without glasses.
File:Gordon HL1 promo.jpg
File:HL steam background.png|The background for Steam version of ''Half-Life''.
File:HL PS2 Cover.jpg|The box art for PlayStation 2 version of ''Half-Life''.
File:HLwallpaper02 16x9.jpg|25th Anniversary Update wallpaper.
File:HLwallpaper03 16x9.jpg|Ditto.
File:HLwallpaper04 16x9.jpg|Ditto.
File:HLphone01 18x9.jpg|Ditto, phone wallpaper.
File:HLphone02 18x9.jpg|Ditto.
</gallery>

===''[[Half-Life 2]]''===
{{Columns|4|
*The [[Alien Assassin]]<ref name="Raising the Bar"/>
*[[Alyx Vance]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Antlion]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Black Mesa East]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Breencast#Behind the scenes|original Breencast]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Canals]] (with [[Tri Nguyen]] and [[Viktor Antonov]])<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*An early [[Citadel]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[List of Citizen models#Gas mask Citizen version, a.k.a. "Citizen 17"|gas mask Citizen]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[City Scanner]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Combine Guard (Synth)|Synth Combine Guard]]<ref name="Dhabih31337Tweet">{{TwitterQuote|dhabiheng/status/1587615995224473602|Found!  Original Half-life 2 Combine Elite...as you can tell from the 31337 on hit shoulder.  Which, in my defense, was HILARIOUS back in 2001.|dhabiheng|November 1, 2022|[[Dhabih Eng]]}}</ref><ref>{{TwitterQuote|dhabiheng/status/1587615011161001984|yes! thanks for sharing this, I haven't seen this in years.  Was made probably around 2000 or 2001|dhabiheng|November 1, 2022|[[Dhabih Eng]]}}</ref>
*The [[Combine Guard (human)|human Combine Guard]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Combot]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Conscripts]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Crab Synth]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Cremator]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[:File:Dropship leak.jpg|original Combine Dropship]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Eli Vance]] and his early incarnations, Eli Maxwell and Captain Vance<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Elite Metro Cop]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[The G-Man]] (with [[Bill Van Buren]] and [[Doug Wood]])<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Gordon Freeman]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Kleiner's Lab]] (with [[Eric Kirchmer]])<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Civil Protection|Metrocop]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[memory replacement]] device<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Nova Prospekt]] (with Viktor Antonov and Eric Kirchmer)<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Combine Soldier]] (helmet)<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Skitch]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*The [[Vorti-Cell]]<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
*[[Wallace Breen|The Consul/Wallace Breen]] (with [[Ted Backman]])<ref name="Raising the Bar" />
}}

====Gallery====
<gallery>
File:HL2 Gordon cover.png|The box art for ''Half-Life 2'', Gordon Freeman version.
File:Gordon head cover.png|Without the text.
File:HL2 Alyx cover.png|The box art for ''Half-Life 2'', Alyx Vance version.
File:Alyx Vance head.png|Without the text.
File:HL2 G-Man cover.png|The box art for ''Half-Life 2'', The G-Man version.
File:G-Man head.png|Without the text.
File:Game of the year hl2.jpg|The box art for ''Half-Life 2'', "Game of the Year" edition.
File:OrangeBoxCover.jpg|The box art for The Orange Box.
File:Episode Two poster remade.jpg|Poster for ''Episode Two''.
File:HL2EP2 Art 01.jpg|''Episode Two'' promotional artwork.
File:HL2EP2 Art 02.jpg|Ditto, alternate version with different expression on Alyx.
File:Raising the Bar cover.jpg|The cover for ''Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar''.
File:Gordon rubble crowbar complete.png
File:Barnacle Gordon.jpg
File:Barnacle Gordon nohl2.png
File:Freeman bust.jpg
File:Dhabih EarlyAlyxPromo.jpg|Early promo art of Alyx that went unused because the team decided against a sombre tone for Alyx.
File:Alyx gordon weapons.jpg
File:Gordon bust rtb1.jpg
File:Gordonalyx2.jpg
File:Gordonalyx2 nohl2.png
File:Gordonalyx2 highres.jpg
File:Gordon Facebook.jpg
File:Gordon crowbar enemies.jpg
File:Gordon early lower citadel.jpg
File:Alyx headset.jpg
Alyx and conscripts full.jpg
File:Concept art eli gordon alyx skitch.jpg
File:HL2 Gordon background.png
File:Desktop7 1600x.jpg
File:Combine light concept.jpg
File:03 Vance+Vance-6.png
File:03 Vance+Vance-2.png
File:03 Vance+Vance-5.png
File:Maxwell lab concept.jpg
File:Consul bust.jpg
File:Consul2.jpg
File:Gordon consul gunpoint.jpg
File:Soldier memory replacement.jpg
File:Combine Elite2 copy.png
File:Trenchcoat CG.jpg
File:Combine Guard egghead.jpg
File:Combine Guard 3.jpg
File:Dropship concept0.jpg
File:Synths 2.jpg
File:Synth concept 2.jpg
File:Combot concepts.jpg
File:Alien Assassin concept.jpg
File:Cremator2.jpg
File:Antlion con.jpg
File:Antlion side.jpg
File:Antlion side red.jpg
File:Citizens-10.png
File:Vorti-Cell.jpg
File:Breencast compound eyes.jpg
File:Breencast c17 04.jpg
File:Canals yellow.jpg
File:Nova prospekt corridor.jpg
File:Np stairs.jpg
File:Nova prospekt unnamed device.jpg
File:Nova prospekt tech.jpg
File:Kleiners teleport2.jpg
File:Train city 17.jpg
File:Trainlogo.svg
</gallery>

==Selected gameography==
*''[[Half-Life]]'' (1998)
*''[[Half-Life: Opposing Force]]'' (1999)
*[[Half-Life (Dreamcast port)|''Half-Life'' (Dreamcast port)]] (2001)
*[[Half-Life (PlayStation 2 port)|''Half-Life'' (PlayStation 2 port)]] (2001)
*''[[Half-Life: Blue Shift]]'' (2001)
*''[[Half-Life: Source]]'' (2004)
*''[[Half-Life 2]]'' (2004)
*''[[Half-Life 2: Episode One]]'' (2006)
*''[[Half-Life 2: Episode Two]]'' (2007)
*''[[Portal]]'' (2007)
*''[[Portal 2]]'' (2011)

==See also==
*''[[Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Twitter|dhabiheng}}
*{{IA|20090220140250/http://sijun.com/|Personal website}}
*{{IA|20030326074441/http://www.dhabih.com/|Photography website}}

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