Ravi Star

Indian-American, veg-edge, psychology, spirituality, philosophy, politics // huskies, video games // MANTRA, The Pledge, xPaddingtonx

[Ravi Star @RaviXStar]

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[XBOX @XBOX]

@DestinyTheGame Once a Guardian, always a Guardian 💚

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

"Thank you for walking with me all these years."

[Ravi Star @RaviXStar]

@JosephBiwald Some of the most iconic and stunning visuals of the series. The Beyond Light and Lightfall images have spent so much time as background for my console profile and backgrounds, respectively.

[Biwald @JosephBiwald]

Destiny 2 left a permanent mark on my life.

The memories I’ve made with this game, both as a player and as someone lucky enough to work on it, will forever stay with me. Not just because of late nights running King’s Fall with friends, or grinding out the Crucible Glorious Seal in solo queue like a complete maniac, but because Destiny 2 challenged me, shaped me, and pushed me toward becoming the creative I am today.

My journey into digital art and photography started back in 2007, when I began taking screenshots in Halo 3 and entering @Bungie community art contests. The relationships I built during that time eventually opened the door to an opportunity with Bungie’s Gameplay Capture team in 2014, helping the team capture footage for a new game called Destiny. I had no idea then that a commendably short two-week contract would turn into an incredible 12-year journey with this franchise.

I originally came to Bungie hoping to pursue environmental concept art, but along the way I had the opportunity to work on marketing art and quickly fell in love with it. Creating marketing art for a franchise like Destiny challenged me in so many different ways. It forced me to expand my technical, creative, and communication skill sets, constantly adapt, and keep learning new tools and workflows just to keep pace with the live-service beast that was Destiny 2. 

It means a lot to be able to look back and say with confidence that I had a visual impact on @DestinyTheGame; but the most meaningful part of it all was getting to work alongside and learn from so many incredible artists at Bungie, and seeing firsthand just how much care, effort, and humanity it takes to make work like this possible. It’s hard to fully capture how much energy, skill, and collaboration goes into every visual part of a game like Destiny 2. That work is shaped by artists from different backgrounds, experiences, disciplines, and perspectives. Each of them, including me, left a small part of themselves in what they created. To me, that’s what makes a game like Destiny 2 feel truly meaningful and memorable.

Especially now, in a world increasingly saturated with content and driven by instant output and gratification through AI, I keep coming back to the value of process. For me, and for so many of my peers, it was never only about arriving at the final image. It was about the journey it took to get there. The late nights. The iteration. The problem-solving. The trust. The shared pursuit of trying to make something special.

To my peers, I’m deeply proud of what we built together, but even more grateful for how we built it. We challenged each other, inspired each other, and kept showing up for one another through every high and low, as Destiny 2 has had many. That kind of shared effort leaves a lasting mark. What we made mattered. What we gave mattered. And the impact of what we built together will stay with us, and this community, for a long time.

Shoutout to the current and former members of Creative Studios, the VizD team, and the many Bungie developers and marketers who helped shape this chapter of my life. I’m especially grateful to the teammates who believed in me, encouraged me to embrace failure and new beginnings as essential parts of artistic growth, and pushed me to take on challenges even when they felt beyond my reach. You showed me that the strength of a team will always surpass that of any individual hero.

As my work on #Destiny2 comes to a close and I look toward the future, I plan to spend the next few weeks sharing some of the pieces I had the chance to create or art direct that mean the most to me. 

For now, I’ll leave you all with a collage of some of my personal favorite pieces to work on across Destiny 2’s lifetime. These projects mean so much to me because many of them started as personal passion projects or late-night concept sketches, inspired by playing early builds of Destiny 2 and by the incredible work of our development team.

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

Your computer and phone's new wallpapers have arrived.

Download the full resolution versions at https://t.co/dwPBFZTStN.

[Destiny 2 Team @Destiny2Team]

@D2cbro Holy shit

[Ravi Star @RaviXStar]

@CODMW4Informer Yes please!!

[cbro @D2cbro]

Destiny 2 reached 1 million active daily players on June 9.

SOURCE: pgcr report

[Ciri @xCiriys]

So you can change the MW of any tiered weapon by completing shattered throne. Surely a glitch but abuse it whilst you can!

[I Am Fallout @falloutplays]

D2 #1 seller on steam plus 160k concurrent players with thousands watching on Twitch and in-chat hype across summer game fest / sony state of play / xbox showcase @Sony if y'all don't greenlight D3 on god imma burst into your bedrooms on horseback like William Wallace

[cbro @D2cbro]

Announcing destiny report

Search and filter every Destiny 2 weapon by name, perk, frame, archetype, damage type, ammo, and source.

It's fast. Scroll through all 1700+ weapons at 100+fps.

More updates to come. Check it out.

[I Am Fallout @falloutplays]

Final title screen. Absolute Cinema.

[Ravi Star @RaviXStar]

@DustinThaxton

[Dustin Thaxton @DustinThaxton]

Per ardua ad astra.

I'm was able to design D2's final Director layout. What a privilege!

I'm thankful to my team members, which includes my fiancé who I met at Bungie, who all put great effort into creating it alongside me.

See yall tomorrow.

[dmg04 @A_dmg04]

Prep is done. All that’s left is to launch this sucker… and play.

Thank you all for the kind words over the last few weeks. Hope that MoT serves you well.

Watch our official channels for support comms and updates through the day.

Sleep well. Dream big. Play hard.

Much love. 💛

[Destiny 2 Team @Destiny2Team]

Thank you to everyone signing in to join us for Monument of Triumph.

We've seen quite a few fireteams reuniting, groups memorizing Pantheon patterns to prep for Saturday's gauntlet, and many asking for clues about [REDACTED].

Those nailbiter SRL finishes? And the drip with all this new armor?

What a wild day so far.

Keep it up.

[Destiny 2 Team @Destiny2Team]

To the Destiny 2 community,

Thank you.

As artists, our goal has always been to create worlds filled with wonder, mystery, beauty, and adventure. But what brings those worlds to life is you. You take our designs, our napkin sketches, our "wouldn't it be cool if..." ideas and transform them into something real. Your creativity, your passion, and your love for the game give our work purpose.

We've always believed Destiny could be a place where expression is celebrated, where players can see themselves and each other in the worlds we build, where every Guardian can forge their own legend—and you proved it.

Watching your Guardians grow, embrace new allies, take down bigger and badder bosses, solve mind-bending puzzles, dodge death traps, avoid Taken boopers, and overcome every Raid challenge we throw at you—all while looking incredible—has been a constant reminder of why this universe matters.

You shaped it. You made it matter. You are the light of Destiny.

With Monument of Triumph, we set out to create a series of love letters to Guardians, new and old. We shared a preview last week of armor inspired by early designs from the original Destiny but have also sprinkled some winks and nods throughout the rewards releasing tomorrow. We hope they feel like a small thank you for everything you’ve given us.

From all of us on the Destiny 2 art team, thank you for supporting us, inspiring us, and continuing to bring this world to life in ways we could never have imagined. You give our art meaning.

With gratitude,
The Destiny 2 Art Team

[Destiny Bulletin @DestinyBulletn]

The "Server Offline" text for the final Destiny 2 update:

"We built a universe. Guardians like you filled it with meaning. Thank you from all of us on Destiny 2."