I'd have to say Tanaka's was definitely my favorite of the 4, though I do like what you did with Locke. I will say that Locke's new chest certainly reminds me of Master Chief's, which is fitting given what 343i had planned for the character.
The big problem with the 343 art style is the overuse of details they complicate stuff too much the Bungie hit the perfect nail on the head with the designs i like infinite as they have finally mixed both styles well
@@jackcolson4745 Adding more lines and visual noise doesn't necessarily make an artstyle better buddy. Less is more as they say, and in this case it's a lot more visually appealing while still being distinctive.
LORE TIME: After H5 Buck returned to Alpha-9 team (from H3: ODST), Vale is with Arbiter fighting against Covenant rebels on Sanghelios, state of H. Tanaka is unknown; Locke is either dead (due to his helmet gained as a trophy by Hyperius) or scouting somewhere on Zeta Halo
9:18 Lock’s is definitely my favorite of the re-redesigns. I love the use of the Modified Mark 6 chest piece and the mouth piece was tightened up to fit with his original design a bit more. Looking less like a mouth plate and more like a breathing apparatus. Boxing it up also helped separate the armor visually from the suit underneath. Lock’s original armor looked like something from Crysis where it was just a metal skin suit. The dark teal of the armor also makes the visor not overly dramatic having the colors with a hierarchical increase in brightness from the suit to the armor to the visor. Which also gives him his own color that separates him from Buck visually.
Absolutely dig the effort to make Buck's armor look more like an ODST, big props to that. I don't think you give yourself enough credit with Vale's armor, I can definitely put her side to side with Chief and tell where there are some smoother elements that emulate Elite armor while still clearly being Spartan Mjolnir armor, really nice touch. And good call taking more cues from Locke's original helmet while still making it fit more cleanly with the Infinite art style, impressive work all around.
Love this group of redesigns and would love to see blue team done in your style. I do have to say I adore your first redesign of Vale's helmet and I was hoping to see more of it come through in the new one, but it is what it is. Well done my friend. Love your content.
Gotta say, I was really impressed by Vale's redesign. The chest piece you made really reminds me of the Combat Harnesses that Elites wore in Halo 3. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but it was a great idea, and it really does blend the classic artstyle, alien look, and spartan look all together in a great package!
Funny how using more realistic shapes for armor just looks so much better, almost like 343 really goofed up with certain armor designs in the Reclaimer saga
If/when Osiris make a return, I think Buck's armor should stay mostly the same. As for Locke, I've had the idea for a while that he should get an Infinite campaign DLC to himself, where he starts off missing large parts of his armor and has to scavenge for usable components, ending up with a really kitbashed design blending Human, Brute, and Elite elements.
@anouaressanoussi Honestly I've kind of assumed Jun is already planned to appear in Infinite in some way. There's so many things in and around Infinite that seem meant to have us thinking about not only Reach, but Jun specifically.
It’s kind of hard to do that unless Locke can somehow engineer or reverse engineer the armor pieces he finds if he requires a MJOLNIR suit. That would be hard to do. Unless he’s sophisticated enough to do so. Or maybe he’d just have to sneak around and use guerrilla warfare and get creative somehow, which would be extremely hard to do.
I really gotta say, your redesign of Buck impressed me throughly. the main problem with his Halo 5 armor, was that it resembled ODST, but not enough. the chestpiece wasn't quite recognizable, the shoulders were the only thing about it (aside from the obvious helmet) that I recognized as ODST, although it looked off to me. Your version captures the aesthetics of the ENTIRE armor. shoulder are very accurate, the chest bears greater resemblance while still keeping its unique style and the overall shape and detailing on the forearm and leg armor definitely gives me the right vibes. The helmet is most definitely still perfect though. I even prefer it over the older redesign, due to its more ODST-like shape and all that. I know many like the Helljumper helmet because of the shape, but to me it felt a bit exaggerated. All in all, a wonderful redesign on all of them though! Keep it up!
The best part of this video, wasn't the design improvements, but just seeing how amazingly far as an artist you've gone. It's so cool seeing the new textures and details that you didn't play with back then. All of the helmets are a drastic improvement, though I think the exception might be Vale's. I REALLY like your old version of her helmet. Speaking of which... Did you make her chest piece an Elite Combat Harness? 'Cause that shape is incredibly familiar. I also adore how you made Buck look like an ODST, that was my biggest frustration with his 5 inclusion, his chest and shoulders didn't look very traditional.
I’m glad I’ve improved. Thanks Nefnoj! And yeah I realized her chestpiece started to look a little Elite-like, so I gave her some lights which just enhanced that. I’m glad you noticed!
Lock looks mean and scary if that was hunting you. And buck looks like he’s a ODST supporting Spartans, but a bulked up one that holds his own too! I love the designs
Even though I like the redux designs more than the old designs, I still love your first take on Vale's helmet. Weirdly enough the new redesign almost looks like an entirely new helmet, which is cool since both of them look great next to each other!
@@OD_047 you know there are multiple artists at 343 right? Just because some designs aren’t the best doesn’t mean one person joining will fix all of them
Fantastic work on the redesigns, they definitely make Fireteam Osiris look a lot more Halo-esque to someone who's not familiar with Halo 5. It's great to see your work become more refined with each video!
These all look cool I do feel like I prefer your old redesigned helmets for Vale/Locke, but these here still look dope I hope we see Locke come back into the story in some form soon, especially with how him and Operation Breaker Trip have been mentioned a few times
The Tanaka redesign is by far my favorite, I could maybe use something (maybe a hip or chest piece) to make her stand out as a techie or engineer but otherwise it looks good. The buck one is very loyal to all of the source material while still being unique so that's a close second. Locke while being closer to the halo infinite art style feels like it's missing a little something to build on his established character but I really can't put my finger on it (not great constructive criticism if I can't give specifics I know...). I think Vale is my least favorite of the redesigns. I think you took it too far in the other direction and now she looks too plain, taking away what made her unique. With the sangheli and the UNSC cooperating more in this era of halo (infinite era) and with Vale being a Xenoanthropologist it would be nice to see her integrate some sangheli tech/design into her armor while still leaning into the more traditional halo infinite style (think the banished trophy shoulderpads for the rakshasa core but maybe toned down a little and less ragged and/or maybe an energy bayonette for her SMG). I'm sure some people will disagree with my takes but it's always fun to hear other people's opinions so I thought I'd share mine. Interested to see if people share a similar opinion, disagree, or build on my ideas.
1. Locke/Buck Both are bad ass and fitting. Both look like a accumulation of the entire series. Locke looks like a apex predator able to take hits and dish them out. If I had to pick something I guess make his colors more readable. Its hard to see the grey from the blue and black. Maybe adding some saturation the blue and strengthening the grey would help idk. Buck looks like a tracker and the general purpose teammate. Capable of helping any of them with their specialties. I would add a screen to his forearm and Im curious to see what he would look like with a rendition of ODST knee armor. 2. Vale, I love both helmet designs and idk how you can strike lighting like that twice. Her torso I feel like is missing some minor details. Like those little bumps can be a bit bigger like intakes similar to Tanakas but rounder. 3. Tanaka again, helmet is amazing. But shes third because the chest piece doesnt fit the look of the helmet, arms, and legs. Maybe high light the blue on the edges more so its color matched to the helmet and then some cross bracing that looks similar to the forearm and shin.(im going to do my best to describe this in writing) right at the U part on the chest and the part thats swooping under the arm pit. Right there. Then the shoulder pieces can connect the flat surface of the arms and rounder surface of the torso by flattening the surface of the shoulder piece along the middle gray part and keeping the "wings" the same as they are now.
There's a lot to love about these redesigns, and I think you managed to strike a great balance between simplifying the clutter of Halo 5's over-greebly armor but still giving each suit a unique personality. I actually think you struck the perfect mix of curve and structure with Vale's armor, which reminds me a lot of an elite combat harness. Buck looks like "more" of himself, which I think is very fitting for the ODST-turned-Spartan. But my favorite has to be Locke. You took an overly-detailed suit and turned into one stealth-jet of an armor set. The helmet especially looks like a sleeker, meaner version of the Soldier helmet, which I think is very fitting for ONI's top wetwork guy. Overall, these are extremely well done. Great work, as always!
7:09 I think I like your old design more for the helmet. It had that Alien look while still looking like a Spartan helmet. Had a ton of personality and I liked the angularity if the visor. The new one looks a bit too much like Air Assault. The old one also broke out the mold enough to look unique but wasn’t overdone.
I liked your old redesign for Bucks helmet better. But for Lock the new one I liked more. I also liked what you did with the others, Vale's new look for some reason was reminding me of Daisy from Halo Legends, yet the chest piece while definitely Spartan, also seemed to share similarities to a Sangheili combat harness, which you made work better than the original imo. I love the new looks, Lockes especially, looks like the kind of character that would be seen in a game like Republic Commando with a spec ops unit.
Vale and Locke's original designs are fine aside from the helmet. Vale's Elite inspired design and Locke's stealth infiltration purpose make sense for their characters. If they were to come back in Infinite, I wouldn't want them to change too much about their designs. I do agree completely with Buck and Tanaka should have a redesign to fit in line with Infinite. Tanaka's original design was already pretty close to traditional Spartans, so why not take it all the way. Similarly, there are plenty of ODST inspired Spartans armors, so it makes sense for them to migrate to it.
I think you should be a little bit more careful about removing color accents. Like keeping Vale's yellow lines on her chest piece or Tanaka's cyan pieces. I think they'd be more recognizable. Making Buck's visor blue makes him look classic yes but also like just another ODST. The green stood out. Just a few thoughts, great redesigns. I hope we get to see them again despite their cold reception in 5.
what software do you use to create your art? Also, would you ever make a video sort of with a time lapse of your process, or sort of describing how you work through making your art? Love the redesigns by the way, especially locke. It reminds me of reach concept art for the spartan 3s
Another amazing redesign! I like how traditional Buck's armor looks in the redesign, which is always a good sign. Vale too, I think, got a very good update. She now looks more of a fast skirmisher, fitting her role as a someone who would likely go in front and use close-quarters weapons and emphasise speed and maneuvarability over tankiness. I think that would also fit nicely with the aggressive fighting style that Elites typically seem to prefer. Lock I think looks by far the best, particularly with the helmet. The slight addition of the mouthpiece details makes the helmet look more like a skull, along with looking slimmer and more simple. It fits his sneaky aesthetic and emphasises his dangerous nature much more than the original design did. For Tanaka, the body armor looks great. However, I think your original redesign of her helmet was actually slightly better than this one. But that is subjective. Both redesigns of the helmet are amazing. Keep up the excellent work!
5:35 I like the up armored look Buck has here that makes him look like a beefed up ODST. The pouches are a good way to show his lack of over confidence since most of his time as an ODST required caution and patience. I do still like the old redesign but this one gives the implication of being on the front lines more vs the more stealthy ODST combat.
vale and locke are my favourite redesigns. I really love what you did with their helmets. I feel that these much more closely align with infinite 10/10
Something I appreciate about your redesigns of Reclaimer-era armor is that they almost all strike a good balance between the complexity of the original designs, and the simplicity of the Bungie designs. These redesigns are no exception and I would say do a good job of keeping the spirit of the original designs alive.
These are all great designs! I have to say I am one of the fans of Vale's OG armor, so your redesign is hard for me to like...but I do still think its good! Love your Buck and Tanaka! I gotta be honest tho, I still think Locke looks like a transformer lol. idk what it is that does that for me!? 😂 Maybe his visor is too "eye-like?" IDK. Great work tho man, I'll love these videos forever!
3:55 I like the sort of Astronaut look to her armor here. I think some of the red details on her armor like the shoulder would be good to keep for personality and would play into the astronaut look.
My god, the Vale redesgin is top tier, the groin plate, the darker under suit seem so simple. but they add ALOT to an originally over complicated design, "less is more"
I love Tanaka and Bucks design these two really stood out, looked really nice redesigned that it was like okay these look cool, they have had small changes to the point they look new but still recognised. Vale I will say it, I don’t like her redesign over the original, that iconic alien look that was hard etched into her character not only gave her an appealing look to her, but also gave her something that really stood out, that it felt like it was Halo 3 coop just instead having a Spartan in Sangheili clothing, even through the Multiplayer, going through so many req packs as I did to get that Armor, I never took it off as I got it. And lastly, Locke, this one I am so on the fence for, his old design had appeal but also felt like it was lacking something, the redesign feels similar, and it’s not down to the work, but I think the core of the armor itself, in my opinion it was like the Locke set didn’t know what it fully wanted to be, and didn’t quite have a clear direction like some of the more known Spartans and sets.
honestly i wish you kept more of the teal in tanaka's design and buck's green visor, since those made the designs more unique and i thought those aspects looked cool. i also think that a cyan visor on vale would be better since it would contrast with the red and make it pop. overall you did a good job with these redesigns, and they are very well painted. i also like what you did with the locke design. the new mouth part on his helmet looks way cooler imo.
Lorewise, I feel like Vale’s first redesign would be “just another” Spartan helmet designed during the later years of the Covenant War. Post-War, however, as human engineers work more closely with their new Sangheili allies, some design language (& maybe even technology) would be adopted from Sangheili combat harnesses, resulting in the new redesign being made as a testbed for integrating human & Sangheili technologies for some of the higher-tier Spartan 4’s. Later on, as humanity worked even more closely with Sangheili engineers & technology, a new armor design would be attempted, which would go “all in” with the Sangheili style of armored combat, resulting in Vale’s original design.
all stunning redesigns :) -for Buck, i like that his armor is more ODST-like, like an ODST taken up to 11, and then up to 22, but i would have tried to add in more shades of blacks to his coloration, and really drive the Super-ODST-ness, to have it be a black-on-black-on-black sort of design. -for Vale, i would have put more sangheili glyphs on her armor in various places, and made the 'Swords of Sanghelios' decals more prominent, maybe even somewhat superhero-like in their bold-ness, like DC's Flash (barry allen) with brighter yellows or golds to draw the eye, and really lean into the sangheili look with regard to paint and color, to contrast with the more spartan armor design and form, which would give her character a sense of having one foot in each world (spartans / sangheili). - for Locke, i would think that it would be truer to the concept of 'plausibly-deniable deep-black-ops special agent', if his armor was more a tri-color of sections of blacks, dark navy blues, and dark purples, which visually places Lock into an intentionally ambiguous place between spartan or sangheili, or some other unknown third thing, especially when in the fray of combat.
The new design of Locke reminds me of Kal Wardin from N.O.V.A (gameloft’s halo ripoff), but I honestly love it, since N.O.V.A held a lot of memories for me, it was my mobile halo game.
Olympia Vale and Spartan Locke (but his mask was a good change)look like a Warframe and really interesting for the game i dont think you should take that away but all of the others look perfect in their redesigns good job chef's kiss
Please please please do more full body redesigns. Blue team, GEN-2 armor in general, just please more. And with Halo 4 and 5 stances you could even have a pretty awesome reference image.
Vale I think is why there needs to be a singheli inspired core. One that can give elite players something to work with while still being a spartan for canon reasons
So far, this is one of your best videos, and an improvement other the first Fireteam Osiris video. Lock and Buck look infinitely better, alongside Vale and Tanaka. Since you have done this, any plans on doing one for Blue Team?
While I can definitely say I love the old redesigns, these ones are amazing! Honestly, just these redesigns alone would have been enough to make me actually like Osiris
Every helmet is clearly better than the first iteration, and the softer painting style looks a lot better than the hard edged style you used to use. I'd love to see Blue Team!
You're old design for lockes helmet give me more of a Deadspace 2 which I definitely don't mind. Overall tho these redesigns are absolutely fantastic 343 really should hire you on as an armor designer
I like seeing the evolution between your old redesigns, and your new redesigns. Interesting to see how you've changed over time. :) Isn't Spartan Locke's helmet technically already in the game, though? I thought his helmet was attached to a brute's armor, which started some kind of debate around if Locke was dead or not.
I love old Vale but new Vale just slaps! And my favourite has to be Locke, I think if he'd turned up like that in the game I wouldn't have hated him on sight as I did in the OG H5! You did the unthinkable lol
Vale's is my favorite, especially the chest piece you did for her. I am not sure if you intentionally did it, but you made her chest piece resemble an elite's armored chest piece form Halo 3. With the 2 lights, and the it splitting in the middle. It looks like an elite armor piece repurposed for a spartan. Which fits her super well. Idea for potential redesigns. What if you did spartan armors inspired by elite armor, or vice versa? Just a random thought I had after typing this comment. Great work as always.
Alright review here we go- Tanaka: Good, but I wish you would've kept the cyan piping on her body armor. The cyan to me was Tanaka's signature thing so it sucks to see it go. (Everything else is 10/10) Thick•ss Thi- .. I mean.. Vale: AWESOME!!! The basic geometry would fit right in in Halo 2! The Elite combat harness design in the chest is killer. Seems like it'd fit right in as a female Spartan model in the classic games! Buck: Dang that's actually good! Buck's my favorite out of the H5 bunch, and I'd say you kept every notable design element while giving it that classic UNSC angular feel. A 10/10 translation. Locke: HO-LY, YES! You genuinely surprised me with how good this one is. Again, kept all the notable features pretty much 1 to 1, so props there. The new helmet design is so slick. That's honestly perfect. I think I might have the shield emitter/coolant piping element.. maybe adding an 'underglow' effect around the bottom of the chest piece but.. that might look weird. You could go with larger shield emitters to make it more subtle while still implying a 'prototype technology' angle.. But yeah! That element I could live with or without if only to make him a little more uniform with the Chief. Seeing them fight side by side would be.. *sick* to say the least. Great job man! By far the best Halo content coming out right now, at least.. in terms of that bell ding being _good news._ X) Cheers man!
I think Fireteam Osiris would fit well with either the Rakshasa or upcoming SPI cores, the sleeker designs follow the design language of those cores well And especially with locke being headhunter-ish, he would likely have already been outfited with the Rakshasa armor core
Which redesign was YOUR favorite?
Locke looks pretty dang good. I can't help but feel he's lacking a certain quirk that differentiates him as an ONI agent but besides that it's great.
Locke mostly because of that helmet. Man that shit goes HARD
I'd have to say Tanaka's was definitely my favorite of the 4, though I do like what you did with Locke. I will say that Locke's new chest certainly reminds me of Master Chief's, which is fitting given what 343i had planned for the character.
I like the redesign of Vale. The body shape remind me a lot of the Elite design of Halo 1 and 2.
Buck's redesign is the best out of all of these..
I love how the "Redesign" is simply getting rid of so much unnecessary visual clutter for smooth, but more defined areas of depth. Amazing work.
The big problem with the 343 art style is the overuse of details they complicate stuff too much the Bungie hit the perfect nail on the head with the designs i like infinite as they have finally mixed both styles well
I hate how the "redesign" gets rid of all the detail that made each set unique, making them look flat and generic.
@@jackcolson4745 Someone's a bit salty and is factually incorrect lmao.
@@jackcolson4745 if by "unique" you mean grotesque and ugly, then yeah, you'd be right. Glad we agree.
@@jackcolson4745 Adding more lines and visual noise doesn't necessarily make an artstyle better buddy.
Less is more as they say, and in this case it's a lot more visually appealing while still being distinctive.
LORE TIME: After H5 Buck returned to Alpha-9 team (from H3: ODST), Vale is with Arbiter fighting against Covenant rebels on Sanghelios, state of H. Tanaka is unknown; Locke is either dead (due to his helmet gained as a trophy by Hyperius) or scouting somewhere on Zeta Halo
Kinda sus how much time Vale is spending with Arbiter don’t you think? 😏
@@darkspark5854 I mean, she is a Sangheli language expert...
I hope we get an Alpha 9 game again, the characters evolved amazingly since odst
@@Andresingo except for one... rip 😭
@@Tavish_Studios retcon the book pls 😭
Putting armor around their waist _vastly_ improves their design
Getting more ambitious, are ya? It's been great seeing your talent and skill grow more and more. Rock on, mate!
Thank you!
9:18 Lock’s is definitely my favorite of the re-redesigns. I love the use of the Modified Mark 6 chest piece and the mouth piece was tightened up to fit with his original design a bit more. Looking less like a mouth plate and more like a breathing apparatus. Boxing it up also helped separate the armor visually from the suit underneath. Lock’s original armor looked like something from Crysis where it was just a metal skin suit.
The dark teal of the armor also makes the visor not overly dramatic having the colors with a hierarchical increase in brightness from the suit to the armor to the visor. Which also gives him his own color that separates him from Buck visually.
Yes
Your redesign of Buck is insane, you never disappoint
Absolutely dig the effort to make Buck's armor look more like an ODST, big props to that. I don't think you give yourself enough credit with Vale's armor, I can definitely put her side to side with Chief and tell where there are some smoother elements that emulate Elite armor while still clearly being Spartan Mjolnir armor, really nice touch. And good call taking more cues from Locke's original helmet while still making it fit more cleanly with the Infinite art style, impressive work all around.
Love this group of redesigns and would love to see blue team done in your style.
I do have to say I adore your first redesign of Vale's helmet and I was hoping to see more of it come through in the new one, but it is what it is.
Well done my friend. Love your content.
feel exactly the same way
Gotta say, I was really impressed by Vale's redesign. The chest piece you made really reminds me of the Combat Harnesses that Elites wore in Halo 3. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but it was a great idea, and it really does blend the classic artstyle, alien look, and spartan look all together in a great package!
Funny how using more realistic shapes for armor just looks so much better, almost like 343 really goofed up with certain armor designs in the Reclaimer saga
If/when Osiris make a return, I think Buck's armor should stay mostly the same. As for Locke, I've had the idea for a while that he should get an Infinite campaign DLC to himself, where he starts off missing large parts of his armor and has to scavenge for usable components, ending up with a really kitbashed design blending Human, Brute, and Elite elements.
Nah we need June
@anouaressanoussi Honestly I've kind of assumed Jun is already planned to appear in Infinite in some way. There's so many things in and around Infinite that seem meant to have us thinking about not only Reach, but Jun specifically.
I like that idea.
It’s kind of hard to do that unless Locke can somehow engineer or reverse engineer the armor pieces he finds if he requires a MJOLNIR suit. That would be hard to do. Unless he’s sophisticated enough to do so. Or maybe he’d just have to sneak around and use guerrilla warfare and get creative somehow, which would be extremely hard to do.
Like the Rashaska core.
Honestly, I like the touch of the pouches on his chest/waist area because it makes the that area look a lot like the Halo 2 version of the ODST armor
This is amazing, Locke is definitely my favorite out of the four. I can see all these armors being in the Halo Infinite battle pass in the future
I really gotta say, your redesign of Buck impressed me throughly. the main problem with his Halo 5 armor, was that it
resembled ODST, but not enough. the chestpiece wasn't quite recognizable, the shoulders were the only thing about
it (aside from the obvious helmet) that I recognized as ODST, although it looked off to me. Your version captures the
aesthetics of the ENTIRE armor. shoulder are very accurate, the chest bears greater resemblance while still keeping
its unique style and the overall shape and detailing on the forearm and leg armor definitely gives me the right vibes.
The helmet is most definitely still perfect though. I even prefer it over the older redesign, due to its more ODST-like
shape and all that. I know many like the Helljumper helmet because of the shape, but to me it felt a bit exaggerated.
All in all, a wonderful redesign on all of them though! Keep it up!
The best part of this video, wasn't the design improvements, but just seeing how amazingly far as an artist you've gone. It's so cool seeing the new textures and details that you didn't play with back then.
All of the helmets are a drastic improvement, though I think the exception might be Vale's. I REALLY like your old version of her helmet. Speaking of which... Did you make her chest piece an Elite Combat Harness? 'Cause that shape is incredibly familiar. I also adore how you made Buck look like an ODST, that was my biggest frustration with his 5 inclusion, his chest and shoulders didn't look very traditional.
I’m glad I’ve improved. Thanks Nefnoj!
And yeah I realized her chestpiece started to look a little Elite-like, so I gave her some lights which just enhanced that. I’m glad you noticed!
Lock looks mean and scary if that was hunting you. And buck looks like he’s a ODST supporting Spartans, but a bulked up one that holds his own too! I love the designs
Even though I like the redux designs more than the old designs, I still love your first take on Vale's helmet. Weirdly enough the new redesign almost looks like an entirely new helmet, which is cool since both of them look great next to each other!
Oh boy me all excited only to find out I'll have to be patient.
Which is exactly what i shall do because this is worth waiting for.
Man you deserve to be in charge of the Halo design team, seriously your designs are great and match Halo a lot (in my view of course).
I appreciate that, thank you!
@@Wernissage If there is an offer at some point... please apply, 343 have been all over the place while you have maintained consistency
@@OD_047 you know there are multiple artists at 343 right? Just because some designs aren’t the best doesn’t mean one person joining will fix all of them
Fantastic work on the redesigns, they definitely make Fireteam Osiris look a lot more Halo-esque to someone who's not familiar with Halo 5.
It's great to see your work become more refined with each video!
These all look cool
I do feel like I prefer your old redesigned helmets for Vale/Locke, but these here still look dope
I hope we see Locke come back into the story in some form soon, especially with how him and Operation Breaker Trip have been mentioned a few times
2:39 i like her techsuit
HOLY SHIT HERE WE GO
343 seriously needs to hire you as an armor concept artist. All your designs are absolutely something I would use in multiplayer.
Buck and Locke look incredible, I won't lie.
The Tanaka redesign is by far my favorite, I could maybe use something (maybe a hip or chest piece) to make her stand out as a techie or engineer but otherwise it looks good.
The buck one is very loyal to all of the source material while still being unique so that's a close second.
Locke while being closer to the halo infinite art style feels like it's missing a little something to build on his established character but I really can't put my finger on it (not great constructive criticism if I can't give specifics I know...).
I think Vale is my least favorite of the redesigns. I think you took it too far in the other direction and now she looks too plain, taking away what made her unique. With the sangheli and the UNSC cooperating more in this era of halo (infinite era) and with Vale being a Xenoanthropologist it would be nice to see her integrate some sangheli tech/design into her armor while still leaning into the more traditional halo infinite style (think the banished trophy shoulderpads for the rakshasa core but maybe toned down a little and less ragged and/or maybe an energy bayonette for her SMG).
I'm sure some people will disagree with my takes but it's always fun to hear other people's opinions so I thought I'd share mine. Interested to see if people share a similar opinion, disagree, or build on my ideas.
very nice, maybe u could do noble team next? would love to see them redesigned to better fit Infinite's art style
I don't think you can really make them fit any better in Infinite's style, since it basically copied Reach's style.
@Kyle Morgan infinite seems to have a blended style that looks more classic like halo 3, specifically GEN3 armor
you can do that yourself by customizing your spartan. Everyone is fully replicable except Jorge for the fact that he’s a Spartan II
Or did you mean making MKVII versions of their armor?
I do kinda wish we got to/ get to see them in Infinite or a DLC
Love the redesigns, can’t wait for blue team!
1. Locke/Buck Both are bad ass and fitting. Both look like a accumulation of the entire series. Locke looks like a apex predator able to take hits and dish them out. If I had to pick something I guess make his colors more readable. Its hard to see the grey from the blue and black. Maybe adding some saturation the blue and strengthening the grey would help idk. Buck looks like a tracker and the general purpose teammate. Capable of helping any of them with their specialties. I would add a screen to his forearm and Im curious to see what he would look like with a rendition of ODST knee armor.
2. Vale, I love both helmet designs and idk how you can strike lighting like that twice. Her torso I feel like is missing some minor details. Like those little bumps can be a bit bigger like intakes similar to Tanakas but rounder.
3. Tanaka again, helmet is amazing. But shes third because the chest piece doesnt fit the look of the helmet, arms, and legs. Maybe high light the blue on the edges more so its color matched to the helmet and then some cross bracing that looks similar to the forearm and shin.(im going to do my best to describe this in writing) right at the U part on the chest and the part thats swooping under the arm pit. Right there. Then the shoulder pieces can connect the flat surface of the arms and rounder surface of the torso by flattening the surface of the shoulder piece along the middle gray part and keeping the "wings" the same as they are now.
Locke and buck are my favorites, really enjoyed this video, great work!
seriously just give this guy a job at 343 already
There's a lot to love about these redesigns, and I think you managed to strike a great balance between simplifying the clutter of Halo 5's over-greebly armor but still giving each suit a unique personality. I actually think you struck the perfect mix of curve and structure with Vale's armor, which reminds me a lot of an elite combat harness. Buck looks like "more" of himself, which I think is very fitting for the ODST-turned-Spartan. But my favorite has to be Locke. You took an overly-detailed suit and turned into one stealth-jet of an armor set. The helmet especially looks like a sleeker, meaner version of the Soldier helmet, which I think is very fitting for ONI's top wetwork guy. Overall, these are extremely well done. Great work, as always!
Dude these redesigns look like they stepped out of Headhunters, great work! Locke especially was my fav since you nailed the ONI black ops agent feel
Absolutely LOVE these, especially Vale, I love that her chest piece looks almost like elite chest armor.
7:09 I think I like your old design more for the helmet. It had that Alien look while still looking like a Spartan helmet. Had a ton of personality and I liked the angularity if the visor. The new one looks a bit too much like Air Assault. The old one also broke out the mold enough to look unique but wasn’t overdone.
I liked your old redesign for Bucks helmet better. But for Lock the new one I liked more. I also liked what you did with the others, Vale's new look for some reason was reminding me of Daisy from Halo Legends, yet the chest piece while definitely Spartan, also seemed to share similarities to a Sangheili combat harness, which you made work better than the original imo. I love the new looks, Lockes especially, looks like the kind of character that would be seen in a game like Republic Commando with a spec ops unit.
Vale and Locke's original designs are fine aside from the helmet. Vale's Elite inspired design and Locke's stealth infiltration purpose make sense for their characters. If they were to come back in Infinite, I wouldn't want them to change too much about their designs.
I do agree completely with Buck and Tanaka should have a redesign to fit in line with Infinite. Tanaka's original design was already pretty close to traditional Spartans, so why not take it all the way. Similarly, there are plenty of ODST inspired Spartans armors, so it makes sense for them to migrate to it.
absolutely amazing work on these like always. looking forward to the designs for Blue Team and maybe even Red Team
Nice! So glad you finally decided to approach body armor as well!
I think you should be a little bit more careful about removing color accents. Like keeping Vale's yellow lines on her chest piece or Tanaka's cyan pieces. I think they'd be more recognizable. Making Buck's visor blue makes him look classic yes but also like just another ODST. The green stood out.
Just a few thoughts, great redesigns. I hope we get to see them again despite their cold reception in 5.
what software do you use to create your art? Also, would you ever make a video sort of with a time lapse of your process, or sort of describing how you work through making your art? Love the redesigns by the way, especially locke. It reminds me of reach concept art for the spartan 3s
Another amazing redesign! I like how traditional Buck's armor looks in the redesign, which is always a good sign. Vale too, I think, got a very good update. She now looks more of a fast skirmisher, fitting her role as a someone who would likely go in front and use close-quarters weapons and emphasise speed and maneuvarability over tankiness. I think that would also fit nicely with the aggressive fighting style that Elites typically seem to prefer. Lock I think looks by far the best, particularly with the helmet. The slight addition of the mouthpiece details makes the helmet look more like a skull, along with looking slimmer and more simple. It fits his sneaky aesthetic and emphasises his dangerous nature much more than the original design did. For Tanaka, the body armor looks great. However, I think your original redesign of her helmet was actually slightly better than this one. But that is subjective. Both redesigns of the helmet are amazing. Keep up the excellent work!
5:35 I like the up armored look Buck has here that makes him look like a beefed up ODST. The pouches are a good way to show his lack of over confidence since most of his time as an ODST required caution and patience. I do still like the old redesign but this one gives the implication of being on the front lines more vs the more stealthy ODST combat.
These are always a blast to watch. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent work! I love all of these! Couldn't have done a better job myself.
Give me the GOODS
vale and locke are my favourite redesigns. I really love what you did with their helmets. I feel that these much more closely align with infinite 10/10
Yo! Amazing job on the redesigns! With Vale being one of my favorite characters in Halo 5, your redesign of her armor is outstanding 👏
Something I appreciate about your redesigns of Reclaimer-era armor is that they almost all strike a good balance between the complexity of the original designs, and the simplicity of the Bungie designs. These redesigns are no exception and I would say do a good job of keeping the spirit of the original designs alive.
This makes me actually like the look of the team. Great job.
These are all great designs! I have to say I am one of the fans of Vale's OG armor, so your redesign is hard for me to like...but I do still think its good! Love your Buck and Tanaka! I gotta be honest tho, I still think Locke looks like a transformer lol. idk what it is that does that for me!? 😂 Maybe his visor is too "eye-like?" IDK. Great work tho man, I'll love these videos forever!
I think this your best redesign yet amazing work dude!
Thank you! Glad to hear that🤘
I honestly adore Locke's redesign here. It looks like something straight out of concept art.
3:55 I like the sort of Astronaut look to her armor here. I think some of the red details on her armor like the shoulder would be good to keep for personality and would play into the astronaut look.
The reduction of noise on Locke is a work of sorceey
So hard to chose which one in particular I like more. All of these redesigns look great!
My god, the Vale redesgin is top tier, the groin plate, the darker under suit seem so simple. but they add ALOT to an originally over complicated design, "less is more"
I love Tanaka and Bucks design these two really stood out, looked really nice redesigned that it was like okay these look cool, they have had small changes to the point they look new but still recognised.
Vale I will say it, I don’t like her redesign over the original, that iconic alien look that was hard etched into her character not only gave her an appealing look to her, but also gave her something that really stood out, that it felt like it was Halo 3 coop just instead having a Spartan in Sangheili clothing, even through the Multiplayer, going through so many req packs as I did to get that Armor, I never took it off as I got it.
And lastly, Locke, this one I am so on the fence for, his old design had appeal but also felt like it was lacking something, the redesign feels similar, and it’s not down to the work, but I think the core of the armor itself, in my opinion it was like the Locke set didn’t know what it fully wanted to be, and didn’t quite have a clear direction like some of the more known Spartans and sets.
I’m so pissed that your re-design of bucks armor will never make it into halo infinite. I want it so bad, you did such a great job
Redesigning looks perfect to me.
You should do blue team next.
Dude kickin redesigns🤘love them keep up the good work
honestly i wish you kept more of the teal in tanaka's design and buck's green visor, since those made the designs more unique and i thought those aspects looked cool. i also think that a cyan visor on vale would be better since it would contrast with the red and make it pop. overall you did a good job with these redesigns, and they are very well painted. i also like what you did with the locke design. the new mouth part on his helmet looks way cooler imo.
Lorewise, I feel like Vale’s first redesign would be “just another” Spartan helmet designed during the later years of the Covenant War. Post-War, however, as human engineers work more closely with their new Sangheili allies, some design language (& maybe even technology) would be adopted from Sangheili combat harnesses, resulting in the new redesign being made as a testbed for integrating human & Sangheili technologies for some of the higher-tier Spartan 4’s. Later on, as humanity worked even more closely with Sangheili engineers & technology, a new armor design would be attempted, which would go “all in” with the Sangheili style of armored combat, resulting in Vale’s original design.
Awesome job as always
The chest piece for vale is pure halo 3 elite armour. I wouldn’t blink twice same design on an elite. Really good.
The mouth region of the newer Locke helmet reminds me of a bird beak
Love the redesigns, hope to see one for blue team ass well.
As for my favorite: Locke.
all stunning redesigns :)
-for Buck, i like that his armor is more ODST-like, like an ODST taken up to 11, and then up to 22, but i would have tried to add in more shades of blacks to his coloration, and really drive the Super-ODST-ness, to have it be a black-on-black-on-black sort of design.
-for Vale, i would have put more sangheili glyphs on her armor in various places, and made the 'Swords of Sanghelios' decals more prominent, maybe even somewhat superhero-like in their bold-ness, like DC's Flash (barry allen) with brighter yellows or golds to draw the eye, and really lean into the sangheili look with regard to paint and color, to contrast with the more spartan armor design and form, which would give her character a sense of having one foot in each world (spartans / sangheili).
- for Locke, i would think that it would be truer to the concept of 'plausibly-deniable deep-black-ops special agent', if his armor was more a tri-color of sections of blacks, dark navy blues, and dark purples, which visually places Lock into an intentionally ambiguous place between spartan or sangheili, or some other unknown third thing, especially when in the fray of combat.
Halo 5 music slaps
Light is Green is such a banger!
As always big fan of your work :)
Love your work man! 💜
The new design of Locke reminds me of Kal Wardin from N.O.V.A (gameloft’s halo ripoff), but I honestly love it, since N.O.V.A held a lot of memories for me, it was my mobile halo game.
Olympia Vale and Spartan Locke (but his mask was a good change)look like a Warframe and really interesting for the game i dont think you should take that away but all of the others look perfect in their redesigns good job chef's kiss
Please please please do more full body redesigns. Blue team, GEN-2 armor in general, just please more. And with Halo 4 and 5 stances you could even have a pretty awesome reference image.
Love the new redesigns. It gets rid of the unnecessary clutter that was added. More does not always means better.
Vale I think is why there needs to be a singheli inspired core. One that can give elite players something to work with while still being a spartan for canon reasons
So far, this is one of your best videos, and an improvement other the first Fireteam Osiris video. Lock and Buck look infinitely better, alongside Vale and Tanaka. Since you have done this, any plans on doing one for Blue Team?
While I can definitely say I love the old redesigns, these ones are amazing! Honestly, just these redesigns alone would have been enough to make me actually like Osiris
Every helmet is clearly better than the first iteration, and the softer painting style looks a lot better than the hard edged style you used to use.
I'd love to see Blue Team!
Dude you have a real talent for this.
All your designs are so much more *I C O N I C* than the 343 designs
You're old design for lockes helmet give me more of a Deadspace 2 which I definitely don't mind. Overall tho these redesigns are absolutely fantastic 343 really should hire you on as an armor designer
Oh man, Bucks redesign look sick. Makes we wish we'd get a full Firefall set in Infinite.
Alot of the redesigns radiat alot of halo legends vibes
This is the type of stuff we should have gotten in halo inifnite, all we got was waist size 1 2 3
I like seeing the evolution between your old redesigns, and your new redesigns. Interesting to see how you've changed over time. :)
Isn't Spartan Locke's helmet technically already in the game, though? I thought his helmet was attached to a brute's armor, which started some kind of debate around if Locke was dead or not.
I love old Vale but new Vale just slaps! And my favourite has to be Locke, I think if he'd turned up like that in the game I wouldn't have hated him on sight as I did in the OG H5! You did the unthinkable lol
Vale's is my favorite, especially the chest piece you did for her. I am not sure if you intentionally did it, but you made her chest piece resemble an elite's armored chest piece form Halo 3. With the 2 lights, and the it splitting in the middle. It looks like an elite armor piece repurposed for a spartan. Which fits her super well.
Idea for potential redesigns. What if you did spartan armors inspired by elite armor, or vice versa? Just a random thought I had after typing this comment. Great work as always.
Again, as I have posted many times before, can 343 please hire you?! Amazing work as always, I love Buck's the most.
Alright review here we go-
Tanaka: Good, but I wish you would've kept the cyan piping on her body armor. The cyan to me was Tanaka's signature thing so it sucks to see it go. (Everything else is 10/10)
Thick•ss Thi- .. I mean.. Vale: AWESOME!!! The basic geometry would fit right in in Halo 2! The Elite combat harness design in the chest is killer. Seems like it'd fit right in as a female Spartan model in the classic games!
Buck: Dang that's actually good! Buck's my favorite out of the H5 bunch, and I'd say you kept every notable design element while giving it that classic UNSC angular feel. A 10/10 translation.
Locke: HO-LY, YES! You genuinely surprised me with how good this one is. Again, kept all the notable features pretty much 1 to 1, so props there. The new helmet design is so slick. That's honestly perfect. I think I might have the shield emitter/coolant piping element.. maybe adding an 'underglow' effect around the bottom of the chest piece but.. that might look weird. You could go with larger shield emitters to make it more subtle while still implying a 'prototype technology' angle.. But yeah! That element I could live with or without if only to make him a little more uniform with the Chief. Seeing them fight side by side would be.. *sick* to say the least.
Great job man! By far the best Halo content coming out right now, at least.. in terms of that bell ding being _good news._ X)
Cheers man!
Your old Locke redesign looks more like the dead space 2 final armour set IMO
Your work is awesome. I wish Halo 5 actually looked this way.
I'd love to see some armor sets of fireteam Osiris and blue team in Halo Infinite, personally
As a halo fan starting all the way back in 2001….Really love the redesigns. Hopefully 343 is watching.
I think it would be interesting if you redesign some of the Bionicle masks as Halo helmets
I think Fireteam Osiris would fit well with either the Rakshasa or upcoming SPI cores, the sleeker designs follow the design language of those cores well
And especially with locke being headhunter-ish, he would likely have already been outfited with the Rakshasa armor core
Brilliant, now do the one for the Master Chief. If you can redesign Chief, i would be proud of it.
I’d love to see a Blue Team Redesign!
Would love to see Blue team get a full body redesign.