Redesigning and Ranking SPI (Mirage) Helmets

[@Wernissage]

Which SPI helmet is YOUR favorite?

[@ArcTrooper269]

THE ONE KURT-051 WORE

[@waluigisilver7773]

@@ArcTrooper269 Yeah, the oringal SPI helmet is the best one. Sad that it wasn't in Infinite. Veles was an attempt to capture that look, but MCC's Mirage helmet did it WAY better.

[@waluigisilver7773]

You should make a video where you redesign Mirage IIC and make it look more like SPI. Give it the SPI helmet, cover the arms and legs more, add some protection to the chest straps, and give it its iconic gauntlets (the ones from Ghost of Onyx).

[@Manoooolo]

​@@waluigisilver7773 I hate how 343 can't get the gauntlets right

[@5Wam]

Athlon by far, then Veles

[@BadBad3n]

I think overall infinites problems with the helmets always seem to just be the proportions. If the proportions were slightly slimmer and made to look more angular and aggressive rather than circular and wide it would really make a lot of the helmets look better IMO

[@SuperMegaUltraFreezingColdDude]

Especially aviator for mk VII

[@dignusdingus3709]

Yeah, some helmets are also just too small, more the size of the head that should be INSIDE the helmet than the helmet itself.

[@bionic-tale4313]

I would love to see the SPI armor being integrated into Mjinor armor systems. With the stealth capabilities of SPI mixed with the durability, energy shielding, & abilities of Mjonir would make a really well-made Armor designed for Stealth missions for Spartan Specialist teams, like Scout & Recon.

[@anthonylebeau2193]

That’s actually the idea behind the Mirage (halo 3 mcc) and Mirage IIc (halo infinite) armors.

[@waluigisilver7773]

Actually, Mirage IIC doesn't mention anything about stealth, Its seems that the only thing Mirage IIC took from SPI was the cheaper costs approach.

[@yellowhoodie5299]

I personally like the idea of a Mjolnir suit that’s weaker and mass-produced, like a back-up armor if Spartans can’t access their normal armor.

[@flavourruling2162]

ODST 2 when?

[@bionic-tale4313]

@@yellowhoodie5299 That was the idea behind the SPI suit with most Spartan 3s. Since Mjonir is very expensive during the Human-Convant war & couldn't give every Spartan 3 the suit, so a less durable, yet efficient suit was made with the threes on suicide missions to give the UNSC time.

[@ripcorded]

I'm really glad to hear that you liked the Halo 3 Scout helmet inspiration. SPI feels like a classic armor set despite this being the first time we've actually seen it in game. So I thought Balor could be a precursor or developed alongside Scout. Awesome designs as always!

[@Wernissage]

Great idea, I loved the way it turned out!🔥

[@derkeve]

Yeah it looked pretty good. The original isn't terrible, but that redesign was so much better Wernissage.

[@johndoe-un9uq]

@@Wernissage could you try redesigning first order stormtroopers

[@picksleet9268]

Its in halo mcc before halo infinite released the mcc armor called mirage

[@beastmode1915]

@@picksleet9268I think the Mirage in MCC looks kinda off. Not bad, but not how I remember Mirage looking. Mirage in Infinite is much more faithful to the design imo

[@alexanderparra9240]

I think I enjoy BELUS so much because it's strong resemblance to the deadspace helmet

[@rstriker21]

They need to bring back venator

[@silvertoddler8326]

@@rstriker21 venator for spi would be killer

[@PauzSycho]

@@silvertoddler8326 i’d prefer it for mark 7 as i think it would fit the design of that core much more

[@silvertoddler8326]

@@PauzSycho or raksasha

[@derkeve]

​@@silvertoddler8326rakshasa is a good core for more straight lines and hard angles. A low-end version of Venator would look good and fit that core. Kinda like the rakshasa version of warmaster.

[@captain_arbiter3167]

Suprised you never did a redesign/tier list video on the Rakshasa core. Would love to see your takes on it

[@Complicasiian]

The problem with 343 helmets is they don't design them to fit human heads. I noticed you always changed the proportions to look more like a human face mainly around the jawline and that immediately improves every helmet to me.

[@tiger_lord305]

You know how a helmet would fit on a 6’10+ super soldier 500 years in the future?

[@Complicasiian]

@@tiger_lord305 I would imagine the same as a normal person's head. But bigger >.>

[@JsphCrrll]

@@tiger_lord305 goober

[@ronski4677]

​@H T that is a top tier smoothbrain comment right there

[@Loganzone637]

Yeah, what the heck is up with the small heads! All the Reach body armor parts are small too!!

[@SuperMegaUltraFreezingColdDude]

343 puts out a lot of armor for diversity when it comes to looks but the reason people still use very similar armor is because most of the armor they put out especially helmets look so funky that I find myself using cavilino or mk VII helmet because the other helmets that aren’t from the shop look so weird.

[@arbiterproductions0516]

I Love how you made velus I think it’s called well the one that actually looks like classic SPI look more like the SPI worn by Jonah in the head hunters short since personally head hunters has some of my favorite halo designs and what I base my mirage core off of

[@bander960]

Just having a simple visor and black parts can instantly bring out the best aspects of a Halo helmet. It's a damn shame the mirage helmets (w/o visors) don't have regular visor alternatives (that I know of, I haven't played Infinite in a while). Many of the helmets look really good when they're just given a nice basic visor, a factor Combat Evolved made with the Mark V, and with this being a Mark V-styled core, you'd expect that to be the case.

[@axelkusanagi4139]

I love SPI armor and wish they would make an ODST game or game set on Onyx or some other Pyrrhic suicide mission.

[@Wernissage]

AGREED!

[@_HPX_]

Watching your process, it's wild just how much the slightest tweak to proportions can have a transformative effect on a helmet as a whole. Your Veles redesign was my favorite by far. But the Street Viper slander will not stand, man. One of the best helmets in the game by far!

[@Reekumon]

I don't know why 343 hasn't hired Wernissage as a armor designer yet. The edits always end up looking nicer than the actual helmet (not that they're bad though). For his balor redesign, that round corner on the jaw line, I feel, would look nicer with that gun metal color (like in the street viper redesign). I think it would have broken up that big green section a little more and added more contrast. Wernissage is just so talented though

[@BlazerK1914]

Your Neith helmet did remind me of DOOM SLAYER’s helmet, probably because of its visor.

[@HazopGaze]

It's kinda nutty, how easy you make this look! Awesome redesigns across the board, and yeah, I generally agree with your ranking. Only a few things I'd move around, but overall, solid!

[@TerLoki]

Oh boy oh boy I can't wait! The SPI armor has always been a favorite of mine and in terms of options and aesthetics the Mirage IIC is probably my favorite armor core thus far. My only real complaints with it are how angular and segmented the Veles helmet looks, and that none of the helmets really capture all aspects of the SPI helmet from the Ghosts of Onyx cover art.

[@SuperMegaUltraFreezingColdDude]

Erinyes looks great with the armor attachments that go with it

[@Nefnoj]

I adore the challenge of redesigning existing helmets - part of what makes your work so cool is seeing something not very traditional Halo become traditional Halo. However, taking a look at something that already fits Halo and adjusting it is much less of an objective goal, and I think that's really cool. There's also something so fun about you combining a tier list and redesign video, it makes for such great discussion. If there's anything I've noticed about your videos, you tend not to prefer non-traditional visors, but elements like the weird dots on Extender are my absolute favorite (my all-time favorite Helmet is MCC's pioneer, I'd put Erineyes in the top tier, if that shows you how weird my tastes are), making them stand out from the crowd. Totally a subjective thing, it's just neat to see those differences. Oddly enough, even though I like your redesigns of Nexus and Veles better, I actually don't know if I would have gone in that same direction (your application of eyeliner being the exception, damn that is your specialty, you are so good at it). I think the what makes Nexus and Veles unique are the nose and jaw, respectively, but I think 343 was too careful in those designs and didn't go all in on letting those stand out or look unique. Unlike Belus, a helmet that looks awesome except for the pig snout. If we wanted that, we'd use Halo 5's OLIVE Helmet.

[@Destroyerz117]

just from the thumbnail it looks like a big improvement. The SPI helmets seem like first drafts where the overall idea is cool but the proportions are kind of wonky, they end up not looking as great as they should.

[@bionic-tale4313]

Maybe make the sections of the proportions of the shoulders at bit slimmer & blocky. The chest plate can be a more Mark IV-style mix with SPI design.

[@Tsnow206]

Great video as always 🔥 I’m always impressed with how good you are at making the visors look reflective, great work 🙌🏻

[@Wernissage]

Hahaha thank you!!

[@TheNinjaCoby]

I really like your redesigns and I do agree that the classic straight line mouth pieces redesign go well with the modernized SPI. I think 343 could make best of both worlds if the visor for the many "eyes" helmet was simply a type of visor that gave that appearance. I feel like the almost two eyes holes helmet could have an attachment like the stormfall helmet (Gungnir) with both having similar designs.

[@ShadowMonarch9557]

You definitely should be hired for designing the armor customization or specifically for helmets

[@christopherrapczynski204]

shouldve just made the eyes on street viper lights

[@owenpaapie6065]

I love how Tyro, one of the my least liked spi helmets turned into one of my favorite's with the redesign

[@StonyCarrot1001]

The "Street Viper" helmet redesign feels very reminiscent of the "Strigbog" helmet from the "Rakshasa" Core (I have no idea if I spelt those correctly) which I really love since it's one of my favorite helmets in Infinite.

[@Ztrotex]

I don't like it when attachments are grey/gray or black, especially when it clash with 'brighter' coatings.

[@TheBananaFourSeven1776]

The attatchment for Street Viper is awesome! You make pretty good content keep it up! Your channel's uploads are some of the few I actually get exited for!

[@hunterh1175]

I hope he addresses that one helmet with the visor in the back lol

[@Zero_XTZ5]

Nexus is a great helmet

[@SuperMegaUltraFreezingColdDude]

Can 343 just hire you, I’m tired of the mk VII helmets lookin so goofy or dumb

[@stephenchant8245]

Your version of Balor looks like a spiritual successor to the old Scout with a hint of halo 3 recon sprinkled in

[@danielaleman8264]

Please do a redesign on fallout power armor, it would be amazing

[@IVolutionI]

You're redesigns are absolutely on point! But dang some.more of those helmets should've been D tier

[@Spartanlyra]

as a old time sIII fan and SPI, great work, especially on street viper

[@afd19850]

Would love to see a return to the creating new weapons series or redesigning other aspects of Halo. Perhaps a whole new race or twist on classic factions?

[@RedDaddy328]

Last redesign is definitely the best I wish that was the actual helmet where it’s a proper visor and not whatever abomination it was before

[@frankiegonzalez3122]

The tyrus helmet ended up looking closer to a soldier helmet

[@Andyg760]

I absolutely love your helmet designs, but i'd love to see you branch out more and do maybe more weapons, or vehicles, or even like landscapes and scenerios. I dont know, just some ides. Love your content!!!

[@BloobyTheFrenchy]

I wish we had your redesigns as the actual helmets, and I'm not saying this to inflate your ego (you are the art of Halo after all 😜), but jokes aside I genuinely really like them and wish we had this kind of designs instead. I'm also acknowledging my bias because I'm subscribed so it's a given that I like most of your work but I try to objectively judge each design and redesign for what they are and you nail basically all of them in my opinion to what I deem to be actually recognizable and unique/memorable helmets (unlike their original counterparts...). Also, for various reasons Infinite feels less diverse than what I remember playing Reach in terms of customization combinations you see. While there is always sort of a general consensus over which helmet(s) is/are the most popular or widely used, I feel like in Infinite, I can't just keep track of "that guy that's got that specific helmet/core combination" even though we are supposed to have the most customization we ever had and not even be limited to red/blue (which is why in the past we would usually remember players by their armor and not their color scheme... probably a boomer take but I felt this was needed to disclaim)... (Oh and also I assume that it's probably a side effect of the BattlePass system though, making people unlock things at relatively the same rate/not unlock everything...) But I digress... I didn't come here to rant about the game design choices of the game, just merely acknowledging how they may or may not have played a role in explaining that feeling I often get of "I genuinely do not remember players other than by their name / calling cards" unlike in Reach when it would be "Oh that darn E.O.D. is getting on my nerves!" Just wondering if I'm alone in this? Maybe... I'm curious though if anyone else's got thoughts or personal feelings to share on that... Regardless of my rant, gosh I wish we could have a mod to replace the helmets with your redesigns...

[@Darkcur]

I find that its a missed opportunity that they didn't add the Halo4/5 Master Chief helmet since its roundness very much suits this core's look.

[@stefans4562]

Extender is my favorite! I love the bumps.

[@MangaMan108]

Can't wait for these to become 3d models, would love to have a few of these for my cosplay!

[@CarmenRare]

I think I like when you do the helmets straight on rather than at an angle especially in these speed draw videos when it can be hard to tell where you were going when parts of the helmets seem unfinished or are uneven, just a thought

[@devindalton4688]

Neith, the second helmet, reminds me quite a bit of gungir and I enjoy it for that.

[@6ftturkey405]

Honestly, I think the Extender helmet has become one of my favourite helmets, second only to the Pilot helmet

[@ihavenoclue4779]

You should redesign transformers characters into halo armors

[@dustyfedora]

I feel like with base Extender removing the “eyes” causes it to lose some of its character and makes it too similar to the other dome helmets on SPI. I think the better option than just outright removing them and making overall a smooth dome, give it the Visor lines somewhat reminiscent of EVA in Halo 3

[@tyfoon64]

Honestly i think tsome of the redesigns are pretty neat . like varients of the helmets that fit a more generic halo helmet style but, i also feel that some of the helmets lose what i think makes them looks unique but good job all around.

[@Kekktye]

Maybe with Extender you could've duplicated the antenna and only removed the middle dots, with three remaining on each side making a "bee" theme? Isn't a terribly "Halo" design but I feel what you did with smoothing out the middle section and making the mouthpiece conform to normal Mark VI standards did enough to translate the helmet to classic Halo design language.

[@someguy3330]

I fucking love the Neith helmet. Good redesign. The only issue is the eyes are a bit small, and some black eye shadow.

[@Whompens]

You gotta take a look at the Rakshasa core helmets! I’d love to hear your thoughts on them and see what you’d change

[@romannumeralvii4285]

Jesus they should hire just you as a designer/design overseer at 343 already. Most of these helmets really feel like they needed to go through a couple more drafts before being put out.

[@tjmaximous8263]

The Erinyes helmet in my op looks dope but more so when your using it's set like the set with it looks sick (even more so with the white and black coating) it looks like it's testing experimental tech with spi

[@ShadowMikey04]

Neith is pretty nice, kinda reminds me of gungir and locus and I feel it'd look better as gungir esque helmet

[@Orinslayer]

I think the Erinyes helmet would look better if the top radar dish was moved slightly further back and point in a different direction, leaving the face more visible. Yeah what you used in your redesign also works, it just looks a bit odd when the helmet glass is curved in odd ways that look hard to make.

[@presidentraiden9203]

I honestly prefer the street viper with the attachment more than the base street viper. With the attachment it has that funky spider look that some sci-FI media has, while the base one just… It’s literally the nerd meme. That said, I love the redesign of the base Street Viper of yours.

[@durandol]

The Tyro helmet works best when combined with other parts of the SPI armour. To me, it reminds me of the Marine helmets a little.

[@amscarpi]

Shame that the street viper helm didn’t go for the concept art look, where the silver/grey/black space that the two goggles sit on was just a full visor. It just feels like they aren’t meant to be the eyes, unlike the neith where the dots are the only space that visor/cams could be. Erinyes which seems to be the helm most others have a problem with doesn’t look any less goofy than the eva helm used to in Halo 3, no clue why people keep saying it looks like it belongs in Halo 4/5.

[@DogMutilator]

When s4 first released, I hated most of the helmets. Now that I think about them again, a few more of them are growing on me tbh.

[@tjmaximous8263]

The balor helmet kinda reminds me of the military police helmet half way through the redesign

[@noodle20006]

Fantastic, fantastic redesigns; i definitely prefer these better. 16:40 top too high and bottom too flat is exactly one of my main problems with the Veles helmet. Street Viper redesign is awesome too; though im ngl, there's still something...unsettling about the black, beady eyes on the attachment redesign 👀

[@derkeve]

It gives me chameleon vibes.

[@NonsensicalDeer]

Balor looks like a depressed transformer

[@n0miind]

Tyro redesign looks sick, now i want it add to Infinite which will never happen sadly.

[@jokerswild2380]

I agree with most of your commentary here, but I think Street Viper would have looked better with a more Recon-esque narrow visor. Still looked great tho!

[@GiskardRevenlov]

18:00 I love it purely because it reminds me of Dead Space

[@danielmcphee2546]

I personally want see someone do more with odst armor

[@blackdragon5274]

I hate how the default has such an aggressive angle, and odd lip on the visors forhead, but aside from that it's great Wow, you made that eyes helmet actually look great... By completely changing it, lol

[@echo1180]

I’m a comm major at MSU. Can I pitch your designs to 343? I’d be able to get those guys to buy into your armor weather it looked amazing like it does or shit like seeker in halo 5. No matter what I’ll sell it. Especially to 343. Oh also your second design on the SPI armor looks gorgeous, even if it’s just a smaller change it makes for a world of difference. Fav helm in the vid by far is at 16:50 looks fuckin amazing. Keep up the great work.

[@derkeve]

I do not agree with a lot of your tier list, but to each their own. As for what I think about your redesigns... Neith: I really like you making the standard version be more of an attachment and making that attachment be grey and more blocky. That fits more with the neo classic art style of Infinite. Overall looks good. Tyro: I think the base helmet is a little underwhelming. Not terrible looking, but not anything above okay. I mostly liked the increase in visor size on your redesign. The mouth/jaw section was okay, but hey you didn't really spend a lot of time on it and didn't really need to. Your redesign is better with only a few minutes spent to make it. I would've liked to see the antenna on the ear piece. I think that would look good. Nexus: you did basically what I would've done. Rounded out the weird geometry of the visor up top, reduced the width and gave it the "eye liner" treatment. It's good 👍. Veles: went from looking kinda weird, but acceptable to looking mean. Again slim it down on the sides and round off the odd geometry. I absolutely love the eye liner detail on this one. You said you could've done more work and it would look better, but I think it's fine... could use some lights on the sides right around ear level. I was really hoping you would do that. Belus: simple, but effective. The mouth piece is definitely the oddest part that feels like it doesn't fit in. Your redesign makes me think of the mouth piece on Mk VI Mod from 4/5. Looks good. Extender: got rid of the excessive visor details and gave it a better chin piece. Nice looking. I'm sorry, but there's no saving that terrible attachment. You tried and it does look better. Balor: love H3 Scout. Still wear it now in MCC and it's a perfect helmet to work off of for this redesign. The changes to the sweeping curves and blocking it out more with angles is just astounding. B E A U tiful. No attachment needed. It's perfect. Erinyes: love the incorporation of the hexes into fully connected helmet pieces on the sides. So much better now. Smoothing out the visor was good too. CQB was perfect for this. Loving the H3 love in this video. Definitely fits more with the style. Street Viper: that took some work now didn't it. LIGHTS! Love it. Another "just give it a visor", but that's not a bad thing at all. Looks amazing compared to the original. Good choice on making the original visor the attachment. Reminds me of a chameleon a little. All in all it was a great video with some amazing work. Gonna finally join the discord. Don't know why I haven't yet.

[@Wernissage]

Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m glad you like them! And yes please do, we’d love to have you in the Discord🤘

[@Kekktye]

Though I think it's definitely an improvement over the original, for Street Viper maybe you could've done something like the GRD helmet for the eye attachment? Something about black "eyes" is super.. biological to me? Like a bug or super dilated pupil. I think the GRD is a good inbetween with "eyes" just being the visor's color and having them darker.

[@aaronorta6296]

I like the Belus helmet the most. Reminds me of dead space

[@TCRP117]

The moment you remove the large visor from the MJOLNIR platform it ceases to be Spartan or even Halo in design aeasthetic to me.

[@alienatedpoet1766]

What bothers me most about this core is that SPI in general fits with the Halo 2 and 3 styles (makes sense for coming form a book cover from that era) And the mirage IIC armor itself reflects that style, yet the new helmets are styled off of Halo 5. This was such a bad call because none of the helmets look good on SPI but would look great on Gen 2 or even Mk. VII or Rakshasa. Meanshile Menachite fits the Mk. VI Gen 1/ SPI design perfectly, yet for some reason is stuck on Mk. VII. It makes me feel like someone else was in charge of helmets versus the rest of the armor this time around.

[@sp4391]

I wanna know what 343 is obsession is with throwing random hoses onto armor

[@jkkahn7]

You should do a vehicle customization build I think it would be cool

[@Apogenezis]

26:16 - happy; 26:33 - sad; 38:11 - crying

[@masterSageHarpuia]

I wish you would remove the 2 front bulbous things on the extender helmet. It could look really good if it was sharper

[@GamerDashYT]

The redesign for veles looks like Halo reach pilot helmet

[@miguelpineda983]

My favorite helmet is Veles, looks like Kurt-051 or Jonah

[@eclipped]

My issue with the SPI armor is the little collar that always cuts into helmets

[@eclipped]

Cross core is kinda impossible on that core if you’re a perfectionist like I am

[@Inuxxii]

Extender very much reminds me of the pilot helmet from reach

[@holopilot2241]

Awesome job!

[@jadetortellini6150]

Actively screeching I always saw the balor as more soldier inspired honestly.

[@deaconvelos8352]

I think whoever designed the Tyro helmet was hyper focused on an owl 🦉

[@veraxiana9993]

what's the song playing during the veles redesign?

[@Wernissage]

May or may not be a Wernissage original👀

[@veraxiana9993]

@@Wernissage ah that explains why both soundhound & shazam couldn't find it, I like it!

[@Wernissage]

@@veraxiana9993 thank you!

[@johndoe-eg7lg]

bro you just made an entire new helmet with the street viper

[@Ultragalactic_Space_Anarchy]

I was so disappointed with 343's SPI iteration. Almost everything I loved about the design was stripped from it, like the silver leg and gauntlet plates with the holes in them

[@tjmaximous8263]

I wish you kept some of the dots on the helmet you didn't like them on

[@americanaccents]

crushed this buddy

[@killerrabbit5255]

The best is standard becuse it is mass preduse armor, but the rest is good for ather armor.

[@JUNIsLuke]

My original reaction to seeing the nexus helmet was it only looks good from the front but any angle other then that is really bad but then I realised in this video the bottom of the visor looks drippy…. Eww The new veles looks like a Pio let’s version of the spi Also with the balor attachment the wire/pipe could definitely go over the forehead and point out forwards and upwards then it’d kinda resemble the thing Jun had on his helmet in his concept art but over the face instead

[@epicclaww8030]

What photoshop brush do you use for the visors

[@b80011]

Honestly I hate these videos because your designs are almost always way better and I want them in game but will never have them 😢

[@robertfancyman3873]

I think SPI is the core that will benefit most from cross-core helmets, if 343 ever gets around to implementing it. I love the armour design, but it I'm not a huge fan of any of the helmets.

[@3dburger]

Hello, I am very interested in what you do and I really would love to draw my own Halo styled helmets. But I don’t know where to start. Could you mind giving me pointers for starters?

[@cyrwynelius8221]

Damn, Baylor got butchered. Mans even as a frowny face. Rest of the redesigns are improvements for the most part, including the Baylor with attachment.

[@onebreadstick1116]

My problem with most of the SPI helmets is they look too big for the body. And also just the core in general, like the body, it looks odd... or cartoonish in a way

[@TheMatriuz]

Tyro went from a 2 to a 7 great job! But i know if you would put more work to it it could get even better, personally im not a fan of the forehead on the tyro..

[@soulreaper5623]

You make helmets look more like halo and you should try to show 343 these

[@eyakimicki]

I hate Veles, but your redesign is so much better

[@theblackmarkervii7441]

Extender looks like dark samus