Art thread, for the next ME

I think the animations are more of a fact that the change into CI pipeline happened at the end of the developement, where they had to change 3D animation software package to one new FrostBite supported. The previous support was dropped, where the work was done. Now dont hit me, I'm just a messenger, this is what I've heard/read back in the day.

Anyway, I dont think all of the Asari ever were beautiful babes, there were few with Liara but most of NPC look quite.. awful in OT, when in Andromeda they look actually good but just the same in case of Asari. LE added massive amount of black eye make-up to everyone to hide the fact there is no realtime shading going on.

For Art, I really hope they just keep the arc and keep on doing what Syd Mead had done - and it seems like that at least in Andromeda they continued it.

What? Peebee's clothes are really cool! As for her mannerisms and personality - since she is the scientist type in the game, they had to make her personality really different from Liara or she would have been just a carbon copy. So they went a bit overboard to avoid that. 

Anyway, I do agree the Asari were much like humans and the ageless superiority aspect was somehow lost. It's down to writing. We'll see if they've learned from their mistakes. It is quite possible that none of the returning writers are even aware of details that we argue over here in the forums. 

Yes, I agree Peebee's outfit doesn't fit the visuals of previous games. I liked Asari dresses in the trilogy but I did not like the bulkier, militaristic suits and gear in ME3. Yes, it was more realistic I guess, but aesthetically I prefer the ME1 jumpsuit armor lol.

It's quite funny in Jedi Fallen Order how you can just land on a planet and walk straight out and be able to breathe the air. The gravity is exactly the same as on Earth. All the alien races can also breathe the air on every planet and they get along with Earth gravity perfectly. But you don't really think about it because the gameplay is so cool and fun.

Sharing a picture I wanted to post for some time already, but strugged to find a reason until recently:



That one is probably the best in the artist's portfolio, really nicely done. Looks great for a boss NPC or as a baseline for hostile military force.
What recently drew my attention to it, is the metallic skull-like facemask and the smaller ornamental face worn on the chest, with mehanical hands adorning the silhouette. We assossiate human skulls with death and destruction, thus the artist's choice is understandable and obviously depicts a machine bringing death and desctruction upon its enemies.
Such fearsome masks aren't untypical at all in the human history and going along with this, a thought came to me: what if we would encounter a species with faily long-lasting warrior "caste" tradition of putting building parts of the enemies they most often fight or from the most significant battles into their armours, just like signs of distiction/hull markings/medals in the current militaries?
For example, you'd visit a neutral population centre for some unrelated business and then suddenly a group of that guys would come towards you. You'd see some sort of robotic parts and animal(rachni-like or whatever species of similar danger potential) bones on the armours and suddenly there is a guy with 3 human skull frontplates on his armour and you'd go "wait a second..." *reaches for the gun*

Also one could imagine some alien warriors designing their helmets in a way that is most unsettling to whomever they are going to fight, psychological warfare being a part of their military codex.

Well, just a thought about some flavour/additional characterisation for some alien species.


A couple of additional designs for alien species I found recently that I think are something to consider for next ME:







Reminds me of something along these lines: