Concept Art by Ben Lo

The tribal looking mounts remind me a bit of the Collectors, though it's mostly the shape of their heads and the multiple eyes.

I admit I would freak out a bit if I ever heard, "assuming direct control" in Andromeda.

Got some more drawings by Ben Lo, this time with kids! My absolute favorite is the Krogan one. There are few familiar faces here, likely used as a template.

Here's his description of the art:

"Very early on on the Mass Effect Andromeda. We had a week called Mass Effect Week. Which gave each of us an opportunity to come up with any cool idea for the game. This was the proposal I came up with…

Since the Mass Effect one, fans have been fascinated by the universe, and created many fan art, most of which was of the Kids. As a generation Ark going to Andromeda to start a new life. There are bound to have kids of every race aboard for the mission. Krogan running around with kids on his back, Salarian teaching their young on data analysis, Asari teaching the class a lesson on the Milkyway and so on. This would have been a great opportunity to have more life on the Ark. Give the players what they have been asking for. Put more at the stake, giving the player a much more important reason to fight for."












I'll be adding these to the OP to keep things organized.

I do really like the concept art with kids. After all, it's a Civilian Initiative where we are supposed to colonize worlds. One thing that bothers me in the nexus is that theres no leisure stuff around. Shure when we first arrive on the Nexus it's almost abandonned, but the more we progress, the more we build colonies and that we get closer to 100% viability, we should see more & more leisure stuff around, more people enjoying themselves. All we see is people in space suit working around, even in the Vortex bar. I hope in future installement(DLC or MEA2) we will have more stuff like the Pressidium on thee Citadel and kids & people hanging around not in battlesuit.

Are some of the character art in the plates in second spoiler for new aliens that are coming or where they all for Kett?

It's very possibly a mix of both. I have no doubt that there's lots of concept work floating around that never really made it to the web as ideas thrown about for both the Kett and Angara as well as possible other races. 

F!Ryder was my first char, and I liked her overall, just not in romance with Jaal. I did not romance others. My m!Ryder flirts with everyone, and he's way better as far as romances go. Though, going back to concept art, I found myself laughing when that poor animator was explaining about his much misused reel about how they had to turn on the heat in the animations because actors were reserved on stage. Now I can't stop laughing whenever I see a romantic scene because I keep seeing something like Mal trying to embrace and kiss Zoe to tease Wash....

back to concept art, just like with the animator talking about his work, I am divided between seeing those interesting screens and backroom process, and just sticking to sitting in the audience and watching the final product.

also, I am puzzled by multiple screens with children, I am wondering if there was supposed to be a montage for colonization success with lots of children shown? Is it coming as the happy beginning to be soured by whatever happens in MEA2? Who knows...

I'm hoping the dialogue with Jill indicates that these ideas will be seen in the future. There will likely be a ton of children that pop up in-between games as the outposts grow into cities, and watching just a small portion of that expansion would be amazing. I feel like these scenes would create a breathe of fresh air for the established races, and bring something very new for long time fans.

Maybe Ryder will hear a history lesson about how the first outposts were established. 

Good thing I propped up the Moshae. Her opinion is the only one that matters anyway. I can see Kesh totally dispelling these myths. 

That, or "Legend tells of a solitary krogan that defeated the kett singlehanded. With his mighty hammer, struck the first post into the ground, and upon that rock, Podromos was born."

Didn't want to start a new thread,but what happened to those beautifull concept arts?
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99% of those concepts are better than any of the shit in the game. Dude wasted his time and talent because some idiot said to make the aliens "human and relatable."