MASS EFFECT SHIP CONCEPT ART SKIN
MASS EFFECT SHIP CONCEPT ART SERIES

MASS EFFECT SHIP CONCEPT ART SKIN

The typical workflow for a skin in VALORANT typically involves a 2D artist coming up with an idea and drawing it, then a 3D artist takes it to a model and texture that they create. Sean Marino: A really fun challenge we took on when making this was sort of breaking the model of how skins are produced. This bizarre juxtaposition of seeing something that looked as if it was made for 2D animation but represented as a physical object was exactly that kind of feeling we were going for, and with a combination of styles and references we were able to make something that we feel is incredibly unique for a skin. One of the biggest вЂњAha!вЂќ moments during this reference period was when one of our producers showed us a video of an artist who paints Gundam models as if they were drawn for the manga or anime. We looked at a number of different comic styles and eras, and even pulled references from some other games over the last few years that have executed a similar-looking 2D style in a 3D world. So rather than go the route of anime for a skin, we felt like we could adapt what we did into something that had more of a comic book feel. Once we started playing with the shader though, we felt like there was a pretty extreme disconnect from the gun to the rest of the world. Those games have perfected the look of getting something that is 3D to feel like it's 2D, and similarly, when one of our engineers was helping out with Project LвЂ™s art style, he brought over some of the shader work he did on that to have us experiment with on VALORANT. Originally, the shader we built for Radiant Crisis was more in line with something you might find in an anime fighting game like Guilty Gear or Dragonball FighterZ. Sean Marino: Funny enough, this skin sort of emerged from work done on an experiment we started prior to VALORANT launch. What did you take inspiration from / any notable concepts you wanted to convey with Radiant Crisis 001? VALORANT needed time for the community to become accustomed to what we were doing with skins and-similar to BlastX in how we set our first вЂњtonally differentвЂќ skin to be 6 months after launch-we planned on having Comicbook, which was our first truly stylistically different skin, release much further out. I think thatвЂ™s also a reason why we didnвЂ™t make and ship this skin right away. We wanted to see if we could take an art style that existed outside the world of VALORANT and bring it into the game. With Radiant Crisis (comicbook), the goal was flipped.

With a lot of our skins, the challenge is to try and take a thematic or an idea and appropriately interpret it into the VALORANT art style. We first had the idea to do something like this back in September 2020. A third image shows the construction of a new Mass Relay labelled вЂMR 7вЂ™.Sean Marino, Associate Art Director: I had to go back and look because I felt like it had been a long time since we had the idea for this skin, and it turned out I was right. As Eurogamer notes, another piece of art shows some massive buildings similar to those built by the Remnant вЂ“ a group first introduced in Andromeda. In image, we see a number of silhouettes standing near the same вЂmud skipperвЂ™ ship shown in the previous concept art. Scans of the art quickly hit the internet via sources like Tumblr, and fans have been poring over them for clues. In BioWare: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development, the studio shares a few more bits of art from the new Mass Effect вЂ“ and there are a surprising number of connections to the oft-maligned Andromeda. Now the studio is revealing even more early glimpses at the next Mass Effect in a new book.

MASS EFFECT SHIP CONCEPT ART SERIES

In addition to the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remasters, BioWare has confirmed that itвЂ™s working on the next entry in the Mass Effect series вЂ“ and even shared a bit of concept art to prove theyвЂ™ve got more than вЂMass Effect 5вЂ™ written on a whiteboard.

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