Mass Effect Andromeda--- Character Art Dump

pum · Apr 2017

Hi everyone,

my name is Herb and I am the Lead Char Artist here at Bioware Montreal.
I want to show some of our models from Mass Effect Andromeda here in this thread.
Enjoy!

Cheers,
Herb

pum · Apr 2017

pum · Apr 2017

pum · Apr 2017

pum · Apr 2017

pum · Apr 2017

pum · Apr 2017

Furio Tedeschi's Wraith

Furio Tedeschi's Ascendant:

Furio Tedeschi's Female Angara

Furio Tedeschi's Fiend

Furio Tedeschi's Observer

PixelMasher · Apr 2017

saw this on artstation last night. badass work man! I wish the materials had this much zing in game, but god damn some fantastic work.

skyline5gtr · Apr 2017

QFT, the renders look great but the game misses a lot of that I feel

pum · Apr 2017

Joseph Botardo's Nomad

pum · Apr 2017

Joseph Botardo's Tempest

pum · Apr 2017

Joseph Botardo's Pathfinder Angara Armor

Joseph Botardo's Drack

Joseph Botardo's Krogan Armor

Joseph Botardo's Vetra

Joseph Botardo's Turian Armor

pum · Apr 2017

Joseph Botardo's Outlaw Terminator

Angara Underarmor

Carnifex

Ghost

Ruzad

Cora Shotgun

Fred2303 · Apr 2017

Reserving Spot

ChrisC · Apr 2017

Hi, this is my contribution for Mass Effect Andromeda. It has been a honor to work along side great people and artist.

Concept has been done by, Brian Sum, Ben Lo and Ramil Sunga. Shaders where done by Nick Sadler. All In-game model where rendered in Frostbite and Highres in Keyshot. Textures where done with Photoshop and Quixel Suite.
All High Res model where done exclusively with Zbrush.

Hope you enjoy!

Chris.

CrazyMoon · Apr 2017

Ahhh this is awesome!! All of them look amazing, especially the hard surface parts! I'm curious about the cleanup process you used on the hard surface pieces. Could one of you possibly talk about the methods used? Was it a standard 3Ds Max to ZBrush and then back pipeline or were some of the models done fully in ZBrush?

garriola83 · Apr 2017

oh wow thank you all for your hard work! looks amazing!

aaronaton · Apr 2017

This is gunna be interesting, do any of you wish to comment on the speculation that some of the characters were purposely meant to look less attractive?

pum · Apr 2017

CrazyMoon: Each artists have our own preference.
Some of us are much more expert in Zbrush, so Zmodeler was used for the hard surface. The old schooler ( like myself) still prefer sketching the armors in Zbrush then remodel in Max or XSI. Really, anything that gets the job done well

garriola83: thank you

aaronaton: Cant comment on that

CrazyMoon · Apr 2017

Alright man thanks for answering

That's insightful enough

jose.fuentes · Apr 2017

amazing work! the modeling and texturing is incredible, the details!

JacqueChoi · Apr 2017

Awesome work to you and the team!

radiancef0rge · Apr 2017

well shit. those are dope.

Asura · Apr 2017

Loving the hard surface work on here

!

pum · Apr 2017

thanks you , all!

matmakin · Apr 2017

My contribution to the Mass Effect: Andromeda character line up
Huge privilege to be part of such an amazing team and a great title to work on

slosh · Apr 2017

I think what I love most about the scifi art in this game is the balance in design. A lot of other AAA studios doing scifi suits seem to just do absurd amounts of detail where your eyes just have no where to rest. The MEA stuff has tons of microdetail but when you back out, you still get nice areas of focus and the designs are so cohesive. Clearly the 3d art is amazing but also big kudos to the concept guys who worked this stuff out early on in the design phase. Hats off to all the amazing artists who must have put in endless hours on this phenomenal product!

RocketBryan · Apr 2017

I absolutely second @slosh on that. The design philosophy of areas-of-detail-vs-areas-of-rest does tend to get kinda lost in the shuffle and excitement of a sci-fi theme. Heck, most Korean and Japanese style games actively abandons the concept altogether.

This is some absolutely phenomenal work. I'm really looking forward to some of the fixes for the game coming down the pipe so I can legitimately start my first playthrough.

pum · Apr 2017

thank you very much @slosh @RocketBrian for the kind words

NoRank · Apr 2017

First of all, amazing work, especially on the armors. What did you guys used to render?

pum · Apr 2017

thanks @NoRank
For the gameres, its all in the Frosbite 3 engine. For the highres they are mix between Keyshot and Zbrush.

NoRank · Apr 2017

pum said:

thanks @NoRank
For the gameres, its all in the Frosbite 3 engine. For the highres they are mix between Keyshot and Zbrush.

Yeah got the feeling it was some keyshot stuff. Nicely done.

Fred2303 · Apr 2017

A bit late to the party ! heres my little contribution to the game

Cheers!

shogunato · Apr 2017

iNSANE !!!! fantastic work !!

Elithenia · Apr 2017

Wow! Amazing!

pum · Apr 2017

thank you @shogunato @Elithenia @Super Happy Cow

Super Happy Cow: unfortunately we can't control the internet. But we do listen to the fans and keep trying to improve the game post ship

Felixenfeu · Apr 2017

Good work mate !

rodpv · Apr 2017

Lot of great work guys! Awesome!

Tomtegubbe · Apr 2017

Great work, did you people have a say when it came to the character designs, ethnicities etc in the game. Many think that Mass Effect has been ordered to go social justice warrior. Was that a conscious choice or just something you artists wanted to do.

TH98 · Apr 2017

Thanks for sharing all this beautiful work guys

Just finished my first playthrough and I had a fantastic time.

Lt_Commander · Apr 2017

I finished my playthrough this week, great work on the art! The environmental and hard surface work is just incredible. The designs are modernized, but still hold true to the (now massive) library of visual styles for each species that has been developed over a decade of releases.

Marco Splash · Apr 2017

My contribution to the project. Salarian Armor from my short time working on Mass Effect Andromeda.
Head by Rodrige Pralier . Thanks Frederic D'Aoust and Herbert Lowis for the screenshots!

macoll · Apr 2017

Great art ! Very inspiring, thanks for sharing

Tomiajayi · Apr 2017

pum said:

Hi everyone,

my name is Herb and I am the Lead Char Artist here at Bioware Montreal.
I want to show some of our models from Mass Effect Andromeda here in this thread.
Enjoy!

Cheers,
Herb

Hey Herb, can you comment on the uproar about the "uncanny valley" look of the ingame character faces?
These models look SO GOOD, they look absolutely perfect.
But I feel like in the game they look slightly less realistic. Many gamers complained about that.
Any thoughts?