Mass Effect - Creating the Asari - Game Informer
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- Hear from Bioware's associate art director Matt Rhodes what it took to create the alien race known as the Asari and how the species evolved and was influenced by different parts within the studio. To see the rest of Game Informer's Mass Effect coverage please visit www.gameinformer.com/p/masseff...
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"All of these alien's had to have something threatening about them.."
Me looking at the Volus
The volus are nightmare under the suit
Have you never heard of the Biotic God?
Poor poor volus
Well they have built a warship that is second only to Destiny's Ascension
They have lightsabers what you talking about?
I feel like they were perfect on the asari and turians. They look exactly as you would think they would, given the personality they were written for.
Salarians have an awesome design too. I’m pretty sure I remember hearing somewhere that the Salarians’ design is inspired by the typical alien look that you hear about in abductions.
Don't forget freckles! It's one of the things that makes Liara so damn cute
The eyebrows help too. shes the only asari with them
does aria's count?
Purple freckles...
I really like how the writers justified the design in the bachelor party scene in ME2. One of the most memorable Mass Effect moments for me.
"Everybody loves the Asari"
I don't.
No.
I hate any intelligent species that are not human.
@@assassinariasuffer not the xeno to live
I never really wanted to have sex with an alien, until I played Mass Effect and saw Liara.
true story bro
That's the story of every gamer who played Mass Effect (including me)
high five
"I'd be the first motherfucker to see a new galaxy, or find a new alien life form... and fuck it."
Guybrush Threepwood I'm joing you :D
It took me 2 replays of both ME1 and 2 to realize the asari have no eyebrows ._.
And you're here too... :D
Liara did in ME1.
@@HeraldandGerald Technically they're just facial markings.
or ears hehe
love hearing 'vigil' in the background
Is that a "KOTOR" sign back there in the office? Oh i miss KOTOR... and Asari are pure love.
How can you miss something you can play any time?
"If you change the face too much they just become unattractive" FALSE Why is everyone so into Thane and Garrus? (Mainly Garrus)
Mostly the voice and a fact that they both badasses.
AngryBrick Because of their character. Both Garrus and Than are Ugly af.
Garrus is the most ultimatest bro ever existed
Some women find scars attractive
Mind you, most of those women are krogan...
reminds me of twilek
The asari in ME:A all look the same though, even with different face marks, except for Peebee.
Forsaken Algonquinia
She looks like a half baked potato, that has melted
@Casanova Frankenstein Have you played Andromeda? Every asari other than Peebee literally has the same face.
"star-trek green space babe" haha XD
Oh what an amazing quote!
the focus on "sex appeal" aside, I love the asari. Liara was such an intelligent voice of reason in the game, and a great teammate. Samara was a badass.
and Peebee's so stupid
"Focus on sex appeal aside" get out of our faces feminist trash
You would have thought that femmanists would have liked the fact that there is an all female race, that is the most advanced race and the leader of the galactic community.
They have some of the strongest soilders around.
But no, because they looks hot and most femmanists don't they are bad
miom
Actually to be fair, that's probably easier which invited her.
According to sources developers at Bioware have said they were disturbed by whatshe said, and that she wasn't a very nice person.
Other Devs have said that she should mind her own business
miom
Andromeda was made by a team who had never made a game before and had lots of troubles with EA forcing them to use frostbite despite the fact that frostbite isn't designed to make a game like that.
And the fact that they had 5 years of development and spent at least 3 on trying to get presidual planets to work
asari are by far my favorite alien race out of any sci fi film, game or book, most of the time aliens are shown to be quite odd looking or generally unattractive but it changed a lot with the asari, elegant and an interesting race!
I Love the Asaris they are my Favorite Mass Effect Race
The asari remind me of the twi'lek from Star Wars...
This, is how "art" is made. References. Remakes. Trading of information. Making background. Finally making the final piece.
I really liked the different head fins from 1:24. I would have been interesting to see Asari wit diverse 'hair' types in game.
GOD I CAN'T WAIT FOR MORE MASS EFFECT!
Really interesting, I had no idea that the designing process was that complicated
I like how in ME2 they mentioned how other races see them as their own. Salarian's see them as Salarians. Turians, humans, etc. Mentions how there might be some kind of mind control going on with their species.
Don't think that was serious though
I think it's just more along the lines of relatable morphology as discussed in that side conversation in ME2. Maybe the Protheans had a hand in that. I don't think there's any active mechanism like mental influence going on. Plus they're such a huge power in the galaxy that it's hard to really see them as "alien" since they're all over the place.
Probably because they can get pregnant by all species.
I love that part too. It’s meant to emphasise how the Asari’s whole thing is being the ideal attractive beings to everyone. You can kind of see how Turians and Salarians also relate to the Asari appearance (however of course, us as humans see Asari as looking exactly like us. I believe there is some psychology / pheromones behind it, in lore).
I sometimes wonder, if I met an Asari irl would it confuse me because I’m gay but would their strong psychological effects still make me attracted? Not sure
@@joeywild2011 Huh, THAT would certainly be interesting yeah, lol.
I like how they actually use the theory of evolution to design the characters. That's a pretty nifty use of the theory I've got to admit.
I appreciate that you have released an Extended Cut of your comment.
Finally, a SENSIBLE answer to my question.
Thank you Shadow383.
UGH! I have studying to be doing! Damn it why is this all so fascinating...
awesome guysss
I hope in Mass Effect 4 still have them
They are confirmed. The only race that's not confirmed yet is the quarian.
Heeey guess what
Certainly among the reasons I can't wait :P
I'm desperate for the next chapter in mass effect but I'll gladly wait to see it done as brilliantly as mass effect 2, bioware produced such a beautiful and detailed lore to not capitalise on it
Asari 4 life
The asari are the hottest alien out there, no weirdness intended. Also, Liara is amazing.
its out there.
i like the KOTOR sign in the background
Damn, I can't wait to see all the aliens of Mass Effect with the Frostbite engine...
Thanks a lot! :)
I love Mass Effect.
3:42 is the best pic of the councilor ever.
Yeah well at least they're working on it. In the meantime this year we'll have lot's of games to hold us over for a while.
i have the enormeus urge to touch an asari hair
Just like Joker lol, if you've played ME3 you can hear him asking Liara that. :D
yeah but i wonder if the asari's skin is rough and rubber like or tense and soft like human skin
lol I was hoping that Liara replied about how humans have those dead stringy things all over their bodies and how dirty and unmanagable it must get. And if they can move them.
@@Kevineitor199
Don't remember where it has been said, but Asari skin feels like that of a dolphin
From the wiki: The volus are not physically cut out for combat, be it a full-scale war or even a bar room scuffle. As such, they are highly dependent on the turians for defense, although the volus themselves do provide some auxiliary troops to the Hierarchy.
lol, i think he was referring mostly to the council species and a few others... but remember the hanar have the planetary defense system, and drell forces behind them acting as their own personal badass assassins.
i clicked the video just to say a comment in the same way but u sir did a fine job
Falere, Morinth, Tevos, Mallene, Liselle, Nyxeris, Aeian.
All asari whose name doesn't end in a letter "A"
Yep, we were thinking the same thing.
Wish I had seen more of these concepts before I sculpted the asari headpieces...
Those Syreen.
Indeed it is.
What they could have done is created 5 different faces on layers in zbrush and then changed the face output by moving the sliders. If the 5 base faces are different enough they could quickly generate a lot of different looks. Then stitch the unique faces on top of a base body.
A great biotic wind!
Lets talk more about the blue alien from the Fifth Element
Word.
Also - freckles. Surprisingly.
Nobody had thought of THAT before.
Looks like the Developers took lots of inspiration from the Delvians from Farscape. They re essentially identical except tentacles and unigender
My point exactly!
I can seriously see Tali as the 7th one at 1:49 I can just see it.
THIS is Artistic Integrity...
After 30 million years of reapers guiding civilization into a carefully planned out harvest, it can explain how many aliens find themselves genetically compatible in surprising ways.
I get you but I really didn't mind since you could have some great conversations. The side quests were a necessary evil.
Samara is probably one of the best characters in terms of face character design the series.
I like the concept on 2:11 so much! Asari look much better with such cute flat noses. To me they look too human in the game
Yes, that´s the one:).
Theory, Asari evolved from the child of Sonic the Hedgehog and a human super model.
what was the inspiration for the Volus, Elcor Hanar and Drell i wonder
the tentacles stayed though... :D
There are a few exceptions: Morinth and Councilor Tevos(If you save Destiny Ascension). Though it does seem like a design choice.
Not all of them. Remember Morinth and Tevos, the asari councilor? and Aria's daughter Liselle from the novel ME Retribution?
I love Liara T'Soni.
play multiplayer as a volus, you'll be able to see how they can fight, what is their species is strong and weak at in the mass effect universe. although no fighting/soldier volus was ever featured in the story, but I believe they were mentioned to have a military force though I forgot where and when.
Mass effect 3, volus ambassador has ties to Cerberus and is captured by mercs, Shepard comes along and dispatches the mercs volus ambassador gives a choice between saving a Turian colony or acquiring the volus bombing fleet. Something like that
@qu3ter it said on the official wiki that the asari were suppost to fill the roll of "Green alien chicks". dunno what the source was
It's like the Hanar were jellyfish and the asari where some kind of sea mammal like creature.
One artist tried to start that, but he disappeared. or so says the legend.
I was like:
"Oh cool, a 10 year old video that they made when ME 1 came out."
Then I noticed that 10 years ago was 2011 and that ME 1 was released in 2007.
For me they look like Princess Ruto in space.
I always assumed those faical markings were something Asaris were born with, aside Samara/Morinth plates.
The original creators of the Asari must have been appalled by the potato-faced Asari from MEA. So tragic.
1:43 I want that music. And no, it is not the _exact_ same one when you check the map on ME 1.
2:05
Jack!
Admiral Shepard here.greath worck
Kian, Falere, Nyxeris, Mallene. Yanis, Gallae, Tolae, ... etc
if you wonder who the photoshop is , she is 2005 Miss England Hammasa Kohistani
Humans with war paint in ther faces in mass effect 4 (or how it's gonna be called) without looking ridicolous would be awesome!
2:06
Alien Angelina Jolie.
@agfagaevart From an evolutionary point of view a bipod (two arms two legs) is the best survivor/hunter. The two-eyes thing is same thing, giving a field of depth for the hunter to gather food. Two arms and two legs is the superior form.
From the top of my mind: Tevos, Liselle, Mallene, Morinth, Nixeris..
well put. i just got to thinking that maybe you find that Turians and Salarians are teh smexyness because the bioware art team designed them with enough human likeness in their appearance and the way they emote for people to find them relatable. Now, i'm not saying i wanna let Vakarian calibrate my thanix cannon, or give Mordin a peek at my private terminal, but they're characters one can just connect with throughout the series XD
I know what you're referring to, and I understand the point being made, I think I'm just in a minority. There's fictional races which fall into this category that many people find off-putting or ugly, while I think they're beautiful.
Kinda going off on a tangent, but that's something else I find fascinating, that people can look at the exact same thing and see something completely different.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and sci-fi really tests the reach of that statement. Love it. ^^
"none of them were suppose to look weak"
THEN WHAT DO YOU CALL THE VOLUS
Yes but according to the multiplayer, Volus have the most advanced suits in the galaxy and some can be specially adapted for combat situations, however I'm sure they just said that for the sake of including a playable volus.
I know man.. same here.
I think it would be interesting to see Asari males in the future. A cause for them to be brought about would be breeding with males from other species, something that had not been planned for or known could be a possibility.
She just broke my calibrations . I'm pissed ,but she is pissed off too .
I think they way the head tentacles look how they would feel makes me feel a little ill.
the asari ships kind of reminds me of the star wars kaminoan buildings....
Do you mean that high little volus from Mass Effect 2 who gets in your way when you're trying to get the name of the ship that Samara's daughter escaped on so you could get Samara to join you in taking down the Collectors?
What's the music at the very beginning? It plays a lot throughout the series and I'm trying to find it.
Vigil
Where did it all go wrong
Hey! You don´t mess with the biotic god!
What about Falere, Morinth etc.? :P
@40warrior: Well, the stock photo they choose to reveal as Tali's real face under the helmet (though how does that long flowing hair fit into that helmet?). I think Bioware has always intended for the quarians to bear the closest resemblance in appearance to humans, at least in the superficial sense. Whereas the asari are, as Rhodes put it, idealized aliens.