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From Boxes to Life! How to Prototype and Develop Creatures: Mass Effect 2 and 3 Case Study Scylla Costa Development Director, BioWare/EA Core Programming Core Programming Tools Tools Performance Performance GUI GUI Gameplay Gameplay

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From Boxes to Life! How to Prototype and Develop Creatures: Mass Effect 2 and 3 Case Study Scylla Costa Development Director, BioWare/EA

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Core Programming Tools Performance GUI Gameplay Character Art Animation VFX Online Core Programming Tools Performance GUI Gameplay

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Concept Character Art Animation Gameplay VFX Audio

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Concept Character Art Animation Gameplay VFX Audio

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Factions
Roles
Creature Pipeline
Creature Bible

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Cover Taker
Slow Pressure
Support
Suppressor
Cover Buster

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Gameplay Concept Prototyping Final Prototype Rough Creature Polish Gameplay

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Box Creatures (videos)

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Mesh in Game

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Big thanks to the entire Gameplay, Character Art, Animation, VFX, Audio and QA team. You guys rock! Special Thanks to Brenon, Boldwin, Noel and Preston. scylla@bioware.com @scyllacosta