Jeremiah Lee · Senior Character Concept Artist

I've been working on the Titan suit. So I did spend time working on the Titan suit: the movement, requirements, the abilities, what it can do, what it can't do.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Content Manager, Community

I think you've been working on some very cool stuff for our favorite adversarial alien race.

Jeremiah Lee · Senior Character Concept Artist

Oh, I can't say. So I have been working a lot on the Vanduul, just different variants of it, what the culture of the Vanduul is. We all know generally what they look like, but what the culture is.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Content Manager, Community

With concepts, if you're a subscriber, you can go to your Subscriber Vault and you can see a variety of concepts for a lot of things, for different ships and whatnot, that don't actually ever make it into the game. A big part of the concepting phase is not just finding the things you do want, it's discovering the things that you don't want. I'll go by Jeremiah's desk and I see him working on a fat Vanduul. Again, there's no guarantee that's going to make it into the game. It's an exploration.

Josh Herman · Character Art Director

Sometimes when you're going through the concepting and ideation process, no's are way more important than yes's because it pushes you in a direction.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Content Manager, Community

Chris is an incredibly visual person, so sometimes he needs to see something before he knows he doesn't want it. Sometimes we have to show him a thing before he goes, no, I don't want that.

Jeremiah Lee · Senior Character Concept Artist

For concept, I like to view it like it's not just, hey, make this suit and I just make one suit. I like to cast a wide net. I normally do, I think this is what Josh wants or this is what Chris wants. And then I tweak it a little bit further, and then I go toward Crazy Town. Normally on the third or fourth iteration, it's like, what about this crazy bug-like looking thing, right? And sometimes that's the one Josh and Chris like, and I'm like, oh really? Okay. But I like to cast a general net so that Josh and Chris would have multiple options. And if they like one idea, they'll be like, that's a really cool idea, and they'll flesh it out even further. So my job is to present options. So that's why the fat Vanduul.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Content Manager, Community

For everybody in Twitch chat going, 'sick, fat Vanduul confirmed': no, that's not how concept works. What about you, Gage?

Gaige Hallman · Technical Artist, Character Team

For the things that I'm working on, it's sort of on the back burner, but the cow creature from Hurston. It's not our priority, but I like to work on that whenever I get a chance. And that's funny, because it's just jiggly and full of eggs and stuff. It's not pleasant to look at.