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Have you ever considered LEDs or other animated effects on microTech outfits?

TL;DRYes, LEDs and animated effects have been considered and some LED effects shown, but ideas like scrolling stock tickers or ads are only concept spitballing, not guaranteed, and animated textures are possible but expensive and probably unwise.

Jeremiah LeeLead Concept Artist

Yes, we have.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

And we talked about it on ISC last quarter, when we showed off the first ELD. ELD is the manufacturer we're working with for this, so you already introduced a number of LED effects.

Jeremiah LeeLead Concept Artist

This was a very risky move that I made on this one, but I wanted to push what our clothing is. This is actually our first Terra brand that our community has seen. And so for microTech, I pitched the idea of maybe I can actually see the individual's stock portfolio. It's updating and it's scrolling.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

I have absolutely no trouble believing that that will exist one day.

Jeremiah LeeLead Concept Artist

I think it will. People would flex, or people would just be super depressed looking at their own. But also, this is the craze. I was also here too, stock numbers just on their little bands here. But this was the biggest one: having ship commercials being played on their clothing. So also keep in mind, all of this is concept. None of this is guaranteed to go in the game. So this is all just me spitballing ideas to the directors and also tech and also Chris and also the art directors as well. But also LEDs are here. We were actually talking about animating textures. So if we were to put a video or some sort of scrolling texture, we do have the tech to do that. However, it is very expensive. So there are methods of doing that. Is it wise to do it? Probably not.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Because eventually you're going to have 300 people all standing in the same place, with 300 different videos on their video t-shirts.

Jeremiah LeeLead Concept Artist

Exactly. But I did talk to Dave Haddock about, just spitballing ideas. I think we were just drinking coffee, sitting down, chatting, and I brought this up to him, and he was like, it'd be really cool if you were broke and you just needed money and you're stuck and your ship's all somewhere else. You got dropped off somewhere and you have no money. And so, the beautiful people who stand outside with the signs and they wear the Statue of Liberty clothing. So imagine that, but it'll be like an Aegis shirt that just plays Aegis commercials 24/7, and you just go around...

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

It's like a little career. You're walking advertising. Just like every eight hours, you get a little tick.

Jeremiah LeeLead Concept Artist

You get a direct deposit in your wallet. So we did talk about that. We thought that was super funny. And I totally could see that 900 years in the future as well. I think having ads play as well. There was one for this one I spoke with Gaige about: what if the colors of the shirt would just change, and we just have to do an animating video and just kind of UV it on here. These black areas, what if after every 10 seconds it'll just kind of flip over to the other side and it'll reveal a different color. So for concept also, I'm very like, what if we did all this crazy stuff? That's what concepts are for. And then Gaige and Corey will instantly shut me down.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

All the crazy ideas, and then everybody else tells you what you're going to actually do.

Jeremiah LeeLead Concept Artist

So I'm the dreamer, and then Corey is the realist, and Gaige is also a realist.

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Published on this date.9 Aug 2019