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b'We\'re taking a big ol\' swan dive into character design and concept art on this week\'s episode, and so we\'re SUPER lucky to have Ashley and Claire joining us to talk about the misconceptions around what a concept artist does, how they each approach character design, what they want from the writers/creative director when they\'re starting out with designing one, working for the project instead of yourself, how they know when they\'re done, the importance of taking breaks and having personal projects, how to achieve good storytelling and character work through costuming, how "real" you can push things before it becomes so novel for players that they\'re distracted by it, cloth sims: the final frontier of video game character design, making art for VR, major influences, how to create characters that are lifelike and not superficial, the secret to navigating creative disagreements successfully, the importance of failing and making mistakes, which game stories they\'ve responded to recently, and MORE!'