Jay Does School Stuff

Sifting through the design fog until you start seeing light in the distance. These were just some of my drawings, there are even more from other members of the concept team. 

Of all the props I got to design for Inquisition, my favorite is the War Table. We knew that we’d be coming back to the table time and time again, so I tried to treat it like a character design and give it some history. I thought that perhaps the War Table was made from a tree that once served as a symbol for peace. It was then cut down and slabbed, polished from centuries of use. The lofty branches that once shaded diplomatic talks were desecrated, inverted to illuminate machinations of conflict.

A couple of my favorites, which to me will always be the Dragon Bear and the Hyena Vulture. The idea was that an ecosystem that included flying tyrannosauruses would be different from the one we know today. In this case, a breed of bear that targets wyverns and dragonlings, but in the spring may even go after a high dragon. Alternately, a scavenger that has grown large and confident living off the scraps of the high dragon. 

Mike Laidlaw turned his override key, allowing me to put these up. 

Some early drawings done for the Jaws of Hakkon DLC