How to save Ayumi Namae's hundreds of Concept Arts

[Burningskull]

Dear Yoshida,

You said at the fan fest that you feel bad when Ayumi Namae and the other concept artists does a lot of work, and brings you hundreds of different variations of the same design that you requested, only for you to then have to choose "just one."

Would it be possible, after you choose the one you want to put in game, if you saved those designs, and at some point after the design has been out for a while, scan and put them in the game as pictures that you can place in your house, like the ones you get from the Sightseeing logs.

You could also have a Concept Art Log. Where upon doing certain mini quests, or perform certain achievements, you unlock the concept art in the log and can look through it.

Granted I just realized that you also release the art books with collector's editions so maybe this thread is useless, but I think it would be cool to have these concept designs in the game some how to preserve them / make them available after said art books are discontinued.

Thanks

[Astarotha]

that would be awesome, have a little shop somewhere in the game with a prolific seamstress that has the designs, and make it a little collectathon where you bring her certain items and she makes you designs based off them, and if a huge portion of the fanbase loves a design maybe she could actually make an ingame version of that clothing

[noxen]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Yugiri and Gotsetsu sketch was some concept art that snuck its way in to the game. I fully support this idea and would love to see it come to fruition.

[SenorPatty]

I agree with that idea as well. I think it's an excellent way of also introducing "the dev room" where devs can put a bunch of rejected/abandoned stuff like the concept art or written ideas they thought of.

[Indefiinable]

This is an awesome idea I fully support

[Shougun]

Only concern might be the heartache when you see concept art that you love dearly and it didn't make the cut lol. Like the Au Ra concept art makes me sad, because the succubus women and demon men are so cool (imo) and the ones that made it in the game are very normal (I'm not saying they're bad, but that imo they feel standard/non-unique).

That said it would make some really cool art books in and out of game.

[Bacent]

I would love if they added something like this to the game. I'm a huge sucker for unused/beta elements/concept art that we normally wouldn't get to see.

[Nihility]

I imagine they don't do that because there would probably be a group of angry people internet yelling at him for every single one that wasn't picked.

Look how toxic the community is over just the stuff they do show.
just from EU fanfest there's angry threads about gunbreaker being a tank, not liking the guynbreaker weapon, lots of "i thought you were better than that" when the development preview of viera was just very limited female models, people super angry about a car mount existing, people angry that they feel the data shows eureka model is successful, etc etc etc

With so many people angry to the point of claiming to quit the game over things they get. Can't even imagine what would happen if they started showcasing what they didn't get

Other than that I agree and think a concept art book would be super cool

[Corue]

Funnily enough we have a system like this already.
It's called the art book.