Update: Cooper noted in a follow-up tweet that the motion capture itself was repurposed from BioWare's previous game, Jade Empire. Yup, Commander Shepard was originally a woman: /FhC2E0FSrA Ten years ago this month, my very first anim test for Mass Effect. This is definitely canon, right, BioWare?Ĭheck out our coverage of BioWare's most recent N7 Day roundtable for more on the next Mass Effect game.
That settles it once and for all: FemShep is the one true Commander Shepard. 'Yup, Commander Shepard was originally a woman,' said Cooper. The 3-second animation, which you can watch below, consists of a character model turning while jogging forward. He said today that 10 years ago this month, he did the first animation test for the character that would become the protagonist of the Mass Effect series. Commander Shepard, the player-created hero of BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy, began life as a woman, developer Jonathan Cooper revealed on Twitter today.Ĭooper is currently an animator on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End at Naughty Dog, but he previously worked at Ubisoft Montreal as the animation director for Assassin's Creed 3, and prior to that, at BioWare as the animation lead on Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2.
