source: www.facebook.com/note.php“AdrenalineTwit: why the change to long hair for Ashley?”
JM: I want to tack on to that, what kind of interaction does the writing team have with the designers. I’m sure when you guys are writing you might have something in mind for how a certain character looks or how someone carries themselves so what is the relationship between you and the art team to get a cohesive look?
MW: We work, especially major characters such as followers of villains, we work with Casey the Executive Producer and Derek Watts and whoever the character artist is. What we usually do is supply them with a character’s backstory and history – things that will help give them inspiration. For instance, when we were writing Kasumi we knew that she was going to be Asian so that was part of her profile. We don’t always give that much detail on the character but a lot of times it is a back and forth saying things like, ‘I pictured Zaeed a little older and with more scars.’ They’ll work with us on that. If it’s a major major character like say The Illusive Man, the vision will come from someone like Casey himself. He’s got a specific vision for it and it’s up to him and the artists to sort that out. Then I’ll write for that persona that they’re creating. It’s a fun relationship with the artists because there is a bit of a back and forth. With the minor characters it’s often up to the level designers because they have a face morph system with the ability to create an unlimited number of heads so we’ll say, ‘Yeah this guy is middle aged, he looks like he’s been through a lot’ and they can give us something that looks unique and also fits the bill.
Ashley and Kaidan especially, we didn’t see much of them in ME2, and we really wanted to give the sense that they had grown and their character had preceded forward. We wanted that to be apparent when you see them. When you first meet Ashley in ME1, she’s kind of a grunt. She has the short hair and is in the trenches as a soldier. But now she’s advanced, her rank is higher now and she’s got people reporting to her now and we she should have a slightly more sophisticated look to convey that visually without even having to say anything.
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I asked Mac Walters twice on Twitter about it already but he never responded 
