Re your post on Fenris naturally having light hair and dark brows. I've known some ppl with that combo. When I was in high school, a girl in my class had to bring childhood photos to prove she wasn't dyeing her hair blond. I believe the ritual changed Fenris' hair, but I 100% agree that it's headcanon. I picture Leto as a redhead, but ppl have shown me concept art of Fenris with brown hair and claimed that that makes it canon. Just curious, what is your take on concept art as canon?
I work in the industry and also have numerous close kins who is-working/worked at actual game studios so the fact is that I know exactly how a production pipeline works in these places.
At a concept stage, a character can have so many different looks until it is finalized and officially released
as a canon. Thus, any concept art that is not officially marked as a *final design* are very unreliable source of canon info about a character. (In one of the concept art, Fenris even has heavy stubble as an elf)
As for my own example, the undisclosed production I’m working on nowadays has a lot of
sci-fi props and locations with specific designs. I finished working on a whole scene with what was supposed to be close-to-final-designs and I got noted today that the director decided to change some major parts of it so now I have to redo most of that scene.
Yet, these cancelled concepts will still be displayed on art-of-books or get released to the public for viewings because they’re part of the process that can be appreciated by the audience but the creators really don’t release them as a canon info.
That’s why they are called *concept* art.
So unless someone can provide me with an official *finalized* release from BioWare (and please do if anyone has one), I wouldn’t believe that there is actually a solid canon about Fenris’s hair. A lot of times, even the directors themselves don’t know about the universe as much as a hard-core fan.
That being said though, while I personally favour white-haired-by-birth-Fenris in my drawings, I love seeing any other head cannon versions of him as long as they’re not presented to me imposingly.
(Just like how I loved the gorgeous red-headed one that you showed me a while back)
I kinda went nuts with this response..lol
Hope this answers your curiosity :)