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title: "Chatting About Our New Level (with Lisette and Emily!)"
date: 2020-07-24T10:33:00-07:00
author: Harper Jay
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# Chatting About Our New Level (with Lisette and Emily!)

July 24th 2020

[Watch on YouTube:Art Director Lisette Titre-Montgomery and Senior Concept Artist Emily Johnstone unravel the mysterious "Brain in a Jar" and the inspirations that went into their trippy mental world.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFpDYeZmB0)

Art Director Lisette Titre-Montgomery and Senior Concept Artist Emily Johnstone unravel the mysterious "Brain in a Jar" and the inspirations that went into their trippy mental world.

Hot heck! We have a new trailer and it's full of rainbow bridges and music-based illusions. But what goes into making a level like our "Brain in a Jar's" mental world? I sat down with Art Director Lisette Titre-Montgomery and Senior Concept Artist Emily Johnstone to learn more about the process of designing how a brain looks and what goes into the conceptual side of creating a fresh *Psychonauts* level.   
  
The video above is packed with fresh details about our mysterious brain's inner workings including a breakdown of early concepts and the eventual advent of its current, synesthesia-based design.

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## Associated games

[Psychonauts 2](https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2 "Psychonauts 2")