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Takaya Imamura was the rare artist who joined Nintendo in 1989 as the iconic game company was creating some of its memorable intellectual properties. Little did he know that he was going to participate in building up those IPs himself through character design for Star Fox, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, F-Zero and more. It might be based on an existing game, but I always tell my students to try to find a way of giving it some kind of unique element that makes it stand out against its peers.

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