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7/19/2025, 2:18:44 PM
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>Paon
Don't mean to single you out here anon but it annoys me when people still refer to the mid-2000s DK renders as "Paon designs" when in reality they were really just in-house Nintendo designs that contractors like Paon, Namco and even Rare themselves were mandated to use.
Tiny Kong's one of the best examples of that, Rare clarified on their Scribes that the tall teenage design was Nintendo's call and Rare just had to roll with it. Interviews for Barrel Blast also confirm that the new Kremling characters like Kalypso were created by Nintendo's in-house character management team.
Funny enough this may also explain why Smash Brawl and Smash 4 had a couple of all new "Paon-esque" 3D models for Winky, Expresso and Squitter seen nowhere else, because they were models Nintendo themselves created in the event that a developer wanted to use them (which didn't happen it seems).
>Paon
Don't mean to single you out here anon but it annoys me when people still refer to the mid-2000s DK renders as "Paon designs" when in reality they were really just in-house Nintendo designs that contractors like Paon, Namco and even Rare themselves were mandated to use.
Tiny Kong's one of the best examples of that, Rare clarified on their Scribes that the tall teenage design was Nintendo's call and Rare just had to roll with it. Interviews for Barrel Blast also confirm that the new Kremling characters like Kalypso were created by Nintendo's in-house character management team.
Funny enough this may also explain why Smash Brawl and Smash 4 had a couple of all new "Paon-esque" 3D models for Winky, Expresso and Squitter seen nowhere else, because they were models Nintendo themselves created in the event that a developer wanted to use them (which didn't happen it seems).
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