PEOPLE:

Shigefumi Hino, age 41. Link’s Awakening character designer. Director of Pikmin 2.

Takashi Tezuka, age 43. Co-creator of the Zelda series. Producer of Pikmin 2.

Wataru Yamaguchi. Ocarina of Time and Pikmin 2 illustrator.

QUOTE: Q: Much of the character art for [Pikmin 2] is clay sculptures. Did you actually work in clay to create the characters?

Hino: Actually, all of those clay-looking models you see in the artwork were in fact sculpted in clay. We took those clay sculptures, took photos and scanned them to make digital versions of them and then combined the different individual clay sculptures into essentially collages, which became the final pieces of art.