An interesting post previously went up on Nintendo’s recruitment website from an artist that worked on Splatoon 3. As part of this, we learn about the challenges of making illustrations and why it was far from a straightforward process. The first takeaway is that the artist “needed to display a world that was rougher when compared to the past games”...
The job of an illustrator at Nintendo is to convey the charm of characters such as Mario through illustration. The illustrations are of course used for things such as game boxes and advertisements, but also videos, magazines, social media, and decora... [3635 chars]