{"id":131973,"date":"2023-02-21T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-145443"},"modified":"2023-02-21T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:05:00","slug":"star-fox-character-designer-celebrates-30th-anniversary-with-special-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/21\/star-fox-character-designer-celebrates-30th-anniversary-with-special-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Fox Character Designer Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Special Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bf17a1c82e050\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bf17a1c82e050\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Star Fox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bf17a1c82e050\/star-fox.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bf17a1c82e050\/star-fox.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Star Fox\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo legend and artist Takaya Imamura is today celebrating 30 years of the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/star_fox\">Star Fox<\/a> game in Japan, with a special drawing of the one and only Fox McCloud.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared a special message thanking Fox for supporting him and everyone else who has worked on the games he&#8217;s appeared in:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/ima_1966\/statuses\/1627684579321708546 @ 2023-02-21T02:21:35+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30d5\u30a9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\uff01\uff13\uff10\u5e74\u4ee5\u4e0a\u50d5\u3092\u652f\u3048\u3066\u304f\u308c\u3066\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\uff01\u305d\u3057\u3066\u541b\u306e\u767b\u5834\u3059\u308b\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u306b\u95a2\u308f\u3063\u305f\u3059\u3079\u3066\u306e\u4eba\uff01\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\uff01<br \/>Thank you for supporting me for over 30 years, Fox! And everyone involved in the games you&#8217;ve appeared in! Thank you!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u30d5\u30a9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/starfox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#starfox<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NFgeCZb4T5\">pic.twitter.com\/NFgeCZb4T5<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u4eca\u6751\u5b5d\u77e2 \/ Takaya Imamura (@ima_1966) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ima_1966\/status\/1627684579321708546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Inamura departed from Nintendo back in 2021 after spending 32 years with the company. He started out at Nintendo in 1989 on F-Zero as a graphic designer and then moved on to Star Fox as the main artist &#8211; designing characters like Fox McCloud alongside Shigeru Miyamoto.<\/p>\n<p>Inamura isn&#8217;t the only one reflecting on 30 years of Star Fox. Star Fox developer Dylan Cuthbert has also joined in on the anniversary celebrations:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/snes\/related-articles:145307,110549 @ 2023-02-21T08:03:14+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you think of the above artwork? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Nintendo legend and artist Takaya Imamura is today celebrating 30 years of the original Star Fox game in Japan, with a special drawing of the one and only Fox McCloud. He also shared a special message thanking Fox for supporting him and everyone else who has worked on the games he&#8217;s appeared in: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}