Takaya Imamura is a notable name in the world of Nintendo video game development. Imamura’s body of work speaks for itself: graphic designer for the original Star Fox; the character designer for F-Zero: Climax; a supervisor for Super Smash Bros. Brawl; and the art director for The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
That is impressive resume is probably why he drew an out-sized online “backlash” over his use of generative AI for a recent experiment. Imamura said fans were surprisingly made about a recent post he shared about “testing out” AI to help develop a video game.
Imamura recently posted
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