Tomoharu Saito: Ketsui illustrator [RIP]

[GaijinPunch]

If it follows the pattern of most Cave games (and most in general AFAIK) he designed the "world". IE, characters, ships, enemies, etc. Doesn't mean he rendered them, and most likely didn't, but he came up w/ the original settings, from which the 3D artists would've made models.

[Valgar]

Yes that is how every game is made (and fiction movies). Drawing is so cheap (pencil and paper).