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>>3861338
He's not even credited in SNK wiki for working on XII. Maybe he did inspire something, after all he worked in the company, and he did endings for KoFXI.
But still XII and XIII is all Nona's style, see this pic from his twitter for example. He does dial back on ugliness occasionally, to sell his work I guess.

>>3787709
>Source?
Um, Wikipedia's article on XII. Back when the game was making the news, Nona's name was everywhere. He was in charge of art direction.

> Also, don't companies usually rely on illustrations first
I am not really an expert on this. But yes, they had 2 different people responsible for different parts of XIII, Ogura for artwork and Nona for in-game graphics.

>Because that would be weird to have pixel art as first drafts.
But that's how it was. Weird, sure, but in line with their "100% hand-drawn sprites" schtick. Nona even did a series of pixel art in this vein on his Twitter for other stuff (see pic).