Different age and wildly different industry, but that's how concepting works. You have an idea as a creative without the skill to realize it fully, you collaborate directly with an artist you trust to realize it. Feels like all these studio heads are wholly removed from the artistic process now.

Reading all the interviews with him in the Muvluv Integral book, where he talks about having his own sketches for TSFs, and then asking his artists to refine those designs, or to make their own TSFs with the same visual shape as his work, since he was primarily a writer, not an artist.