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CLAMP collective [is
credited](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6704) for
_original character design_ of Code Geass. Since the actual character design
was made by [Takahiro
Kimura](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=7669), what
was exactly the CLAMP role in making Code Geass?


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What was exactly the CLAMP role in making Code Geass?


The [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_geass#Production) page has a
good explanation of the role that CLAMP played on the production.

To summarize it, CLAMP was contacted during the beginning planning stages.
They provided ideas that helped with the development of the setting and
characters. When they were developing Lelouch, Ageha Ohkawa, the head writer
at CLAMP, said that she saw him as a character that everyone could relate to
as being "cool" and a "beauty". Zero was one of the earliest developed
characters, with the mask being a something that was felt to be necessary for
a Sunrise (the studio) show as well as being something CLAMP saw as being
unique design.

The finalized original character design art done by CLAMP was converted into
animation character designs by the Sunrise character designer, who had
extensively studied CLAMP's art and style. He focused on designing them to
allow the other animators to apply them without moving away from CLAMP's
original art style.


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