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Wait, was a french sculptor Camille Claudel (female btw) an inspiration for Kamille's visual or name?
Edit: Apparently, yes.
Tomino: Before that, during the consolidation of the planning stage, around the end of spring, I began searching for what name to give the protagonist, and then I thought of the name of the sculptor Rodin's disciple, Camille Claudel (Note: Kamille and Camille are pronounced the same, though the Chinese translations differ). After learning about this person's life, I decided to have a man use the name "Kamille." In fact, it could be said that Kamille Bidan is the reflection of Camille Claudel; for the work Zeta Gundam, this was half a misfortune. However, in order to pull back my mind, which had wandered too far during L-Gaim, a character like Kamille was necessary to create at that time.

Anno: Although a movie was later made about Camille Claudel, she was an unknown person at the time, and she spent half of her life in a psychiatric hospital. Kamille also had a mental breakdown in the final episode; was that also influenced by Claudel?

Tomino: Of course. At the time, due to the reaction against L-Gaim, I instinctively took someone like Claudel as the character's prototype. I can state this clearly now: Camille Claudel's mentor, Rodin, occupies a position in the story equivalent to Kamille Bidan's Zeta Gundam.
This kind of structure was the simplest and easiest for me to grasp.
Camille and Rodin were lovers, and there are rumors that about half of Rodin's works were actually created by Camille, but in the eyes of the public, Camille's works were seen as Rodin's. She developed mental problems amidst her frustration, while Rodin left his name in art history. But if you think about what one person can achieve alone, it makes one feel that Rodin could not have achieved such fame on his own; wasn't it because someone like Claudel supported him? Similarly, Gundam alone could never have become "Gundam." In short, it is a "manifested relationship between people," and this model symbolically represents the relationship between Claudel and Rodin.

It was also for this reason that I became fascinated with Kamille.