I have a question that I have been wondering about for a while. Are the characters and creatures in the games sprites of 3d models? Or are they drawn?

They start as 3D models and animations, which are rendered to 2D and touched up. They are then put in the game and displayed as sprites. If they weren't touched up by 2D artists, they wouldn't look very good.

It wasn't Foundation 9 that closed down; Foundation 9 is the umbrella corporation that owns many studios including Amaze, Shiny, and Pipeworks.
They also owned Digital Eclipse (which eventually became Backbone Vancouver). It was Digital Eclipse (Backbone Vancouver) that got shut down.

GBA = Gameboy Advance.
SOI = Season of Ice, the first Spyro game on GBA.
SOF = Season of Flame, the second Spyro game on GBA.
AotR = Attack of the Rhynocs, the third one.

...and yes, this thread appears to have lost its steam.

News of note, actually: Foundation 9, the umbrella company that owned Digital Eclipse, the studio that made the first three Spyro games, shut down the whole studio a couple of months ago (putting me out of a job, along with everyone else who worked there, of course). Not profitable enough, I suppose.

Anywho, I'm at Nerd Corps now.

WOW, i didn't know you still viewed this forum!
Awwww, i'm sorry to here that foundation 9 closed down, i didn't actually know they came into the original Spyro games, may i ask how? Was it modeling or something?

and im a general SpyroXCynder fan

...and yes, this thread appears to have lost its steam.

News of note, actually: Foundation 9, the umbrella company that owned Digital Eclipse, the studio that made the first three Spyro games, shut down the whole studio a couple of months ago (putting me out of a job, along with everyone else who worked there, of course). Not profitable enough, I suppose.

Anywho, I'm at Nerd Corps now.

Yeah, i guess the main things i didn;t like about the GBA games were:
1.Repetative landscape
2.Cant bounce out of water

But, they were fun!