This article is written from the Real Life point of view

For the character, see Chief Rodney Aran.

Rodney Brunet skinned the original Varia Suit model for Metroid Prime which was created by Mike Sneath.

"Rodney was shifted from the project directly before I got onto it," recounted Gene Kohler. "The original Samus looked fantastic in my opinion and the fans seemed impressed and excited by what they saw. When I came on board I was first asked to re skin the original model. Later I was ordered to create her from scratch (model and skin)." [1]