Tetsuya Nomura
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Tetsuya Nomura (野村哲也) is a game and character designer at Square Enix. His first job with Square Enix was designing battle graphics for Final Fantasy V. In the next game in the genre, Final Fantasy VI, he was the director of graphics. However, his biggest success was his character design work on Final Fantasy VII, which rose to become one of the most well-known RPG successes of all time. With his talent now acknowledged, Nomura worked on other projects as well, such as Parasite Eve. Another huge success for Nomura was the release of Final Fantasy VIII, as the lead character designer and battle visuals director. Other games with characters designed by Nomura include Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2 and Final Fantasy XI.
Other than Final Fantasy, Nomura also directed the Square Enix/Disney series Kingdom Hearts, as well as the CGI sequel to Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.
Currently, Nomura is working on several Square Enix projects, including the three installments of Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIII.
[edit] Criticism
Nomura has received criticism from the huge Final Fantasy fanbase, especially from the fans of the former Square Enix artist and designer Yoshitaka Amano, for using a more mainstream style, as compared to the water-color designs of Amano. When he used the Amano creations Vivi Orunitia and Setzer Gabbiani in Kingdom Hearts II, he also received criticism for changing the characters' behavior too much. His renditions of Amano's characters in Dissidia -Final Fantasy- have also received mixed feelings.
[edit] Work in the series
| Game Name | Nomura's Role(s) |
|---|---|
| Final Fantasy V | Monster Designer |
| Final Fantasy VI | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy VII | Character Designer, Original Scenario Concept |
| Final Fantasy VIII | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy X | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy X-2 | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children | Director, Character Designer |
| Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- | Character Designer |
| Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy XIII | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy Agito XIII | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy Versus XIII | Game Director, Character Designer |
[edit] Related Works
- Chrono Trigger (1995)
- Ehrgeiz (1998)
- Kingdom Hearts (2002)
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004)
- Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
- The World Ends with You (2007)
