Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura (Japanese野村 哲 也Nomura Tetsuya, born October 8, 1970 in Japan) is a game designer, director, concept artist and character designer in the video game company Square Enix. He is known among other things for the character design of the Final Fantasy game series in the parts of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII and the Kingdom Hearts series, in which he also acted as a director and concept artist. Nomura was also director of the animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

Style

Nomura's style includes Western fashion in its own creation, which is sometimes very fanciful and unrealistic and physically incorrect. His favorite color choice usually consists of bright and bold colors such as red, yellow or blue. Male Characters records Nomura to Western eyes often very feminine, but what is not in Japanese culture more striking. To Colorize Tetsuya Nomura used exclusively Photo and image editing programs such as Photoshop or Corel Painter about.

Representative to design for his kind figures are Cloud Strife - protagonist from Final Fantasy VII - with a sharp -pointed hair and an oversized sword as a weapon and its opponent Sephiroth, of which over long Odachi " Masamune " leads as a weapon.

Over the years in which Tetsuya Nomura worked as a character designer, his style and his manner changed to color. This becomes clear when one looks at the original characters from Final Fantasy VII from 1997 with the same characters from the sequel Final Fantasy VII - Dirge of Cerberus compares (2006).

Current Projects

Nomura has been instrumental in the Fabula Nova Crystallis project. After the development of Final Fantasy XIII officially completed, he is currently working mainly on Final Fantasy Versus XIII as a game designer and director. In addition, Tetsuya Nomura produced three more titles of the Kingdom Hearts series, which were first announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2007.

Other ongoing projects:

  • Final Fantasy Agito XIII ( PSP) / character designer
  • Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep ( PSP) / character designer

Projects (selection)

  • Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation ): Character Designer / Artist scenario
  • Brave Fencer Musashi (Playstation ): Character Designer
  • Parasite Eve (PlayStation ): Character Designer
  • Final Fantasy VIII ( PlayStation ): Charakterdesiger / scenario Artist
  • The Bouncer (PlayStation 2): Character Designer
  • Final Fantasy X ( PlayStation 2): Character Designer
  • Kingdom Hearts series (PlayStation 2/Gameboy Advance / Nintendo DS): Concept / Game Designer / character designer
  • Musashi: Samurai Legend ( Playstation 2): Character Designer
  • Final Fantasy X-2 (Playstation 2 ): Character Designer
  • Final Fantasy VII - Dirge of Cerberus (Playstation 2 ): Character Designer
  • The World ends with you (Nintendo DS): Character Designer
  • Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP ) Game Designer / character designer
  • Final Fantasy XIII ( Playstation 3/Xbox360 ): Character Designer
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