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Name:Tetsuya Nomura
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Born: October 8, 1970 in Kochi, Japan
Died: N/A
Biographical Summary
Biographical Summary
Tetsuya Nomura is a well known Japanese video game director and character designer for Square Enix, which was formerly known as Square. He began his career as a young man at a vocational school creating art for magazine advertisements. In the 1990's he started working for Squ
are as a debugger, then he eventually started working as a monster designer, and then as a graphic director and minor character designer under the eye of Yoshitaka Amano. In 1995 he received recognition for his work and was employed as the lead character designer for Final Fantasy VII to replace Yoshitaka Amano the original character designer. Final Fantasy VII wa
s a international success being the definitive role playing game for the playstation. In 1998 he began work on Final Fantasy VIII, Brave Fencer Musashi, and Parasite Eve all received commercial success. He later worked on games such as Ehrgeiz, The Bouncer, and Final Fantasy X, X-2, XI. Recently hes been working as director, concept artist and character designer for the game series Kingdom Hearts. He is also worked on the game The World Ends With You designing it completely along with orchestration. He was the main character designer for Final Fantasy XIII, and Dissidia: Final Fantasy. Currently he is working as Director for Final Fantasy Versus XIII and It's A Wonderful World. He also directed the CGI animated film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children in 2005 as well as work on lyrics that appear in the soundtrack. Nomura is also working on two new untitled games of the Kingdom Hearts series.
Work
Tetsuya Nomura has a visually distinct anime-like style that can easily be recognized. His own personal taste in clothing, jewelry and hairstyles influence his designs, creating an offbeat flavor while still being acceptable and quite likeable among casual gamers. Characters are not the only thing he works on. He was needed to help create storyboards for animation sequences, summon beasts, artistic logos, symbols and monster designs. Nomura participates heavily in the creation of the game's graphics and prefers 3D renders to still drawings, he does this mainly so that his designs turn out the way he wants.
Project
Project
Animation Department:
The 3rd Birthday (TBA) character designer
Final Fantasy XIII (2009) character designer
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007) character designer
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006) character designer
Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII (2006) character designer
Kingdom Hearts II (2005) character designer
Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005) original character designer
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) character designer
Musashi: Samurai Legend (2005) character designer: main characters
Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) character designer: main characters)
Kingdom Hearts (2002) main character designer: 2D design)
Final Fantasy X (2001) character designer
The Bouncer (2000) character designer
Final Fantasy VIII (1999) character designer
Parasite Eve (1998) character designer: main characters
Ehrgeiz (1998) character supervisor
Final Fantasy VII (1997) character designer
Soma (1996) (character designer)
Art Department:
Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories (2007)
main artist: 2D character art
Kingdom Hearts II (2005) concept designer, main artist: 2D character art
Kingdom Hearts (2002) concept designer, storyboard designer: 2D design
Parasite Eve II (1999) character illustration
Final Fantasy VIII: Fainaru fantajî VIII (1999) battle visual director
Brave Fencer Musashiden (1998) character illustrator
Final Fantasy VII (1997) battle visual director
Soma (1996) storyboard artist
Chrono Trigger (1995) graphics
Final Fantasy V (1993) battle graphics
Director:
Final Fantasy Versus XIII (TBA)
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009)
Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (2007)
Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories (2007)
Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005) supervisor
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004)
Kingdom Hearts (2002)
Writer:
Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (2007) writer
Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories (2007) scenario supervisor
Kingdom Hearts II (2005) base story scenario
Final Fantasy X (2001) story
Miscellaneous Crew:
Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories (2007) concept designer
Chrono Trigger (1995) field graphics
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996) Boss Designer
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