Comments on: Classic Final Fantasy Artist Redraws Final Fantasy XIII

By: Nuno Melo

Nuno Melo — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:13:28 +0000

Let's face it, Amano can't draw people.
That drawing is one of the ugliest things that could happen to FFXIII.

Stick to monsters Amano, please.

By: Nuno Melo

Nuno Melo — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:13:28 +0000

Let's face it, Amano can't draw people.
That drawing is one of the ugliest things that could happen to FFXIII.

Stick to monsters Amano, please.

By: TokyoGuy

TokyoGuy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:02:22 +0000

I'm sorry, but IMHO Amano is a total joke. Scribbling humanoid shapes on a piece of paper is hardly what I would consider good artwork. I've never understood what everyone sees in his “pictures”. If someone would care to enlighten me, I would be more than happy to listen.

Though I will also say that Nomura has also seriously disappointed me in recent years. Whereas I loved his designs in Parsite Eve (and where is PE3 BTW?) and Final Fantasy 7 and 8, he has become the modern-day Toryiama: a “one-hit wonder” who has a single design style and can't do anything that looks even remotely different.

By: kupomogli

kupomogli — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:40:46 +0000

This looks like some of Amano's worst art. Every single time I see his art work I either love it hate it.

I mean honestly. If you go back to his early work starting at Final Fantasy going up to Final Fantasy 6, almost every bit of the artwork looks so amazing, then you look at some artwork he made of FF7 and then some later(while one of his FF7 works looked nice.) But overall. It's like. Man. Amano. Your stuff is getting worse the older you get(except for FF9 which also had alot of good artwork.)

Now I know he didn't do the character designs of FF7, but he did do some artwork of his own.

By: EvilAkito

EvilAkito — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:34:08 +0000

Wow, reminds me of the good old days. I miss being able to actually call myself a Final Fantasy fan, but the post-16-bit era games just don't do it for me.

By: Chow

Chow — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:17:56 +0000

Haha, yes, that's the first impression I get whenever I see his character portraits.

By: meikiyou

meikiyou — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:57:39 +0000

he began working in ff4 as debugger, and then in ffv battle graphics along with more three person and ffvi he worked as one of the four graphic directors

but in the credits of ffvi advance he is listed as monster designer

i dun know the monsters usually didn't had anything in common with his style so it should be as you said

By: fallen

fallen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:41:46 +0000

afaik (and without fact-checking) nomura only ever did “image illustration” in the older FFs, which i always figured was the “sprite”-ification of amano's designs to 16-bit form.

By: meikiyou

meikiyou — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:39:11 +0000

In the early games weren't Nomura the monster design?

By: nonoko

nonoko — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:11:26 +0000

Amano, I want you back!

By: Sami Elo

Sami Elo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:49:32 +0000

Would be all the better for it.

But he's just hiding in front of Sazh.

By: JohnCasey1

JohnCasey1 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:18:39 +0000

What's with the lack of Snow?

By: JohnCasey1

JohnCasey1 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:18:20 +0000

You can't even spell Nomura's name right.

Fail. Epic, epic fail.

By: wildarms

wildarms — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:57 +0000

nice but why i feel lighting eyes are too separate from each other?

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:15:37 +0000

I prefer Amano's original FF designs with the flowing cloth and hair and other details that make his style unique. It doesn't come across as well when he's working off of someone else's concepts.