These days, Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura busies himself with Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III. But let’s take a look back in time, before he was the famous game designer he is today.
Takashi Aki, who worked as a planner on Final Fantasy V and FFVI, was recently cleaning up and discovered a handful of sketches Nomura did years ago. He uploaded the pics to Twitter to share with us all.
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Nomura joined Square in the early 1990s, first working on Final Fantasy IV as a debugger.
The sketches were done during the FFV and FFVI eras. Looks like there’s some Front Mission too. Great stuff. Interesting to see how his style has developed.
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4 responses to “Unseen Tetsuya Nomura Sketches From The 1990s”
Headline image looks like proto Raijin, Zell, Squall & Seifer.
Kiros, not Raijin.
all i can see is neck
*gives a fangirl squeal* It’s always nice when you dig up bits of nostalgia like this. Can’t wait for the release of his upcoming stuff.
while tetsuya does a pretty good job on his character designs, could i ask for one more final fantasy with Amano as the character designer?
i adore his art and the characters he creates, if FF ever goes back to doing a more “fantasy” FF game, they should bring him back