Eventually, I was able to change my mindset from “I only have three colors” to “I do have three colors to work with, so I’ll create what I can with the three colors that I have. Since there were only three colors to work with, no matter what I was creating, I was thinking of how I could depict everything in the game, from characters to the background. What sort of challenges did you experience in creating artistic designs for those games? Your earlier games, particularly the first three Final Fantasy games on Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System, have detailed and memorable designs, especially with the hardware limitations. There is always inspiration in our daily lives around us. I believe all of these constitute who I am today. I’ve also traveled around the world, and during those trips, I saw many things, had various encounters, and felt many emotions. What influences do you have in creating your artwork?įrom childhood up to today, I’ve come in contact with countless manga, animation, drawings, and artwork. After joining the company, I had my fateful encounter with Mr.
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I later heard that Square, which was creating PC games back then, decided to hire people from the animation field in light of their decision to break into the Famicom market. I didn’t know anything about the gaming industry, but I was just happy to find a job related to drawing, outside of animation, no matter what the industry was. I went for an interview and got the position. That is when I consulted my teacher from back then, who advised me to apply for Squaresoft (which is what the company was called at that time) which was hiring. However, after studying animation and doing animation-related part-time jobs for about two years, I realized this wasn’t for me. Becoming an illustrator or a manga artist may have been some options, but since I wanted to be part of a company, I decided to go to an animation school with the hope that I could find a position at a studio if I took the animation route. Back then in 1984, there was no information on how one could find a job related to drawing. To be precise, I went to school to become an animator after graduating from high school, and during that time, I would sometimes do part-time jobs hand-drawing animated videos. I’ve read that prior to your work in video game art you were an animator? What was animation work like and what made you want to switch to video games? We enjoyed revisiting the first three Final Fantasies, so when given the opportunity to talk to Kazuko Shibuya, the art director and original Final Fantasy pixel artist, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to discuss bringing what would become one of the world’s most iconic RPG franchises to life. One of the surprises from E3 2021 is that the first six Final Fantasy games would be getting remastered with all the pixel art redone from the ground up.
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