How To Draw Like Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura (野村哲也, Nomura Tetsuya ?) is a video game managing director and character designer at Square Enix. He joined the visitor, and then known as Square Co. Ltd., in the early 1990s, and gained prominence when he was selected equally the main character designer for Final Fantasy Vii (1997).

1 Contour
2 Mode
3 Influences
iv Works inside the series
v In-game appearances
- 5.1 Terminal Fantasy Type-0
6 Gallery
7 Trivia
8 External links
9 References

Profile [ ]

Nomura's first job with Foursquare was as a debugger for Final Fantasy IV, dorsum in 1990. He then went on to be the monster designer for Final Fantasy V. In the side by side game in the serial, Final Fantasy VI, Nomura was the graphic director in charge of the monster designs; he likewise designed the characters Shadow and Setzer Gabbiani, and was in accuse of storyboarding some of the cutscenes.^[one] Nomura's biggest success was his character design work on Final Fantasy VII, which rose to become ane of the most well-known RPGs of all time and a defining game for the serial as a whole. Nomura ended up contributing a large amount to the characters' stories (such every bit Ruddy 13's name), although the majority of the storyline was not written by him.^[2]

With his talent acknowledged, Nomura worked on other projects, such as Parasite Eve. Another huge success for Nomura was the release of Last Fantasy 8, every bit the pb character designer and battle visuals director. Other games with characters designed past Nomura include Final Fantasy Ten, Last Fantasy Ten-2, Final Fantasy 11 and Final Fantasy Thirteen. Other than Last Fantasy, Nomura also directed the Square Enix/Disney series Kingdom Hearts, as well as the CGI sequel to Final Fantasy Seven, Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children. He was also character designer for The Globe Ends with You together with Gen Kobayashi. He spent about of the concluding decade helming production on Terminal Fantasy Fifteen, having come up with the original concept and base story. He was set to direct the project until recently, with his function as director replaced by Hajime Tabata. Nomura has worked on several Foursquare Enix projects, such as Kingdom Hearts Iii and Final Fantasy Vii Remake.

Style [ ]

Nomura's mode has been defined by the vibrant colors and affiliation of eastern and western influences. Compared to other graphic symbol designers, Tetsuya Nomura'southward Terminal Fantasy games tend to be more "mod" and "sci-fi" than the first installments set in a medieval worlds. Nomura's games in particular besides tend to have storylines that are darker in tone. His character names tend to draw inspiration from physical science and weather, in particular, the sky, land, and body of water; the central graphic symbol nearly always has the sky-based proper name. He was thinking of dropping that tradition for Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII, but the other creative figures backside the character chose a sky-based proper noun.^[iii] Nomura also creates character names inspired by their personalities.^[4]

An early on sketch of Tifa Lockhart from *Concluding Fantasy VII* by Tetsuya Nomura.

Tetsuya Nomura's fashion is like to the traditional anime fashion of drawing, but he also draws upon western influences. In Final Fantasy VII, Nomura used a traditional anime-like manner seen by the large anime-esque eyes and Deject Strife's gravity-defying hair. In Final Fantasy VIII, the character designs are more realistic to fit the tone, Final Fantasy Eight existence the showtime 3D Final Fantasy to utilise anatomically proportioned characters. In Final Fantasy 10 Nomura's designs became more and more than realistic, although the coloring of the characters immune his mode to retain anime-like qualities. Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- and Dissidia Final Fantasy feature more mature looking designs and are defined past a detailed shading.

Influences [ ]

In July 2012, Tetsuya Nomura said that four people are his biggest influences: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yoshinori Kitase, Hiroyuki Ito, and Tetsuya Takahashi.^[5] In another interview published in March 2014, Nomura stated that Ito was the ane that taught him nearly game design.^[6]

Works inside the serial [ ]

Game	Release	Work
Final Fantasy IV	1991	Debugger (uncredited)
Terminal Fantasy V	1992	Boxing Graphics Design, Monster Design
Final Fantasy Vi	1994	Graphic Director, Monster Design, Character Design (Setzer, Shadow and SD design)
Terminal Fantasy Seven	1997	Character Design, Monster Design, Scenario Concept, Battle Visual Managing director
Final Fantasy 8	1998	Character Pattern, Monster Design, Battle Visual Managing director
Concluding Fantasy X	2001	Grapheme Blueprint
Terminal Fantasy Xi	2002	Hume, Elvaan, and NPC Grapheme Design
Final Fantasy Ten-2	2003	Main Graphic symbol Designer
Earlier Crisis -Terminal Fantasy VII-	2004	Concept, Character Pattern
Terminal Order -Last Fantasy VII-	2005	Supervisor
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children	2005	Director, Character Pattern, Base of operations Story
Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy Seven-	2006	Character Design
Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode -Terminal Fantasy VII-	2006	Character Design
Crisis Cadre -Concluding Fantasy 7-	2007	Artistic Producer, Character Blueprint
Dissidia Final Fantasy	2008	Artistic Producer, Character Design
Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children Complete	2009	Managing director, Character Pattern, Base Story
Terminal Fantasy 13	2009	Main Graphic symbol Pattern
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	2011	Creative Producer, Character Design
Final Fantasy Type-0	2011	Creative Producer, Grapheme Design
Final Fantasy Thirteen-2	2011	Main Character Blueprint
Theatrhythm Concluding Fantasy	2012	Artistic Producer
Final Fantasy All the Bravest	2012	Creative Producer, Original Concept
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	2013	Main Grapheme Design
Theatrhythm Last Fantasy Curtain Call	2014	Artistic Producer
Final Fantasy Record Keeper	2014	Creative Producer, Graphic symbol Pattern
Concluding Fantasy VII G-Bike	2014	Creative Producer, Character Blueprint
Concluding Fantasy Type-0 Hard disk drive	2015	Character Pattern
Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015)	2015	Artistic Producer, Character Design
Last Fantasy Fifteen	2016	Original Concept, Character Design, Lyrics ("Somnus")
World of Concluding Fantasy	2016	Creative Producer, Character Pattern
Terminal Fantasy Dimensions II	2017	Special Cheers
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers	2019	Guest Creator (Gaia and Eden's Promise Character Designs)^[7] ^[viii]
Final Fantasy Seven Remake	2020	Managing director & Concept Design^[9]
Last Fantasy VII The First Soldier	2021	Creative Director
Stranger of Paradise Terminal Fantasy Origin	2022	Concept & Creative Producer & Character Design

In-game appearances [ ]

Final Fantasy Type-0 [ ]

Tetsuya Nomura appears as a Back up Personnel of Akademeia. He shares the character model with Rex.

Gallery [ ]

Nomura-terra-design-sketches

FFX-2 Artwork Nooj

DFF2015 Materia

Trivia [ ]

In Terminal Fantasy Type-0 a support character named "Nomura CP" was found dual wielding guns and saying, "Pitiful to have kept you waiting".^[10]
In March 2014 Nomura judged a Lightning fanart contest for deviantART and chose three favorites amid the submissions.^[xi]

External links [ ]

Wikipedia article

References [ ]

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↑ https://forum.foursquare-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/429770-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Part-LXI-Digest-%2812-06-2020%29
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1OvupaRYCM
↑ http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/07/16/ff_type_zero_crystarium/
↑ Best Lightning Fan Art Every bit Chosen By Tetsuya Nomura