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Tetsuya Nomura Birth name 野村 哲也 Born October 8, 1970 [1]
Kōchi, Japan[1]Nationality Japanese Field Video game director, character design, illustration, video game designer, graphic designer Penciller Inker Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也 Nomura Tetsuya, born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix (formerly Square), best known for his work on both the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series.[2]
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Biography
Time before Square
Nomura was born in Kōchi, Japan. When he was a young man, he graduated from vocational school with a degree in Graphic Design.
Time at Square
In the early 1990s, Square hired him to work as a debugger for Final Fantasy IV and following it as a monster designer for Final Fantasy V and then as graphic director and minor character designer for Final Fantasy VI.
Nomura's most notable work came in 1995, when Square asked him to be the character designer for Final Fantasy VII to replace Yoshitaka Amano. It was a critical and commercial success. In 1998, he worked on both Parasite Eve & Brave Fencer Musashi. In 1997, Nomura worked on Final Fantasy VIII, a game that achieved commercial success, where he returned as the character designer.
Afterwards, Nomura worked on several other different projects for Square Enix, ranging from character designing in Ehrgeiz for the PlayStation to character designing for The Bouncer, before returning to character designing for the Final Fantasy series with Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and Final Fantasy XI. More recently, he has acted as the director, concept artist, and character designer for the Kingdom Hearts series, which currently includes the title game, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Kingdom Hearts: Coded and most recently, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. He was also responsible for the complete designing and orchestration of The World Ends with You for the Nintendo DS.
He was also the main character designer of Final Fantasy XIII, as well as the character designer of Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy for the PlayStation Portable.
Movie
Nomura directed the CGI animated film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children which was released on 2005 in Japan and in North America on April 25, 2006, and also wrote some of the lyrics that appear on the soundtrack. This was also Nomura's film debut, and he re-designed the characters as well.
Current work at Square Enix
Nomura is currently working on the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIII projects. He is the director of Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
Nomura is also working on Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts III, the latter of which in its conceptual stages. Development of Kingdom Hearts III is slated to begin as soon as the development team is finished with Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
Most recently in the July 2010 issue of Game Informer an interview with Nomura revealed that he would be involved with a number of titles with the first of which being announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010.[3]
Works credited
Game name First released System name(s) Nomura's role(s) Final Fantasy IV 1991 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS Debugger[citation needed] Final Fantasy V 1992 Super Famicom, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance Battle Graphics Designer, Monster Designer Final Fantasy VI 1994 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance Graphic Director Live A Live 1994 Super Famicom Tosa-ben Translation Front Mission 1995 Super Famicom, PlayStation, WonderSwan Color, Nintendo DS Graphic Designer[citation needed] Chrono Trigger 1995 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Nintendo DS Field Graphics Designer Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars 1996 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Console Boss Monster Designer[citation needed] DynamiTracer 1996 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Concept Designer Final Fantasy VII 1997 PlayStation, Windows, PlayStation Network Character Designer, Battle Visual Director, Original Story Parasite Eve 1998 PlayStation Character Designer Brave Fencer Musashi 1998 PlayStation, PlayStation Network Character Illustrator Ehrgeiz 1998 Arcade, PlayStation, PlayStation Network Character Supervisor Final Fantasy VIII 1999 PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network Character Designer & Battle Visual Director Parasite Eve II 1999 PlayStation Character Illustrator The Bouncer 2000 PlayStation 2 Character Designer Final Fantasy X 2001 PlayStation 2 Character Designer Kingdom Hearts 2002 PlayStation 2 Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story Final Fantasy XI 2002 Playstation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 Character Designer Final Fantasy X-2 2003 PlayStation 2 Main Character Designer Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII 2004 Mobile phones Character Designer Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories 2004 PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance Director, Character Designer, Concept Designer & Base Story Musashi: Samurai Legend 2005 PlayStation 2 Main Character Designer Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2005 Director Last Order: Final Fantasy VII 2005 Supervising Director Kingdom Hearts II 2005 PlayStation 2 Director, Character Designer, Concept Designer & Base Story Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII 2006 PlayStation 2 Character Designer Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII 2006 Mobile Phones Character Designer Final Fantasy V 2006 Game Boy Advance Monster Designer The World Ends with You 2007 Nintendo DS Creative Producer & Main Character Designer Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII 2007 PlayStation Portable Creative Producer & Character Designer Kingdom Hearts coded 2008 Mobile Phones Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story Dissidia: Final Fantasy 2008 PlayStation Portable Creative Producer & Character Designer Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days 2009 Nintendo DS Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story Final Fantasy XIII 2009 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Main Character Designer Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep 2010 PlayStation Portable Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story Kingdom Hearts Re:coded 2010 Nintendo DS Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story The 3rd Birthday 2010 PlayStation Portable Creative producer, Concept Designer, Character Designer Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy 2011 PlayStation Portable Creative Producer & Character Designer Final Fantasy Type-0 2011 PlayStation Portable Character Designer Final Fantasy XIII-2 2011 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Character Designer Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance 2012 Nintendo 3DS Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story Final Fantasy Versus XIII TBA PlayStation 3 Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story Kingdom Hearts III TBA TBA References
- ^ a b "Tetsuya Nomura". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634602/. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
- ^ Next Generation staff (2007-03-03). "The Hot 100 Game Developers of 2007". Next Generation. Future Publishing USA. http://www.next-gen.biz/features/hot-100-game-developers-2007. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
- ^ Game Informer Staff (2010-06-05). Game Informer (GameStop Corporation): 84–85.
External links
- Tetsuya Nomura at the Internet Movie Database
- Tetsuya Nomura's Biography and Artwork
- Tetsuya Nomura Rap sheet at MobyGames
- Tetsuya Nomura profile, interviews, and photo gallery at the Square Haven People Database
Categories:- Final Fantasy designers
- Japanese video game designers
- Living people
- 1970 births
- Video game directors
- Video game artists
- People from Kōchi Prefecture
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