Tetsuya Nomura
| 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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[edit] Biography
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 the graphic director in charge of monster designs 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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]
[edit] Works credited
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
- Tetsuya's Twitter on Twitter (Japanese)
