Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura (野村哲也; Nomura Tetsuya, born October 8, 1970) is a game and character designer at Square Enix. Before working for Square Enix, formerly Squaresoft, Nomura was at a vocational school creating art for advertisements. In 1992, Squaresoft hired him to work on the battle graphics of Final Fantasy V and then as graphic director in 1994 for Final Fantasy VI. In 1996, a game project called Silent Chaos (which was originally the sequel of Dark Earth, a PC adventure game) was stopped after several months of development, and became a PlayStation game, developed in collaboration with Squaresoft. The characters, designed by François Rimasson at the beginning, were totally designed again by Tetsuya Nomura; but the project never ended and Silent Chaos was definitively stopped in November 1999, after two and a half years of development.

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October 8 - 1970 - Square Enix - Squaresoft - 1992 - Final Fantasy V - 1994 - Final Fantasy VI - 1996 - Silent Chaos - Dark Earth - PC - PlayStation - November - 1999

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Tetsuya Nomura did not gain recognition until 1997, when Squaresoft asked him to be the character designer for their new opus, Final Fantasy VII. The game was a commercial success. In 1998, he worked on both Parasite Eve & Brave Fencer Musashi. The following year, Nomura worked on another game that achieved commercial success—Final Fantasy VIII—where he acted as the lead character designer and the battle visual director.

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1997 - Final Fantasy VII - 1998 - Parasite Eve - Brave Fencer Musashi - Final Fantasy VIII

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Afterwards, Nomura worked on several other miscellaneous projects such as Ehrgeiz and Parasite Eve II for the PlayStation. He continued on to design characters for Squaresoft's first PlayStation 2 venture, 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 Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II.

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Ehrgeiz - Parasite Eve II - PlayStation 2 - The Bouncer - Final Fantasy - Final Fantasy X - Final Fantasy X-2 - Final Fantasy XI - Kingdom Hearts - Kingdom Hearts II

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Nomura directed the FMV movie which was released in 2005, and also wrote all of the lyrics that appear on the soundtrack.

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