I am so fucking dumb how did I not catch that for 30 years
Also I miss this artstyle for Final Fantasy.
Yoshitaka Amano who did the art for Final Fantasy has a pretty long career illustrating for games, comics, books and the like if you want to see more.
And the art for Angel's Egg, if anyone wants a movie that's in Amano's style.
This is basically a fever dream he animated, idk why the link starts midway through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6xDTr8dNM
You might be signed into youtube and it's remembering where you last had it open?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Angel's Egg is really something else. I'm pretty sure the whole thing is on YouTube and also it's basically a silent movie and although idnof course recommend the original audio for the first watch, it syncs up really well with most doom metal
Amano at the time was in Europe when FF7 was in production iirc. Mostly stopped doing Final Fantasy after X. After 6 was also the separation point for JRPG, mainly involving Final Fantasy.
Takahashi(Graphics Director) left to go make Xenogears, Sakaguchi(Director/Producer) went to go make Parasite Eve after helping Takahashi produce Xenogears. Final Fantasy would then on get a new core team hence the overall changes to the game series image (where 1-6 were more fantasy, with 6 being slightly more industrialized, and 7 being more of the opposite much more urban with elements of fantasy)
Kefka was part of Emperor Gestahl’s court
Kurt Koffka was a founder of Gestalt psychologyBut also, I'm not sure that Kefka is a Kafkaesque figure? It might be a reference, but not one that makes a ton of sense.
FF6 art is real good though.
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I have been reading the vampire hunter D books. The writing is objectively awful but for some reason I love every bit of it deeply and i cannot explain this
Also I miss this artstyle for Final Fantasy.
Me too. I miss old instruction manual art in general. Nintendo instruction manuals were little works of art on their own.
I remember the manual that came with Pokemon Red and Blue was styled like a naturalists notebook
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Peak instruction manual. They went so hard. They couldn't have possibly known how popular and durable the Pokemon brand would be, and yet they still did all this incredible character design.
Yoshitaka Amano, Yoji Shinkawa and Ayami Kojima are my three big video game artist art influences. I rip off the first two and fucking wish I could rip off the third, but she's just like, really good at stuff I suck at
Outstanding game. Brilliant villain. Definitely miss the Amano artstyle
I'm dumb in a different way and thought they were both spelled the same way
Maybe I'm dumb but doesn't Amano still make concept art for Final Fantasy to this day?
