User:Axeken/Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura is a Japanese video game director and character designer in the famous Square-Enix game company. He is the Director, Character Designer, Concept Design Artist and Base Story Writer for the Kingdom Hearts series. He is also known for creating and directing a lot of the games and characters in the Final Fantasy franchise mainly Final Fantasy VII and its complication and other games outside each franchise.

Nomura's Work with Squaresoft and Square-Enix
Nomura first job in Square was to make battle graphics for Final Fantasy IV. He then went to work as the graphic director and minor character designer for Final Fantasy VI under Yoshitaka Amano. His big break ,in 1995, was when he was employed as lead designer for Final Fantasy VII. Nomura then went on and contributed Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X before creating his own franchise Kingdom Hearts with Disney Interactive Studios and Square-Enix. He also directed a CGI animated film called Final Fantasy VII Advent Children which was released in North America on April 25, 2006. This was also Nomura's film debut, and he also re-designed the characters from Final Fantasy VII for the film. He wrote some of the lyrics for the Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack

Many designs, quotes, battle terms and items are inspired form the Final Fantasy series and Disney.

He is currently working on Final Fantasy Verses XIII and Kingdom Hearts 3D.