Talk:Tetsuya Nomura



=Tetsuya Nomura=

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!Born Kōchi, Japan[1] !Nationality !Field 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), perhaps best known for his work on both the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series.[2] {| class="toc" id="toc"
 * October 8, 1970 (1970-10-08) (age 39)[1]
 * Japanese
 * Video game director, character design, illustration.
 * }

Contents
[hide]*1 Biography
 * 1.1 Time before Square
 * 1.2 Time at Square
 * 1.3 Movie
 * 1.4 Current work at Square Enix
 * 2 Works credited
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links
 * }

[edit] Time before Square
Nomura was born in Kōchi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. When he was a young man, he worked at a vocational school creating art for advertisements.

[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 graphic director and minor character designer for Final Fantasy VI.

Nomura did not gain recognition until 1995, when Square asked him to be the character designer for Final Fantasy VII to replace Yoshitaka Amano, the series' original character designer. It was a huge critical and commercial success and became the definitive role playing game for the PlayStation. In 1998, he worked on both Parasite Eve & Brave Fencer Musashi. In 1997, Nomura worked on 1999's 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 Square's first PlayStation 2 game, 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: Coded and most recently, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. He was also responsible for the complete designing and orchestration of The World Ends with You for the Nintendo DS.

[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 character designer of all three games and the director of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, as well as the character designer of Dissidia: Final Fantasy for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) which is now a finished game.

Nomura also confirmed that he will be working on multiple projects related to the Kingdom Hearts series - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. These were revealed to be additional projects in the Kingdom Hearts series at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show. One of the showcased titles will focus on events outside the scope of the current storyline and characters featured in the previous games.

Nomura also said that he was working on two more new unannounced projects from existing franchises in December 2009.[3] Nomura has also said during an interview that he wishes to release one more game in 2010.[4]

[edit] References

 * 1) ^ a b "Tetsuya Nomura". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634602/. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
 * 2) ^ Next Generation staff (2007-03-03). "The Hot 100 Game Developers of 2007". Next Generation. Future Publishing USA. http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4859&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=10. Retrieved 2007-04-02. [dead link]
 * 3) ^ Brian Ashcraft (December 22, 2009). "Tetsuya Nomura Working On Two Unannounced Titles". Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5431980/tetsuya-nomura-working-on-two-unannounced-titles. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
 * 4) ^ Anoop Gantayat (March 18, 2010). "Tetsuya Nomura Interviewed at Twitter". Andriasang. http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/03/18/tetsuya_nomura_twitter_interview. Retrieved March 20, 2010.

[edit] External links
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Nomura"Categories: Final Fantasy designers | Japanese video game designers | Living people | 1970 births | Video game directors | Video game artists | People from Kōchi PrefectureHidden categories: All articles with dead external links | Articles with dead external links from January 2010
 * 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

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