Tetsuya Nomura (Artist Analysis)

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[@demetst760]

His concept art and storyboards early in his career shows that he actually studied traditional art in art school. You can tell by the way he applied shadows, shading and lighting to his sketches as well as how dynamic his art was in how he drew movement and muscles. His FF7 era art shows that he started changing his art style, mixing realism with manga art in order to appeal to teenagers which were FF's target audience but it's still very obvious that he started out as a very traditional artist who drew realistic human portraits or realistic inanimate objects. He was also fantastic at drawing machinery, monsters etc due to this.

[@walteranurantha5014]

That's why I love the Final Fantasy artstyle in the first place. His realism and manga artstyle also blends perfectly with the highly realistic, Triple A budget graphics of modern FF games, without losing its manga charm. Impressive

[@miiks...5...3...9...]

Should look up some of his storyboards, that stuff looks great. The guy should do a manga

[@foregroundeclipse8725]

I agree with yah.

[@juten6020]

he said in an interview that if he wasn’t a developer he’d want to become a mangaka

[@Americansikkunt]

Can you recommend some sources for Nomura’s storyboard art? Can it be found online?

[@CarlosGabriel-cf8vz]

As artist, Nomura is very underrated!, this video make justice to his art

[@eggroll8984]

You got me grinning whenever you brought up the chain wallet. Nice video as always man.

[@alextoadera3190]

Absolutely loved this video! The one I was waiting for, Nomura is one of my biggest inspirations

[@foregroundeclipse8725]

I'm more of a fan of his more realstic drawlings from his earlier works. I thought he masterfully balanced having more realism yet making the characters have that Anime vibe to them. I can't explain it well. His new artstyle is good too. I'm just more of a fan of his older artstyle .

[@PublicDudeBaby]

I love his style so much!!!

[@foregroundeclipse8725]

He is one of the many artists that inspired me to draw more realistically. I unfortunately suck at drawling right now. But I hope I can improve and I'm hoping one day that I will be be able to make beautiful realistic artwork &Anime /Manga artwork. Well that's my dream anyways. Right now , I need to draw alot and keep practicing &doing better.

[@OyanKen]

Amazing video! I really appreciate you talking about the man himself

[@fishtaco2996]

I’ve seen a lot of your other videos, and it’s criminal how underrated you are. Your editing is fantastic, and your commentary is always accurate. Keep going man!

[@yoseflopez5141]

Lol I didn't notice the correlation between Sora and Mickey either 🤣

[@aquapyro1]

Nomura has also perfected the Disney style. He stands along side with the best Disney artists

[@elijahbanks1947]

Loving the air gear chain underwater remix at the end.

[@boulderpunch96]

“I Believe you “ 🤣

[@aepoyi]

damn... he's a great artist

[@mymanjohan5101]

On the topic of FF, did you consider doing an analysis on yoshitaka amano or akihiko yoshida ?

[@retroshark8]

Yeah I'm really interested since Yoshitaka Amano is my favorite artist of all time(and also because a lot of artists I like are analysed on this channel.)

[@mymanjohan5101]

@@retroshark8 you have peak taste he's my fav ever too

[@Victorcolongarcia]

Great video. The Chain to the belt thing was very POPULAR HERE IN EUROPE IN 2003

[@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947]

I prefer his art brother Kazuya Minekura, who is reminiscent of Nomura a lot. I just like how he finishes the art better, it's a middle ground between Tite Kuo and Nomura but without appealing to the anime face with fundamentals, which is how I call this more semi-realistic design. What I like about Nomura is this aesthetic of shoving a lot of information into the character's clothing with buckles and accessories with a lot of exaggeration and at the same time control "it's polluted, at the same time that it doesn't look polluted". And with the advent of the most beautiful polygons The Bouncer and Kingdom Hearts captured the essence of it a lot and I like their designs more in game than on paper, The Bouncer is very charismatic until today and I didn't even know it was the same art as Kingdom Hearts .

[@Kalashninouf]

Very interesting video, I apreciate Nomura's art since I'm 4 years old, I'm 21 today lol

[@SeFu2006]

anything that Nomura touches turns beautiful

[@sandman001]

Babe wake up Namukir just posted! Hey Namukir you think you could check out masahiro ito, the artist for the silent hill series

[@acutelilmint8035]

Man knows silhouette. Very strong design is you can recognize just by their outline,

[@mymanjohan5101]

PEAK VIDEO PEAK KZbinR

[@zacmatney7938]

I love tetsuya Nomura’s artwork and I love his style I’m intrigued to see what his art style will look in kingdom hearts IV especially since Sora finallly has tennis shoes in kingdom hearts IV and I am hyped!!!

[@ATageH]

Nomura the GOAT

[@himizuku3638]

i really like your art analysis videos. if you could, can you do an analysis on tatsuya endo's art? he is the mangaka for spy x family

[@roycehuepers4325]

He's honestly my personal inspiration, though my characters have larger muscles.

[@Powerman77775]

NO NO NO NO NO! You did it all wrong. This isn’t how you make a Nomura video on KZbin. Your suppose to spend around 30 minutes blaming him for everything that has gone wrong in Square since “insert time frame you thought Square’s quality dropped.” You’re even suppose to blame him for things he didn’t do like write all the FF7 universe stories made after FF7OG. Get it right man!

[@PLATINUM_Rook]

Wait, you mean to tell me there are other people who work on Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy BESIDES Tetsuya Nomura? I don't even know why he's such a big scapegoat, at least for Final Fantasy. He's literally just the character designer.

[@yl3716]

​@@PLATINUM_Rook i imagine its easy for people to just blame nomura because his name tends to be on the front of the box even he didnt do much on a game, i think around the time kh3 came out he went on a interview and even talked about how square will even ask him to do the most miniscule task on a project just so they can include his name on the box since nomura is among if not the most well known director they have at square

[@ryujin8754]

@@yl3716 A bit late to discussion but to add to that, even durning the initial FFVII Remake announcement (where his name was used in the role of the *director*), he said during some interview, that he learned about that the same day, which is just baffling. While sure, he himself says that he just likes to work on stuff with barely any breaks but I think it gives even more credence to the idea that he isn't *as much* involved in the projects he's in.

[@caronmanley6525]

Woo

[@caronmanley6525]

Estoy primero!!

[@TeastainStudios]

Please do an artist analysis of Jun Mochizuki!

[@eri_noemi1462]

She's a woman.

[@dragonboyzzzArt]

Can you please do d gray man next

[@greengreenieee8881]

Sometimes it feels insane to me that he is both the artist, the developer and the creative director of some games... How can people do so much.

[@blizziboitv]

FF9 MENTIONED!!!

[@318jta]

@namukir is that from air gear at the end u know ur stuff

[@samuraireflection]

My life was worth it because of him and daisuke ishiwatari, they made me love both peace and myself, i would have been nowhere without there games and art, im black, do you understand, im black and i understood all that, like magic to ink.

[@kaizakira]

Mostly prefer IX and XII in terms of final fantasy? I see you’re man of the culture as well🫡

[@Anon26535]

"Personally, I think that Nomura guy puts too many zippers on this characters." "I dunno, I think they could use a few more." "You do?" "Yeah, over their mouths!" "Dohohohohoho!"

[@Naisu]

free wallpaper at 15:35

[@mr.spyro98thedragon24]

Kingdom Hearts did so well , I'm impressed.

[@UdayKumar-hg7fd]

do usogui by sako toshio

[@hellfish3855]

I once again ask you to review neal adams artwork

[@majortom331]

A neal adams analysis would be dope.

[@ThiagoCh.]

Acho que eu gosto mais do designe original dos personagens de FF7, acho que depois de KH ele poluiu um Pouco o visual dos personagens colocando vários acessórios.

[@johnsalchichon3605]

na bro said he dont like ffx, im out

[@jhonayo4887]

Yeah i don't like the realistic take on the character faces and designs. It clashes so hard with the eccentric outfits. They look like cosplayers 😆

[@paulwoodford1984]

the man ruined the final fantasy remake with his terrible ideas, decisions and changes in the story.

[@GameArts1]

What specific directions did he influence in the remake?

[@vaporfly939]

@@GameArts1 his ff7remake project main director

[@ryujin8754]

@@vaporfly939 The question was: "what specific direction" , your answer is too vague, care to elaborate?

[@l---------]

Just came here to say that Nomura is a hack and I hope a miracle happens and he's no longer in charge of final fantasy, so we can get a good final fantasy again. Hate that man.