Yoshitaka Amano, Kazuko Shibuya - from paper to pixel | 天野喜孝、渋谷員子 - 紙からドットへ

[@Sune]

Thanks for shedding a light on Kazuko Shibuya's contributions to Final Fantasy. I only recently found out about how much she shaped the series. And while I've always been a fan of Amano, I wish I learned about Shibuya earlier and hope more fans start seeing her as one of the "forefathers" of Final Fantasy.

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for watching, it was the first time Kazuko Shibuya was doing a video interview so she was a bit nervous but we're glad we could shed some light on her work.

[@Finger112]

More like "Foremothers".

[@cutscenes1758]

English, French, Greek, Portuguese (BR) and Russian subtitles are available under the "CC" menu. Thank you for following Cutscenes!

[@Catboost]

Some potential typos I noticed: 1:27 Should it be "he" asked? 4:03 Seems like "up" may be missing 11:33 It "feels" really strange Thank you for the videos and subtitles!

[@cutscenes1758]

@@Catboost Fixed, thank you!

[@Ahiram]

Thank you

[@KimSimoes]

do you provide subtitles in Portuguese? Thank you

[@cutscenes1758]

@@KimSimoes Portuguese (BR) subtitles are now available!

[@ShaedeReshka]

Watching Amano draw was a life goal I didn't know I had. Thanks for the great video!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you!

[@Milandilio]

Amano-san, such a legend, so inspiring, such beautiful, unique art.

[@bradmehldau7134]

交差する二つの才能・・・神様、坂口さん、この二人を巡り合わせてくれて本当にありがとう！

[@gerreeloeedyy4052]

ティナと魔導アーマーは最高傑作！

[@cutscenes1758]

生原画の迫力が・・・😮

[@mikipon641]

海外のドキュメンタリー番組みたいでかっこいいです！

[@cutscenes1758]

日本のドキュメンタリーですが外国人が作っています。😊

[@UNIcode_LESMACHINESNOIRES]

The msuic is so beautiful. Perfect with his work.

[@Manyo3]

久々にアーシペル？の様な雰囲気を感じた 音楽とインタビューが心地良く流れていく感じ 中々難しい時代だけど、こうして動画をアップしてくれることは有り難い

[@cutscenes1758]

ありがとうございます！引き続きアップしていきますのでこれからもどうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

[@RooftopSwordMaster]

I love In depth stuff of Square like this!!!

[@Sunila_DragonladyCH]

Oh wow! That was so fabulous! Thank you! I've been illustrating professionally for 20 years and I was becoming jaded, but discovering Amano's process a bit over a decade ago really pushed me and motivated me again. Every time I listen to him I am reminded why I do this job, I feel much the same about realism.

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for the kind word!

[@RobMartens]

7:58 The fact that he still has all these pieces, especially that NP strategy guide cover, almost brings a tear to my eye. Six is my favorite, by a long shot, and Kefka's my favorite villain too (he's a style icon and I won't have anyone tell me otherwise); hearing Shibuya and Amano reminisce fondly about their work together, in particular on something that means so much to me, warms my heart like nothing else. Wonderfully produced documentary! Looks like I found a new channel to subscribe to.

[@cutscenes1758]

This was the second time we visited Amano's atelier, but we were amazed once more at how he's keeping all of his works, including the originals for FF covers like this one...

[@おいしいアイス食べたい]

天野さんの一筆一筆から物語を感じる…！今はドットFF・過去FFについて懐古おじさんだとか言われるが、今になってもこうやって語り継がれるのは、出来上がった作品が最高だからです。最高なものが何十年経っても最高なことに変わりはない。最高なイラスト、最高なドット、最高な音楽、最高なパッケージ。まさに叡智の集結。それにしてもこんなものをまとめて世に送り出した坂口さんもスゴイ人だな…

[@LucasDarkGiygas]

I have the feeling that Terra is his favorite design

[@sayutab]

当時のことを聞けて大変興味深かったです！

[@cutscenes1758]

コメントありがとうございます！

[@gustinex]

So much love radiating from them about traditional art and pixel art

[@soysologistNo.1]

ロマサガの小林智美さんと渋谷昌子さんのインタビューも見てみたいです。

[@BlarGames]

Amazing. Amano is one of my favourite artists (and not just for video games). A truly unique talent..his Sandman: The Dream Hunters work belongs in a museum, as does most of his FF art too tbf!

[@toto-gj8le]

あの当時天野さんのイラストの人気が凄かったからファイナルファンタジーが始まった記憶がある

[@YunalesckaGames]

Thank you so much for this. It makes my heart so happy. You are inspirations to me since my childhood and Final Fantasy VI is my forever favorite. ❤️❤️ what a beautiful video.

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for the kind word, glad you enjoyed!

[@oniplingz]

Amazing! They are such an inspiration for me

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed.

[@PixelPhoenix]

Amazing. Shibuya and Amano have been massive inpirations to me ever since childhood. I had never known such beautiful art to grace a game series, and when I exposed to Amano for the first time, I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. My child brain simply said "whoa, this is like real art". Shibuya's beautiful rendition of pixel art was unmatched in my eyes as well, and the combination of Amano/Shibuya felt like a step above anything in the medium for games. It still feels like that today, too. I particularly enjoyed your focus on Final Fantasy VI. That remains as my favorite Final Fantasy, 27 years later. It's still so, so very beautiful to me, thanks to the amazing talent behind Amano and Shibuya. Thank you for this. :]

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for your comment and for the kind word. It truly feels that Final Fantasy VI has had its impact on many of us indeed.

[@RO-vr9qx]

Uma inspiração enorme 💜💜

[@joshhamester]

Whoa I knew you guys had something massive in the works with Amano!! Thank you for all the hard work!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed!

[@kwang-kv8bv]

These videos are very peaceful

[@cutscenes1758]

🙏

[@LibertyAtYourService]

Such a great video! Thank you for interviewing these two amazing artists. Their work has given so much joy and imagination to so very many people. Much respect

[@andreworihuela5175]

FF6 needs more attention than FF7 and I'm glad this video went into more detail with FF6 especially with the world design and Kefka

[@K.KAMITANAKA]

二人とも先を見ている。

[@cutscenes1758]

アートの向かう先とは、、、

[@Super_Saint]

I love this video and love Amano's art too, really made me fall in love with FFVI

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you 🤲

[@Du7yVlog]

Thank you!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for watching!

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

I forgot how much I missed these videos

[@cutscenes1758]

🙏

[@Tawbzz]

Wonderful

[@telefrag.]

I'm very fond of Amano's studio interior, wow.

[@cutscenes1758]

It's quite impressive indeed...

[@OmegaKatanaXIII]

Thank you for creating amazing interviews Japanese creators that we westerners never experience with gaming journalism.

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you. More to come soon.

[@anonymousvagrant]

Yes Shibuya.. pixel art games really have hold on players.. whenever i scroll through a game page, i always stop at pixel art games to maybe give it a try

[@zip2kx]

aweosme

[@noside.foxhound]

Speaking of which, I hope we get a big surprise with this new upcoming Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster!

[@DiegoRmolano]

i teared up

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

Archipel, y'all always rock! 😭❤

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you!

[@jeanfcp]

Fantastic video, thank you.

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for watching.

[@JustGamerGR]

Amazing job!

[@cutscenes1758]

Ευχαριστώ!

[@dee6561]

Amazing

[@cutscenes1758]

🙏🙏

[@Ishidori85]

Thanks a lot, this isn't only eye opening, but also pretty helpful, since I'm working on a podcast episode about women behind videogames. Learning about Shibuya's work has been wonderful, her pixel art will be always iconic in my mind since I have spent countless hours interacting with it. Thank you madame and thanks to everyone involve in the creation of this material.

[@Real_The_Goof]

I would love to see a new game in the old style.

[@pauloninjinha]

Thx a lot for this

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for watching!

[@armand4116]

This is a tresure , I love the art of Yoshitaka Amano San , Final Fantasy VI is with Chrono Trigger my favorite JRPG of all times and listening to them , talk about some aspects of their creative processes and also talk about FFVI is pure gold. Thank you so much for this video.

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank for watching!

[@LosCoombs]

I find this so fascinating! Nice work! I wish it was longer!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you!

[@huntel5686]

ケフカの作成経緯聞いてたら、コロチキナダルが目に浮かんできた。 いやーそれはそうと興味深いお話有難うございます…！

[@edlinriadi3104]

Such an amazing insight! Thank you so much for bringing us this.

[@edlinriadi3104]

And that terra’s theme at the ending gave me shivers too as always 🔥

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you!

[@kdoggdracul]

Fantastic work with this channel, thank you so much!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you!

[@CarlMakesVideos]

Very nice. I love seeing how you juxtaposed both their perspectives on the same or similar events. Their perspectives on their work are also illuminating, even if I don't think I feel the same way (for example, how Amano chooses to simply forget a picture once it's in the past for him), it does give insight into why each of their works are the way they are. Thanks for making and posting this!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you! As for Amano, he most likely doesn't "choose" to forget a picture after finishing it, but his mindset just directs him towards the next piece. However, he told us off-camera that he rarely remembers character names but remembers them visually, so it strikes us that he doesn't really "forget" about the visual identity of the characters he draws.

[@CarlMakesVideos]

@@cutscenes1758 Ah I might have misunderstood, thank you for clearing that up!

[@tomtomsii]

天野絵ドットに起こすのは大変でしょう

[@literaturegirl14]

Another great video. Really love you documentaries. You guys worked hard ❤️

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you!

[@dnys_7827]

hey, just wanted to say, i feel strangely moved by the presence of the greek subs in this video. i almost never expect to see subtitles in my native language in anything i watch on youtube or on most places on the internet. obviously i myself dont need them, but it's just a fact of life to me that most of the internet is in english, and i know how much work it is to make subtitles even for a shorter video, so it moves me quite a bit that someone went through that trouble for a language that doesn't have hundreds of millions of speakers. so yeah, thanks a bunch.

[@MoonMagicks]

Absolutely incredible. Thank you for this.

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for watching!

[@chris9085]

fantastic video. must’ve been a wild challenge to turn those beautiful drawings into god dang 16 x 32 sprites

[@cutscenes1758]

Thanks for watching.

[@ogdenwernstom4085]

This is a wonderful video. Great work!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you!

[@itzurboyjc4117]

there are also interviews with the developers of ff6 that say that the sprites were first and Amano based his art on that. "incidentally, there are differences in the details between the character drawings that Yoshitaka Amano did for FFVI and the ones appearing in the game, but why is that? (Sakaguchi) That’s because Mr. Amano was working on those at the same time we were working on the game. (Shibuya) Even now I still often get asked “Is Terra’s hair blond or green?”. If we’d gone by Mr. Amano’s designs, just about all of the characters would have blond hair, and it would be harder to distinguish between them. And having them all be blond would dilute their distinctive traits as well. So I had control over the character colors on-screen while Mr. Amano was free to draw them however he liked. Also, did Amano’s illustrations or Ms. Shibuya’s pixel art come first? (Sakaguchi) Shibuya’s came first in just about every case."

[@邹炭]

Cute and sad. Never played any FF

[@subtube4748]

Final Fantasy I - VI is the Cubism of Video Games.

[@uranus400]

Final Fantasy.

[@langdonx]

♥️

[@njt9584]

What the pixel making program did her use?

[@heidy_km]

OMG Celeste at 12:00

[@cutscenes1758]

😊

[@dn948673]

この人は偉大だけどモノマネ落書きレベルの息子への扱いを考えるべきだ。

[@blueroman460]

great vid guys!

[@cutscenes1758]

Thank you.