To the people who hate Portait artwork here

[Keytee Tamira]

They were made by a great artist - Yoshitaka Amano.
http://static.minitokyo.net/downloads/40/20/371040.jpg?25275951
He makes gorgeous art for Final Fantasy series since first game.
It was him who makes great logo artwork for every Final Fantasy game.
It was him who gave us designs of Warrior of Light, Chaos, Emperor Mateus Palamecia, Cloud of Darkness, Cecil, Golbeza, Exdeath, and of course, for some fans of that stupid clown, Kefka.
He actually puts effort in drawing characters, unlike Tetsuya Nomure, who made designs for FFVII, VIII, X, and XIII series.
His art is gorgeous, you must respect him, it was him who made Final Fantasy popular.

Though i prefer Tactics, FFXII and XIV artist style...

[Beria]

1001 nights, interesting anime by Amano.

[Keytee Tamira]

Originally posted by Beria:

1001 nights, interesting anime by Amano.

I didn't watched, but do want to watch ^__^

[Deiser]

I think most of the complaints are at the sprite work (which are NOT by Amano), as many people believe the new hero sprites look pretty bad compared to the original.

[Keytee Tamira]

Originally posted by Deiser:

I think most of the complaints are at the sprite work (which are NOT by Amano), as many people believe the new hero sprites look pretty bad compared to the original.

Well. Hero sprites made by same person who did original SNES sprites.

[Zunnoab #931]

It took me years to warm up to Amano's sleepy albinos. I understand the knee-jerk reaction some have to them.

[Foroneus]

Originally posted by Keytee Tamira:

He actually puts effort in drawing characters, unlike Tetsuya Nomure, who made designs for FFVII, VIII, X, and XIII series...His art is gorgeous, you must respect him, it was him who made Final Fantasy popular.

Though i prefer Tactics, FFXII and XIV artist style...

Why should I (not to be a jerk, but wasn't it Nomure/Nomura who came up with the concept? or am I wrong)? I don't think it's bad, but it''s just not right. It looks like he deliberately refuses to give actual color to characters (look at Bartz's hair!) that should have some.

I personally think he should stick to logos, I'm fine with those being inacurate.

[Keytee Tamira]

Originally posted by TheUltimateFanBoy:

Originally posted by Keytee Tamira:

He actually puts effort in drawing characters, unlike Tetsuya Nomure, who made designs for FFVII, VIII, X, and XIII series...His art is gorgeous, you must respect him, it was him who made Final Fantasy popular.

Though i prefer Tactics, FFXII and XIV artist style...

Why should I (not to be a jerk, but wasn't it Nomure/Nomura who came up with the concept? or am I wrong)? I don't think it's bad, but it''s just not right. It looks like he deliberately refuses to give actual color to characters (look at Bartz's hair!) that should have some.

I personally think he should stick to logos, I'm fine with those being inacurate.

Inacurate...
Characters drawn by amano look like real ART. Not like anime crap.

[Foroneus]

Originally posted by Keytee Tamira:

Originally posted by TheUltimateFanBoy:

Why should I (not to be a jerk, but wasn't it Nomure/Nomura who came up with the concept? or am I wrong)? I don't think it's bad, but it''s just not right. It looks like he deliberately refuses to give actual color to characters (look at Bartz's hair!) that should have some.

I personally think he should stick to logos, I'm fine with those being inacurate.

Inacurate...
Characters drawn by amano look like real ART. Not like anime crap.

Oh god.

CONCEPT ART. THAT'S HIS JOB, TO CONCEPTUALIZE HOW THEY LOOK, NOT OFFICIAL PORTRAITS.


And "anime crap" is your opinion (not the "oh, it's your opinion, so you're wrong" thing that Steam users spam, the "oh someone thinks differently, that's ok" kind) and no one was suggesting it! No one cares about anyone's taste in art style! In fact, what IS your favorite art style, anyway? I'm curious. And no, I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm legit wondering.

[RΔSHID]

I prefer this guy: http://akihiko-yoshida.tumblr.com/ Artist of Bravely Default, Final Fantasy Tactics, FF14, FF3 (DS/iOS) and some others. His portraits are fantastic, just similar as the sprites, and without the feminine features, pale skin and white hair (unless it's necessary of course).

Since he made some art for FF3, can be comparable to FF5 with the job classes. Check this out.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Akihiko_Yoshida_Final_Fantasy_III_Artwork_Images

[Foroneus]

Originally posted by Rashid:

I prefer this guy: http://akihiko-yoshida.tumblr.com/ Artist of Bravely Default, Final Fantasy Tactics, FF14, FF3 (DS/iOS) and some others. His portraits are fantastic, just similar as the sprites, and without the feminine features, pale skin and white hair (unless it's necessary of course).

Since he made some art for FF3, can be comparable to FF5 with the job classes. Check this out.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Akihiko_Yoshida_Final_Fantasy_III_Artwork_Images

I agree, this guy's stuff is great.

[Icedfate]

I dunno what the steam version is gonna look like but I have the ios version and the only complaint i have is that the portaits of the characters are incongruous with their sprites.
the hair colors in the portraits don't even match the hair colors on the sprites...and it took me a long time to get used to the sprites, it looks like they got the same guy to do them that they got for final fantasy dimensions. ff dimensions felt weird to play, almost like it wasn't a "real" ff game but rather an ff clone done on rpg maker.


edit actually looking at the store page it looks like the same artwork as the ios version. you can see it right there look at faris's portrait and look at her sprite. her sprite has bright pinkish purplis hair, while the potrait has this kind of blondeish whitish hair.
and lenna's sprite has pink hair, while the portrait has white hair

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by FeMaiden:

I dunno what the steam version is gonna look like but I have the ios version and the only complaint i have is that the portaits of the characters are incongruous with their sprites.
the hair colors in the portraits don't even match the hair colors on the sprites...and it took me a long time to get used to the sprites, it looks like they got the same guy to do them that they got for final fantasy dimensions. ff dimensions felt weird to play, almost like it wasn't a "real" ff game but rather an ff clone done on rpg maker.


edit actually looking at the store page it looks like the same artwork as the ios version. you can see it right there look at faris's portrait and look at her sprite. her sprite has bright pinkish purplis hair, while the potrait has this kind of blondeish whitish hair.
and lenna's sprite has pink hair, while the portrait has white hair

Actually they got the artist who did the sprites originally. Why she did not shade them I do not know.

The portraits are Amano's concept art. Tons of his art has expressionless pale characters with white/blond hair. I affectionately call them Amano's sleepy albinos. For FFVI his art was used in the original release, and they added color matching the characters. Here they added the portraits without recoloring them.

[Keytee Tamira]

Hey guys, i just remembered something!
There is a NES de-make of Final Fantasy VII is being made by japanese fans!
Proof http://demake.web.fc2.com/
And it has two portrait modes! Amano's mode and Nomura's mode!
So if you prefer anime style, play with Nomura's portraits.
If you prefer Amano's albinos, then play with Amano's portraits!
Would be awesome, if Final Fantasy V had same.
Portrait mode with pink haired Lenna, and mode with sleepy bored Lenna ^__^
Though i would still play with sleepy Lenna ^__^

[Icedfate]

there actually are 2 homebrew final fantasy 7 nes cartridges out there already. one of them is kind of crappy, but the other is pretty good. I dunno where to find them but there are many youtube videos about them

[Seraphita]

FF7 2D has been done a little here and there. It's kinda funny that FF7 is so milked like this and not even by the original company who made it. At the same time, I bet it's a fun experience.