Ask Questions to Character Concept Artist Ayumi Namae

[Zhexos]

We’re pleased to announce the forty-ninth installment of the Letter from the Producer LIVE, featuring Character Concept Artist Ayumi Namae! This show is set to take place on Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 1:00 a.m. (PST) / 4:00 a.m. (EDT) / 9:00 (GMT).

You may know Namae from her various concept art for character outfits, such as Lyse and Yotsuyu, as well as job-specific gear in Stormblood and much more!

In this thread, we’d like you to post questions you may have for her.

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[Veritas-Ancora]

Villain Gear (L1 Glamours)

Can you please look into L1 villain FF-themed glamour gear for all jobs?

- Kefka (definitely Kefka, please please please Kefka gear for all jobs)
- Sephiroth
- Kuja
- Jecht
- etc

And please make it available for all jobs!

[Veritas-Ancora]

Non-Traditional Tank Gear (Lighter Clothing)

I get it, we're tanks. But often our gear looks the least exciting out of all the jobs. And we're all jealous of the bards.

Can you please offer more chest-exposed gear, such as chain mail jackets or a leather trenchcoat without an undershirt?

[Veritas-Ancora]

Free Company Tabards/Emblems (Question for both Ayumi and Yoshida simultaneously)

AYUMI, would you please consider redesigning how our FC emblems look on our gear or a new tabard/armband/clothing accessory, maybe 3x larger than it is now?

YOSHI P: It would be really nice if this was offered from a new token/achievement system for queueing with at least one member of your Free Company preformed in daily roulettes. This game heavily encourages the commendation system to not play roulettes with your FC members to get more commendations and it has severely weakened the bond among players and reduces long-term friendships in the game. There's just zero incentive to play with your FC mates in roulettes and people don't stick around as long if their FC friends play without them. Players should have more incentives to ask their FC mates if they'd like to queue with them.)

[MuseTraveller]

Do you keep in mind the character's personality when you design their outfit, or focus more on their role in the story?

[Xau]

how come what most of the recent lvl 1 pants we get for male are always long pants and for female is short pants? it could be nice what could be done the reverse to give male character players a chance to show more leg as well to make it fair, because i as a female character player i struggle to find nice long pants

[The_Promised]

Can we have old noctis gear from ff XV? With he beard and old age haircut also. And Lyse dyeble gear on the ending of stormblood would be aewsome too. Can we have more sexy gears to all classes please? Like the Lyse ones, Fran, some gear similar like 2B from Nier Automata, Tera, Rose from ff series and the other Lightnings outfits. As customization seems a thing that we need to work out we will able to receive Butt Slider and more faces on the next expansion?

[OsirisThe2nd]

Will you consider another hairstyle design contest? If not, will you consider long cornrowed braids and long loose dreadlocks both embellished with a few tribal beads available for all race and both gender?

[Ryndo]

Hey there!

A lot of the gear in the game is either reskins or recolours of gear that we’ve already seen or ideas from the player design contests, but with Shadowbringers will we see new and original designs throughout the expansion?

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Would it be possible to create "Default" character outfits for the warrior of light, just like all the scions have a default character outfit. I enjoy seeing how our companion's outfits change with each expansion but I always feel left out when Tataru doesn't have an outfit for me as well.

Yes we have the racial specific outfits, and our AF outfits that are unique to our character, but I would like to see a "story specific" outfit that our character gets through the MSQ along with all the other scions.