Akihiko sifts focus to another project?

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/09/12...-debut-trailer


I'm not too sure but everything from the unusual color-palette to face-shape and architecture style just screams Akihiko Yoshida to me.

I think he's really good at this style and Final Fantasy Gaiden is to me without a doubt the best art direction work he has done because the style forces him to use colors at least to some degree.

If it indeed is Akihiko's work I wonder how it will impact the quantity of new visual content in XIV for the next upcoming months.

While making XIV he was working as an art director in no less than 3 different games. I think this might have had a greater impact on XIV's lack of variety than one might think.

In Eorzea Tsushin by Famitsu there was a heap of building concept art and honestly they're all amazing. There just isn't that much of them for a massive game like this.

Looks very good! might get it if it comes to EU.

Yup definitely me-buy material.

Is it just me or doest that restaurant scene in particular look exactly like some of the leve-counter concept art pieces for xiv?

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Originally Posted by Seif

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/09/12...-debut-trailer


I'm not too sure but everything from the unusual color-palette to face-shape and architecture style just screams Akihiko Yoshida to me.

I think he's really good at this style and Final Fantasy Gaiden is to me without a doubt the best art direction work he has done because the style forces him to use colors at least to some degree.

If it indeed is Akihiko's work I wonder how it will impact the quantity of new visual content in XIV for the next upcoming months.

While making XIV he was working as an art director in no less than 3 different games. I think this might have had a greater impact on XIV's lack of variety than one might think.

In Eorzea Tsushin by Famitsu there was a heap of building concept art and honestly they're all amazing. There just isn't that much of them for a massive game like this.

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The little grey-haired character in that clip looked a little bit too much like a chibi Allegretto from Eternal Sonata. It couldn't be though, unless Square have aquired sequal-rights from Namco Bandai.

This game is very promising and inspiring (same team of FF Gaiden i presume). That 2D worldmap is BEAUTIFUL..

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Originally Posted by Seif

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/09/12...-debut-trailer


I'm not too sure but everything from the unusual color-palette to face-shape and architecture style just screams Akihiko Yoshida to me.

I think he's really good at this style and Final Fantasy Gaiden is to me without a doubt the best art direction work he has done because the style forces him to use colors at least to some degree.

If it indeed is Akihiko's work I wonder how it will impact the quantity of new visual content in XIV for the next upcoming months.

While making XIV he was working as an art director in no less than 3 different games. I think this might have had a greater impact on XIV's lack of variety than one might think.

In Eorzea Tsushin by Famitsu there was a heap of building concept art and honestly they're all amazing. There just isn't that much of them for a massive game like this.

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Ha, what do you have against Akihiko? I am quite partial to his muted colour pallette. The thing I hate about GW2 is that it is so flambouyantly excessive in terms of colours that nothing ends up matching. It's kind of like those people who think wearing ten non-matching colours looks good, when it doesn't.

I like the look of this game its a new series and new world, but it's a call back to the games everyone loved that they made. It looks pretty sweet, since they say they will have those AR cards and a demo at Tokyo Game Show I will let you guys know how it is! I am excited to go this Saturday ^.^! Yay TGS!!!!

This game looks great, looks like a Squaresoft game. I keep saying Square need to create more new franchises. It shouldn't be all about FF, DQ and KH. The World Ends With You is still my favourite game on DS.

Umm I have nothing against him I quite like his style. I like his style more in some games than others I don't know what GW2 has to do with it.

4 warriors of light is probably one of the prettiest DS games I've seen.
If you have to dig up some negativity about it then I guess it's directed towards SE for working him overtime and not letting to focus fully on one project back when he was doing drawings for XIV's world. I wish I could link to the images of landmark designs in the Famitsu magazine they're quite spectacular.

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Originally Posted by Seif

Umm I have nothing against him I quite like his style. I like his style more in some games than others I don't know what GW2 has to do with it.

4 warriors of light is probably one of the prettiest DS games I've seen.
If you have to dig up some negativity about it then I guess it's directed towards SE for working him overtime and not letting to focus fully on one project back when he was doing drawings for XIV's world. I wish I could link to the images of landmark designs in the Famitsu magazine they're quite spectacular.

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Well I just saw you once complaining about FFXIV being so uncolourful before, so i naturally assumed you had an axe to grind against the art direction. But clearly I've let my imagination get the best of me.

Oh. Why can't you link them? Is it some kind of infringement policy or do you just not have the link? I haven't seen those images, unless they're really old, in which case I probably have seen them.

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Originally Posted by User201109011315

Well I just saw you once complaining about FFXIV being so uncolourful before, so i naturally assumed you had an axe to grind against the art direction. But clearly I've let my imagination get the best of me.

Oh. Why can't you link them? Is it some kind of infringement policy or do you just not have the link? I haven't seen those images, unless they're really old, in which case I probably have seen them.

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sorry ahem, I'm at work. But honestly I should scan them if nobody else is going to do it.
I know from experience that art direction for games is a MASSIVE task I cannot stress that enough. It takes a lot more than just drawing pictures. I can't even fathom what it would be like for a MMO.

Now on top of that Yoshida was tasked as an AD for 2 other games at the same time. I think it doesn't take a genius to find out that it's a really bad resources management move.

There has been a lot of complaints about the 3d modelers doing half hearted job of including all the details and details of the concept images. Maybe he just couldn't be there to see the details are done properly. Either way when you're doing 3 projects at once I don't think he can be blamed if it all doesn't come together like in the games where he had only one project on the way like FF XII for example.

Artist's are usually the ones that have to overwork the most but no matter how you slice it stacking the work of 3 people on the shoulders of one guy just isn't fair. Especially since they didn't use the Kusanagi group of artists to help like they have done with every other FF title since VII. It's a wonder these games look as good as they do as it is.

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Originally Posted by Seif

sorry ahem, I'm at work. But honestly I should scan them if nobody else is going to do it.
I know from experience that art direction for games is a MASSIVE task I cannot stress that enough. It takes a lot more than just drawing pictures. I can't even fathom what it would be like for a MMO.

Now on top of that Yoshida was tasked as an AD for 2 other games at the same time. I think it doesn't take a genius to find out that it's a really bad resources management move.

There has been a lot of complaints about the 3d modelers doing half hearted job of including all the details and details of the concept images. Maybe he just couldn't be there to see the details are done properly. Either way when you're doing 3 projects at once I don't think he can be blamed if it all doesn't come together like in the games where he had only one project on the way like FF XII for example.

Artist's are usually the ones that have to overwork the most but no matter how you slice it stacking the work of 3 people on the shoulders of one guy just isn't fair. Especially since they didn't use the Kusanagi group of artists to help like they have done with every other FF title since VII. It's a wonder these games look as good as they do as it is.

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This speaks so many truths.

Unfortunately what usually occurs when one person does excessively well at something is the company he works for usually then give him multiple things to work on in the hopes that he can make all of them a success like he did making the one singular thing a success.

What this actually results in is that one person getting many things in these 3 things mixed up as he has to try and memorise but still be able to seperate these 3 things in his head, and remember diffiferentiate between these 3 things when trying to remember part of one of them.

Essentially, trying to pat your head whilst rub your tummy AND dance the flamingo all at the same time.

This problem happens in many aspects of game creation, which is why sometimes you notice something in a game that feels like it's mixed up, be it musically, artistically or scriptually.

What I mentioned just happened to me infact right after posting this as when I looked at the post I had replied to I thought it had been about Yoshi when in fact it was about art. Luckily the reply I had posted is able to viewed in context regardless of if it is about Yoshi or an artist.

That being said, I think me being affected by said problem is a sign that I need to go and get something to quench my thirst, then eat some food, and unwind a bit.

On a minor note before I do that though, I'd just like to say I'm very happy to keep seeing "This message is hidden because User201109011315 is on your ignore list." as I now read through the forums.

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Originally Posted by Seif

sorry ahem, I'm at work. But honestly I should scan them if nobody else is going to do it.
I know from experience that art direction for games is a MASSIVE task I cannot stress that enough. It takes a lot more than just drawing pictures. I can't even fathom what it would be like for a MMO.

Now on top of that Yoshida was tasked as an AD for 2 other games at the same time. I think it doesn't take a genius to find out that it's a really bad resources management move.

There has been a lot of complaints about the 3d modelers doing half hearted job of including all the details and details of the concept images. Maybe he just couldn't be there to see the details are done properly. Either way when you're doing 3 projects at once I don't think he can be blamed if it all doesn't come together like in the games where he had only one project on the way like FF XII for example.

Artist's are usually the ones that have to overwork the most but no matter how you slice it stacking the work of 3 people on the shoulders of one guy just isn't fair. Especially since they didn't use the Kusanagi group of artists to help like they have done with every other FF title since VII. It's a wonder these games look as good as they do as it is.

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When you are Art Director, your biggest task is Quality Control, so it's basically just signing off on stuff. The key is delegation. If he delegates the right people, and trusts them explicitly to manage the projects to the same standard as he would, then it's possible he could oversee three projects, although his input in each would be limited. Obviously he can't be in three places at once, but with the right people on his staff, he might as well be.

I think quality is pretty good in FFXIV. Graphics is the best thing about FFXIV so it's a bit pedantic to make a fuss about that.

But at the same time, I can potentially see how stretching your art director too thin could be a huge problem.

Are artists not allowed to work on several different projects these days or something, cuz, y'know, there's more than XIV these artists work on and put time into...

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

This game looks great, looks like a Squaresoft game. I keep saying Square need to create more new franchises. It shouldn't be all about FF, DQ and KH. The World Ends With You is still my favourite game on DS.

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Funny you should say this.

“What about if you stopped all the rehashing of Final Fantasy?” - Hironobu Sakaguchi

“We’re planning to!” - Takashi Tokita, SE developer

^_^

Looks and sounds alright, but what's up with the ludicrous name?

Oddly, Wiki doesn't have a wiki about that new game the OP was talking about. =(

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Originally Posted by Victor

Looks and sounds alright, but what's up with the ludicrous name?

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Engrish and abuse of English, isn't it great? xD (And we can't forget Theathrythm for the DS lol) SE combining random words..

Well, I guess it sounds better in Japanese.

Bravely Default...

Maybe it's about bravely accepting one's own "default settings"? i.e., being true to one's self.

Might not be engrish.

The secondary title displayed at the end of the trailer was just as raunchy.

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Originally Posted by User201109011315

Bravely Default...

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Is that anything like "It's Hip to be Square"?

I fixed it, I made a Wiki page about it here. Now to see if they will delete it or let it go through.