Quote Originally Posted by User201109011315 View Post
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.
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.