Hey man! Love your stuff your analysis and retrospectives have helped me breakdown comics as I’ve been writing my own. Really wish more people could see these and enjoy them as much as I have! Keep up the good work
The character designs in the early Final Fantasy games have this beautiful 1001 Nights style. What makes this even more magical is that one of the programmers of the first 3 games, Nasir, was of Persian royalty. And yes, Amano was inspired by Frazetta. Here is a quote from an 1987 interview: Amano: There’s this American artist named Frank Frazetta. I didn’t recognize his name at first, but through my work I was very familiar with his paintings. It started when I was working on this funny American comic book style animation project. One day, without me being really aware of it, I decided I wanted to try drawing in his style. -And why was that? Amano: Probably, I was attracted to the lively musculature of his figures and wanted to try drawing something like that myself. Now that he’s famous you can refer to the “Frazetta style” and people will know what you mean. -That’s true. There’s something amazing about Frazetta’s bodies, with muscles full to bursting. Another thing about Frazetta’s work is that the faces of his characters have eastern features. Amano: Yeah, something in his faces does look eastern. (laughs) That’s because fantasy, I think, is something that thrives on exoticism. Perhaps to westerners the east can look like another world.
Hey man! Love your stuff your analysis and retrospectives have helped me breakdown comics as I’ve been writing my own. Really wish more people could see these and enjoy them as much as I have! Keep up the good work
Thanks. Happy to help.
The character designs in the early Final Fantasy games have this beautiful 1001 Nights style. What makes this even more magical is that one of the programmers of the first 3 games, Nasir, was of Persian royalty.
And yes, Amano was inspired by Frazetta. Here is a quote from an 1987 interview:
Amano: There’s this American artist named Frank Frazetta. I didn’t recognize his name at first, but through my work I was very familiar with his paintings. It started when I was working on this funny American comic book style animation project. One day, without me being really aware of it, I decided I wanted to try drawing in his style.
-And why was that?
Amano: Probably, I was attracted to the lively musculature of his figures and wanted to try drawing something like that myself. Now that he’s famous you can refer to the “Frazetta style” and people will know what you mean.
-That’s true. There’s something amazing about Frazetta’s bodies, with muscles full to bursting. Another thing about Frazetta’s work is that the faces of his characters have eastern features.
Amano: Yeah, something in his faces does look eastern. (laughs) That’s because fantasy, I think, is something that thrives on exoticism. Perhaps to westerners the east can look like another world.
@@Philemon_Logos thank you for the information.
You're spot on with Gau lol
He _is_ annoying in the game