Tetsuya Nomura

(born October 8, 1970) is a Japan video game director and character designer working for Square Enix (formerly Square). He has been rated by the website Next Generation as the 7th most important and anticipated video game developer of 2007. Nomura was born in Kochi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. When he was a young man, he worked at a vocational school creating art for advertisements. In the early 1990s, Square hired him to work as monster designer for Final Fantasy V and then as graphic director and minor character designer for Final Fantasy VI. Nomura didn't gain recognition until 1995, when Square asked him to be the character designer for Final Fantasy VII to replace Yoshitaka Amano, the series' original character designer. It was a huge critical and commercial success and became the definitive role playing game for the PlayStation. In 1998, he worked on both Parasite Eve & Brave Fencer Musashi. In 1997, Nomura worked on 1999's Final Fantasy VIII, a game that achieved... full article at wikipedia