Tetsuya Nomura

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tetsuya Nomura
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Oct 8, 1970(1970-10-08)
Age	54
Country	Japan
Horoscope	Libra

Tetsuya Nomura Biography

Tetsuya Nomura is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on October 8, 1970 in Japan. Japanese musician and game creator who is known for his collaboration together with Square Enix. He created characters for the wildly popular Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts video game series.

He was heavily affected through the works by Final Fantasy creator He was inspired and greatly influenced by the work of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi..

In the early 1990s, Nomura was hired by Square and at first worked as a debugger for Final Fantasy IV. Some time later, the company’s staff was divided and he was placed in the team in charge of Final Fantasy. After he had received some training by artist Tetsuya Takahashi, Nomura designed the monsters for Final Fantasy V. At that time, each Final Fantasy developer had their own plan book as a compilation of ideas to present to the director of a game. While the others typed their plan books at the computer and then printed them out, Nomura wrote his by hand and attached many drawings which impressed director Hironobu Sakaguchi and event planner Yoshinori Kitase. Nomura then became the graphic director of Final Fantasy VI. For this game, he conceived the characters Shadow and Setzer as well as their background stories. Their designs were reused from some of Nomura’s abandoned concepts for Final Fantasy V. Following several smaller projects, Nomura was asked to be the principal character designer of Final Fantasy VII in replacement for Amano. Nomura drew the game’s characters in a stylized and super deformed way and came up with the idea for the “Limit Break” attacks. He also took part in the making of the story and had a hand in plot elements such as Aerith’s death. In 1998, Nomura worked on both Parasite Eve and Brave Fencer Musashi. He then designed characters and monsters for Final Fantasy VIII in what he described as his “actual style of drawing”, working alongside art director Yusuke Naora to realize the more realistic approach to the game’s graphics. Additionally, he wrote the character’s background stories and was the battle visual director in charge of designing fight sequences. Afterwards, Nomura worked on several different projects for Square, for example as a character designer of the 1998 fighting game Ehrgeiz which also used characters from Final Fantasy VII.

Nomura was the character designer for 2000’s beat ’em up The Bouncer before he returned to the Final Fantasy series in the same capacity with 2001’s Final Fantasy X. He worked with the staff so that the characters’ clothes would be identical in full motion videos and in-game scenes, unlike in Final Fantasy VIII, In February 2000, he started working as the director of Kingdom Hearts with the production team consisting of over one hundred members from both Square and Disney Interactive. Nomura first heard of the game during a discussion between Shinji Hashimoto and Hironobu Sakaguchi regarding the use of the character of Mickey Mouse in a video game. He was inspired to work on Kingdom Hearts by Nintendo’s platforming game Super Mario 64. After discussing with the Disney staff, Nomura convinced them to use original characters with him as the character designer. The game’s protagonist, Sora, became his favorite character he had designed so far. Following Kingdom Hearts, Nomura worked once again on the Final Fantasy series with Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy X-2.

He was born within the Japanese state of Kochi Prefecture. His father was aware of the young boy’s interest in the arts and games.

Tetsuya Nomura Net Worth

Tetsuya Nomura is one of the richest Game Designer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tetsuya Nomura 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started sketching at 3 and when he was in his teens learned to programme video games. When he was 18 the artist relocated from Tokyo to Tokyo where he pursued a profession in the fields of art and advertising.

He created and developed the PlayStation Portable role-playing game called The 3rd Birthday.

Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也 , Nomura Tetsuya, born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese video game artist, designer and director working for Square Enix (formerly Square). He designed characters for the Final Fantasy series, debuting with Final Fantasy VI and continuing with various later installments. Additionally, Nomura has led the development of the Kingdom Hearts series since its debut in 2002 and was the director for the CGI film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

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In 2019, Nomura also contributed to Final Fantasy XIV’s third expansion Shadowbringers. The raid series Eden (featuring elements of Final Fantasy VIII) features a character named Gaia, along with bosses designed by Nomura.

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Tetsuya Ranked on the list of most popular Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Tetsuya Nomura celebrates birthday on October 8 of every year.

Did Tetsuya Nomura leave Square Enix?

Nomura left his position of director on Final Fantasy XV following “changes in development structure” by Square Enix in December 2013.

What games did Nomura write?

Other games with characters designed by Nomura include Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIII. Other than Final Fantasy, Nomura also directed the Square Enix/Disney series Kingdom Hearts, as well as the CGI sequel to Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

Why did Tetsuya Nomura leave FFXV?

Hazmer gave this answer on Nomura: He has to pay full attention to Kingdom Hearts III, another game that is in dire need for release , so the company has left the rest of the production of FFXV to my director Tabata-san.” This type of answer makes sense.

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Did Tetsuya Nomura make Final Fantasy 7?

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of what is considered by many to be the most popular Final Fantasy in the entire series, FF7 director Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Tetsuya Nomura shared some words about what the series means to them.