Good frikkin grief

[Cecinda]

What the HELL did they do to Bartz in Anthology??? The white hair, brown skin, purple lips, plucked eyebrows, cheesy beaded headband...he looks like he's just come out of the circus! He is no doubt THE ugliest hero ever in FF history.
I so preferred his old rugged brown-haired look. And I was starting to think Zidane was bad...damn, he's second now!
I generally disliked the "FMV" looks of the characters immensely. Faris looked nothing like a pirate, nor like her wild-haired, purple counterpart. Plus she wouldn't scrape her hair back like that if she didn't want people seeing her face and realising she's a lady. Lenna/Reina was the only one who looked nice in my opinion.

[Destai]

Thats how Amano designed him(the character designer for the first few FF games). Im not too fond of his style myself. I think its ugly.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

Thats how Amano designed him(the character designer for the first few FF games)

Yeah - the Amano artwork was the basis for the new FF5 and FF6 FMVs. And I like his style. Although he was only offical designer on the early FFs, he has drawn for all of them. Is Amano Bartz particularly sexy? No. But then again, he traveled around the world with three chicks, and they didn't find him sexy either. . .

Some Amano art:
FF1: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=amano+ff1
FF4: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=amano+ff4
FF5: http://images.google.com/images?q=amano+ff5&hl=en
FF7: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=amano+ff7
FF8: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=amano+ff8
FF9: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=amano+ff9
FF10/10-2: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=amano+ff10

[JulioA]

Amano's artwork is a bit cluttered at times but I like it, not many draw like this and it has almost always just been concept works. I especially like the FFI drawing.

[Cecinda]

Poor Bartz. AND his name is actually Butz. What an unfortunate dude.

[vampirepiggyhunter7]

Butz Lenna Cara Mistranslated.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

Poor Bartz. AND his name is actually Butz. What an unfortunate dude.

LOL. Although technically, I think his original name was Batz. 'Kishi could tell you all about that one. :p

[rubah]

It's Butz if you play the snes rom, sure. But they never seem to say it in dialogx.x;

lenna>reina though.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

バッツ - battsu - Batz
レナ - rena - Rena
クルル - kururu - Klulu

Not that it matters.

[Cecinda]

Well, FFV names are messed up ... lol ... actually Lenna says "Butz...thank you" and "butz......." about 50000 times in the beginning. She likes the whole name followed by ellipsis thing.

[Ethan_Nelson]

some one post a screen shot of Butz and everyone looking all ugly in the PS version of FFV

[Shin Gouken]

Baertz indeed looks like a twat

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Galuf in my opinion looks ghey too

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Reina, faris and krile all look good though

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and in the last one is a bleedin hardcore dragon that attacks omega and smashes him to a million pieces. but i dont know if thats supposed to bahamut or shinryu ???

[Vyk]

Unfortunately I think they achieved Faris's disguise too well. Ick

[x Quistis x]

The FMV's and Artwork are all horrible IMO

[Shin Gouken]

The FMV's and Artwork are all horrible IMO


i agree. but then i found these :)

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[Ultima Shadow]

Anamo can draw pretty ok monsters, but I really don't like the way he's drawing characters.

[Vyk]

I think he's attempting to mimic ancient Japanese murals and adding in his own style. I bet he could come up with better or more realistic styles if he wanted to. But the white-skinned "everybody looks like a scrawny butch girl" is his trademark now, so he sorta runs with it or something.

[Slade]

Anamo can draw pretty ok monsters, but I really don't like the way he's drawing characters.
His Yuna drawings aren't bad though. I don't care much for many of his other character drawings though, they look too much the same as one another. eg: Faris = Lenna = Cara = Terra = Celes = Garnet etc....if you've seen his drawings of these characters then you know what i'm talking about. I've been to his web site and saw all his other art and I can say that it is a hell of alot better than most of the drawings he does for the Final Fantasy series.

[Heath]

Unfortunately I think they achieved Faris's disguise too well. Ick

I'd have to agree with you there. Otherwise, the designs didn't bother me a great deal. I'm not particularly in love with Amano's work, nor do I dislike it.

[rubah]

His Yuna drawings aren't bad though. I don't care much for many of his other character drawings though, they look too much the same as one another. eg: Faris = Lenna = Cara = Terra = Celes = Garnet etc....if you've seen his drawings of these characters then you know what i'm talking about. I've been to his web site and saw all his other art and I can say that it is a hell of alot better than most of the drawings he does for the Final Fantasy series.
His ff8 and ffx and probably ff7 as well drawings were done after the characters were designed by Nomura.

[Levian]

Yeah, he's very good at drawing anything but humans. Sure, some humans turns out ok, but most of them turn out /xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif(especially FFV and FFVI), and all the girls have the same faces. also, the FFIX cd plates was ugly.

[Slade]

Yeah, he's very good at drawing anything but humans. Sure, some humans turns out ok, but most of them turn out /xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif(especially FFV and FFVI), and all the girls have the same faces. also, the FFIX cd plates was ugly.
I'd have to disagree with you about the FFIX CD plates. I thought that was some of his better Final Fantasy work.

[Levian]

Ok, so maybe it wasn't _ugly_ . I'm just saying, give a kid a paper and some crayons, and let's see who draws humans best.

[K-chan]

I just like his style cos its flowy. ^^ Other than that, its alright I guess. Its just the way he draws, and no amount of complaining is going to fix that.

[Squall-101]

I'd have to disagree with you about the FFIX CD plates. I thought that was some of his better Final Fantasy work.

I think his Zidane ones of IX was ok....but some of them i agree with you on though.
Unfortunately I think they achieved Faris's disguise too well. Ick

True.....but still.....Faris, Lenna and Cara all look the same..like they are triplets or something.
Faris still looks like a girl...when she is ment to be acting like a guy.

Edit by Kishi: Don't double-post.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

I love Amano's work. *shrug*

[Chibi Angel]

It's kinda wierd I don't really like his style. It's like a twisted form of ancient chinese brush painting.