Its difficult for me to make decisions in this. I'm very bias towards Amano cause I respect him as an artist and I adore all his works. In my opinion he's easily the best artist out of the three but Yoshida is not very far behind either. I would love to see more non-FF related work from Yoshida.

Amano's works have never been properly transferred to games with a few minor exceptions. I always felt the FMVs of Anthology were breathtaking to behold and through them I feel its easier to understand where Amano's influence can be felt. Amano's designs and illustrations are inspiring and dreamlike. They capture the imagination of the viewer and show fantastic places we see only in our dreams. Even his characters are set with mood and life. He doesn't draw pictures, he captures moments.

This is where I have issues with Nomura. Nomura is a true character designer. His designs feel lifeless in comparison to the other two cause he tends to draw flat images with the characters basically staring in the distance. They lack emotion. His style is also rather unimaginative and borrows heavily from the anime industry of the 80's and early 90's as well as whatever is fashionable in Shibuya. They are not bad though just simplistic and plain in comparison to the other two. I prefer Nomura's heavy anime style and I must say its good to see it come back. His lifelike drawings are boring unless he makes them fashion disasters. I also wish he could make better outfits, they seem to range from boring and plain (VII, VIII, AC, FFvXIII) to just plain gaudy (VIII, X, X-2, KH, FFXIII) Personally, I wish he would return to monster designs as that is where his real creativity seemed to flourish imo.

Yoshida has been a fave since FFT but now with games like Vagrant Story and XII under his belt and showing his diversity, I must say I feel Yoshida has proven worthy of taking over the mantle of lead character designer.

I will also say that Amano will always be remembered as the character designer for the FF series. Dissidia is more than proof since Nomura took such painstaking lengths to capture Amano's style and designs for the characters. In fact, Nomura's redesigns of Amano's pictures are probably my favorite works he's done.