Quote Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar View Post
I know most of that, but creating and replacing textures is very simple and doesn't take long.
Take it from someone who has worked with texture artists before; you're absolutely very, very wrong.

Hand painting textures, hell even making textures from real-life references, takes an enormous amount of time. Especially for so many assets we see in FFX. Not only that, they probably will be either painting or sculpting (better results) normal maps for each asset and that also takes a lot of time.