Why dpes everyone hate Bartz

[ShivaBlizzard8]

I was just wondering is Anammo offical? Beacuse it is always what they go by! there have been a lot of Bartz fan arts

Yoshitaka Amano has been the offical concept artist for, I believe, all of the Final Fantasys to date. Even the character designs for the newer games, such as 8, 9, and 10, were based off of his work. If by "they," you mean Squaresoft, than yeah, they generally go by his work since that is what he is hired to do! In the older games such as FF5, the sprites differ from the orginal drawings because the old-school Nintendos which the games were designed for couldn't support the detailed graphics of Amano's art. However, in the later PSX games, his drawings are very similar to the finished product. The one below from VII is a good example:

[Celes]

That was an awesome pic, ShivaBlizzard8, where did you get it? I looove all of Yoshitaka Amano's artwork. I have only seen some from ff6 and ff9, none from any other ff games, including ff5.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

I don't remember exactly where I found that particular pic, Celes, but I know I've never found a site which includes all of Amano's work. However, I do know a few good sites that have nice chunks of them - usually particular character or game shrines.

For instance, Shinryuu's Lair, the best FF5 website out there, has the biggest collection of FF5 Amano art I've ever seen:
http://www.syldra.net/lair/amano/amano.htm

This site has the biggest collection of FF7 Amano art I've found, including that pic you liked:
http://members.easyspace.com/jenova/cha_amano.html

At this site, go to "Image archives" then "Amano art" then "heroes" to find an awesome FF4 Amano archive:
http://paladin.5u.com/FF4/chronicle/

A handful of FFX art here:
http://www.tbi.net/~max/ffxart.htm

For FF8, go here and scroll down to the pics labeled Amano:
http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff8/ff8art.html

Well, that's most of the ones I have. For more, go to google and type in Amano art along with the title of the game or character you're looking for. I agree - his work is amazing!

[The Man]

Note: FF7, FF8, and FF10 were character-designed by Tetsuya Nomura, I believe. FF1-6 and FF9, though, use Amano designs.

[Sefie1999AD]

What The Man said, I also thought Nomura did all character designs in FF7.

Originally posted by crono_logical
Perhaps they're all jealous that he gets to travel with 3 girls towards the end of the game

Don't forget that all those girls are (SPOILER)princesses. xD

Anyway, I think Butz isn't a bad character. He might not have that much development, but he still has his great moments, and he's great in battles. If you play through the game at least twice, you'll notice that his storyline in the whole story set makes a lot of sense.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

Note: FF7, FF8, and FF10 were character-designed by Tetsuya Nomura, I believe. FF1-6 and FF9, though, use Amano designs.

Right as usual, The Man. I didn't really specify that although Amano still did the conceptual art for 7, 8, and 10, he wasn't considered the offical character designer for those particular games. My bad. >_<

[The Man]

I actually wasn't aware of Amano's involvement at all. :o Odd. =P

[Flare_Star]

this is kinda off topic....

i thought amano was doin all of them, actually. never heard of tetsuya numara, no wait maybe i have..

back to topic...i never knew anyone hated bartz, though he is still not my fave character

[Kenshin IV]

Nomura does a lot of other Square games, not just the Final Fantasy series. He acts as other roles, too. For example, he was the director of Kingdom Hearts.
Amano has done art for Seven, Eight, and Ten, but he didn't design the characters. For Seven and Eight, I'm actually glad he did the designs, eventhough Amano is my favorite artist from Japan. Amano's designs just wouldn't have looked right when transformed into 3D. Also, the dark theme of Seven, and the realistic look of Eight fit perfectly with Nomura's designs.
However, I think Amano could have been able to do Ten really well. I look at some of the garments and outfits of the characters in Ten, and I think "wow, I wonder what they would have looked like if Amano drew them?" Don't get me wrong here, I love Nomura's designs for the game, I'm just curious to see what Amano would have done with them.

[The Man]

He's often killed in fanfics? Odd, I never noticed. Then again I hadn't really read many fanfics based on FFV in the first place :o

[MJN SEIFER]

At The Top Of My Head Bartz was Killed In Flash Movies Such as FFBig Brother (SPOILER)he wasn't even VOTD off he just dies!! Final Fantasy Fighing Dies in the second episode and suffers another stupid death and of course he Falls victim to a Tomberry In a Flash Movie that Goes By the name of "Robo Voice" whichI'm sure EVERYONE has seen!!

[alnykleo]

Hey MJN SEIFER, you don't have a copy of that FF Big Brother flash movie laying around on your hard drive? I really want to see it, but the only site that seems to have it tells me that access is forbidden.

Or do you have a link to it, perhaps?

[Shlup]

I thought we were talking about Butz? I didn't know anyone didn't like him. I don't think there's much to like or dislike.

[MJN SEIFER]

Originally posted by alnykleo
Hey MJN SEIFER, you don't have a copy of that FF Big Brother flash movie laying around on your hard drive? I really want to see it, but the only site that seems to have it tells me that access is forbidden.

Or do you have a link to it, perhaps?

Here ya go!

[alnykleo]

Hehe, thank you. ^^