A portion of a FinalFantasySeries interview with Ryoma Ito, character designer…
FFS: Do you take into account that your drawings will need to be converted to pixel art when creating them?
Ryoma Ito: For the main characters, I make the illustration first, then that’s converted to pixel art. But for the regular jobs, those are created first as pixel art, which I then refer to when rounding out the illustrations.
FFS: So some things start as pixel art?
Ryoma Ito: Yes. The regular jobs start this way. On the other hand, for the player characters I started by deciding on their main color, and then communicating that to the rest of the team. That way when the time comes to convert them to pixel art, it comes across the way I’d intended.
Here is the original:
Ryoma Ito talks Final Fantasy Tactics A2 character creation
