17 Facts About Isamu Kamikokuryo

Isamu Kamikokuryo is a Japanese video game artist who worked at Square Enix until his resignation on March 31,2017.

Isamu Kamikokuryo is known for his work on the company's role-playing video game series Final Fantasy, for which he designed locations and characters.

Isamu Kamikokuryo originally aspired to become an oil painter and illustrator, but his hobby of playing video games had him interested in their emerging industry early on.

Isamu Kamikokuryo designed large cities with varied architectural styles as he wanted to convey the feeling of walking through a real-life metropolis.

Isamu Kamikokuryo accepted the offer because Aya Brea was one of his favorite characters and he wished to participate in the revival of the Parasite Eve series.

Isamu Kamikokuryo eventually became the game's art director and went through a long period of trial and error while trying to conceive a unique graphical style.

Isamu Kamikokuryo hence used photographs instead of self-drawn pictures to explain his setting ideas to the other staff members.

Isamu Kamikokuryo gave his artists more freedom to include their own ideas in the game's locations, intending to rectify the shortcomings of the more artificial seeming settings in Final Fantasy XIII.

For Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the conclusion of the trilogy started with Final Fantasy XIII, Isamu Kamikokuryo again was the art director.

Isamu Kamikokuryo designed two of Lightning's costumes, among them the "Nocturne" garb.

Isamu Kamikokuryo thanked Square Enix for giving him so many opportunities to both work with great people, as well as deploy his skills.

Isamu Kamikokuryo now aims to start writing again in addition to doing freelance art and diction work.

Isamu Kamikokuryo gives Hajime Sorayama, Katsuya Terada, Range Murata, Akira Yasuda, Ryuichiro Kutsuzawa and Alphonse Mucha as his favorite artists.

Some tools and programs used by Isamu Kamikokuryo are a Vaio computer, an Intuos graphics tablet and the applications Adobe Photoshop and MetaCreations Painter.

Isamu Kamikokuryo is an avid hobby photographer and world traveler, taking pictures of scenery and buildings for future reference.

Isamu Kamikokuryo likes playing video games that demand deliberate judgments, such as those in the simulation and real-time strategy genre.

Isamu Kamikokuryo's preferred titles include Grand Theft Auto, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Red Dead Redemption, Dragon Warrior III and Final Fantasy VII.