Stage 01, The Research and Summary

The new media artists i found are Tetsuya Nomura and Jun'ya Ota.

Summary of Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura is currently a video game director and character design for SquareEnix. He started his career as a debugger for the game, Final Fantasy 4, one of SquareEnix famous game and he is follow up as a monster designer for the following game, Final Fantasy 5 and 6. His most success work of all is when he replace Yoshitaka Amano as the Final Fantasy 7's character designer and he successful make Final Fantasy 7 one of the world's most famous RPG game. After he continue as character designer for several successful game project and he is known as one of the best character designer in game industry. He say once in his interview "at first, I was afraid to take up character designer spot, but I challenge myself to take it up and unexpectedly, it is successful. I find character designing is fun and able to express your feeling to the players using your characters that you design."

Tetsuya Nomura and his game-art poster for Kingdom hearts.

one of Tetsuya Nomura's art.

Summary of Jun'ya Ota.

Jun'ya Ota or mostly known as ZUN is a Game designer,Programmer, Script Writer and Music Composer for Team Shanghai Alice which is the company that Jun'ya found himself and he is the only sole member for that company. During his junior high school moment, he already started making music to express his feeling to his daily lifes. Due to the massive amount of music that he create, he decided to use his own music to make his own game because he say that he couldn't find any game that he can entirely like. He started his career at Taito Corp. that made one of his favourite game, Darius Gaiden. He earn his nickname ZUN from the sound team of Taito Corp., the Zuntata. But due to his personality that likes to work alone, he decided to left Taito Corp. and create Team Shanghai Alice which produce the Touhou Project, a shooting game that is famous of it's name for bullet hell. Jun'ya is also the first person who create a bullet hell game by only himself and make bullet hell famous. From 1996 until now, Jun'ya himself have design over 150 characters, 19 albums of music which contain over 200 piece of musics just to satisfied himself in game industry.

An interview on Jun'ya Ota about Touhou Project. How he decided the name for his character and how he started on designing the game and the characters. How the grow of the Touhou Project from a small fanmade game into havin it's own festival,carnival and also costume play dance party.

my blog's mascot, Reiuji Utsuhi's character design and theme song is also a creation of Jun'ya Ota.

Jun'ya Ota's interview at Tokyo.

A picture of Jun'ya Ota drawn by one of his fans.

a collection of his characters design.

a collection of his game screenshots and this is what is means by bullet hell.

** Tetsuya Nomura inspired me that art can be nice to looking and feel the message in the art. Jun'ya Ota inspired me that we can be independent to something that we like the most and show it using arts.