Kazuko Shibuya

Kazuko Shibuya is an artist who has contributed many art assets to the Final Fantasy series, including the distinctive blue windows, sprites, and character designs. She is one of the premier pixel artists to have worked for the company. She has at times worked in parallel to series artist Yoshitaka Amano, in particular having done the character sprites of Final Fantasy VI at the same time as he was producing the traditional art and finishing her work slightly before his came to completion.

Biography
She originally started in animation, but found the pipeline was not to her liking. Squaresoft reached out to her about that time and she became a pixel artist for the original Final Fantasy, designing the iconic title screen.