Hideo Minaba

Hideo Minaba (皆葉英夫, Minaba Hideo?) is a video game art director. He began work with Squaresoft in 1991. His first major role was as a field graphics designer on Final Fantasy V (1992). He was the art director of Final Fantasy VI (1994) and responsible for the Victorian aesthetic of the game. He was later placed in charge of artistic supervision of Final Fantasy Tactics (1997). After that, he served as the art director of both Final Fantasy IX (2000) and Final Fantasy XII (2006).

Minaba left Square Enix in 2004, during Final Fantasy XII's development, to form Designation, a freelance art company. The reason was due to being approached by Hironobu Sakaguchi and asked to provide character design and art direction for his upcoming games ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat (2007) and Lost Odyssey (2007). Minaba has since continued to work on the Final Fantasy series as a freelancer, working on art design for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2013) and Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward (2015).

Works Within the Series

Game	Release	Work
Final Fantasy IV	1991	Debugger (uncredited)
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest	1993	Special Thanks
Final Fantasy V	1992	Field Graphics (with Tetsuya Takahashi)
Final Fantasy VI	1994	Art Director, Graphic Director (with Tetsuya Takahashi, Kazuko Shibuya, and Tetsuya Nomura)
Final Fantasy Tactics	1997	Art Supervisor, Battle Maps Designer
Final Fantasy IX	2000	Art Director Character Design: Zidane, Garnet, Vivi, Kuja, and Beatrix
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	2003	Design Work Director
Final Fantasy XII	2006	Art Director (with Isamu Kamikokuryo) Airship Design: Strahl and Archadian Imperial Fleets
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions	2007	Art Supervisor, Battle Maps Designer
Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System	2007	Art Director (with Isamu Kamikokuryo) Airship Design: Strahl and Archadian Imperial Fleets Box Art Designer
ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat	2007	Art Director Character Design
Lost Odyssey	2007	Art Supervisor Costume Design: All Party Members
Final Fantasy XIV	2010	Special Thanks
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	2011	Costume Design: Zidane's Marcus's Cloak, Kuja's Treno Nobleman
Final Fantasy XIII-2	2011	Character Design: Paddra Nsu-Yeul and Alyssa Zaidelle Costume Design: Hope Estheim
Bravely Default	2012	Background Art Design
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn	2013	Art Design
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	2013	Map Designer
Bravely Second	2015	Background Art Design
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward	2015	Art Design

External Links

• Final Fantasy XII Collector's Edition Bonus DVD — Video Interview with Hideo Minaba

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