Administrators Erroneous Posted July 3 Administrators Share Posted July 3 GFF2003, far as I know stands for Game Factory Friendship, a game developer alliance of about 12 game companies in Fukuoka Japan. First started in 2003, with CyberConnect2 in attendance, they brought along Yoshiyuki Sadamoto the lead character designer for .hack to this event. There they hosted a Q&A which can be read in full here from Saturday, August 30th, 2003. During this Q&A the subject of "Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's Thoughts on Design" we learned about the inspirations behind Kite, Blackrose, Piros, Elk, and Balmung. Things from Kite's proportions, Blackrose's thighs, Elk's clothes, Piro's haircut, and Balmung's wings. Back to Kite's design, it's no secret to anyone that orange Kite is designed after the original manga run of Naruto. As quoted, Yoshiyuki had to say: Quote カイトのポイントは・・・まず、等身ですね。 カイトの等身は“ナルト”の等身を目安にデザインしたんですよ。 あれくらいの“子供の等身”というのを目安に行きましょう!って話して。まさか その時に“将来CC2でナルトを制作する”ことになるとは思いませんでしたが(笑) デザイン的には帽子がポイントかな? この手の帽子は今までのファンタジーにはなかったかな?って思って。 Which quotes to him saying they built the proportions of Kite based on Naruto's child appearance as a guide. Back in the day I heard CyberConnect2 make a similar comment about Kite's appearance based on the Naruto manga because of it's growing popularity. But I can't relocate the source of them saying this. Quote 目の色だけですよ。似てるのは(笑) 最初は司と同じタイプだからってことで女の子っぽくデザインしたんですよ。 今だから言いますけど・・・エルクの服装は“薔薇の名前”っていう映画で クリスチャンスレーダーが演じたキャラの服のイメージからデザインしてます。 それと。 実は・・・エルクの帽子は(ボクが以前手掛けた)ルナルサーガという作品の 主人公の女の子から流用しました。手のデザインも実はその子と同じだったり します(笑) The report goes on about Elk's design about comparison to his Rei Ayanami design from Evangelion, he jokingly comments that the only similarity is the eye color. But states the robes based on Christian Sleder's robes in the movie, The Name of the Rose. And Elk/Tsukasa's hat is based on Alex from Game Arts' the Lunar Silver Star on the SegaCD. Quote やっぱし・・・くくらないのが“.hack”の良さじゃないですか? ぴろしなんか、まるで・・・ザ○の体にオカッパ頭ですからね。 (ちなみにCC2が最初に作ったプロトタイプ版ではザ○の体にゲンドウの頭 が乗っかってました) 結局“なになに風”とくくれないですね。 あえて言うなら・・・“.hack”風という感じですね。 And goes on to saying about Piros's bowl hair cut on a zombie body. Quote 書いてる時間はホントに短いです。 やっぱし迷うのは色かな? BRも最初は名前から赤と黒かな?とか考えたけど 主人公にも赤使ってるしとか考えて・・・。 Originally he had wanted to make BlackRose's color scheme red and black as the name implies, but didn't want to have the same colors as the main protagonist. Quote これはサイバーコネクト2さんの初期デザインからの流れです。 最初のバルムンク(CC2デザイン版)は肩から羽が生えてたんですよ。 そりゃないだろと思って(笑) まるでガッチャマンみたいだった。 だからなんとかしようと思って。 最初に腕を組んでジュディオングのようなイメージで描きました。 実はバルムンクの甲冑には割とこだわりもあって・・・ “つま先”は特にそうですね(笑) It seemed he didn't know where to put Balmung's wings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 That's really cool! Are the GFF photos available in a higher resolution? Thank you for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Erroneous Posted July 3 Author Administrators Share Posted July 3 5 minutes ago, Riley said: That's really cool! Are the GFF photos available in a higher resolution? Thank you for sharing I wish, but this was 2003 and CC2's live event photos were always low resolution, before the age social media. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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