After some of his character artworks were unveiled during the latest Final Fantasy series documentary aired on French television, Roberto Ferrari (character designer who has worked in other Final Fantasy titles like Type-0 and VII Remake) has expressed his feelings about the changes the project has experienced and his concern about some of his characters getting deleted from the game.
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Ferrari also took the opportunity to comment on his relationship with Tetsuya Nomura after being asked by a fan
These are some of the character designs Ferrari did when the project was officially known as Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Gentiana and Cindy were also created by the Italian designer.
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Finally, someone has decided to publish my designs^^
Every time you see a design piece signed in red as "Ferāri", take into consideration that they are characters that I personally created. I finished Aranea later in June 2010 while Ardyn was finished in December of that same year (although I updated his design in January of the following year).
Six years, I swear, six years are what took this designs to see the light of day!
And all of those characters (which, sadly, I personally think are even better) that have been sacrificed because they kept making changes to the story, what are they going to do with them now?
They were initially included in the script, present in several scenes/events, but they have now been omitted even after finishing both character designs and scenography.
All this work has been wasted, and on top of that, the designs can't even be published (At least, I can't publish them).
I sadly have no words.
The realization of one of my dreams came with the beginning of a nightmare.
Ferrari also took the opportunity to comment on his relationship with Tetsuya Nomura after being asked by a fan
I occasionally work with him but I don't meet him that much. He's a shy person but I like working with him. He always gives me good advice.
These are some of the character designs Ferrari did when the project was officially known as Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Gentiana and Cindy were also created by the Italian designer.