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Holiday

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"Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Sun 23 Mar 18:35

Hey Rid! I finally picked up the book.
It's really great; hardcover with all the official art by Kosuke Fujishima, some character design sketches, and then lots of tribute images by other artists.
Now to find myself a scanner... :)

I don't have the book with me now so I can't list down all the artists who contributed to it, so I'll post it later when I go home.
I also don't recognise a lot of the artists in it, so maybe the members here can help me out ^^

Bow Ditama draws a nice Arche :)

Next to get is Fujishima's Girls, Mechanics, and Vehicles in Game and the Sakura Taisen Illustrations Origin + Tribute books

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Holiday

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"Re(1):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 10:54

Here's the list, Rid. Tell me which ones you want.
And to everyone: please help me identify the artists :)
I think that nost of them are doujinshi artists?

Ramiya Ryo - Luminous Girls manga artist, game designer (Guardian Recall??)
Tsutae Yuzu - Sukisho! author
Jitama Bow - Mahoromatic manga artist
Tsuzuki Kazuhiko
Yuhki Shinichi
Hirano Kouta - Hellsing manga artist
Takao Ukyo - To Heart artist?
Yuhki Mitsuru
Yamamura Hajime
Tsurugi Yasuyuki
Kogawa Misaki
Matsuura Tokihiko
Chikanaga Sanae
Yagumo Kengou
Fujimoto Sei
Aoyama Souichi - Lunar Wing CG artist?
Tachibana Seven - famous ecchi doujin artist ^^
Pa
Kondou Toshinobu
Moritaya Suhiro
Minakami Hiroki
Watase Nozomi - doujin artist, mangkaga for Dark Dash
Togawa Hanamaru
Katase Yuu - draws some FF doujins. Not Yuu Watase (Fushigi Yuugi mangkaga)
Tonami Misato
Iwasaki Minako - IIRC a Persona artist?
Kiran
Nanase Miki
Shona Mitsuishi
Nakayama Katsumi
Hirowa Nagi
Fujima Takuya - doujin artist of the Essential series, mangkaga of D'V
Aizawa Mila - Future Cop L.A.P.D artist
Itou Tai
Nakajima Atsuko - anime character designer (Ranma, YUArrest etc)

Rid Hershel

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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"Re(2):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 11:02

I'm getting the book this month actually ^^'

Anyway, I would like to have some scans (since surelly I won't be able to do them with my crappy scanner). I'm specially interested in the one by the Mahoromatic artist, but if you think that I might like any of the others, do it too :P

Now on the other side, hardly I'll have money for the other books, so if you happen to get any...

updated mar 17 - puyo puyo!

Maou
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Occasional Customer

"Re(1):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 11:34

Sounds like quite a book, holliday--out of curiousity, just how much more official ToP art IS there besides what appears in the instruction books for the SFC and PS games? Never have seen that much art around, so curious as to whether there's a wealth of unseen stuff (as is the case in the Lunar series' Lunar I and II production book) or not... The numerous tribute artists' stuff would be a kick either way, though--

Maou

Holiday

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"Re(2):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 17:47

Maou:
Let's see... for ToP art there's full page art for
- the Snes cover (Cless and Mint on the flying horse (Slepnir) with Arche beside them)
- the PS cover (Cless, Mint and Arche rushing towards you)
- A picture of Cless, Mint and Arche (again!) attacking a red 4-handed monster
- full body images of Cless, Mint, Arche, Chester, Klarth, Suzu and Morrison

[ you get to see all the above images in Rid's site ^^ ]

Other than those, there is a 2-page spread of the character designs sketches which I've never seen before. Or was it 4-pages? My memory fails me again!

There is also 3 pages dedicated to Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon, each with Fujishima's designs for the two main characters and their pet monster thing.

So nope, unfortunately there isn't much new ToP stuff in this book.

Rid:
Ok, I'll scan my favourite ones for you,
but they're mostly of Arche :)
And I do plan on obtaining the other two books I mentioned, but only after my paycheck arrives at the end of this month, haha.

Rid Hershel

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"Re(3):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 17:55

Thanks! Oh, and do you still have your old e-mail address?

updated mar 24 - Pepper Box!

Holiday

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Red Carpet V.I.P- Platinum Member

"Re(4):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 18:12

quote:
Thanks! Oh, and do you still have your old e-mail address?

You're welcome!
You'll faint when you see all the beautiful Arche pictures :)

I still have account with Hotmail and Yahoo!, but I have a bad habit of checking my mail very rarely ^_^
If you want to mail me, contact me at my Yahoo! account.

Maou
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Occasional Customer

"Re(5):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 19:49

Big thanks for the info, Holiday~ It's funny how some games have such amazingly large design portfolios and some done...with the genius Amano at the helm, Final Fantasy always had insane amounts of art to view, though Nomura does a much sparser number that still hasn't become a book or anything... Lunar had staggering amounts, what with image and chara illustrators in full force, and the SNK and Capcom crew do it well too, among others. Then again, maybe the production stuff is just lost at some companies...? I'd love to see behind the scenes some day, maybe there's lots of rough Tales sketches stored away some place. What a treasure trove it'd be...!

Maou

Zepy

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Silver Customer

"Re(6):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 22:27

I was extremely disppointed with the Illustrations+Origin series of books, the ToP one had almost nothing of value(to me at least), not even a single interview or article! And only a few small patches of official art, none of them new. As for the fanart, I didn't like most of the artists, and ditama bow isn't that great an artist either, despite his gained reputation after mahoromatic. The Sakura Taisen one was a little better, they had a more rounded cast of the more well known artists to do the fan art for them, and more official art, but still, the complete lack of readable articles, plus you don't get to see anything new from the official sources... Plus a lot of the artists seemed to be performing below their usual quality? Though, if all you wanted was to get a few pieces of fanart, I guess its a good buy...

Girls, Mechanics, and Vehicles in Game was much much better though, Fujishima interviewed almost all the people in the industry that I wanted to know about! Learnt a lot about them that I would otherwise have never known. Though if you're there for the pictures, you don't really get any more art then the stuff you see on the cover.

Holiday

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Red Carpet V.I.P- Platinum Member

"Re(7):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Mon 24 Mar 22:40

Zepy, you always have cute avatars ^^

Yeah, and my friend was disappointed with the series as well for the lack of reading material and unreleased/unused official art by Fujishima.
As you said it's more for the person who likes fanart of ToP. And since the game is already quite old (1997 I believe?), there is even more reason to get this book.
Ah, and people who don't read Japanese can appreciate this book as well.

As for myself, I'm pretty happy with it, although I would have liked it better if they had asked more famous people to do the illustrations ^_^;;

Tashoku Kisune

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"Re(8):Tales of Phantasia Illustrations Origin" , posted Tue 25 Mar 14:41

It sounds really really cute. O_O I wanna see it!