Post by macroidtoe on Sept 7, 2009 1:13:40 GMT -5
(See pic at bottom)
I always thought the art in the manual for Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was really cool, but I could never find the name of the artist. (I'm talking about this game, for clarification, rather than this game which I believe was called "Mystic Quest" in Europe.)
I asked on the Mystic Quest board at GameFAQs a year or two ago, and was told that the artist went by the name of HAZARD. I suddenly remembered seeing very similar art in old issues of Nintendo Power in their coverage of Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy II, as well as the Dragon Warrior Explorer's Handbook.
I asked around on a number of boards and scoured the Internet for info on this mysterious HAZARD, to no avail.
Finally, yesterday I found some more art by this artist, as well as his real name: Katsuya Terada. Here's some Zelda illustrations he did, which are mind-blowingly awesome.
See, the awful part is that I checked those issues of Nintendo Power, and there's a "Jeff Hazard" credited under Concept/Design and Illustration in those same issues. It was a red herring that threw me off for well over a year.
It got even more confusing when I later found people stating that the Nintendo Power art was indeed done by the same HAZARD as Mystic Quest, but I think what they were actually doing was just repeating statements from my own earlier inquiries. ("Well, HAZARD did Mystic Quest, and a while back this one guy noticed that the art in Nintendo Power looked the same, so it also must have been done by HAZARD...")
I'm not even sure now where this HAZARD name came from. I think there might be a programmer or sprite artist credited in Mystic Quest by that name... I'll have to check on that.
I always thought the art in the manual for Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was really cool, but I could never find the name of the artist. (I'm talking about this game, for clarification, rather than this game which I believe was called "Mystic Quest" in Europe.)
I asked on the Mystic Quest board at GameFAQs a year or two ago, and was told that the artist went by the name of HAZARD. I suddenly remembered seeing very similar art in old issues of Nintendo Power in their coverage of Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy II, as well as the Dragon Warrior Explorer's Handbook.
I asked around on a number of boards and scoured the Internet for info on this mysterious HAZARD, to no avail.
Finally, yesterday I found some more art by this artist, as well as his real name: Katsuya Terada. Here's some Zelda illustrations he did, which are mind-blowingly awesome.
See, the awful part is that I checked those issues of Nintendo Power, and there's a "Jeff Hazard" credited under Concept/Design and Illustration in those same issues. It was a red herring that threw me off for well over a year.
It got even more confusing when I later found people stating that the Nintendo Power art was indeed done by the same HAZARD as Mystic Quest, but I think what they were actually doing was just repeating statements from my own earlier inquiries. ("Well, HAZARD did Mystic Quest, and a while back this one guy noticed that the art in Nintendo Power looked the same, so it also must have been done by HAZARD...")
I'm not even sure now where this HAZARD name came from. I think there might be a programmer or sprite artist credited in Mystic Quest by that name... I'll have to check on that.
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