Akihiko Yoshida

Promotional drawing for Vagrant Story showing Ashley Riot and Callo Merlose.

Akihiko Yoshida (吉田明彦) is a Japanese video game character designer currently working for Square Enix. He also does the drawings that the 3D models or 2D sprites will be based upon. Yoshida was born in 1967 and joined Square Co., Ltd. in 1995, which the company was known by at the time before the merger with Enix. He is well known for the main character designs and background design supervisor in Final Fantasy XII for the PlayStation 2 as well as the character designs for Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story (also providing background art direction) both for the PlayStation and the Final Fantasy III remake for the Nintendo DS. He is a frequent collaborator of game designer Yasumi Matsuno.

[edit] Gameography

Zeliard (1990) (PC): Design
Ogre Battle (1993) (SNES): Character and tarot card design
Tactics Ogre (1995) (SNES): Character design and background art direction
Final Fantasy Tactics (1997) (PS1): Character design
Vagrant Story (2000) (PS1): Character design and background art direction
Wild Card (2001) (WonderSwan): Character and card design
Final Fantasy XII (2006) (PS2): Main Character design and background design supervisor
Final Fantasy III (Remake) (2006) (DS): Character design
Final Fantasy Tactics Shishi Sensō (2007?) (PSP): Character design