Animators of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth surprised by Tetsuya Nomura’s approval of Red XIII’s whimsical chocobo-riding pose

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All the event participants in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth can ride chocobos, which consists of Red XIII regardless of his leonine look. The present he embraces on chocoback is rather outrageous, and no one was much more stunned than the game’s animators that imaginative supervisor Tetsuya Nomura offered it the consent.

“Red XIII is a playable character, so along with others, he has to climb a ladder and perform field actions, as well as sit on a chair,” fight computer animation supervisor Hiroyuki Yamaji clarifies in a brand-new YouTube documentary. “As for riding the chocobo, Nomura-san requested not to have him in a ‘sitting’ position, and it was a must for him to hold the reins in his hands, so from there we made several pose variations which we had Nomura-san review, and he said ‘that’s the one’ about that pose.” 

“We really didn’t think it would be picked, honestly,” protagonist musician Dai Suzuki includes. “It was hard to say.”

“I made some variations of the poses just to mess around, and I think they were all pretty funny,” Yamaji wraps up. If this is what we wound up with, I can not envision simply exactly how amusing the declined alternatives could have been.

Of program, Red XIII verified to be a unique obstacle for the devs also past just how he adventures a chocobo. “Similar to tigers and lions, it’s hard to discern their full range of emotions from their expression,” face supervisor Akira Iwasawa clarifies. “Their eyebrows don’t move as much as humans, so you could tell if they were really angry or just neutral, but outside of that, sadness or joy are very hard to convey. These elements are very important where it concerns Red XIII, so we deviated from reality here a bit and gave him clear facial expressions that could easily be read by players.”

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s Yuffie star was as well proficient at phony throwing up throughout recording, informed “actually, you need to tone it down – they don’t really like that.”

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