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Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game 1999) Poster

(1999 Video Game)

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Yoshinori Kitase

Writing Credits  

Kazushige Nojima ... (screenplay)
 
Yoshinori Kitase ... (story) (uncredited)
Tetsuya Nomura ... (story) (uncredited)

Produced by 

Shinji Hashimoto ... producer
Aki Kozu ... associate producer: localization staff
Michio Okamiya ... publicity producer
Hironobu Sakaguchi ... executive producer
Tomoyuki Takechi ... executive producer

Music by 

Nobuo Uematsu

Editing by 

Rich Amtower ... editor: localization staff
Brian Bell ... editor: localization staff

Art Direction by 

Yusuke Naora

Production Management 

Akira Kashiwagi ... production manager: management
Norimichi Kurosawa ... production manager: movie section

Art Department 

Yuko Akiyama ... lead designer: movie section
Yoshitaka Amano ... image illustrator
Hiroshi Fujiwara ... lead designer: movie section
Nobuhiro Hatori ... background design
Hiroyuki Honda ... lead designer: movie section
Ayako Kuroda ... lead designer: movie section
Yoshinori Moriizumi ... lead designer: movie section (as Yoshinori Morizumi)
Sanae Nakanishi ... lead designer: movie section
Tetsuya Nomura ... battle visual director
Yuko Okumura ... lead designer: movie section (as Yuko Akiyama)
Norihiro Takami ... lead designer: movie section
Akihiro Tsuchiya ... lead designer: movie section

Sound Department 

Minoru Akao ... sound programmer
Kevin Bartnof ... foley artist: movie sound effects
Tom Bellfort ... sound editor
Michael Crabtree ... foley artist: movie sound effects (as Mike Crubtree)
Richard C. Franklin ... supervising sound editor: movie sound effects (as Richard Flanckrin)
Sandy Garcia ... sound recordist: movie sound effects (as Sandra Garcia)
Eric Gotthelf ... foley mixer: movie sound effects
Ellen Heuer ... foley artist: movie sound effects
Yoshitaka Hirota ... game sound
Ryo Inakura ... game sound
David Jobe ... foley mixer
Kensuke Matsushita ... sound production manager
Chiharu Minekawa ... sound editor
Christopher Moriana ... foley artist: movie sound effects (as Chris Moriana)
Chris Munyon ... foley mixer: movie sound effects (as Chris Numunyon)
Kenji Nagashima ... sound recording engineer
Eiji Nakamura ... sound coordinator: movie sound effects / sound editor
Thomas J. O'Connell ... adr mixer
Tak Ogawa ... sound effects (as Tak. Ogawa)
John Potoker ... sound recording mixer: movie sound effect
Bruce Richardson ... supervising sound editor: movie sound effects
John Roesch ... sound recordist: movie sound effects
Joan Rowe ... foley artist: movie sound effects (as Joan Rowa)
Sean Rowe ... recording mixer: movie sound effects (as Sean Rowa)
Peter Smolian ... foley coordinator: movie sound effects
Keita Takagi ... digital recording engineer: movie section
Kyoji Umakoshi ... game sound section (as Kyouji Umakoshi)
Jonathan Wales ... supervising sound editor: movie sound effects
Gregory H. Watkins ... sound recording mixer: movie sound effects
Yasuhiro Yamamoto ... sound editor
Mary Jo Lang ... foley mixer (uncredited)
Alyson Dee Moore ... foley artist (uncredited)
Carolyn Tapp ... foley recordist (uncredited)
Dennie Thorpe ... foley artist (uncredited)
Jana Vance ... foley artist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by 

Motohisa Adachi ... CG programmer: movie section
Brian Adams ... lead designer: movie section
Francisco Cortina ... CG programmer: Movie Section
Masaharu Inoue ... visual effects artist / visual effects compositor
Takayuki Katagi ... CG designer: mechanical design
Hideki Kato ... visual effects artist / visual effects compositor
Hiroshi Kitakami ... visual effects artist / visual effects compositor
Koji Kobayashi ... CG designer: mechanical design
Hiroshi Kuwabara ... movie character director
Robert Legato ... visual effects consultant
Hiroshi Matsuyama ... lead designer
Keisuke Miyazaki ... CG programmer: movie section
Takaomi Moto ... CG designer: mechanical design
Masashi Nakata ... CG programmer: movie section
Eric Pavey ... CG programmer: movie section
Motonori Sakakibara ... movie director
Ryusuke Sasaki ... CG programmer: movie section
Masaya Suzuki ... visual effects artist / visual effects compositor
Eiji Takahashi ... CG designer: mechanical design
Kengo Takeuchi ... CG programmer: movie section
Takeshi Tateishi ... visual designer: movies
Satoshi Tsukamoto ... cg supervisor

Stunts 

Kouji Chiyomori ... action sequence motion actor: Zell
Tetsuin Murata ... action sequence motion actor: Seifer
Masato Nakamura ... action sequence motion actor: Squall
Houken Sonoda ... action sequence motion actor: Zell, backflip

Animation Department 

Takeshi Arakawa ... monster texture artist
Koichi Ebe ... character model designer: battle section
Tomohiro Hasegawa ... background designer: battle section / monster model designer
Koji Ida ... character model designer: battle section (as Kouji Ida)
Kazuyuki Ikumori ... lead field designer
Keiji Inoue ... texture artist
Haruya Ishii ... background designer: battle section / monster texture artist
Erik Jamison ... animator
Kenzo Kanzaki ... lead field designer
Tomohiro Kayano ... character modeling director
Masaaki Kazeno ... monster texture artist
Daiju Komatsu ... texture artist
Hideo Kubota ... character model designer: battle section
Fumi Minagawa ... character design assistant: battle section / sub-character designer: field section / texture artist
Tomoko Mori ... character model designer: battle section
Hiromichi Morita ... character model designer: battle section
Nobue Morizumi ... texture artist
Norifumi Nagaoka ... background designer: battle section
Yukio Nakatani ... lead field designer
Tatsuru Nakaza ... monster texture artist
Hirofumi Nakazawa ... texture artist
Yoshiko Nishi ... texture artist
Tetsuya Nomura ... character designer
Ken'ichirô Okamoto ... 2D animator: battle section (as Kenichiro Okamoto)
Kazuhiro Okawa ... character texture artist: battle section (as Kazuhiro Ohkawa) / texture artist (as Kazuhiro Ohkawa)
Nao Okinaka ... background designer: battle section
Makoto Sawano ... background designer: battle section / monster model designer
Kazumi Seki ... character model designer: battle section
Shinya Senzaki ... character modeler: movie section
Kenichi Someya ... character modeler: movie section
Hiroyuki Suzuki ... character model designer: battle section
Takanari Tajima ... character model designer: battle section
Tetsuya Takahashi ... lead field designer (as Tetsuya T2 Takahashi)
Tetsuya Takahashi ... lead field designer (as Tetsuya T2 Takahashi)
Eishû Takamura ... character modeler: movie section (as Eisyu Takamura)
Hideaki Takeda ... character modeler: movie section
Tetsu Tsukamoto ... background designer: battle section / monster model designer
Naoki Yamada ... texture artist
Takashi Yamaguchi ... character modeler: movie section
Akitoshi Yokoyama ... 2D field motion animator: 2D animation support
Masanori Yoshida ... character modeler: movie section
Ken Yuasa ... character modeler: movie section

Music Department 

Tom Boyd ... musician: Oboe soloist
Sandy De Crescent ... orchestra contractor (as Sandy DeCrescent)
George Doering ... musician
Mark Graham ... music copyist
Bobbi Page ... Vocal Contractor
Nobuo Uematsu ... musical director
James Thatcher ... musician: French horn (uncredited)

Additional Crew 

Noriko Abe ... general manager: international business department / production assistant: movie section
Toshiharu Amao ... cg model
Elaine Amielle ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Mayuko Aoki ... motion capture model: "Edea" and "Rinoa"
Shinichi Aoyama ... effect programmer: battle section (as Shin-ichi Aoyama)
Karim Bakhit ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Jaime Bencia ... analyst: quality assurance
Vincenza Bernardo ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Matthieu Berthélemé ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Alberto Bianchini ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Troy Boren ... analyst: quality assurance
Antoine Bousquet ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Aron J. Brent ... story editor
David Carrillo ... analyst: quality assurance (as David 'Ribs' Carrillo)
Clayton Chan ... analyst: quality assurance
Sissie Chang ... analyst: quality assurance
Hiroki Chiba ... event director
Michael D. Christoffers ... analyst: quality assurance (as Michael Christoffers)
Kelly Chun ... analyst: quality assurance
Monica Costoya ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Katrin Darolle ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Ikuya Dobashi ... world map director
Justin Dorman ... analyst: quality assurance
Anne Driesslein ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Isa Ducke ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Takeshi Endo ... map director
Simon Etchells ... head of European marketing: Square Europe Ltd. (UK version)
Jean-Sébastien Ferey ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Marco Franceschini ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Francesco Fraulo ... game tester: Eidos UK
Shuntaro Furukawa ... motion capture artist: movie section (as Shuntarou Furukawa)
Yoshimasa Furukawa ... effect designer: battle section
Eric Geugnon ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Mike Givens ... assistant quality assurance manager
Jean-Christophe Gouin ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Javier Granados ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Hiroshi Harata ... battle programmer
Eiichi Hasegawa ... effect programmer: battle section
Yuki Hasegawa ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Naomi Hashimoto ... publicity staff
Yuko Hatae ... effect designer: battle section
Achilles Hilmi ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Hiroshi Hishinuma ... event planner: field section
Richard Honeywood ... localization engineer: international business department
Takahiro Honma ... motion designer: battle section
Masahiro Hora ... programmer: world map section
Shinya Ichida ... motion designer: battle section
Umanosuke Iida ... motion advisor: field section
Yoshiaki Iizuka ... motion designer: field section
Keiko Imamura ... motion capture artist: movie section
Masaharu Inoue ... motion capture engineer: movie section
Junko Iriguchi ... event planner: field section
Masaaki Ishikawa ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Aiko Ito ... localization director: international business department
Masaki Ito ... motion designer: battle section
Hiroyuki Itô ... battle system designer (as Hiroyuki Itou) / game designer: Chocobo World (as Hiroyuki Itou)
Takeshi Iwabuchi ... assistant planner: battle section
Takuya Iwasaki ... motion designer: field section
Frank Jordans ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Kenji Kadonishi ... motion designer: battle section
Shingo Kamata ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Tatsuya Kando ... motion director
Akira Kaneko ... marketing manager: international business department
Masayuki Kasuya ... network computing: Square Co. Ltd.
Takashi Katano ... programmer: Chocobo World / programmer: menu section
Rieko Katayama ... publicity staff
Ichiruo Katou ... cg model
Keiji Kawamori ... synthesizer programmer
Go Kikuchi ... motion designer: field section
Hiroyuki Kikuchi ... choreographer
Akihiko Kikuma ... cg model
Mieko Kinoshita ... motion designer: field section
Oliver Klaus ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Yasunaga Kobari ... network computing: Square Co. Ltd.
Shinji Koide ... motion designer: field section
Alison Lau ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Rozenn Le Mentec ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Jeff Love ... analyst: quality assurance
Eduardo López Herrero ... Spanish translator: localization
Luis López ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Sachiko Machida ... network computing: Square Co. Ltd.
Akihiko Maeda ... event planner: field section
Kyoko Makino ... quality assurance translator
Jonathan A. Mankin ... analyst: quality assurance (as Jon Mankin)
David Markwart ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Hiromi Masuda ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Takeshi Masuda ... resource management
Keisuke Matsuhara ... game planner: battle section
Jun Matsuyama ... motion designer: battle section
Judah Mehler ... lead analyst: quality assurance
Kenichi Miyake ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Katsumi Miyazaki ... publicity staff
Maurizio Monte ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Marta Moreira ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Alex Moresby ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Eri Morimoto ... production assistant
Masakazu Morita ... cg model
Shun Moriya ... event script programmer
Toshiyuki Moriya ... resource management
Natsuko Motoyama ... cg model: "Quistis Trepe"
Yoko Nagare ... motion designer: battle section
Masahiro Nakajima ... localisation management: Square Soft Inc.
Takatsugu Nakazawa ... game planner: battle section
Ken Narita ... main programmer
Bennett Neale ... analyst: quality assurance
Tomomi Nishigaki ... assistant manager: international business department
Shingo Niwano ... system administrator: Square Co. Ltd.
Ben Norman ... assistant lead analyst: quality assurance
Yasunari Ohnishi ... effect programmer: battle section
Masaru Oka ... map director
Kiminori Ono ... map planner: field section
Yasunori Orikasa ... network computing: Square Co. Ltd.
Chris Poole ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Jan Marc Rameken ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Matthew B. Rhoades ... analyst: quality assurance
James Robles ... analyst: quality assurance
Noriko Saito ... production assistant
Yûji Saitô ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd. (as Yuji Saitoh)
Tomohide Sanada ... cg model
Yutaka Sano ... lead translator: Square Soft Inc.
Mitsuki Sato ... motion designer: field section
Yaeko Sato ... event planner: field section
Martin Schlemmer ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Yuji Shibata ... general manager: international business department
Miyuki Shimizu ... cg model: "Selphie Tilmitt"
Akihito Shoji ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Marc Smikle ... quality assurance supervisor: Square Europe Ltd. (UK version)
Alexander O. Smith ... translator: Square Soft Inc.
Derek C. Smith ... analyst: quality assurance
Martin Smith ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Takahiro 'Tak' So ... quality assurance translator (as Takahiro So)
Koichiro Soeda ... motion designer: field section
Yoshiyuki Soma ... motion designer: battle section (as Yoshiyuki Souma)
Simon Son ... analyst: quality assurance
Terry R. Stone ... analyst: quality assurance (as Terry Stone)
Kazuo Suzuki ... character programmer: field section
Yasuhiro Suzuki ... marketing manager: international business department
Lara Sweeney ... quality assurance supervisor: Square Europe Ltd. (UK version)
Tetsuya Takahashi ... lead field designer (as Tetsuya T2 Takahashi)
Yuko Takahashi ... publicity staff
Shintaro Takai ... battle effect director
Norihiro Takami ... technical coordinator: movie section
Masamichi Takano ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Ryo Taketomi ... lead translator: Square Soft Inc.
Yoichi Tanaka ... motion designer: field section (as Youichi Tanaka)
Yusuke Tanaka ... motion designer: battle section
Kyoko Tange ... event planner: field section
Tchie Tokoro ... coordination director: international business department
Joss Tosoni ... quality assurance tester (UK version)
Ryo Tsurumaki ... map planner: field section
Chiyoko Tsurunaga ... quality assurance: Square Co. Ltd.
Kana Uchiumi ... motion designer: field section
Ed Valiente ... chief of product management: Square Europe Ltd. (UK version)
Takaaki Wada ... battle motion director: Studio Gazelle Inc.
Jason Walker ... compatibility technician (UK version)
Natsuki Watanabe ... resource management
Sachiyo Watanabe ... motion designer: field section
Jonathan Williams ... quality assurance manager
James Wong ... analyst: quality assurance
Mohammed A.C. Wright ... analyst: quality assurance (as Mohammed Wright)
Tatsuya Yabuta ... map planner: field section / outside contractor coordinator: movie section
Yoshimasa Yamada ... system administrator: Square Co. Ltd.
Yuichi Yamada ... localization assistant: international business department
Maki Yamane ... translator: Square Soft Inc.
Kentaro Yasui ... battle programmer (as Kentarow Yasui) / game programmer: card game section (as Kentarow Yasui)
Rintaro Yoshida ... quality assurance translator
Tomohiro Yoshikai ... president: Square Europe Ltd. (UK version)
Takehisa Yoshimura ... motion designer: field section
Tomoaki Yoshinobu ... effect programmer: battle section
Hiroyuki Yotsuji ... menu designer

Thanks 

Ayumu Furusho ... special thanks
Miki Hanada ... special thanks
Kunishiro Hayashi ... special thanks
Tomoko Kamoda ... special thanks
Izumi Kawanishi ... special thanks
Kenji Kobayashi ... special thanks
Terumasa Kodaka ... special thanks
Koichiro Matsumoto ... special thanks
Yoshiaki Nakayama ... special thanks
Masahiro Sakurai ... special thanks
Tohiro Takeda ... special thanks

See also

Release Dates | Official Sites | Company Credits | Filming & Production | Technical Specs

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