Promotional drawing for Vagrant Story showing Ashley Riot and Callo Merlose

Akihiko Yoshida (吉田明彦) is a video game character designer, that is, he does the drawings that the 3D models or 2D sprites will be based upon. Yoshida was born in 1967 and joined Square in 1995.

Game credits

• 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) (PSX): Character design
• Vagrant Story (2000) (PSX): Character design and background art direction
• Wild Card (2001) (Wonder Swan): Character and card design
• Final Fantasy XII (Work in progress) (PS2): Character design and 3D map direction

External links

• Naïmoka: The Artworks' Sanctuary (http://naimoka.com/index.php?rub=yoshida) - Some Yoshida's info, pictures and art (in French).