Final Fantasy VIII Credits (Windows)
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Final Fantasy VIII Credits
Credits | |
| Executive Producers (Square Co., Ltd.) | Hironobu Sakaguchi, Tomoyuki Takechi |
| Producer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Shinji Hashimoto |
| Publicity Producer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Michio Okamiya |
| Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Yoshinori Kitase |
| Music Composer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Nobuo Uematsu |
| Main Programmer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Ken Narita |
| Battle System Designer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Hiroyuki Itou |
| Character Design & Battle Visual Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Tetsuya Nomura |
| Art Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Yusuke Naora |
| Scenario Writer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Kazushige Nojima |
| Image Illustrator (Square Co., Ltd.) | Yoshitaka Amano |
| CG Supervisor (Square Co., Ltd.) | Satoshi Tsukamoto |
| Movie Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Motonori Sakakibara |
| Movie Character Model Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Hiroshi Kuwabara |
| Character Modeling Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Tomohiro Kayano |
| Real-Time Polygon Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Akira Fujii |
| Battle Effect Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Shintaro Takai |
| Motion Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Tatsuya Kando |
| Card Game & Battle Camera Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Takayoshi Nakazato |
| Lead Field Designers (Square Co., Ltd.) | Kazuyuki Ikumori, Kenzo Kanzaki, Yukio Nakatani, Tetsuya Takahashi |
| VFX & Composite (Square Co., Ltd.) | Hiroshi Matsuyama |
| Event Script Programmer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Shun Moriya |
| Battle Programmers (Square Co., Ltd.) | Hiroshi Harata, Kentarow Yasui |
| Event Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Hiroki Chiba |
| Map Directors (Square Co., Ltd.) | Takeshi Endo, Masaru Oka |
| World Map Director (Square Co., Ltd.) | Ikuya Dobashi |
| Sound Programmer (Square Co., Ltd.) | Minoru Akao |
| Sound Editor (Square Co., Ltd.) | Eiji Nakamura |
| Production Manager (Square Co., Ltd.) | Akira Kashiwagi |
| Localization Department (Square Co., Ltd.) | Richard Mark Honeywood (Localization Engineer), Aiko Ito (Localization Director), Akira Kaneko (Marketing Manager), Tomomi Nishigaki (Assistant Manager), Yuji Shibata (Marketing General Manager), Yasuhiro Suzuki (Marketing Manager), Tchie Tokoro (Coordination Director), Yuichi Yamada (Localization Assistant), Koji Yamashita (General Manager) |
| Executive Producer (Square Soft, Inc.) | Masahiro Nakajima |
| Project Lead (Square Soft, Inc.) | Jay Fong |
| Senior Software Engineers (Square Soft, Inc.) | Jay Fong, Anthony Ignacio |
| Software Engineers (Square Soft, Inc.) | Kevin Christensen, Scott Coventon, Kazumasa Fuseya, Davide Pasca, Yoshinori Uenishi |
| Network Administration (Square Soft, Inc.) | Terry Y. Jung, Sami Zuhuruddin |
| Localization Management (Square Soft, Inc.) | Masahiro Nakajima |
| Localization Specialists (Square Soft, Inc.) | Yutaka Sano (Lead), Alexander O. Smith, Ryosuke Taketomi, Maki Yamane |
| Editors (Square Soft, Inc.) | Richard Amtower IV, Brian Bell |
| Associate Producer (Square Soft, Inc.) | Akihito Kozu |
| Quality Assurance Manager (Square Soft, Inc.) | Jon Williams |
| Assistant QA Manager (Square Soft, Inc.) | Mike Givens |
| Lead Product Analyst (Square Soft, Inc.) | Ben E. Norman |
| Assistant Lead Analyst (Square Soft, Inc.) | Judah Mehler |
| Product Analysts (Square Soft, Inc.) | Jesse Cheek, Ban Du, Drew Jennings, Mikey Nguyen, Tam Nguyen, T. D. Shimonishi, Jason Wheeler, Richard Williams, Mohammed A. C. Wright |
| Compatibility Testing (Square Soft, Inc.) | Jeff J. Love (Assistant Technician), Bennett Neale (Chief Engineer), Justin Norman (Compatibility Technician) |
| Senior Customer Service Manager (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Rick Thompson |
| Assistant Customer Service Manager (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Fernando Bustamante |
| Customer Service Lead (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Alaine C. de Leon |
| Customer Support Representatives (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Mark Abarca, Mark Acero, Patrick H. Cervantes, Alan DeGuzman, James Dilonardo, Caroline Liu, John Montes, Ryan Riley |
| PR and Events Manager (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Lisa Ahern |
| Assistant PR Manager (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Francine DeMore |
| Business Development Manager (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Elaine Di Iorio |
| Product Coordinator (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Beth Faust |
| Sales Coordinator (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Sean Montgomery |
| Media Planner (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Kyoko Yamashita |
| Creative Planner (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Keiko Kato |
| Assistant Product Managers (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Andrew Shiozaki, Mitsuru George Torii |
| Product Associates (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Andy Hsu, Irene Sam, Brad Varey |
| Product Administrative Assistant (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Mari Takashima |
| Marketing Assistant (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Rika Maruya |
| Marketing Manager (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Kenji Mimura |
| Vice Chairman (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Yoshihiro Maruyama |
| President (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Jun Iwasaki |
| Package/Manual design (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Steven Wright |
| Special Thanks (Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.) | Randall Fujimoto, Mike Givens, Judah Mehler, Shun Moriya, Bennett Neale, Yumi Yoshida |
| Customer Quality Control (Electronic Arts) | Anthony Alexander, Benjamin Crick, Darryl Jenkins, Dave Knudson, Micah Pritchard, Andrew Young, Jacob Fernandez |
| Field Section (Event Planners) | Hiroaki Hishinuma, Junko Iriguchi, Akihiko Maeda, Yaeko Sato, Kyoko Tange |
| Field Section (Map Planners) | Kiminori Ono, Ryo Tsurumaki, Tatsuya Yabuta |
| Field Section (Assistant Map Planner) | Hiroshi Kouno |
| Field Section (Character Programmer) | Kazuo Suzuki |
| Field Section (Designers) | Kiyomi Enomoto, Hideaki Fujisawa, Masaki Higuchi, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Shin Ienaka, Akira Iwata, Wataru Kanayama, Kyuji Kawase, Motoko Kitamura, Hiroki Mitsushima, Yumiko Miyahara, Kyoko Muramatsu, Kouki Nara, Tatsuhiro Okamoto, Takeshi Okui, Takeshi Sanda, Takazumi Tamahisa, Shiho Tamura, Yukihiro Taniguchi, Akihiro Tokunaga, Kimitoshi Tsumura, Kazushi Urata, Kana Yamazaki, Masaki Yasuda, Ikuyo Yoshida |
| Field Section (Sub-Character Designer) | Fumi Minagawa |
| Field Section (Real-time Polygon Texture Artists) | Keiji Inoue, Daiju Komatsu, Fumi Minagawa, Nobue Moriizomi, Hirofumi Nakazawa, Yoshiro Nishi, Kazuhiro Ohkawa, Naoki Yamada |
| Field Section (2D Motion Advisor) | Umanosuke Iida |
| Field Section (Motion Designers) | Yoshiaki Iizuka, Takuya Iwasaki, Go Kikuchi, Mieko Kinoshita, Shinji Koide, Mitsuki Sato, Kouichirou Soeda, Yōichi Tanaka, Kana Uchiumi, Sachiyo Watanabe, Takehisa Yoshimura |
| Battle Section (Battle Planners) | Keisuke Matsuhara, Takatsugu Nakazawa |
| Battle Section (Assistant Planner) | Takeshi Iwabuchi |
| Battle Section (Character Model Designers) | Koichi Ebe, Koji Ida, Hideo Kubota, Tomoko Mori, Hiromichi Morita, Kazumi Seki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takanari Tajima |
| Battle Section (Character Design Assistant) | Fumi Minagawa |
| Battle Section (Monster Model Designers) | Tomohiro Hasegawa, Makato Sawano, Tetsu Tsukamoto |
| Battle Section (Character Texture Artist) | Kazuhiro Ohkawa |
| Battle Section (Monster Texture Artist) | Takeshi Arakawa, Haruya Ishii, Masaaki Kazeno, Tatsuru Nakaza |
| Battle Section (Background Designers) | Tomohiro Hasegawa, Haruya Ishii, Norifumi Nagaoka, Nao Okinaka, Makato Sawano, Tetsu Tsukamoto |
| Battle Section (2D Animator) | Kenichiro Okamoto |
| Battle Section (Motion Designers) | Takahiro Honma, Shinya Ichida, Reina Ikeda, Masaki Ito, Kenji Kadonishi, Jun Matsuyama, Yoko Nagare, Yoshiyuki Soma, Yusuke Tanaka |
| Battle Section (Effect Programmers) | Shin-Ichi Aoyama, Eiichi Hasegawa, Yasunari Ohinishi, Tomoaki Yoshinobu |
| Battle Section (Effect Designers) | Yoshimasa Furukawa, Yuko Hatae |
| World Map section (Programmer) | Masahiro Hora |
| World Map section (Designers) | Daiju Komatsu, Junichi Murata, Takehito Suzuki, Masahide Tanaka |
| Menu Section (Programmer) | Takashi Katano |
| Menu Section (Menu Design) | Hiroyuki Yotsuji |
| Card Game Section (Game Plan & Program) | Kentarow Yasui |
| Card Game Section (Designer) | Hiroyuki Yotsuji |
| Chocobo World (Game Designer) | Hiroyuki Itou |
| Chocobo World (Programmer) | Takashi Katano |
| Chocobo World (Designer) | Hiroyuki Yotsuji |
| Mechanical Design (Designer) | Hideyuki Matsumoto |
| Mechanical Design (CG Designers) | Takayuki Katagi, Koji Kobayashi, Takaomi Moto, Eiji Takahashi |
| VFX & Composite (Artists) | Masaharu Inoue, Hideki Kato, Hiroshi Kitakami, James Rogers, Masaya Suzuki |
| Movie Section (Lead Designers) | Yuko Akiyama, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Honda, Ayako Kuroda, Yoshinori Moriizumi, Sanae Nakanishi, Norihiro Takami, Akihiro Tsuchiya |
| Movie Section (Designers) | Motohito Nasu, Tomohiko Osugi, Kohichiro Shiratori, Eishu Takamura, Kengo Takeuchi, Takeshi Tateishi, Takuji Yasuda |
| Movie Section (Technical Coordinator) | Norihiro Takami |
| Movie Section (Character Modeling) | Shinya Senzaki, Kenichi Someya, Eishu Takamura, Hideaki Takeda, Takashi Yamaguchi, Masanori Yoshida, Ken Yuasa |
| Movie Section (Motion Capture Engineer) | Masaharu Inoue |
| Movie Section (Motion Capture Artists) | Shuntarō Furukawa, Keiko Imamura |
| Movie Section (CG Programmers) | Motohisa Adachi, Keisuke Miyazaki, Masashi Nakata, Ryusuke Sasaki, Kengo Takeuchi |
| Movie Section (Digital Recording Engineer) | Keita Takagi |
| Movie Section (Production Manager) | Norimichi Kurosawa |
| Movie Section (Production Assistant) | Noriko Abe |
| Movie Section (Outside Contractor Coordinator) | Tatsuya Yabuta |
| Sound Section (Sound Editors) | Chiharu Minekawa, Yasuhiro Yamamoto |
| Sound Section (Game Sound) | Yoshitaka Hirota, Ryo Inakura, Kyouji Umakoshi |
| Sound Section (Recording Engineer) | Kenji Nagashima |
| Sound Section (Synthesizer Programmer) | Keiji Kawamori |
| Sound Section (Sound Production Manager) | Kensuke Matsushita |
| Management (Production Manager) | Akira Kashiwagi |
| Management (Production Assistants) | Eri Morimoto, Noriko Saito |
| Management (Management Staff) | Ichiro Hazama, Hidemi Matsuzuka, Yuto Nara, Nobuyuki Ueda |
| Management (Resource Management) | Takeshi Masuda, Toshiyuki Moriya, Natsuki Watanabe |
| Analysts (Square Soft, Inc.) | Matthew B. Rhoades, Jaime J. Bencia, Troy A. Boren, David Carrillo, Clayton S. Chan, Sissie Chang, Michael D. Christoffers, Kelly Chun, Justin Dornan, Jeff J. Love, Jonathan A. Mankin, Bennett Neale, James J. Robles, Derek C. Smith, Simon Son, Terry R. Stone, James P. Wong, Mohammed A. C. Wright |
| QA Translators (Square Soft, Inc.) | Kyoko Makino, Takahiro Soh, Rintaro Yoshida |
| Actors | Toshiharu Amao (Squall Leonhart), Mayuko Aoki (Rinoa Heartilly), Ichiro Katou (Irvine Kinneas), Akihiko Kikuma (Laguna Loire), Masakazu Morita (Zell Dincht), Natsuko Motoyama (Quistis Trepe), Tomohide Sanada (Seifer Almasy), Miyuki Shimizu (Selphie Tilmitt) |
| Action Actors | Hoshimi Asai (Rinoa Heartilly, Selphie Tilmitt), Kouji Chiyomori (Zell Dincht), Tesshin Murata (Seifer Almasy), Masato Nakamura (Squall Leonhart), Houken Sonoda (Zell Dincth's Backflip) |
| Dancers | Wataru Hirano (Party), Hiroyuki Kikuchi (Choreographer), Kazuo Ohashi (Edea's Parade), Kaori Ohtsuka (Edea's Party), Yasuko Yokoyama (Party) |
| 2D Animation Support | Takaaki Wada (2D Field Motion Director), Akitoshi Yokoyama (2D Field Motion Animator) |
| System Administration (Square Co., Ltd.) | Shingo Niwano, Yoshimasa Yamada |
| Network Computing (Square Co., Ltd.) | Masayuki Kasuya, Yasunaga Kobari, Sachiko Machida, Yasunori Orikasa |
| Quality Assurance (Square Co., Ltd.) | Yuki Hasegawa, Masaaki Ishikawa, Shingo Kamata, Hiromi Masuda, Kenichi Miyake, Yūji Saitō, Akihito Shoji, Masamichi Takano, Chiyoko Tsurunaga |
| "Liberi Fatali" | Shirou Hamaguchi (Orchestrations by), Matsue Hamauzu (Soprano), Yasuo Iijimma (Assistant Engineer), Hitomi Kaga (Alto), Komaki Miyabe (Soprano), Kenji Nagashima (Recording & Mixing Engineer), Katsuyuki Nakanishi (Bass), Katsuaki Nakatani (Conductor), Kazushige Nojima (Lyrics by), Yūji Saitō (Recording Coordinator), Chie Sasakura (Alto), Jun Suzuki (Tenor), Hirokazu Takiguchi (Tenor), Yasuhiro Tsurusaki (Assistant Engineer), Nobuo Uematsu (Music Composed by), Takeshi Yamagami (Bass), Taro Yamashita (Latin Translation by) |
| "Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec" | Kyoko Arita (Alto), Takamaru Atsuta (Bass), Matsue Hamauzu (Soprano), Daisuke Hara (Tenor), Tomo Matsubara (Bass), Ayako Okada (Soprano), Toru Tabei (Tenor), Chiharu Takahashi (Alto) |
| "Eyes on Me" | Make Chang (Artist Manager), Naoto Echizen (Recording Coordinator), Shirou Hamaguchi (Orchestration by), Keiji Kawamori (Synthesizer Programmer), Alvin Leong (Vocal Recording Producer), Simon Li (Vocal Recording Engineer), Noriko Miwa (Assistant Engineer), Kenji Nagashima (Recording & Mixing Engineer), Yūji Saitō (Recording Coordinator), Kazumi Someya (Lyrics by), Nobuo Uematsu (Music Composed by), Faye Wong (Performed by) |
| "Ending Theme" | Katie Chan (Artist Manager), Naoto Echizen (Recording Coordinator), Kōji Haijima (Conductor), Shirou Hamaguchi (Orchestrations by), Kazuhiro Koyama (Assistant Engineer), Alvin Leong (Vocal Recording Producer), Simon Li (Vocal Recording Engineer), Kenji Nagashima (Recording & Mixing Engineer), Yūji Saitō (Recording Coordinator), Kazumi Someya (Lyrics by), Nobuo Uematsu (Music Composed by), Faye Wong (Performed by) |
| Movie Sound Effect (Sound Editing Supervisors) | Richard Flanckrin, Bruce Richardson, Jonathan Wales |
| Movie Sound Effect (Recording Mixers) | John Potoker, Sean Rowa, Gregory H. Watkins |
| Movie Sound Effect (Foley Artists) | Kevin Bartnof, Mike Crubtree, Ellen Hener, David Jobe, Chris Moriana, John Rowa |
| Movie Sound Effect (Foley Mixers) | Eric Gotthelf, Chris Numunyon |
| Movie Sound Effect (Recordists) | Sandra Garcia, John Roesch |
| Movie Sound Effect (Fooley Coordinators) | Peter Smolian |
| Publicity (Producer) | Michio Okamiya |
| Publicity (Staff) | Naomi Hashimoto, Rieko Katayama, Katsumi Miyazaki, Yuko Takahashi |
| Special Thanks | Ayumu Furusho, Miki Hanada, Kunishiro Hayashi, Tomoko Kamoda, Izumi Kawanishi, Kenji Kobayashi, Terumasa Kodaka, Koichiro Matsumoto, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Tohiro Takeda |
| Eidos Producer | Graeme Monk |
| Eidos Executive Producer | Grant Dean |
| Eidos Localisation Manager | Flavia Timiani-Dean |
| Eidos Marketing / PR | Simon Orams, Rebecca West, Eva Whitlow |
| Eidos Qa Manager | James Featherstone |
| Eidos Lead Compatibility | Jason Walker |
| Eidos Quality Assurance | Francesco Fraulo, Michael Hanley, Chris Ince, Byung-joon Samuel Kil, Carl Lovett, Jonathon Redington |
Eidos Interactive Deutschland | |
| Product Development Director | Beco Mulderij |
| Product Manager | Hermann Jahnke |
| Director of Marketing | Lars Winkler |
| PR Manager | Sascha Green-Kaiser |
| Localization Manager | Thorsten Hamdorf, Stephan Mathé |
| QA Manager | Sören Winterfeldt |
| Tester | Hiroyuki Yamada |
| Manual Layout | A Creative Experience [London] |
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