Amano or Nomura

Don't actively know the difference. I presume you mean which FF dude do we like the most? It's all the same belts and zippers.

I cast my vote. Although I would have shown more in game pics. 

Dude, who cares?  They're both talented artists with wildly divergent styles.  I don't consider either one to be better than the other.

No matter who draws it, everyone still looks like a girl.

I've never been a fan of Amano's art style but his pictures are always so pretty to look at and feel like they should be framed and on a wall somewhere.

" I cast my vote. Although I would have shown more in game pics.  "

Also your Amano pics are redisgns of Nomura's characters. 

Amano. The Final Fantasy VI box art is the greatest I've seen.

" Also your Amano pics are redisgns of Nomura's characters.  "

" Don't actively know the difference. I presume you mean which FF dude do we like the most? It's all the same belts and zippers. "

You could show the characters he designed from the games he designed them for. He may not have been the sprite artist but he was the designer for 1-6 and then the designer again for 9.

Amano. What, do I have to elaborate? Screw it, I'll take the 0, teacher.

Added more images.
 
Fun fact, Amano did a shit load of drugs and did the illustrations for Vampire Hunter D.  He also wrote a book called Hero (which I own) and it contains some of the most beautiful pictures one can see. 

I did not enjoy the story of Vampire Hunter D but I really loved his art.

" @Fallen189 said:

" Don't actively know the difference. I presume you mean which FF dude do we like the most? It's all the same belts and zippers. "

How do you have a NES Red Mage icon and not know the difference? "

Here's the only question one needs ask in this debate. Which one of these men designed the black mage? Case closed...

" @KaosAngel said:

" @Fallen189 said:

" Don't actively know the difference. I presume you mean which FF dude do we like the most? It's all the same belts and zippers. "

How do you have a NES Red Mage icon and not know the difference? "

Because I PLAY the games, that's as far as it goes. It's just a video game, they're all great. "

" Here's the only question one needs ask in this debate. Which one of these men designed the black mage? Case closed... "

" @Fallen189 said:

" @KaosAngel said:

" @Fallen189 said:

" Don't actively know the difference. I presume you mean which FF dude do we like the most? It's all the same belts and zippers. "

How do you have a NES Red Mage icon and not know the difference? "

Because I PLAY the games, that's as far as it goes. It's just a video game, they're all great. "

Did I ever tell you that out of all users here, I like it when you talk to me most.  Even if it is insults, you got this spark....like a Blue Rose.  Beautiful to observe but difficult to grasp. "

Yeah but that little black mage is just goddamn adorable.

"Don't even know how to reply to that. Thanks, I guess. Whoever made the red mage/Auron is my winner. "

I think nomura is technically the better artist, the other guy is more abstract, yet ppl finds his work appealing. You not posting nomura's more recent work, which I think is excellent like FFX, FFX-2 and FFXIII.

Nomura is obsessed with useless straps and belts. It bothers me.

" Nomura is obsessed with useless straps and belts. It bothers me. "

" @tranquilchaos said:

" Nomura is obsessed with useless straps and belts. It bothers me. "

Why?  It's a benign design choice, one that even Square Enix has poked fun at on occasion. "

Amano. The other guy just simplifies his designs into anime style, because they just can't recreate his art in the graphics apparently.

Jim Lee. 
 
And out of these two, Amano.

Amano.

And frankly, I'd take either of them over absurd artists like Robert Liefield:

" @Hailinel: wtf is going on in that second picture. "

" @Zenaxzd said:

" @Hailinel: wtf is going on in that second picture. "

I'm fairly certain it's a photoshop job meant to highlight just how outlandish this rendition of Captain America is. "

" @Hailinel said:

" @Zenaxzd said:

" @Hailinel: wtf is going on in that second picture. "

I'm fairly certain it's a photoshop job meant to highlight just how outlandish this rendition of Captain America is. "

I see, that is pretty ridiculous... Like why is it all shifted to the right side of his body too. Is every drawing from that comic like that or what. "

I'm most impressed with the designers who can take Amano's character sketches and turn them into something actually resembling human beings.
 
That said, +1 for Nomura

Neither. Akihiko Yoshida wins. Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, FFXII (not so much, it's like they asked him to copy the others a bit), etc.

People into MMOs should be glad he's involved in FFXIV, looking at awful Nomura and Amano designs, for the duration of a MMO = torture.

It was tough, but Amano does the greatest jobs on his full screen murals, I had to give it to him. Nomura's fine, but he just feels a bit too average compared to Amano.

I like Amano's style more. There's a more pronounced 'fantasy' vibe from it's old fashioned style compared to Nomura's anime style. It is Final "Fantasy"

I prefer Nomura, though I admit his design quirks can get... pretty ridiculous. He very much epitomizes the cardinal sin of Japanese design aesthetic: over-ornamentation. But still, the man clearly has both talent and imagination, and even if his designs grate sometimes, they are undeniably interesting.
 
His FFVIII designs are my personal favorite, since it precedes the madness that took hold of him during FFX.  And he seems, with Versus at least, to be getting back to the simplicity and unity of style that drew me to him in the first place.
 
Alternately, Amano's stuff has this weird china-doll-possessed-by-the-Devil feel that really freaks me out. Chalk this up to my introduction into the series at VIII, or else to the proliferation of anime-inspired design, I don't know

i like both.

Amano-san's illustrations look more organic. I prefer him.

I would say both really, Amano's art is legendary but not easily conveyed in Video games which is one of the reasons they chose Nomura for the subsequent Final Fantasy's, But i think Video Games are at a level where Amano's art could be fully realised now and i would love to see a FF with him as lead.

From a costuming design aspect; Nomura. 

Amano for sure. While I appreciate Nomura's more mainstream approach, I always thought Amano as a better artist overall. At least that's my opinion.
Here's some great artwork. It's always great seeing how he envisioned how the earlier Final Fantasy's would look beyond the sprites.