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There are so many different types of media and artwork based around this game, it's amazing. From posters to fanart everything is just so different. I was just simply wondering how the people here see the different characters mentally. I'm betting since there are so many versions of the characters, that everybody has many different opinions on this.

Anyway, here's a clarification of the different choices on the poll if it is at all needed.

• Amano Art: Most of the people who post here regularly know that Yoshitaka Amano was the conceptual artist for FF VI. No matter what version you see the characters as, their appearance did originally sprout from his mind in some way or another. Some Amano art appears in the manual that came with the game if you got it new.

• Fanart: Simply put, this is unofficial art inspired by the game or its characters in some way. The name comes from the fact that usually fans of the game would do this. Please describe the images you most often think of when the characters are brought up if you choose this.

• Field Sprite: these are one of the types of images found in the original game. These appear namely in battles, walking on the world map or inside of towns, caves, dungeons ect. (I coined this term from the CoN avatar gallery so don't complain to me if it isn't accurate .)

• Menu Pic: This is another type of image found in the original game. When you have a playable character, this type of image appears in your main menu when you have them in your party.

• Monster Sprite: This is the last type of image that appears in the original game. This is the larger type of image most enemies and monsters you fight appear as. IE the in battle sprites of Vargas Ultros ect.

• Playstation: This is for the 3D renditions of the FF VI characters found in the PS versions of FF VI.

• Promotional: This is for the images of FF VI characters that Square used to promote the game and other ventures. Examples include but aren't limited to images found in/on; cover work, posters, T.V. Ads, conventions and magazines.

• Other: This is just incase I missed anything (doubtful but possible) or if your opinion largely consists of more then one of the above choices. Please don't choose this if there are only one or two characters that differ from your main opinion.

I do have an opinion on this but I don't want to bias the poll or make this post longer so I'll probably just state my opinion later. Also, I did do several searches for something similar to this topic so I don't think this is a duplicate.

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Role reversal at its finest.

I always pictue them in their battle sprite form, since it's the first one I was exposed to.

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The moral of this story is *Squirt* Ow! *Squirt* Okay, okay, no morals.

I chose 'Other' because it depends on the character. Most of them I never saw as amano art. I saw Gau as a bit different than mostly everything else showed him (maybe somewhat by fanart), I saw Shadow and Locke by the PS version, and most of the others by menu pics.
Except Kefka whom was always his battle sprite (either that or as a Jim Carrey conpliction)

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

Amano's art since that's technically what they're supposed to look like. You could even count the menu pics and Anthology FMVs as one catagory seeing as they're both more or less directly based off his images (the menu pics especially -- they're actually just pixelated copies of specific Amano artwork). I prefer the field sprites when it comes to some of the characters' clothing, though. For the record, I always viewed Terra as having green hair although most (not all, but most) of Amano's pics depict her as a blonde. I also always prefered Leo as black since I like to think of it as an equal opportunity Empire; where else in a pseudo-medieval setting are women, minorities, and the clinically insane all allowed to be generals?

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The characters are only animated in sprite form, and only show expression in sprite form, so it's hard to imagine them with their other looks. Since the faces on each sprite are pretty much the same, I imagine their menu pic faces. For the bodies, it's all about the sprites.

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Eh, depends for me. Sometimes I think about 'em only as sprites, other times in Amano art terms, and sometimes even as people as if they were living.

I think it mostly depends on my mood or how I'm thinking about them at the moment... (as in, writing or just thinking or playing or whatever)

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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

Generally, menu pics. For the face, anyways. The Amano art is related to the menu pic, it seems.

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Lou: There's a couple of guys fighting down at the aquarium, Chief.
Wiggum: Do they still sell those frozen bananas?
Lou: I think so.
Wiggum: Let's roll.

I'd have to go with fan art. The fans know how to make the characters look good in the heat of battle.

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I always thought that Kefka's field sprite was much more menacing than the battle sprite you fight in Narshe and Thamasa (which might just be his "shadow" anyway). The field sprite version of Kefka seems to have short hair and less makeup, whereas the battle sprite is much more flamboyant, more akin to the "clown" description people have of him. I have always identified Kefka by his field sprite, since you see it during his more mischevous and outright manical moments.

When I mentally picture them, I'm normally recalling a scene in the game, so I end up seeing battle/field sprites.
The rare instance I picture them standing before me, as in real life, I make up a person based on the battle/field sprite.

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-Brad Meltzer

Quote (Zephir @ 10th January 2005 00:03)

Eh, depends for me. Sometimes I think about 'em only as sprites, other times in Amano art terms, and sometimes even as people as if they were living.

I think it mostly depends on my mood or how I'm thinking about them at the moment... (as in, writing or just thinking or playing or whatever)

Yeah, I tend to do that too. If I'm writing, I see them as real people, and if I'm playing I see them in either field or menu form.

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

I picked character/field sprites.

What happens to me is that from seeing the various movements/forms of a character's sprite set, I seem to come up with some sort mental image of what each character would look if they were real. If I were great at drawing, I might be able to draw them out, but I'm not. Sometimes (but not commonly) I find a piece of fanart which reflects pretty closely what I think the character should look like.

This approach seems to fail for the field sprites of FFIV (although the battle sprites in FFIV have enough detail for this) and for Cara of FFV for some reason.

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Honestly, if I'm just thinking them up, I actually come up with a real life version of them. I suppose in some cases, this is roughly based on the CG models but sometimes the Amano Art. They are generally dressed in their Amano outfits.

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Hmmm... I picked other, simply because I tend to see each charecter in my own way. I usualy subconciously model my mental picture of the charecter after some anime charecter who is similar in some sense. For example, Setzer = Allan Shezzar from Escaflowne except with white hair, scars and different clothing.

Sometimes my visions of the charecters get influenced by fanart, but I usualy prefer to come up with my own concepts.

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Well, I did say I'd probably vote later, did I not? Anyways I choose Field Sprite for reasons I'll list here, in their order of importance:

1. In the context of the game, you see them like that about 90% of the time. (I have a habit of visualizing video game characters in their in game context. Especialy in their 16 bit form if they have one.)
2. Everybody who has importantance to the game has one. Even Vargas, Ultros, Sigfired and Lone Wolf who are of minor to negligable importance. Out of those four, I do see two of them as Monster Sprites more often then not though. (Ultros and Sigfried. I never realy thought about Vargas and Lone Wolf doesn't have an alternate apearance in the game.)
3. I like them. As a matter of fact, at the moment they are my favorite thus so far. (16 bit sprites have some sort of charm on me.)
4. Most NPC's only apear in that form so I have more people to think about without alternate apearances.
5. Field Sprites are in the original, finished product.
6. They are animeted so I don't have to ad lib as much.(What can I say? I'm lazy.) From magic casting to just walking around, these little guys can do just about anything.
7. Because of #5, they are offical artwork. (Relm is forever a "Little Red Riding Hood" in my book.)

I actualy thought that Amano Art would win out though (Considering that it is also official, it has more detail then the in game images and is actualy the original intention of the original artist.) However, at the current moment only 2 people actualy voted for Amano Art so far. Another surprise is that the entirety of 0 people voted for Promotional and Playstion combined. Well, I guess it is better to have too many choices rather then not enough. . . By the way, as long as I'm talking about my poll choices, was number 2 always "Character/Field Sprites" anybody? I thought I only entered Field Sprites, and in position number 3(Alphabetical Order). It would be nice to know if I am losing my mind or not .

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Role reversal at its finest.

Hi everyone, im new here!

I tend to take the original view of the characters, their general intended shape/sprites/form, and then make my own idea of them from their personalities

i find it makes characters much more likeable

ill use Locke as an example (since he's so great) with the help of art.com >.>;

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?iaaeih56yms

not the best thing in the world, but its how i see locke portrayed badly w/ a mouse..

Haha. Not Bad Superlocke. I think its pretty unique. Welcome to the CoN.

I always saw them in their sprite forms, only my mind turns them into real people based on that. I dunno where that falls.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
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hehehe thanks

ive been trying to find a decently large FF6 community for some time now without much success

Yeah, that was good (submit!)

Sorry, that was offtopic but I couldn't resist

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

Quote (SilverFork @ 9th January 2005 20:43)

I also always prefered Leo as black since I like to think of it as an equal opportunity Empire; where else in a pseudo-medieval setting are women, minorities, and the clinically insane all allowed to be generals?

Hahaha, that's awesomely hilarious even if Leo is clearly white.

Anywhoo, I picture them like the Amano pictures because the Amano pictures because they're the most beautiful representations of the characters. In fact, when I cosplay Final Fantasy characters I usually go with Amano designs (with the exception of my dancer Lena costume, since there are no Amano pictures of her as a dancer... that's off the subject though...). I also picture them as the Amano pictures because even though I see the sprites more, they aren't detailed or real enough for me to picture them that way. Plus I just like Amano...