FFXVI Pixel Art Creative Director Shares Clive 2D Pixel Art Animation

a new one Final Fantasy XVI Videos appear every year FFXIV New Year’s Mahjong Tournament. FFXVI Creative Director Kazutoyo Maehiro did the pixel art animation, which features Clive and his dog Torgal running. It’s a short clip that only runs for about two minutes while the chiptune version of an in-game song plays in the background. Composer Masayoshi Soken also commented on the video after the incident, calling its song “my first work this year”. [Thanks, Aitaikimochi!]

The video features mature versions of both Clive and Torgal from FFXVI. Each of them is running along a grassy plain. In the background is the city of Oriflamme, the capital of the Holy Empire of Sanbreque. The game’s logo appears in the upper left corner. Its June 2023 release date appears below. Finally, it notes that it’s possible to pre-order the game.

This is isolated Aitaikimochi’s tweet FFXVI cartoon word pixel art broadcast NicoNico.

The promotional FF16 pixel art video that Creative Director Maehiro made is amazing ahh pic.twitter.com/XDtoW7HmZB

— ☆オードリーAudrey☆ (@aitaikimochi) January 9, 2023

The FFXIV Mahjong tournaments are routine business. Member of Square Enix development team and voice actors participate regularly. For example, Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida tends to be there all the time.

Final Fantasy XVI will come to PlayStation 5 on June 22, 2023. This will be a PS5 exclusive for six months.