Here’s Ishii’s full comment on how Yoshitaka Amano influenced Final Fantasy and ended up as the series artist.
Yoshitaka Amano has been creating art for Final Fantasy games since the original, with some of his most recent designs appearing for FFXV and the series’ 35th anniversary logo.
Yoshitaka Amano also discussed working on Final Fantasy in the interview.
In it Koichi Ishii, who acted as a designer on the original Final Fantasy, said Yoshitaka Amano “was the first person that came to mind” when it came to picking out an illustrator for the game.