Hideo Minaba is a videogame art director. He began work with Square in 1995 as a field graphics designer on the Super NES title Final Fantasy V. He went on to contribute art as an art director on Final Fantasy VI and graphics coordinator on Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Working for the first time with Yasumi Matsuno in 1997, Minaba was placed in charge of graphical supervision on Final Fantasy Tactics for the Sony Playstation. Minaba later served as art director on Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and Final Fantasy XII before moving on to Mistwalker, where he served as concept artist for Lost Odyssey and character designer for ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat.







