Who did the art for Front Mission?

Front Mission, released for the Super Famicom on February 24, 1995, divided its art between two very different masters. Amano drew the human cast. Kow Yokoyama, the modeler behind Maschinen Krieger, handled the wanzer war machines, not by designing them on paper but by creating three-dimensional dioramas of them, credited as 3D Up.

Amano treated the job as a return to his animation roots, and by producer Hironobu Sakaguchi's account he got completely absorbed: around forty character illustrations, plus huge canvases nobody had asked for, mecha included. The box cover, a painting he made just after returning from Bali, proved too imposing to use whole, so the package carries only a portion of it. Square's Tetsuya Takahashi then adapted Amano's portraits into the in-game faces, the same Takahashi who later created the Xeno series.

The pairing was documented at the time in the 1995 book Front Mission in Huffman, split between Amano's paintings and Yokoyama's dioramas, and Amano's Front Mission illustrations were later gathered in his art book Silence. The Library's Front Mission shelf covers the series and its remakes; this page is where its painter and its modeler share the credit.