Meguro Shuji x LAM 2 individuality class creator talks- Meguro Sound LAM picture Catchy was brought about?

Persona 4 (short P4, initially as Shin Mega mi Tense: Persona 4 released) is a role-play of the Japanese Designer Studio Atlas for Sony PlayStation 2. It is the fourth component of the Persona collection, which in turn a spin-off of the Shin-Megami Tense Policy represents. Signori Sometime was responsible for the character style and also the creative direction. The game appeared in Japan in July 2008, America in December 2008 and Europe on Square Enix in March 2009. Unlike its precursor, P4 also included a bonus offer CD with the soundtrack in Europe. In Europe, springtime 2013 showed up a modified variation of Persona 4 for the PlayStation Vita with the title Persona 4 Golden. In enhancement to new personalities, this likewise included various other jobs that increase background. On June 13, 2020, a PC version of Persona 4 Golden with high-resolution graphics on the online solution Steam was released. In 2011, the game was adapted as computer animated television series Persona 4: The Animation.

The world, as the name of the person is crowned to the genre, there are creators its intense creativity is widely recognized. An impressive game music in pop called Metro sound, is mainly a persona Shoji Metro Mr. one of them that have worked in the series.

Such it is with a 2021 end of September, announced that it was independent of the atlas, which was raised worked from new graduates. Indie game writer received the support of assistance projects Romansh game Creators Lab, in (he Guns Ann Darkness) Guns Darkness new game personal announce together that it is in development, and domestic and foreign game fans were Me large noisy.

By the way I have the kind of exceptional creativity, you know the other alone the creator of origin atlas. And vivid color schemes that not being bound to stereotypes, representation of the full impact, such as telling a breast eyes. In the main stream of the various subculture scene, is LAM Mr. of popular illustrator maker of artwork. Once he is as a UI designer, it was like-Meguro and his workplace.

Personality of LAM picture and Metro sound. And the same while independent of the game company, do you, such still a source of creative impulse to do widen the range of activities is what kind of things. To Future to be a reunion of about three and a half years the first time, we have a special talk.

reunion and, the fact of the impact was informed in the opening early

LAM: First, are you after a long time (laughs).

Metro: That's a long time to really (laughs).

LAM: was No surprise. Did you mean...... I game that are that production.

Metro: is that I...!

LAM: I'm a ! Hey! I thought, Well over CSU! A look at the trailer.

Metro:'re making over array of eight years (laughs).

— immediately, but's an Oitekibori......! It will flame and that ?

LAM: It is a fact.... Is my atlas enrolled at that time, I had to Metro's were participating in a few teams, director. I did not see the light of day, but I was making a game together.

Metro: The was restart it is what Guns Darkness. On the basis of the texts referred to as a game development master in the Unreal Engine 4, it has been made up to now while learning the Unreal Engine from scratch.

LAM: it in parallel with the sound production...?

Metro: Oh yeah. We will create a persona 5. Again the company was presentation to, I think I was Could admit I of serious. So it is because it is free to Metro's individuals to the game production in private.

LAM: I did not know at all! At the time, I think I was going to charge of the UI design and graphics. After the Toga refinement of character....... in about three years or four years since he joined.

Metro: concept I'm Monomania such, do not use company assets to make personal. What from and try to do a total of yourself from the scenario, it changed making Maputo.

— LAM's is a surprise as the project to be a prototype that there was a relationship of Guns Darkness...! For Atlas enrolled at the time of LAM's, Meguro-san, but I think that was the boss has a large senior, do you remember the first impression of each other?

Metro: remember ?

LAM: I remember. Well is another...... seat.

Metro: Oh, seat! Oh, yeah. I remember (laughs).

LAM: You know seating chart to be distributed to employees. In front of the seat of the eyes it was written I Metro I had thought at the time I Do not confuse Once Had Metro's in addition to the Metro's famous Persona series.

This is because, in the seat of as just a normal graphic designer was assigned to me, I thought that surely no way there are celebrities of the sound team. And then from senior next to the seat it is said to be I really do Meguro-san, I...... What? (Laughs).

Metro: It Is, that of what day sitting in the seat?

LAM: It is around Well...... 2 days.

Metro: I'm a thing that I can remember in the first day, if you What were you work sitting in the seat, I stood up suddenly. ○○ (senior employees) who, you know where you are? Had been told.

LAM: Is Who?

Metro: it to you!

LAM: EEA! Had said such a thing, me! ?

Metro: while surprise also I'm answered me, SSR...... do not know Well...... (laughs).

— among working in the same workplace, Do you have that impression has changed?

LAM: the first place Metro's a man of the top of the sound team, so I was a regular employee for, but it is feeling close to the person on what say or fiction. Opportunity to exchange for some time directly from the joining is not much. Properly was take the communication, it is the time that has been assigned to the few teams that came out in the previous story.

Metro: I guess. That I had been told I have a little over newcomer sedge from about before. I very well to draw a character, messed Skilled guy it has been said to be.

LAM: it, was said too really! ?

Metro: refinement of character design also was great, the best in.

LAM: Thank you. Character draft is already there, but it was discussed with them how to do Metro's going to quality up. After that Yard texture, really I remember that was a like a movement whatever ya.

But it is true also Metro's. To see that by checking all the steps when you join us in the team, at the same time is of the human of sound making, I was surprised, and I'm a person of making games.

Metro: as original experience of it was fun, it is that led to now.

Come to think of it, it is there that there was happy in an episode of the LAM's. When asked to participate in the designer, That's will be described first view of the world game. Whether this project has any around the target, pull the vertical axis and the horizontal axis...... Moe man smell or certainly in the age increase or lower like a form, citing the animation that was popular at that time while doing.

LAM: I remember !

Metro: If you talk to So We are aiming for this area, in the very easy-to-understand materials, we were able to understand at the moment, I'm was very happy to have returned with.

LAM: story will return, but I would like to have joined the Atlas! I thought notches, Meguro-san and Sometime's ( 1), it was a Sudo's ( 2). Give off is 3 or later of Persona series coolness or pop is a really like, is just junior and senior high school students of its graphics were stuck with Boom in time, it was sound Metro Mr. maker.

( 1) Signori Sometime's illustrator, character designer of the atlas belongs. Serve as the main character design and art design in the Persona series.

( 2) Mr. Masayoshi Sudo is a UI exclusive designer of the atlas belongs. He is responsible for the Persona series and Catherine.

That's why I...... Betcha you only, about half a year after joining, either Metro's front seat of eyes say could not believe that person, I was a little fluffy. I Are you sure this person is Shoji Metro that for?.

Metro: I was likely (laughs).

LAM: if there are opportunities where I am allowed to view then PERSONA SUPER LIVE 2015 ~ in Nippon Broken. Eye Metro's front seat of is I was playing the guitar. So we finally match.

Metro: it was finally link.

LAM: That's right. It's Meguro-san! He said.

—. Take op LAM's media mix project, such as Techno Lloyd, it has been greatly expanding the width of the activity. But I had spoken to have been conspicuous output from the time earlier, do you had to show a glimpse that would lead to the current?

Metro: When I was asked to draw a picture in my team, the thing of hard of right in front of the character designer gave me up look, I've been asked to rewrite the bust-up for the game, split also in the character of the hard route and gave us the addition of very catchy cute.

Team members at the time that me finishing Innovation bar I, I! I love to draw a picture of a girl is, if you are a great success in the HAL Tokyo of CM I noticed. Speaking of which, I also saw anime I'm still the middle take op..

LAM: Thank you ! Please look by all means to the final story.

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Metro: Even so, now, it's completely having been completed as a picture of LAM's. I was there that I heard, I have become very famous in the coterie world in the past, I donot know what was drawing the kind of picture that time.

LAM: I do not have much different now. Even if the color schemes be around the face.

Metro: Is not it an art college graduate I after LAM's. I'm wondering because NASA's Eugen me art school. While watching or blue period in the animation broadcast (laughs). Academic things and learn and Do I have now led to the.

By the way I'm reading the interview article of Tokyo Chronic, while convinced enough to be appointed for reasons of LAM's, it's decided independently of the determined its projects?

LAM: But I was worried. At that time, I was also the title that had been working in the company.

— or LAM's Conversely, have received any impression when Metro's was announced an independent?

LAM: No, I was surprised. I was really surprised, but also than that Guns Darkness....... What this...... If this! Its excitement was amazing Team. Generally, Meguro-san, but it has been recognized as a sound creator, that the motivation of the game development itself was high I knew. Even so, they never have been making that game in person, the result is independent of taking the prize!

Metro: I'm a funny story.

LAM: Metro's is the fact that can continue to be Atlas and relationships the future, while relieved, as a fan, I was really shock. If the passion is the form of the game Team Metro's I want to do this!, I think that will surely nice work.

After fact that there is most conflict and was Twitter (laughs). Independence is announced, do not we have been blessed from 錚 people serving people. I also I wanted to skip the reply.

Metro: Jan do I Kumar be sent separately (laughs).

LAM: No, and I think the kana seems to be something came the reply from the people who do not know. No way to I did not think that who recognizes me that it is LAM. But I, only celebration somewhere I wanted to tell really. When I was just thinking such a thing, we received a request for this interview planning and Anyway, by all means because I want to see you! (Laughs).

— When planning consultation, Metro's also LAM San was also surprised in the same way was impressive (laughs). By the way it will be again in, but could you are not asked you the independent history of the Metro's?

Metro: the title that was canceled as just talk, I had been remade in Chimachima and one person. The first is that ', I thought the kana may be distributed as free software. In fact prototype version is hard to the public at the site called Furious!. I Steam might be impossible, either the want to or sold in small coterie.

Around October 2020 among such, it was submitted to the video game developer's lab of Romansh's, and I will be serving the remaining after support to the final selection. By the time January 2021 me with even more in charge, I feel that...... If you wanted to be on a large scale so far.

LAM: As Meguro-san, do you want to continue to work continue as a sound creator? Or big, we want to shift to game developers?

Metro: If an interesting work, I'll want to do all means work of the composer. But the game music is not, for example, to build a game company's and the new relationship between the Nice to meet you, to make the music of the new game! I wonder if the other good that. Continue but Atlas of the title is I want to do together, I wonder what about other consumer system.

Shiva' or independent announcement — the echo of the development game Guns Darkness ?

— the way to Metro's. Or independent announced that echo of the trailer's first time of publication of the Guns Darkness How was?

Metro: Because is still the underlying there has been speculation that I want to surprise the people who know me, I am Shiva' or (laughs). At the same musician? Can Dante game production not expect there will be skeptical reaction, such as, I think that was good to me surprised that sort of be included.

— for its that musicians to game production. Metro's know-how as a sound creator of Will is if utilized in game production?

Metro: be in terms of composer is also set to Persona, Shin Mega mi Tense, the first place was drafted is not my cup, there is director and producer purchase, the people who are in Photo, but it's close to one step minus sense in that...... you are carrying the most responsibility. Although it is 100 percent answer about the music of the work, but it will never be answered about the scenarios and systems.

Because Photo is my game production this time for, it is the answer for all the music also including scenario. That the music is going to set the direction for the request of the director-producer, directed from downstream to upstream but the concept is required, game production in the idea of ​​ from upstream to downstream, the downstream in but also there is on their own reception the instructions, it will rather approach is different.

— is also about also originally LAM's was a UI designer, you want to ask those that lead to today's activities.

LAM: Mr. Sudo was a senior as a UI designer is really amazing person, the concept and design sense I always thought, and could absorb even a little. Since the UI design is a chance to touch the eye of the user many elements, no good just cool. On the premise visibility, ease of use, I sense of balance to contribute to the coolness of the screen is asked.

Impact when you open the menu screen that it is persona. To control the intensity of the information screen will bring, consciousness as a UI designer of where to direct the user's eyes, it would have been utilized really in my illustration work.

When you flick the Twitter, it's Aura' a lot of information will flow to the timeline. Is to get stopped to eye me, Oh! Among such, it is important just how catchy, whether Subaru the 0.5 seconds of that person, and I wonder if that downdraft in the picture in the way of thinking of UI design I think I. Since the college was studying graphic design than the picture, but did not mean the good special picture as compared to the other people, the know-how had become strengths. What I learned from Sudan, you may have to go to now of the picture.

— I want to delve more that it has been talked about now. Catch - that's that style is an important common point of your Future, but it is often referred to as Metro sound, LAM picture. A kind of stereotype that is completed, I think there is such as to feel the gap to be asked and what you want to do?

Metro: Speaking of the certainly ideal, because he wanted to refer to as the Meguro-san I'm go in any genre, I'm locked nor make classic. Kokomo it is said to be Metro's is did not think that the best, experienced a break of the persona, and also Do it is important to make things like add to every one of your expectations, year I now think is piled up.

LAM: After all, more needs to focuses on their sharpened if ask sharpened anyone to say that love is a fan, it can feel a gap to be asked and what you want to do have a better if creators I think. That the client is seeking to my illustrations, but I often am cool or colorfulness, because there are things that are required may also be happy.

I think that there is a time difference to the request basically. Let's say you have published an illustration that there is me. In terms of who have thought it with love, I want you to draw a picture of the same taste at work. Well, because the opportunity came around trying to give me the illustrations work! And until, I have passed is quite time right. I at that time, but it may be difficult Once is said that whether draw a picture, such as at the time with the feeling like at that time, and I thought I fill the time difference is professional kana. While Auditor the desired client, I sometimes now is I am allowed to re-proposal I like this picture I think the most cool now.

I was saying also Metro's, or us willing members of the fan is about what, I wonder if that or me surprised is the best. I'm shocked by the music of Persona 3, and Calamari to the music of Persona 4, it has been traced to the...... involved with the Persona 5 as a creator side. Like when I met the Persona 3, What this picture!? In the CM of HAL there is better to us to know that. With the passage of time, the presence of LAM for the people I think that will become a thing familiar. Persona 4 such as Persona 5, I also think that it is important to continue to provide a fresh surprise while continuing to respond to their needs.

Metro: so-called LAM clause, the form does not mean there is a basic even while changing? No first Tokkakari was completed at the time?

LAM: It is about one year before submitting the request of Tokyo Kronor. Independently or as an illustrator, or career as a character designer in-house, because there was a longing for such a thing, I was sent a day-to-day that can draw or studying that picture while compatible with the work. It was finished suddenly among such.

Illustrations In general, I will proceed to draw in turn divided the layers and line, color, shadow, effect, but I picture is not so good as it is of meaning, is a miss in the second half I found that I was often. Then MUST NOT to be modified from the line drawing, and to fix it and...... other data is also out need to be modified, I got mad one time anyway Mendokusaku (laughs).

So by integrating all the layers, one of when I was in like oil painting to draw on the canvas, you want a place to turn off and messed up comfortably to disappear all by tracing I Sue with an eraser. Children's painting once you draw like to love without permission! In feeling that, hair and or try painted red to black hair, it Could really compliment what was drawn in momentum.

Metro: He.

LAM: Maybe its successful experience was great. After all, I'd thought I say I paint is bad is out Ham, there should be no impurities, beautiful line justice, I did not like that at all. Or rather subjective and objective had shifted, strictly speaking, did not notice until now objective was present. Rough and may be, once you do anything that I thought anyway interesting! I own style was gradually established with the aggressively had been or put a lot of color is about three to four years ago, then gradually.

Metro: I see. I found doing so.

— More specifically, works of opportunity to so-called clause has come to be recognized in the world it is, or will be any around here?

Metro: I think that it is still Persona 3. It is I feel it's this work gave me pulled up.

LAM: the big as my starting point is I a fan art of GO (Fate / Grand Order).

We had a past echo in illustrations drawn in about 2 hours. Enough followers of Twitter are rapidly increasing in the tens of thousands. That was shocking among me.

I up to it, I thought that it is not complete and not over one week in one of the illustrations. 2 hours drawn illustrations Muzzle...... than those drawn while becoming one week frenzy, of course, very popular, but I also got an element that was the character, it happens to often be such on Twitter! Is, the awareness about it can be said that the turning point, I was made from there to close as inseparable SNS and is my activities of that.

— In contrast, Meguro-san Do you have been take advantage of the SNS?

LAM: account has to look. I think you are quite tweeted.

Metro: Oh yeah. From to the game production, it was a place to report progress. At the same Ilya Kubushinobu's character design in charge. He also did you supposed to ask jumped illustrations on the Twitter timeline, I'm such because I thought, I was really Do this!. Then ask them to introduce from Romansh, who made the connection immediately with Ghost in the Shell related.

Her Dakota's waterfall of the same theme song of vocalist It is via YouTube. When trying to get an introduction to people from Inpeguya Mr. the first place, there, this kind of voice quality be nice, I was looking for a sample required for the request to discover the. No...... Well it to the sample, asked Ciao at you directly to this person. It is a history that.

LAM: Ilya, who is a renowned illustrator in the illustrations, slapping the sound to appoint the creator of state-of-the-art that she of Dakota's. Metro's is that I thought good Na, I was a chance that your Future.

Metro: completely flat. Such stuffing also that all is determined by myself, but it seems to indie development. By the way, Romansh's and It's just busy, impossible be NASA...... that now very famous LAM Mr. acquaintance, but not impossible Toga ask, What do you want to do? I also was in fact like a conversation (laughs).

LAM: I am honored just who have cited name! By the way, is that all Metro's has decided, do you have the idea to try to team attracting volunteers?

Metro: wonder if it is not. It is the biggest reason why you are doing much alone since. From the level design from the program, all the work I. Fun No.

LAM: Certainly, I am truly lively that I am really lively looking at the tweets of progress. I'm going to get a hairy shader.

Metro: Yeah! It's fun.

LAM: I wonder if I will follow me soon (laughs).

Metro: Yes! I forgot. Well, do you follow me?

LAM: !

Metro: A.... Real. Announced independence and 750 followers increased more than 10 times in overnight, so I will not know any more (laughs).

LAM Always with a stopwatch

Metro: Where is it recently? After all you are busy?

LAM: That's right.... Now there is a closing of about 1 to 2 per day, so it feels like there is always a stopwatch in the brain. It has never disappeared since it was independently.

Metro: I see. Is it so hard and work is fun?

LAM: It will be fun (laughs). No really, it's fun to draw pictures. If you are asked if you have time to do, answer to draw pictures. However, there is a pleasure to achieve work, but I think there are nutrition that can not be inoculated from there, so there is a desire to have new nutrition soon. I want to draw a picture of hobbies other than work, and the favorite game scene and tuber fan art.

Conversely, Meguro-san is working freely and has made a fixed holiday?

Metro: (while pointing to the responsibility of Romansh)... I'm sorry (laughs). I'm taking a rest normally. Furthermore, I will get up at 10 o'clock today. Furthermore, I'm not going to decide a holiday separately, but I'm going to rest normally.

LAM: Oh, but I'm also resting. I'm not a picture of a picture with sleeplessness every day, but rather I'm going to sleep normally, so my deadline is my danger (laughs). However, it does not know the sense of season because it does not come out of the house. I was so cold and surprised if I went out of the short sleeve.

Metro: ABA. Then, while I'm awake, always work?

LAM: No, I have a game or reading manga, and I don't want to do it! There is.

Metro: Just have a stopwatch......?

LAM: That's right. If you are troubled with a picture, you can only be refreshed by drawing a good picture, so no stopwatch will disappear even if you are doing that.

Metro: Cooler. I'm just 50, so I'm going to die if I try too hard (laughs). So there is work while consulting with your physical condition.

— Can they have some researches, if they have a lot of young creators in the game, music and design fields?

Metro: AS. I think for a moment, so please do it before (laughs).

LAM: Lonely, but whether it can be enjoyed. Metro is also fun, so I continue the game production, and I'm fun to draw a picture, so the motivation that I want to draw well.

However, I think that creative work is not only happy. It does not necessarily like the object to be made and drawn. If such a thing is often, I think it is important how to enjoy it. I'm continuing to draw pictures while I was pulled down, but I think I had a good ability to enjoy it and I had not had a good creation that I had not enjoyed it. Anyway I want to enjoy it. Because the ability comes later.

Everybody I met in the Atlas Era is a freelance, and isn't I'm working on a UI's work on weekdays, and I'm not going to draw a picture for a long time. I thought that it would be more than two doubling this person to catch up with these people, and that time I was burning anyway.

Metro: I think essentially the same thing. I have a pretty lazy person of the type that I think Game is a good game..., and I don't do this, I don't do this..

Even if there is something I wanted to express, it can not be 100% likely without the stacked technology, and I was able to be a better song, even though I was able to be a better song... I think there is a matter of course, and after all it is important for everyday stacking think. I want to watch TV and I want to do a game. Furthermore, I want to say something to keep it somehow.

Furthermore, I can do it because I can be a typical kind of lazy person, so I think that everyone can do it. In addition, it was taught that if you add LAM's ability to enjoy, you can continue.

-because I was completely time (laughs). Please contact the message that will be tightened to the other.

LAM: I spoke a lot, but thank you for planning this interview again. Even now, Metro like the existence of clouds above the clouds was impressed again in the figure where I had no time to stop standing without time. I'm going to work hard in the content such as the game industry or a subculture, so I'm glad I can see my success.

Another one more thing to say edge is connected. Sometimes I have been assigned to Metro's team in the past, and I happened to be able to say that, I happened to be able to say this time, and it happened to be more released with it... It is odd.

Some readers may want to go to another place from now on. Such as such a strange person, and something that can be connected somewhat can happen, so I want you to cherish the edge. I think I can work with Meguro-san.

Metro: What shall we say, LAM's pointed and fled when I was in the company....

Lam: I was an immature person (laughs).

Metro: There was also an overlapping part of the newcomer, but I was already sharp, and it was a bad employee. Even if I met after a long time, I was relieved that the unusual pointed character was not changed.

If you talk just doing it, we were very efforts from the Atlas era, and still have a stopwatch in the brain, and it was a person with a core with a stoic. Before the talks, I thought that what stance would be good, I'm also going to be a boss.

And I am a first-grader with regard to game making, so I would not hesitate to expect it for the quality up to it (laughs). Game production I think that 50 uncles of first-grader want to make a warm and watch. I will do my best, so thank you.

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