FFX Early Concept Designs

[C i d]

Has anyone seen these early concept arts for FFX? I thought they look more fantasy-ish and dreamy-ish compared to the original product. I think FFX would have been even better with such design:

Source: Final Fantasy Wiki

Your opinions on them? Is the final FFX design worse or better?

 

[Tucker]

Those are strange, although quite cool!

What are those fat guys? Maybe they were planning for maesters to be another race or something.

This almost looks like a brand new game Maybe they shall use these ideas to make FF15

 

[Lirael]

oh wow Cid, I haven't seen these before!

This one here http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/2/2e/Early_FFX_-_Underwater_dome.jpg looks like the underwater dome in the game, and I can kinda see Tidus in the last, but the rest don't look very Final Fantasy X at all! As well as the Al Bhed ship in the background.

I can certainly see influences from the earlier FF games, specifically IX in http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/3/38/Early_FFX_-_Black_mage_and_co.jpg. There's something very sinister about the figures... Methinks they could have been the maesters. They appear to be hiding something, a secret revealed by their appearance.

Spoiler

Perhaps they had originally intended for the undead to have some strange physical qualities. Perhaps all of the maesters were originally undead; these suits were designed to hide this

The people on a small airship look like the Al Bhed!

I'm not sure I prefer this style - I'm very fond of X's - but I do agree that this should be used to create a future FF title. They need another FF based on more Eastern styles.

 

[Squid]

I love the way these concept pieces look way more than the way the actual game looks!! I am not a huge fan of FFX at all, but I reckon if it had looked more like these pictures I would have found it a lot more enjoyable to look at at least!

Also:

If this is meant to be Tidus
Why didn't they keep him like this??? He is so much more attractive and manly looking

 

[greenyxi]

Wow, they considered having black mages...I'd have loved that
That big guy with the dangly arms also looks awesome. Should've kept him too.
I think that some of the races shown here look too sci-fi, so I can see why they removed some of them (that guy with the big purple head being one).

Some really interesting designs here

 

[Sheechiibii]

Wow they really didn't stick to many of their original ideas lol I can see some of these ideas in XII though, the buildings in the picture below:

And the different races in this one :

I think the last one and the first one look the most like what it eventually turned out to be. Maybe the al bhed were all going to be small though? And the ship in the background definitely looks like the kind of ship the final al bhed ended up having. Don't think that's Tidus though, because I saw somewhere that in the original concept designs Tidus was meant to have black hair. Who knows though?

I think the temple one is cool though, they should totally have made temples that huge, would have been awsome. Maybe they cut back on a lot because they just didn't have the software to work with, being that this was a ps2 game and ended up extremely good for its time anyway.

Xx..xX

 

[Ohri-Jin]

Hmm that's odd I posted some of these ages ago, but some you posted I never seen before wth, here's my original thread with this art http://finalfantasyforums.net/showthread.php?t=47797

My first impression was a real anime vibe hehe my favo is the chocobo knights pic!

it seems my thread got deleted , cause I posted the wrong thread! This the official site with the awesome ffx artwork and concept designs! http://ff10.ffsky.cn/artwork.html
Notice some you posted aren't on there and its freeking wiki pffff

 

[Mibu]

plumber tidus would've been sick..

makes me wonder if they had thought of blitzball then and what they would've done with Jecht..

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...age_and_co.jpg. There's something very sinister about the figures... Methinks they could have been the maesters. They appear to be hiding something, a secret revealed by their appearance.
Spoiler!
Perhaps they had originally intended for the undead to have some strange physical qualities. Perhaps all of the maesters were originally undead; these suits were designed to hide this

that is so awesome actually haha, i wonder what their plans with auron was then.. since it would've had to have been different if he didnt look exactly like he had when he was alive.

Your opinions on them? Is the final FFX design worse or better?

the original concept arts are very ugly imo and changing rikku in any way would've made me upset

 

[MoogleMasamune]

Those concept arts looks amazing, especially the creatures in the second image look interesting.
But I still like the design of FFX, even though this looks more like fantasy to me.