Uematsu left Square Enix in 2004 and formed his own company called Smile Please ; he also created the music production company Dog Ear Records in 2006.

In 2005, Uematsu and several members of The Black Mages created the score for the CGI film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.

He created four pieces for the 1996 video game Front Mission: Gun Hazard, which featured composers Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Masashi Hamauzu.

In 2001, Nakano and Hamauzu were chosen to assist Uematsu in the production of the score for the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy X, based on their ability to create music that was different from Uematsu's style ; Nakano created 20 pieces.

Series composer Nobuo Uematsu created two Chocobo themes for Final Fantasy VIII: " Mods de Chocobo " and " Odeka de Chocobo ".

Uematsu composed only the main theme for Final Fantasy XII ( 2006 ); he was originally offered the job of creating the full score, but Sakimoto was eventually assigned as the main composer instead.

However, after being assigned the task of creating the entire score of Final Fantasy XIV, Uematsu decided to hand the job over to the main Final Fantasy XIII composer, Hamauzu.

The primary composer of music for the main series was Nobuo Uematsu, who single-handedly composed the soundtracks for the first nine games, as well as directing the production of many of the albums.

Mizuta's next role was as the main composer for the Final Fantasy XI soundtrack, which he was assisted on by Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka.

It was the first title in the main Final Fantasy series in which Uematsu was not the sole composer.

" One of the main conditions for the project's launch was to reunite the original staff members of Final Fantasy VII ; art director Yusuke Naora, composer Nobuo Uematsu, and scenario writer Kazushige Nojima.

Uematsu was also initially going to create the theme song for Final Fantasy XIII ( 2010 ).

* Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu used portions of " O Fortuna ", " Estuans interius ", and " Veni, veni, venias " for the final boss theme " One-Winged Angel " in Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII.

The success of his Final Fantasy VII arrangements led Uematsu to hire him to orchestrate four pieces for the 1999 title Final Fantasy VIII, including the opening theme " Liberi Fatali " and the award-winning theme song " Eyes on Me ".

While the band members were being introduced, Okamiya performed the Chocobo theme and Uematsu performed the intro to Deep Purple's " Smoke on the Water.

The first piece that Uematsu composed for the game was the opening theme ; game director Yoshinori Kitase showed him the opening cinematic to the game and asked him to begin the project there.

Aldrich Park was designed under the direction of landscape architect Gene Uematsu, and was modeled after Frederick Law Olmsted's designs for New York City's Central Park.

After graduating from Kanagawa University, Uematsu played the keyboard in several amateur bands and composed music for television commercials.

When Uematsu was working at a music rental shop in Tokyo, a Square employee asked if he would be interested in creating music for some of the titles they were working on.

The first game Uematsu composed for Square was Genesis in 1985.

While working at Square, he met Hironobu Sakaguchi, who asked him if he wanted to create music for some of his games, which Uematsu agreed to.

In 1987, Uematsu and Sakaguchi collaborated on what was originally to be Sakaguchi's last contribution for Square, Final Fantasy, a game that turned out to be a huge success.

Uematsu signed on to finish the soundtrack for the critically acclaimed 1995 title Chrono Trigger after the game's composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, contracted peptic ulcers.

Feeling gradually more dissatisfied and uninspired, Uematsu requested the assistance of composers Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano for the score to Final Fantasy X in 2001.

For Final Fantasy XI from 2002, he was joined by Naoshi Mizuta, who composed the majority of the soundtrack, and Kumi Tanioka ; Uematsu was responsible for only eleven tracks.

In 2012 " Aerith's Theme ", written by Uematsu for Final Fantasy VII, was voted into the number 16 position in the annual Classic FM ( UK ) " Hall of Fame " top 300 chart.

He worked so hard that he developed stomach ulcers and had to be hospitalized, which led Uematsu to offer to finish the remaining tracks for him ; Uematsu ended up composing ten tracks, one of which he was assisted on by Noriko Matsueda.

Following Chrono Trigger, Mitsuda composed the soundtrack for Front Mission: Gun Hazard, again with Uematsu.

* Nobuo Uematsu ( born 1959 ) is a video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Koji Kondo ( Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda ), Koichi Sugiyama ( Dragon Quest ), Miki Higashino ( Gradius, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), Hiroshi Miyauchi ( Space Harrier, Hang-On, Out Run ), Rob Hubbard ( Monty On the Run, International Karate ), Hirokazu Tanaka ( Metroid, Kid Icarus, EarthBound ), Martin Galway ( Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Stryker's Run, Times of Lore ), Yuzo Koshiro ( Dragon Slayer, Ys, Shinobi, ActRaiser, Streets of Rage ), Mieko Ishikawa ( Dragon Slayer, Ys ), and Ryu Umemoto ( visual novels, shoot ' em ups ).

In 1991, he also formed a series called Orchestral Game Concerts, notable for featuring other talented game composers such as Yoko Kanno ( Nobunaga's Ambition, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Uncharted Waters ), Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Keiichi Suzuki ( Mother / Earthbound ), and Kentaro Haneda ( Wizardry ).

In 2001, Hamauzu and Nakano were chosen to assist Uematsu in the production of the score for the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy X, based on their ability to create music that was different from Uematsu's style.

A classically trained conductor, he is considered a primary inspiration for other game music composers such as Nobuo Uematsu, and has been referred to as a " Big boss of game music.

Easton worked with composer Nobuo Uematsu for two songs on the video game Lost Odyssey, released for the Xbox 360 video game system in February 2008.

* 1959 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese video game composer

Uematsu also works closely with Sakaguchi's development studio Mistwalker, and has composed the games in the Blue Dragon series, Lost Odyssey ( 2007 ), and Away Shuffle Dungeon ( 2008 ); he was also the composer of the cancelled game Cry On.

Another well-known author of video game music is Nobuo Uematsu.

On September 17 and September 18, 2011 at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Sakuraba and his band joined up with the Earthbound Papas, led by famous video game composer Nobuo Uematsu, to perform at Fantasy Rock Fest 2011.

Global popularity of video game music would begin to surge with Square's 1990s successes, particularly with Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII by Nobuo Uematsu and with Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Chrono Cross by Yasunori Mitsuda.

The performances included over eighteen different video game composers, such as Koji Kondo, Yoko Kanno, Kentarō Haneda, Nobuo Uematsu, Keiichi Suzuki, as well as Sugiyama himself.

This freedom was helped by the fact that Uematsu ran the music group as a separate division in the company from the game developers.

His subsequent work for Square was 1992's Final Fantasy Mystic Quest ( known as " Mystic Quest Legend " in Europe ), which he composed with Yasuhiro Kawakami ; it was the first game in the Final Fantasy series not to be composed by regular series composer Uematsu.

The music of the video game Final Fantasy X was composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu, along with Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano.

Final Fantasy X marks the first time Nobuo Uematsu has had any assistance in composing the score for a Final Fantasy game.

Uematsu contributed 51 tracks, Hamauzu contributed 20 tracks and Nakano contributed 18 tracks to the game.

feel / Go dream: Yuna & Tidus is an EP containing tracks composed by Nobuo Uematsu and inspired by songs from the game.

According to its composer, Nobuo Uematsu, the choice of language was meant to symbolize the developers ' hope that their online game could contribute to cross-cultural communication and cooperation.

Japanese manga artist Takehiko Inoue headed the game's artistic team, while famed game composer Nobuo Uematsu was recruited to create a more contemporary soundtrack.

Among video game music influences, he has cited Square for providing him " with the education for what quality means to this business " and Nobuo Uematsu in particular.