David Bowie as imagined by legendary Final Fantasy illustrator Yoshitaka Amano

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I posted this in the RIP Bowie thread, but I figured it deserved it's own thread. Lots of relatively obscure things about Bowie are popping up now that he's passed, and this is one of them.

A number of video game developers and industry leaders have expressed their sadness over the death of David Bowie, including Hideo Kojima and Quantic Dream, who collaborated with Bowie on the Dreamcast classic, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Artwork of David Bowie from legendary Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano has also resurfaced, and it looks like something right out of a Final Fantasy game.

Back in 2004, author Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano collaborated on a story called The Thin White Duke, a sci-fi reimagining of one of David Bowie's personas of the same name. In a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune, Gaiman explains the the story was written in two parts, with the first part featuring Amano's illustrations.

"It was written in two parts. I finished it for this book, but the first part was with artist Yoshitaka Amano, who was commissioned to do pictures for a magazine called V. His images were Bowie and (Bowie’s wife, the model) Iman as sci-fi characters. Then I was asked to write a story, so it became about Bowie and Iman in this future New York." — Neil Gaiman

Source 1 - Gamenesia
Source 2 - The Chicago Tribune

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