How would you redesign Sonic the Hedgehog?

For christ's sake Sonic was chubby not obese.

 

^ Actually, on the third one, if you don't make the legs too far from each other and the belly a little bit less fat.
I would like that for Project Needlemouse... Or an good tentative to blend designs.

 

I was about to say, the third one doesn't look too bad. Maybe it's just that I don't like the green eyes, and I like the darker blue.

 

The huge blue side on his stomach irritated me. =P

 

I'd say you got it, but to be honest it still looks retarded to me. If you want a 3d Classic Sonic, the model used on that Sonic 2 ending video is perfect.

 

Thanks OSM, and LordofSquad, I'm flattered. I'm just curious though, why do you prefer my design for a cartoon rather than a game? Is it because he's just too tall?

 

If I were to redisign that Hedgehog, I combine the original, Americanized, and Current style we have today. Though what you guys showed so far is also good too.

 

One of my favorite Sonic fanarts, it reminds me a bit of Hayao Miyazaki's art too. Oh God, a Sonic movie made by him, I would shit my pants.

 

While I haven't completed my research on the subject, trying to make Sonic's body too round in 3D will often induce a fuglyness of over 3,000 Mega Bryces, however there is promising information

It's not like there was a great deal of conformity within Sega, the only things that Space Channel 5 and Crazy Taxi have in common from a visual standpoint are saturated colors. If fact, saturated colors is about the only thing most of Sega's Dreamcast stuff has in common, and Sonic already had that much.

 

In your thread in the creative works board, you've created fleshed out personalities for each of the characters that would shine best in a cartoon, rather than what's supposedly going to be a back-to-basics game where the emphasis is supposedly going to be on gameplay.

 

I need a source. PLEASE.

 

Since you asked nicely.

 

Wow, something interesting (and only slightly relevant) turned up on The GHZ recently:



It's apparently from the Japanese Saturn S3DB manual. Turns out Uekawa's style predates even Sonic Adventure, though the game's Japanese release was delayed by 2 years after the initial US release for reasons unfathomable, so both games launched in the very same month. Surely someone must've noticed this before now? It's a bit of a mindfuck.

 

I've seen that Sonic artwork a few times, but never the Knuckles and Tails. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but, it's interesting.

 

Since Sonic seems to be at least partially inspired by Laputa (Castle in the Sky), this would be a nice full circle sort of thing. Yuji Naka has admitted to being a Miyazaki fan in interviews, too.

I would sell half of my organs to get a Studio Ghibli Sonic movie (provided they didn't use B-list talent, like they did with Earthsea, which was okay but kinda meh).

 

I knew about Sonic's hybrid style, but I had never seen those monstrosities Tails and Knuckles either.

Makes you wonder why they chose Uekawa instead of the awesome artist that made all the previous Sonic illustrations.

 

Seen those before, they're from the Japanese Sonic 3D manual. They even got an artwork of Eggman in it.

 

Isn't that a result of Project Sonic, SEGA's effort of releasing Sonic Jam/Sonic R/Sonic 3D/Sonic Adventure to try and get Sonic to be sellable in Japan? Makes sense they'd change the style, making them "hip 'n' cool" in a Japanese kind of fashion.