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How would you redesign Sonic the Hedgehog?

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by The Pulse, Jan 18, 2010.

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  1. Vaiz

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    I like it. It's full of off kilter whimsy and I'd love to see a one-off game use that style. Especially creepy eggman and Spy Vs Spy shadow.
     
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  3. SnickerSnack

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    Thank you for a great start to my Friday. This looks like Salvador DalĂ­ attempted to make Sonic a part of the <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vzkzv-HN1e4/RjbCH_qIqUI/AAAAAAAAALI/XFkbcNJ5vic/s400/ren+24.jpg" target="_blank">Ren and Stimpy Show</a>.

    I love this. As far as style goes, I see a cross between 1950s Tony the Tiger and the drawings of Hanna Barbera. I love the mischievous/insane look on his face too. The others are more Burton-esque, which definitely adds an interesting twist. It works for some (Dr. Robotnik), but not necessarily for others (Knuckles). Overall though, I really enjoy the concepts!
     
  4. 0r4ng3

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    Sonic looks great with the scarf. Though Amy looks very cute, she doesn't look like Amy, while Sonic and Tails designs do look alike, and that's what I like the most about your designs. They're wildly different, but they still capture Sonic/Tails essence. I think the same can be said for Shadow and Knuckles' dssign, they don't remind me of the characters as much. The one with the spiked soles and yellow feet resembled Knuckles more.

    Oh yes, this cutscene made me think the same:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKmlRBblfJI&t=0m15s

    That is a great reference, considering that crazy pilot story.
     
  5. Well, he's not running in the wind, but...

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  6. Alpha Wolver

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    When I read that, it made me think of this.
     
  7. Namo

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    It looks fantastic anyway. We need a Sonic hack with a scarf that uses that 16-bit segmenting thing you see a lot.
     
  8. Sparks

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    Personally I'd imagine the design sprited in a style other than the Genesis style, which I can't imagine being cartoony enough to do it justice.
     
  9. You guys'll probably hate me for this, but I kinda like the designs from the 'Riders' series. If most of the cast wore the outfits from that all the time (and had the futuristic world they seem to be set in as a story backdrop, complete with retro checkered/surreal areas outside of the futuristic city boundaries) I honestly wouldn't mind. I think I like just about everybody Except Sonic and Robotnik's designs from that series.

    In my opinion, Robotnik should look like he did in the early SA1 design sketches (without the Goggles) -he looks far more menacing like that. For some reason I always think that his current outfit looks like something the Beatles would wear.

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    and I think Sonic should just look how he did in Unleashed but with shorter spikes.
     
  10. Azookara

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    And this is a bad thing? :v:

    Not gonna argue with this, though. :thumbsup:
     
  11. Kinda, I mean it's hard to take a villain seriously when you're hearing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Austin Powers going 'YEAH BABY, YEAH' in your head whenever you see him in that thing. :P

    Limey takes no responsibility for anyone now hearing those things when they see Adventure-Robotnik.
     
  12. Azookara

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    Don't see what the Beatles have to do with Mike Myers parodying the bridge between the Hippie era and the Disco era, but okay. :v:

    Also, will someone please make a full spritesheet edit of Sonic with a scarf? :>
     
  13. His original costume made him look like a walrus. Probably because of the Beatles song "I Am the Walrus" which includes the line "I am the egg man."
     
  14. A little unrelated but I hope they would stick with Amy in biker shorts

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  15. Dark Sonic

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    Personally I think that the riders designs should be in effect for Amy, Rouge, and Cream (only without the visor). Never really been a fan of any of their outfits. The rest are fine, although that retro looking adventure era Robotnik would have been awesome.

    Actually I wonder if Robotnik ever had his retro design in effect at any point during development of Sonic Adventure. I mainly ask this because the Hedgehog hammer Robotnik uses his old design for the character (also no green eyed Sonic) and the Robotnik logo had those two triangles from his old shirt on it.
     
  16. Volpino

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    The outfits for Riders never bothered me much, but the models were just too tall for my liking.

    If anything, I just wish the models would look more like the sprites from the Advance series. They were modern, but they looked good. (And they weren't too tall)

    I found this commercial for Sonic Advance 3, I like Sonic's and Tails' models used from it. Just fix those up, and you would have nice game models.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CUYYxfuAA

    Oh, and get rid of that stupid mouth-on-side-of-face thing. It looks stupid in 3D, it freaked me out in Heroes because you would sometimes see the side of their face that didn't have a mouth. :(

    This is off-topic but this commercial is cute.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFFNoZWfT0I&NR=1

    He reminds me of the '06 model (bleh), but seeing someone roll Sonic around while he's curled into a ball would be adorable.
     
  17. Dark Sonic

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    Ugh god no. I think one of the best things they did with Sonic's model was making it so he had his mouth always on the side. Sonic doesn't look right with his mouth in the center, in fact almost none of the characters do. They should all have side mouths IMO
     
  18. Volpino

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    It doesn't make sense in an anatomical and practical way though, and what do you do about mouths being on a different side of the face than the side that's showing? Unless you can make the mouth move with the camera in a way that doesn't look wonky, there will be a lot of problems in 3D.
     
  19. Adamis

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    Sonic Unleashed 360 did that with the in-game model.
     
  20. Dark Sonic

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    Well, you see you're talking about anatomical and practicality, but it's a series about a Blue Hedgehog. Those things can kinda be shoved aside. And like Adamis said the mouth moves when the camera switches sides in unleashed.
     
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