Roger Hector - Interview 3

I must admit, your group as such a keen interest in things that are a bit fuzzy in my memory, but I'll give it a go...

In a message dated 10/29/2005 2:02:13 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:

Hey agan Roger

There were many different artists that developed packaging art who worked outside of STI . In the beginning this was not tightly controlled. I remember that at one point there were several different versions of the same art (like "title art") and it became a problem. So SOA Marketing decided to produce a Sonic Style Guide (a book containing the official approved versions of all types and pieces of Sonic art) to be used by every Sega division and subcontractor. It took a long time to produce, and STI was only involved at the end to give final approval. The reason it took so long to produce was it required several tries to get STI's approval. Unfortunately, I don't know the names of the artists that did this development.

Again, this was done outside of STI and I don't know the name of the artist.

Adrian enjoyed playing jokes, and the physics math on the white board could have been something fake he threw up there just for fun (I don't remember for sure). But Adrian was also an excellent technical programmer, and he did indeed contribute to the physics code in the game. As Adrian was working in the capacity of Technical Director, he provided assistance to Naka, and helped him solve technical problems. In certain areas, he was a stronger technical designer than Naka. He even wrote some underlying code that was used in the game. Naka respected Adrian (who is a Brit) quite a bit, and he was happy to be able to use Adrian's help.

Chris Senn was working developing character art in the Sonic team at the time the MTV show was made. It may have been that his art made it into the show, but his art did not make it into the final Sonic & Knuckles game. It was not uncommon to have several STI artists take a crack at creating characters, but the ones that made it into a game were only a small percentage of what was created. But it was not all wasted ...When a new game would get started, we would bring out unused character art from previous games to use as inspiration for the new game.




Thank you Roger Hector for answering these questions. And for our research, most questions here have been brought to life by us from looking at this page:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/sonicstuff/405178.html

Thanks for sending this. It was fun to see it again.
Roger

 

That would be cool.

 

Have tried like anything to get into contact with them, neither seem to have any details lieing around

EDIT: hm, might be onto something, stay tuned!

 

heh, I don't know shit about code, all I do is hunt people down

 

Ofer was the one bugged to death, and he was our only bloody hope of getting a decent xtreme build.

Stephens and Peter have never had details available, but I might be onto something, give it some time.

On a related note, I think I may have just got in contact with Steve Woita

 

Point, although I was refering to Adrian more so.

I am unaware of a Woita interview though...