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Rumour: Possible new Sonic movie design surfaces online
- Thread starter Regulus Tera
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The director. Like, on this one, we actually know exactly who was responsible. There's an interview where he said he pushed ahead the design even though Sega wasn't happy with it. IIRC specifically the eyes, and something else about how gloves "didn't make sense" ... for a blue, humanoid, talking hedgehog that... can run at the speed of sound...
That is so much better.
Is this the first time internet backlash has a) had such a huge impact on the visual Deisgn of a movie and b) was (probably) for the better?
Is this the first time internet backlash has a) had such a huge impact on the visual Deisgn of a movie and b) was (probably) for the better?
Yuuuuup.
You better watch how you're talkin', and where you're walkin'
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
What a surprise, making your live action CG Sonic the Hedgehog look like Sonic the Hedgehog might actually be a good thing.
Not that the movie won't still be terrible but the fact that they even bothered with such an overhaul tells me that someone over there cares, and that's at least good to know.
Not that the movie won't still be terrible but the fact that they even bothered with such an overhaul tells me that someone over there cares, and that's at least good to know.
This was the marketing strategy the whole time. Its the complete opposite of the Sonic cycle.
Show an extremely bad initial trailer , then fix it and get positive fan reception right before the movie comes out.
Don't think delaying a movie four months is part of a marketing strategy usually.
The leaked image says "Timing: 11/12/19 - 2/14/20" which is speculated to be when the standee is allowed to go up in theaters. If that's the case, we could be seeing a trailer tomorrow. Apparently trailers usually have some sort of advance announcement so it would be unusual, but the first Sonic trailer also randomly dropped on a Tuesday at 9 AM EST, so it's not impossible.
Ah cool. I like the redesign but I'm very curious to see it in motion.
If would be funny if it's literally the same trailer as the first one but with the new Sonic design (and a changed release date)
I'm not gonna lie I was kinda hoping they would do that. Not in place of an actual second trailer though.
it felt like they came up with the former design to solve the "problem" of Sonic's cyclops eyes:
but they went too far and wiped away the whole appeal of Sonic's original design
everyone is just going to pretend that people talked about things other than the design, huh
it felt like they came up with the former design to solve the "problem" of Sonic's cyclops eyes:
but they went too far and wiped away the whole appeal of Sonic's original design
The one part about the old design that will always bewilder me is the white stomach. It looks so out of place, and unlike every other awful design choice they made I can't figure out what practical purpose it was supposed to serve other than making him appear even more like a bootleg knockoff of the original.
Interestingly, there's actually a piece of old Sonic 1 concept art where he also has a white stomach. Could they have been going for the deepest of deep cuts, so deep that no fan actually wanted it?
uh... that's why i said "forget". as in, forgetting all the other shit.
Wonder if Tyson pushed for tan arms and was overruled. It seems to be a common trend in American redesigns of Sonic for some reason.
Not gonna lie, his rendition of the original movie design was pretty sick:
Also liked his "best of all worlds" design that combined elements of classic, modern and Boom Sonics:
At least they seemingly they made the right move with this movie, may actually take my kids too see it now.
It's just the weirdest thing to me that they're always so dead-set on changing those arms to blue.
Don't get me wrong, the new design is a godsend compared to what could have been, but not changing the arms back to tan does bring it down slightly for me. Sooo close to perfect.
I don't really mind blue arms because almost every other character has colored arms. And IIRC him having tan arms in the first place was also a technical thing that in the realm of 3d does not need to be adheared to. The complaints about blue arms always seemed...silly
Lmfao yea I actually wanted to see the original with the abomination sonic cause it looked so freaking bad it was good
It's not the biggest deal in the world for me, but I think I'm just too used to the tan arms. Like, if I see a blue armed Sonic I assume it's a knock-off or low quality in some way (I usually associate it with coloring errors in the DiC cartoons).
You're right that being able to distinguish his arms from the rest of his body matters more in 2D space, although I dunno, I think if they went with blue arms in the 3D games it would have looked weird for similar reasons. Being a movie though, they can make everything more deliberate.
It's silly to question arbitrary changes to a 25 plus year old design? It's like if Nintendo of america just decided to change Mario's shirt blue to match his overalls. Or just get rid of his mustache. Just because the design was made with a limitation in mind doesn't mean you need to change it when the limitation no longer applies.
But really what bugs me isn't so much the weird off model changes, it's how defensive people get when you question it as if you're being unreasonable. It's just baffling how constantly western studios decide to change such a small detail. Especially after making such a drastic turn around on this design they just had to keep the arms blue. It's hilarious.
