Everyone's got to start somewhere, right? Sonic is blue and has trainers due to a lab accident. The story goes that Sonic is blue and moves at supersonic get it? He was originally a slower, brown hedgehog, but after the accident he got a lot speedier. But it's also a marketing decision. Sega also chose to make Sonic blue because it matched the Sega logo.
Talk about on brand. He wasn't always called Sonic. When Sonic the Hedgehog was first in development, he was actually called Mr Needlemouse. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed. His design is based on a mixture of Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat. If you've ever wondered why Sonic looks so familiar, a number of pop culture icons were actually used to influence his design.
Naoto Ohshima, the original character designer for Sonic, used Felix the Cat's head and Mickey Mouse's body for the basic shape of what would become Sega's mascot character. His iconic trainers were also based on Michael Jackson's boots from the ' Bad' video. But he was almost a rabbit. Sega and the Sonic the Hedgehog development team settled on a hedgehog mascot, in part, because of its form.
A hedgehog in a video game could curl up into a ball, roll around and do damage with its spiky covering. Oshima said he drew those three concepts on a board and took the sketches to Central Park in Manhattan, surveying random people on which concept they liked best. Second was Eggman. Third was the dog. This was kind of pleasantly surprising. Early illustrations of Sonic were simpler than the version we know today and were introduced to in The hedgehog started off as a simple black and white line drawing, made up of simple shapes.
A simple, easy to understand form was one of the design directives, Oshima and Yasuhara explained. With all video game film adaptations , you can expect to see a ton of Easter eggs scattered throughout to appease longtime fans, and Sonic the Hedgehog fortunately has no shortage of them. To kick things off, here are some things you may not have known about the Sonic franchise:. Moving on to Easter eggs in Sonic the Hedgehog … These points may be considered spoilers by some, so feel free to watch the movie first before reading any further.
Blue fur; big, round eyes; gloves; and pointy shoes. However, when programming a demo version of the game with the rabbit, it was clear to Naka that players would be pressing too many buttons to control him, so he and Ohshima went back to square one. Because the Sega mascot needed to appeal to Americans, Ohshima took some designs to Central Park and asked random New Yorkers what they thought.
New Yorkers had a dog, a hedgehog, and the Teddy Roosevelt character to choose from, and they overwhelmingly chose the hedgehog. Needlemouse is the literal translation of the Japanese word for hedgehog. But, thankfully, that soon changed to Sonic, as Naka was keen on making a game that featured supersonic speed.
Sonic's design was meant to be so simple that he could be drawn by kids, similar to Mickey Mouse. Ohshima said that this simplicity allowed Sonic to "transcend race and gender.
Sonic has rounded quills so he can ball up and pick up speed. He was given smooth blue fur to match the color of Sega's logo. His shoes with the buckle were designed to be like something Michael Jackson would wear, and the red and white color scheme was inspired by the album cover of Michael Jackson's "Bad" and Santa Claus. He had one large eyeball with two black pupils and a bean-shaped nose. He wore white gloves and socks, and his body parts were round and cartoonish. Then it came time to give Sonic a personality.
Ohshima credited Sonic's cool "get it done" attitude to former President Bill Clinton, as Sonic's mission in the first few games is to free woodland creatures from capture. Sonic also had an American girlfriend named Madonna, but an animal having a human love interest was deemed too weird by Sega.
More on this later. This version of Sonic the Hedgehog proved to last throughout most of the '90s. While Sonic's first game came out in , the character's first appearance was in a racing game called Rad Mobile.
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