Remember the excellent animations that bookended Sonic Mania? How about that series of shorts called Sonic Mania Adventures? The person who spearheaded these wonderful cartoons is animator Tyson Hesse, and it's clear he knows the hedgehog well. So impressive is his work on the blue blur, in fact, that Paramount Pictures sought his help when fan backlash forced the studio to rethink the character's design in the upcoming movie.
Hesse tweeted out following the debut of the latest trailer, which shows off the vastly improved look of the titular hedgehog. It turns out that he was brought onto the team to lead the charge on redesigning the version of Sonic that will appear in the February flick.
https://twitter.com/tyson_hesse/status/1194331183351357440
That's a pretty impressive position, and we daresay he was the right person for the job. The end result speaks for itself. Excellent job, Hesse!
[source twitter.com, via dualshockers.com]
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I'm still baffled why this wasn't the design in the first place instead of that dreadful creation in the original trailer
Maybe it was a ruse all along and they always intended to release a shoddy looking Sonic trailer initially to drum up interest for the real deal or maybe that's just the cynic in me?
@Enigk Tbh I myself was wondering that too
@Enigk @Kiro_Senpai crossed my mind too. I'd love to know the truth either way.
@Enigk It wasn't a ruse. No one in Hollywood has the foresight to come up with something like that. But if this movie does well, it'll definitely happen again and it definitely will be a ruse.
@Enigk Would have been a veeery expensive marketing trick hahaha
I've followed Tyson's career ever since he worked on Boxer Hockey, glad to see he's doing what he loves
It looks so much better it's hard to believe it was so bad to begin with.
What do you do for a living?
Fur artist.
Nice.
After the first trailer dropped, Tyson posted some art of movie Sonic in that exact pose, it was just a bit rougher and with a few minor differences. They really slipped that redesign under our noses months in advance.
Glad they brought someone in that improved Sonic's design.
I really like his new look and kinda want to see it now.
I didnt realize how bad the OG model was until the new one was shown. I need it wasnt right.
.but good lord how did that ever get the ok? Lol
The way the director handled the criticism is absolutely breathtaking...
If only Disney had done something likewise with Lion King...
Scar looked emotionless and that destroyed the movie for me...
That was one classic Disney shouldn't have touched...
The redesign version pretty much looks like original video game design, no? So it's kinda funny they had to hire a new guy to do that for them.
Well if they ever want to do a horror movie with a killer blue hedgehog they can always reuse the old one.
@shuvamg009 The new lion king I can't watch because even though they got James Earl Jones to reprise his voice to Simbas father. They didn't get Jeremy Irons for Scar from the animated movie as well. And he made that character I've heard he was poor in the new film as well and people didn't feel the need to even hate him
@Enigk i think your just being cynical
not everything is a conspiracy you know
although if your on social media now a days everyone seems to think that everything is one
@FullbringIchigo It was just that the design in the original trailer was so bad. How would anyone look at that and think it looks good, I'd pay 10 of my local currency to see that?
I'm not one for conspiracy theories. Everything usually has a sensible explanation but this seems to defy logic and common sense. Either that or a 5 year old who had never seen Sonic made it.
@Enigk i wonder if we will get people crying for the original to be released like DC fans cry for the Snyder cut of Justice League
as for why it happened it's a sign of the times sadly, we are in a time where studios focus too much on their shareholders and focus groups instead of the people that are actually going to go watch the movie, you only have to look at films like Terminator Dark Fate, Hobbs and Shaw, Fan4stic or the 2016 Ghostbusters as examples to see that, they buck to trends instead of making a film for the only real purpose they have, to entertain
@Nakatomi_Uk let me put it this way
he doesn't even sing "Be Prepared" in the remake, it's a speech
This whole thing has been bizarre.
I've never been a Sonic fan. I've owned exactly one game, which came with the Game Gear when I bought it back in the early 90s... never thought much of it, and never completed it.
Yet even I thought "WTF is this?" when I saw the original trailer, so I'm not surprised fans weren't happy. This new one is far, far better, and to be honest the movie looks like it might be a bit of a laugh too.
Not being a fan, I wouldn't pay cinema prices to go and see it (not that I go to the cinema any more anyway), but I'll certainly be eager to watch it when it hits Netflix in 18 months or so.
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