What Cartoon Sonic Looks Like In Movie Sonic’s Trailer

15 responses to “What Cartoon Sonic Looks Like In Movie Sonic’s Trailer”

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   dig dug

   May 29, 2019 at 3:21 pm

   Exactly, I mean how did they ever end up going the way they did, it is really confounding. This fan version is already 100x better.

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      phil1311

      May 29, 2019 at 4:08 pm

      I feel bad for the animators who knew the design was bad but forced to do it by management.

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      whitepointer

      May 29, 2019 at 7:29 pm

      I dunno how that original version ever got the green light. It literally looks like someone dressed in a bad Sonic the Hedgehog costume. Like, the proportions are very humanoid. How were Sega actually okay with that?

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         mic

         May 30, 2019 at 12:38 am

         At a guess because it was cheaper to do so and have someone in a mo-cap suit.

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         weresmurf

         May 30, 2019 at 8:55 am

         Looks like Crap Taxidermy from Facebook did it…

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   weresmurf

   May 29, 2019 at 4:37 pm

   I balked at the first trailer…

   I want to see this movie thanks to that. I really do. That one change, making the character actually look like Sonic, really made all the difference :O

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      mogwai

      May 29, 2019 at 7:50 pm

      It’s like having Sonic more faithful to the original and looks less “real” makes the other cartoony humour work better and feel less awkward.

      It’s also just a really impressive feat of animation that one person re-edited a new model into an already existing trailer.

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         pylgrim

         May 30, 2019 at 12:46 am

         Like even their version doesn’t look anything at all like a hedgehog… so why try to make it more “realistic”? If Sonic is definitely whatever they make him to be in the movie, alien/ intradimensional/whatever… why not just go for a full “unreal” cartoony look?

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            mogwai

            May 30, 2019 at 11:00 am

            Detective Pikachu is a current and relevant example of how it can be done right. Specifically with Pikachu (but also the other Pokemon from what I’ve seen), they didn’t try change his proportions, they didn’t try make him more mouse-like (or human-like), they just gave him textures and animations that suited a “real” environment. I think the Sonic in this fan video could do with pushing the fur/quill texture further tbh

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   Mordicai black

   May 29, 2019 at 5:08 pm

   The song choice though………

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4. 

   namiwakiru

   May 29, 2019 at 9:40 pm

   I know I’m gonna cop some hate for this but I can kinda see why they tried to make a more realistic Sonic.
   I mean the normal one looks good compared to the monster the went with but from a live action perspective the first thing through my head with this one was, “So…..does that mean he has one really big eye with two pupils?”
   Like seriously, all these years playing Sonic and I never noticed his entire head is stretched around a massive eyeball because cartoons right?!

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      weresmurf

      May 29, 2019 at 10:57 pm

      As opposed to “Holy fuck a giant humanoid hedgehog running as fast as the speed of sound!!!!!”

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         namiwakiru

         May 29, 2019 at 11:39 pm

         Yeah but that’s established, I’ve never had to think about the eye before and now I can’t unsee it.

         On another note now I want to see somebody do the trailer with a real life normal sized hedgehog, complete with cute little booties and gloves because why the hell not at this stage.

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5. 

   john_stalvern

   May 30, 2019 at 9:33 am

   I liked what they tried with the new sonic design, save for the teeth. If they actually went and made it more like this fan design I’d be disappointed.

   I appear to be in the vast minority for this though

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   gapeape

   May 30, 2019 at 1:30 pm

   Couldn’t do anything about Jim Carrey?

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