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So a new Sonic Movie Design leak dropped yesterday and I just had to comment on it as soon as I could! What do you think? Is it an improvement? Or not so much?
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Now this, this is a sacred image.
If you’re new this to this channel, I basically have been obsessed with Sonic’s design over the past two years. It started with a very authentic best design retrospective I made, it was just my way of expressing my love for the character (specifically in the intro of Sonic CD) and as I knew a movie was eventually coming, I thought it might be a topic that gained some traction in the future… My prediction was most definitely correct, this still astounds me. Following these videos I couldn’t predict how much of a turn Sonic would take for the worst. He literally took a supersonic plummet into the deep fires of social media.
That’s no good.
The movie leaks followed and they weren’t looking too fresh, these were followed by an even bigger shock and one of the most horrific reveals of a character redesign since well, Sonic Boom.
The movie looked horrendous straight off the bat purely because of Sonic’s ugly, humanoid, teethy, gerbil, rat, Alvin the chipmunk’s style monstrosity of a character design, and the internet did its thing, it exploded.
MEMES, anger, redesigns, memes, anger, memes, anger, redesigns, confusion, memes, anger, anger, anger, did I mention anger? Journalists and KZfaqrs all over had a field day with this design… Me included. I’ve since had a redesign myself as my head looked a bit like a rodent.
One film delay and an apology from the Film’s director later… And we had a promise of a redesign on our hands… All Sonic fans rejoiced with a level of positivity that could quite easily turn the other direction. Nobody wanted any more mistakes. Nobody wanted THIS.
Now it’s been quiet, but over the past month or so, leaks have started to come into the public eye yet again.
Two images appeared, both appearing to be from promotional posters and press material in a similar way to the original leaks of the bad design. I posted one of them on my community page and that was going to be as far as I went. I thought these were massive improvements to the original and I was happy to leave it there and wait for the trailer.
But today whilst browsing twitter I saw this new leak and it’s blown my mind. I simply have to talk about it straight away. I believe it was discovered originally by the user @SnideyMcCoolGuy.
This looks like another leaked bit of press material, potentially it’s the design of a standee that you’d find at a cinema, there’s no surrounding graphic and the picture and hashtag that supports it I think pretty much confirms that. I’ve taken the liberties to make this render look a little bit more accurate for the purpose of this video. Though forgive me as it’s not my er… fortay. Gonna cut that bit out.
Sonic has been returned to a much more traditional look and key changes include:
A shorter physique, his chest is the right colour, he’s wearing gloves, thank god. His Trainers have been made incredibly Authentic to the classic. And his eyes! While they are still separate entities… As opposed to classic Sonic’s plate head of pupils, they are much bigger and far less harrowing than the previous look that horrified us all.