Sonic Concept Art

[MamboCat]

Call me old or whatever, but I absolutely adore the super old concept stuff. Tails in particular is rather cute in design! :3

I also find it interesting that a "Sonic Retrospective" video I stumbled across on YouTube said that Sega of America apparently had to remove several things from Sonic's original design, most importantly a pair of fangs?! I'm pretty sure in some more recent games, he's drawn with slightly pointed teeth?!

Edited June 26, 2012 by MamboCat

[Kimb]

Here are some concepts of badniks/bosses seen in Sonic Rivals.

[Aero]

I KNEW IT. This is officially my favorite thread. Anyway, some concept of the Nega Wisp Armor:

[Person]

How To Draw Sonic

Tikal's Final Sketch

Hey, Look, Amy's Got Black Eyes

And Tails, Too!

And above are the rather chunky SA models.

Edited June 27, 2012 by a person

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Character models for Sonic X-Treme.

Edited June 27, 2012 by Fix-It Felix

[Anti Alias]

Fat Amy is Fat.

[Milo]

Tikal's Final Sketch

More like a near-final sketch, she has some sort of cape.

Hey, Look, Amy's Got Black Eyes

Also, part of her hands is transparent. Maybe this was a concept for her incisibility in 06?

Knuckles has blue eyes here, like how he did in the Advance series.

And though this isn't really concept art, here's animation of Tails cleaning up from Sonic the Screensaver:

(Just so you know, there is animation for Sonic and Knuckles, too)

Image link is broken.

Edited June 27, 2012 by Zinos

[Sega DogTagz]

Check Tails out. Dude looks like he's been hitting the gym pretty hard. lol

[Salamander]

They're opposites.

I disagree. Usually when narratives feature the concept of opposites or characters existing in a dualistic relation, you find that their designs do actually feature either common elements or direct inversions or plays on their opposite's design. Chip and Dark Gaia look like they were designed in a vacuum from each other and indeed from the concept of having shared origins. There is no design relation between them suggesting that they are opposites, any more than Sonic and Dark Gaia being opposites. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't decided that Chip would be Light Gaia when they designed his character. That would fit with the kind of script evolution that often occurs in games as they're developed. Come to think of it, they could've integrated the Werehog and the Dark Gaia monsters better into their concept, too.

[Person]

Here's e-102:

[Jango]

I liked the Sonic X-Treme models, they're so cute. Except Knuckles, bleerg.

And where's your God now:

That's right. Sonic the fucking Hedgehog swimming.

Edited June 27, 2012 by Jango

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A little bit more of Unleashed concept art.

[Person]

And Prototype-Blaze:

[VO.SUPER]

Say now, why does that first one remind me of American Robotnik.

[TunDiam!]

Was this already posted? a scene from night of the werehog that didn't make the final cut

[azoo]

Geez I love the SA1 Dreamcast models so much.

Also that SA1 Eggman concept art was whenever they were trying to think of a way for him to look like a mixture between his more chunky and robotic American counterparts while also resembling classic Eggman. As cool as they are, I'm still glad that we got what we got since I've always thought modern Eggman looked cool.

[leemour84]

SONIC X-TREME sprites for unused characters for CHAZ - GABBY - MIPS

Chao's

Classic Super

mega man meets Sonic

[Milo]

Interesting, I've never seen Eggman wear those goggles in the games!

[Komodin]

Interesting, I've never seen Eggman wear those goggles in the games!

If I recall correctly, he did wear those goggles once in Sonic Adventure 2, near the end of the pre-Cosmic Wall cutscene.

[ArtFenix]

If I recall correctly, he did wear those goggles once in Sonic Adventure 2, near the end of the pre-Cosmic Wall cutscene.

Yup.

[Milo]

Ah, alright then. It's been years since i last played the game.

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Sonic 1 concept art showcasing the final designs of Sonic & Eggman.

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Some more Holoska concept art.

[PC the Hedgehog]

That Japanese/American Eggman amalgam is...pretty cool, actually. Had no idea they were thinking of merging the SatAM Robotnik design with that of the original Japanese.

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Level concepts for Sonic & The Secret Rings.