Sonic Concept Art

[Soniman]

Jesus christ, I never knew how wonderful the art direction of Secret Rings was until now.

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A concept sketch of Sonic for Sonic CD.

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Concept art of our favorite red echidna from Sonic Jam.

Edited June 25, 2012 by Fix-It Felix

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Jeez Knuckles was a freaking beast even way back then, definitely one of the best Sonic characters imo, he's so freaking cool.

Lol My fanboyism is showing :<

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EDIT: Sorry, double post.

Edited June 25, 2012 by Fix-It Felix

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Some Crisis City & Iblis concept art.

[BlueBlurMe]

Concept art for Sonic's, Shadow's, and Siver's models in Sonic Next-Gen. All made by Cemre Ozkurt.

Is it just me, or are Shadow's eyes too big? He looks like a cute plush. XD

[Gabz Girl]

^ Not to mention he's actually smiling! O_O

Classic Knuckles art is brilliant. He was cool looking back then even! The Crisis City concept art is great but, if only the stage in the game itself wasn't so bad. >>

[StratusAsterion]

Haven't seen any concept art for Sonic and the Black Knight yet, only one I've ever seen online is the Excalibur Sonic one (In the game I only managed to unlock the Dark Queen, and the final boss aside from Excalibur Sonic, so I know there must be more)

Just a few Sonic Chronicles peices I have on me to contribute

[Linkabel]

I'm surprise no one has put these:

Sonic The Hedgehog Band

And Elis...oh wait Madonna

[azoo]

All images in the "Sketch-hog" style were drawn by Hirokazu Yasuhara; lead level designer for S1-S3K, Sonic R, and 3D Blast. Those were all production sketches of the gimmicks he was making up for the stages.

He also worked on one of the many variations of Sonic X-Treme, possibly the "Sonic Saturn" version. This artwork is shown here:

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Various images of Sonic, and badniks & enemies in Sonic 1. (Eggman included). All of these are from the Sonic The Hedgehog Material Collection.

Edited June 26, 2012 by Fix-It Felix

[The future]

So much originality ran through these developers minds back in the 90s.

More X-treme Metal Sonic concept art. (Pun Intended?)

And While The gameplay we've seen for the game might have been Mediocre, or in some people's eyes just flat out bad, I was always interested in the concepts and Idea's for this game.

I'm A sucker for Cities like this that looked deprived of any hope and have a resemblance to Robotropolis zone.

That would be a great idea if these designs were just multiple forms of an epic Metal Sonic boss battle.

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Possible promotional art for Sonic 1. Found in the Sonic Material Collection.

[Person]

These Animated:

[Tobbii]

Let's see, I believe these Unleashed art pieces have yet to be posted...

Character Art:

Unleashed Wii Art:

Unleashed HD Art:

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Let's see, I believe these Unleashed art pieces have yet to be posted...

I believe some of this was posted pages ago. But whatevs. :U

Here are concept art of Sonic's animation in the Sonic 1 title card.

Here it is animated.

The frames are from the Sonic Material Collection, to add.

Edited June 26, 2012 by Fix-It Felix

[Tobbii]

Some Sonic CD, Adventure and 2006 concepts.

[Phos]

That comes from here:

Raa even got a clay model

Always mildly boggled me how some have interpreted her to be mermaid-like when the thing at the end of her "tail" isn't a fin, it's a bow.

That looks like the work of a 3D printer to me.

I have half a mind to club you with a blunt object. She's a mermaid ghost and we will speak no more of the matter.

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I've never seen this model before though. Where does Sega have this gem stashed away? any idea?

It's in Marza's headquarters.

I like how they chibifiy Sonic and Co. in the concept arts lol.

Yeah, I love how Hirokazu Yasuhara draws Sonic as well. He drew like that for Uncharted as well:

Comes from this interview.

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Level concept art for Sonic Rivals 2.

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Sonic Rivals level concept art.

[Salamander]

I kinda wish Chip had been a snake or an imp or something like that, to better parallel Dark Gaia. Design-wise I can't see what the two have to do with each other.

[Diogenes]

They're opposites.

[Jango]

That tornado is carrying the fuck I'd never gave.

Edited June 26, 2012 by Jango

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Concept art for badniks in Sonic 1.