Early concept art of Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes

News from 2020.11.15. 
Archived on 2021.01.24

 
This year again, Sonic Team of the US took part to the ExtraLife4Kids livestream event and promised some special contents for reaching set goals.

Roger Craig Smith was among many guests who joined the stream, and just in time, Aaron Webber's name suddenly popped up with the ring SFX, informing about the donation he made. How cool!

Exhausted but so insanely grateful.

Thank you all for helping us raise $𝟲,𝟯𝟬𝟬 for @ExtraLife4Kids today! Forever thankful for your generosity. 💖

Plus we now have fanart of Katie the Alpaca and my OC army is growing. ☺️ https://t.co/qrYVvgJYqi

— Katie - MiniKitty (@KatieChrz) November 15, 2020

🔵Join the livestream of Sonic team of US raising money for Extra Life 2020! Right now, Roger Craig Smith is the guest!https://t.co/i40qQvva5U

Aaron Webber donated just before I did, it was a pleasant surprise for everyone!

And Hyper Potions joined the chat too! pic.twitter.com/8L61bTLJjf

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) November 14, 2020

Thank you all so much for your generosity this weekend in helping us smash our donation goal for @ExtraLife4Kids!

And so we reached the donation goals all together, getting early concept art of Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes! 

We were able to share several never-before-seen pieces of concept art from some of our older titles courtesy of Sonic Team. As promised, here they are! pic.twitter.com/e6ttBWMqUP

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) November 17, 2020

Sonic Adventure (1998) - Early Concept Art pic.twitter.com/00X0ZWuH3r

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) November 17, 2020

Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) - Early Concept Art pic.twitter.com/atgc43ReQM

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) November 17, 2020

Sonic Heroes (2003) - Early Concept Art pic.twitter.com/ZJ37mgN0q0

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) November 17, 2020

Sonic Heroes (2003) - Early Concept Art Pt. 2 pic.twitter.com/6RcxPORJTn

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) November 17, 2020

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Irish the Hedgehog wishes you a Happy St. Paddy's Day

News from 2020.03.16
Archived on 2020.05.17

This year, the St. Patrick's Day for Sonic community was different from usual - we got to meet a special character Irish the Hedgehog! Fully voiced!

Do you recognize the owner of the voice?

One year later, Irish the Hedgehog is real.

Happy St. Paddy's Day! pic.twitter.com/Ua1PM1qYBF

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) March 17, 2020

Yes, it's him.

Sonic Twitter always keeps its promises. See you tomorrow, @Jack_Septic_Eye! pic.twitter.com/tPGE81Tes9

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) March 16, 2020

Irish the hedgehog wishes you a very special St. Patrick's Day! ☘️🇮🇪 https://t.co/jSMa0VZcmB

— Jacksepticeye (@Jack_Septic_Eye) March 17, 2020

So yes, it was Jacksepticeye, a popular Irish Let's player!
Were you able to understand his Irish accent?

Many people contributed to this project as listed by Katie of the social devision:

Honestly one of my favorite projects so far.

A big THANK YOU to @thesketchsector for bringing Irish to life, @HyperPotions and @crush40 for remixing a classic, and @Jack_Septic_Eye for the inspiration, voice, and for following through on our crazy idea!

Everything is canon. 🍀 https://t.co/17SG0Ne72E

— Katie - MiniKitty (@KatieChrz) March 17, 2020

Hahha this is great 💚 thank you so much for letting us make this version of Escape from the City with @crush40 😊

— Hyper Potions (@HyperPotions) March 17, 2020

Happy St. Paddy’s Day! ☘️💚

We made this Irish version of Escape from the City with Jun! @crush40 😊 https://t.co/CsI9EBWF9F

— Hyper Potions (@HyperPotions) March 17, 2020

Great to team up with you once again!! I really enjoyed doing this :) https://t.co/1XwT7z7xDS

— crush40 (@crush40) March 17, 2020

The project received many positive comments from the Sonic series members as well:

Tou-"Shea."https://t.co/qMzCZLsXFf https://t.co/nDJhuJaVdd

— Mike Pollock (@itsamike) March 17, 2020

Thank you SO much to the Sonic team for letting me voice Irish the Hedgehog! They’re so fun to work with and I really appreciate how willing they are to make stuff like this happen. What was a dumb joke a year ago is now a full blown reality! Look at my beautiful boy!! pic.twitter.com/Hic00Xvsgj

— Jacksepticeye (@Jack_Septic_Eye) March 17, 2020

https://t.co/reyOnM93Hr
I really like this!🍀

— Hirokazu Yasuhara (@Yasuharah) March 17, 2020

A wonderful moment one-year in the making! So many people to thank: @Jack_Septic_Eye for ideas, adding to the lines, and bringing Irish the Hedgehog to life with his voice! @thesketchsector for tons of work to create the art! You nailed the Adventure-style perfectly. https://t.co/wnYtqnmrOl

— Aaron Webber (@RubyEclipse) March 17, 2020

Thank you @HyperPotions and @crush40 - they made a totally new version of "Escape from the City" which you can hear playing!

Sonic Team in Japan gave us great feedback on the art, and finally, thanks @KatieChrz and @ThormannJustin who put the final touches to bring it to life!

— Aaron Webber (@RubyEclipse) March 17, 2020

It was a fun project which started from a joke. The Sonic Team of US is great at picking up fan projects or memes and turning them into something we can all enjoy!


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Aaron Webber's birthday!

News from 2019.07.03
Archived on 2019.07.22

It was Aaron's birthday on July 3rd! Katie from the SoA Sonic team posted a photo to celebrate it and Aaron replied on the following day, reporting that he's been enjoying Japan for the past week, as seen in his photo from Nara deer park and the tweet by Senoue-san few days ago with a photo of him and Aaron at Tokyo Joypolis!

Happy birthday to the talented and kindhearted US social media manager of Sonic the Hedgehog! Enjoy Japan, Aaron!

Happiest of birthdays to the one and only @RubyEclipse! Forever thankful for your friendship and guidance and patience and forgiveness for posting this hoo boy what a blessing. 🙏

Hope you're enjoying all the sweets today! 🍰 pic.twitter.com/KvPnMICanH

— Katie - MiniKitty (@KatieChrz) July 3, 2019

Thank you all very much for the kind birthday messages and art!

I've been on vacation in Japan the past week - it made my day. Here's a pic of a friend we made in Nara! pic.twitter.com/Ejkmycx7mq

— Aaron Webber (@RubyEclipse) July 4, 2019

Meetup at @TokyoJoypolis
We work hard to make "his world" happy :)

週末は、アメリカのオフィスにてソニックのソーシャルメディア展開を担う彼と東京ジョイポリスに行ったりしてきました。 pic.twitter.com/Bh7YSuoWww

— crush40 (@crush40) July 1, 2019

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Hiroshi Nishiyama-san re-joined SEGA!

News from 2019.04.11-12
Archived on 2019.04.23

News to Sonic Team in America!
Hiroshi Nishiyama-san, an artist who mainly worked on Sonic series as concept artist and Field Art Director, has re-joined SEGA!

Hiroshi Nishiyama has re-joined SEGA as Art Director, Creative Services and Product Development pic.twitter.com/4300HjN7B4

— Alex Ventrella (@indigorush101) April 12, 2019

*crickets*

*ahem*

He worked on the Sonic Adventure series

— Alex Ventrella (@indigorush101) April 12, 2019

He also joined the official Sonic Streaming and showed his sketchbook filled with concept arts of Sonic Adventure series we know very well!! So cool!!



Let's hope him joining SEGA again will be another good influence to direct Sonic series in new and better way!

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Katie joins the team! Sonic Livestream coming soon!

News from 2019.03.18
Archived on 2019.03.19

A new member joined the Sonic Team of the US! Welcome Katie!
She will be joining the Sonic Livestream very soon. That also means the livestream will be back!

I am beyond excited to finally share that I have moved to the LA area to join the @sonic_hedgehog social team as their new Social Media Influencer Manager!

Sonic The Hedgehog was my first console game, and I am thrilled to join the @SEGA family to help shape its future. 💙 pic.twitter.com/4FHf8Ht4ZZ

— MiniKitty - Katie (@KatieChrz) March 18, 2019

Thrilled to welcome Katie to our team at @SEGA!

She'll be joining us as a co-host for the new season of our Sonic Livestream, so you'll see her very soon. Welcome aboard! https://t.co/7Uqo2TeXJ8

— Aaron Webber (@RubyEclipse) March 18, 2019

Stay tuned for more information in the future!

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