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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Maekawa-san on behind-the-scene of a Sonic Heroes cutscene

News from 2019.03.30
Archived on 2019.04.17

Another interesting backstory from Maekawa-san on production of Sonic!
This time it's about Sonic Heroes, the last cutscene of Team Dark's story.

ううっ…あのシーンの理解者が😢
これ、CG担当のアメリカ人に最も理解されなかったシーン。
何度言っても「なんでここでルージュがウィンクするんだ？ 意味がわからん！」って口論になり結局「わかんなくてもいいから絵コンテ通りにしろ！」って飯塚さんが押し通してくれたのを今でも思い出す。😌 https://t.co/HjQosUPP2r

— 前川司郎 (@mizuhano) March 29, 2019

なんで分からないのか分からないのが分からないというね。
どんだけ話し合っても分かり合えないことはある。そういう前提が必要なんだと学んだ良い機会でござった。

— 前川司郎 (@mizuhano) March 29, 2019

🔵A fan mentioned how good a scene in Sonic Heroes is, and Maekawa-san reacted with tear of joy:

"Oh, somebody here understands that scene well. The CG creator in the US had the most difficulty to understand this scene. No matter how many times I explained, they said -

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 29, 2019

- 'I don't understand why Rouge winks here. Why?!' and we got into arguments. At the end, Iizuka-san helped me and pushed it through, telling them 'It doesn't matter if you understand it. Just make it as it is directed in the storyboard!'. I still remember that." -

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 29, 2019

- "I didn't understand why they don't understand it.
It was a good opportunity to learn that sometimes there are things people can't agree upon no matter how long they discuss about it, and you have to deal with that premise."

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 29, 2019

Wow, they didn't understand the scene? That's so sad, I don't understand whny they didn't get it either.
It must've been a hard time for Maekawa-san trying to convince them...
And Iizuka-san did a good job there! Thanks to them we have the great scene as it is meant to be. Good grief.

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