Sonic No Longer Looks Horrifying: Hedgehog's Redesign Debuts In New Trailer

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Blur Studio's original design for Sonic will go down in history as one of the worst silver-screen interpretations of a beloved video game character ever, but luckily, it's owned up to its mistakes. Paramount Pictures uploaded a new trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog today that shows Sega's mascot looking a lot like he's supposed to. Some fans are still complaining about his arms being blue and eyes not being joined together, however.

Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG tells the story of the world’s speediest hedgehog as he embraces his new home on Earth. In this live-action adventure comedy, Sonic and his new best friend Tom (James Marsden) team up to defend the planet from the evil genius Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) and his plans for world domination. The family-friendly film also stars Tika Sumpter and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic.
 
Definitely much, much better. Though, this whole thing with the movie brings up an interesting thought; what if this was the design from the beginning and the original trailer was an intentional stunt to try to win some respect/cool points/etc with the fans by saying they were going to change it based on criticism of the horrendous first attempt.
 
https://www.destructoid.com/you-can...e-fantastic-sonic-movie-redesign-572378.phtml
"Recently, long-time Sonic artist Tyson Hesse confirmed that he was brought in to 'lead the design' on the modified Blue Blur."
"Apart from serving as director and lead animator for the Sonic Mania opening cinematic, he also created the promotional mini-series Sonic Mania Adventures. Additionally, Hesse has contributed as an artist on the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series."
https://twitter.com/x/status/1194331183351357440

If you've never played Sonic Mania, here is the game's opening animation for reference:
Sonic Mania Adventures:

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Sonic the Hedgehog movie redesign cost $5 million, suggests report

Still a chunk o’ change In the wake of the new-and-improved Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer, featuring the freshly-redesigned Blue...
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"A since-deleted tweet by user TRAFON claimed that the redesign cost production $35 million USD. This went viral, despite there being little evidence that this was anything more than a rough guess. Since then, Indiewire has been in contact with 'a source close to production', who informed them that the number was in the region of $5 million USD - still an insane amount of money to you or I, but likely a drop in the ocean for Paramount Pictures."

"The same source also notes that the only completed footage of Nightmare Sonic that existed was used in the trailer itself. Thus, the team only needed to fix those specific scenes, with Nu-Sonic being freshly created for the remainder of the movie. Hopefully this statement proves to be true, as it would mean that a lot less stress was thrust upon the visual effects team, who would otherwise have had to replace almost every digital shot in a 100-minute movie.

Of course, there is no official word on any of this - this is just an unnamed source after all..."
 
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