Redesign for Sonic the Hedgehog Movie

In 2014, it was announced that Sony Pictures and Marza Animation Planet were creating a movie based on the video game franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog. In 2017, the rights for the film were handed to Paramount Pictures. The movie was filmed in mid-2018 and after the first posters for the film were released, fans felt skeptical about how Sonic appeared on the posters. The first trailer for the upcoming movie was released on April 4th, 2019, which got a large amount of backlash and criticisms from fans, who's main problem was Sonic's hideous live-action design and how he looks more like a humanoid knock-off version of his video game counterpart (most notably this infamous shot).

The film was originally scheduled to be released in November 2019, but after the first trailer received mostly negative reviews from fans, the producers promised to fix Sonic's design, which is extremely faithful to the video games, so it was pushed back to February 14th, 2020. When the next trailer for the movie came around, fans were a lot more satisfied on how Sonic appeared, praising the director for taking the time to do this and were more willing to try and give the movie a shot.

Fortunately, the film has shown to do great at the box office not only with it’s decent performances but the redesign for Sonic made it better than it already is.

Why He's An Extremely Handsome Package Now

 * 1) After negative reception of the trailer, the studio listened and decided to fix him to make him more accurate to the games, showing that they take criticism.
 * 2) Despite the fact that it's more work, they didn't purposely force crunch and instead delayed the movie by a few months.
 * 3) Awesome grasp of the mainstream design.
 * 4) His redesign is much more faithful to the Sega video games, and praised by fans because of it:
 * 5) *Sonic here has got big cartoony eyes, almost conjoined together, though still a little separated.
 * 6) *Instead of having creepy human teeth like he did in the first trailer, he's got nice cartoony teeth, much like a lot of CGI characters do in Disney or Dreamworks films.
 * 7) *On top of that, his muzzle is tan-coloured instead of being coloured in a generic Caucasian human skin colour.
 * 8) *He has a pointier nose, unlike the original design.
 * 9) *His belly is also tan-coloured rather than being coloured white.
 * 10) *He's got larger cat ears.
 * 11) *His hands and feet are bigger.
 * 12) *His body, for the most part, is far less humanlike, to better resemble his mainstream counterpart, instead of looking like a child in a poorly made Sonic onesie.
 * 13) *Speaking of which, his limbs are a bit more spaghettilike, which is far more fitting for Sonic than calf muscular limbs.
 * 14) *Instead of having weird white-furred hands, he now wears gloves like Mickey, Bugs Bunny, and of course, his videogame counterpart.
 * 15) Not to mention, he also wears his white socks and red Puma shoes that look exactly like his power sneakers in the games.
 * 16) Even the brilliant voice acting from Ben Schwartz makes a return.
 * 17) Thanks to the redesign, The original design became a better character in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Moving Picture Company (MPC), the visual effects studio behind the visual effects of the movie, has been shut down as a result.
 * 2) Sonic's colour grading in the final movie is not that great as it barely resembles the colour grading for Sonic in the games at all. Fortunately, it was slightly improved in the sequel.

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