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Sonic Boom!

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:12:01 -0500

You might have heard, a new Sonic animated series is in the making. In 3D animation this time! Starring Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Robotnik, it is an action-packed comedy aimed for children.
This is the only picture we have so far:

The show, titled "Sonic Boom", is character-driven: the plot or world doesn't matter much. What is important are the actions, reactions and development of the main characters; Sonic, his best friend and sidekick Tails, his friendly rival Knuckles, the cute but determined Amy Rose and Sonic’s arch-nemesis, Dr. Eggman Robotnik. The doctor is not the only enemy though, we will meet a bunch of others, some familiar and some new ones. Badniks we suppose, but nothing is confirmed at this point.

So far according to the only official picture seen above, Sonic and friends seem to have kept their modern look, but with angled features (see how their usually rounder bodies are replaced with straight lines). There is deffinitely a difference, let's hope it will not be as dramatic as Rare's Banjo model change!

Sonic Boom will air first in fall 2014 on Cartoon Network in the US and on CANAL J and GULLI in France, with a global release to follow. So the English and French versions will be available at the same time! For now, 52 episodes are announced, each being 11 minutes animated shorts (so 26 shows if they decide to put 2 episodes together to fit in a 30 minutes pannel) and are co-produced by SEGA of America and Genao Productions, a French animation house. Takashi Iizuka, the head of Sonic Team and driving creative force behind the Sonic games, is the overseer of the series to ensure that it’s true to the Sonic characters and universe.
The executive producers and developers are Evan Baily (Gerald McBoing Boing), Mark Banker (Adventure Time), Donna Friedman (Iggy Arbuckle) and Sandrine Nguyen (Fish N Chips). Dave Polsky (My Little Pony) will also be part of the team as a writer. This is going to be promising! The voice actors crew will be the same as the games, so our beloved doctor will keep Mike Pollock's voice!

We really hope Robotnik will have a great role in this cartoon. If possible as much as the Man of the Year short. Too bad this one hadn't continued. Stay tuned for more info on Sonic Boom!

Sonic Lost Worlds

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:01 -0400

After a long series of events, our spy Badniks finally sent us some information. Here's their report:

[13/08/22:010012]- We infiltrated Sega's headquarters.
[13/08/22:032134]- We obtained the highest security pass.
[13/08/22:033231]- Collecting data.
[13/08/22:040218]- Sensors indicate we got spotted. Engaged Running Away! function.
[13/08/22:044556]- Failure in attempt to escape.
[13/08/22:044557]- ...
[13/09/28:223401]- Emergency: Sending data to base's satellite.

Ouch. We will send a team to retreive the poor robots to safety.
To summarize what is up, the next Sonic games Sonic Lost World on Wii U and 3DS are little gems!

Story Intro

Sonic and Tails are trying to stop Robotnik once again, asking him to release the animals he caught in a capsule. Without giving a single care, Robotnik sends the capsule falling down! While the heroes are busy to save the animals, Robotnik shoots at the Tornado, making it crash on a floating planet (Little Planet meets Settlers of Catan?) where they will meet the Deadly Six, a group of an alien species called "Zeti". Robotnik will try to control them. Alas, Sonic will screw his plans again but this time Sonic will be in trouble too!

Design

We will see again the good old Badniks of Sonic 1, 2 and 3 but in 3D (Though most of them are way larger compared to the Genesis!)! Mid-bosses are back too. And so are the little aliens from Sonic Colors, because Sonic needs alien powers to fight other aliens. Makes sense!

The Wii U and 3DS versions are different, much like how Sonic Generations White (Home consoles/PC) and Blue (3DS) were different. Though, this will be the first handheld game to have a fully 3D gameplay. And information will be transferable between the two consoles (like controlling an in-game device on the Wii U with the 3DS).

We'll talk about Sonic & Mario at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games *gasp*... in a later article.

The recreation of a Sonic Adventure scene... on Source Filmmaker!

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:38:01 -0400

By using the movie-making tool created by Valve and borrowing 3D models from recent games such as Sonic Generations, HypotheDragon entirely re-animated a scene from Sonic Adventure. He delivered accurate acting to our favorite Doctor and the good guys while matching the audio of the scene before Sonic fights the Egg Hornet.

This gives us an idea of how wonderful the Dreamcast game would look like with today's graphical power!

Watch it now:

Let's hope other people will share their talents in such an inspiring way! And more videos starring Robotnik!

Next Sonic games

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:44:01 -0500

So a few sources started to leak some info about the next Sonic games. Some of it was made clear and the rest is foggy rumors and speculations.

It has been said that in addition to the the retail game Sonic Dimensions (unofficial title) a few digital download titles are in development. All we know for now is that the digital games will have their own marchandise (toys, stationary, etc.), and that Sonic could save his friends in order to play with them later (around 10 characters would be available). No new characters will be added in this game (what a relief!). For example, Sonic could help Knuckles during a level and he'd become playable right after this event. Levels should be a bit like Sonic Generations and having different paths through the end. The Nintendo 3DS version is said to be a bit smaller but would contain all characters.

As for Sonic Dimensions (yet again, it is not the official title!), it is a disc game that is currently being developed by Sega with the help of Nintendo (yes, you read right!). The reason would be to help in programming for the new console and make the game to use every aspect of it. The game would then use the Wii U GamePad in a new way and have multiplayer. The game should have graphics and gameplay similar to Sonic Generations and Sonic Colors.

The RUMORED story so far contains a plot a bit similar to Sonic Rush. Dr. Robotnik caused some kind of disruption in the time and space continuum of the world and also split Sonic's soul into multiple personalities differenced by colors. Yellow would be speed, red would be power and so on. An excuse to remove Sonic Colors' aliens and keep different powers for Sonic to use we would guess! But again, it has not been confirmed and the "Dimensions" title has already been invalidated by Mr. Takashi Iizuka himself.

More info will be available soon when Sega announces their plans for 2013 during the hedgehog day (February 2). Stay tuned!

Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Film

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:11:01 -0500

Here is a great fan movie about me !

Created by the team at Blue Core Studios specializing in video production and post-production. They also had a great success with the Megaman community with their film on the eponymous hero. In 2011, the studio has decided to embark on the production of a film about the blue hedgehog, which immediately attracted crowds.

After many delays and mounting it is released today after almost two years of work!

The film lasts just under 20 minutes (compared to the 90 min Megaman ..!)

This great work can be seen there. . .

Now that you have seen it, let's talk about critical points.

The E Series Machines were AWESOME ! A total success for the 3D reproduction and animation of these robots BUT there is a terrible lack of work on the EggCarrier render. The mix with 3 totally different universes of Sonic like Sega Sonic, Fleetway Sonic and Sonic Satam was totaly illogical; there was never a president on Mobius, Station Square is located on Earth like Sonic Adventure or Sonic X, G.U.N were also the units who killed Maria Robotnik which is making no sense with the in-movie part about his name was Kintobor.

To resume....

Lack of work on the Egg Carrier.
Illogical mix of Sonic storylines.

But good overall Work and 3D.

I give a note of 9/10!