Apparently the design of Sonic's eyes were challenging to figure out.
“I don’t think SEGA was entirely happy with the eye decision, but these sorts of things you go, ‘It’s going to look weird if we don’t do this.’ But everything is a discussion, and that’s kind of the goal, which is to only change what’s necessary and stay true to the rest of it,” said Miller. “He’s not going to feel like a Pixar character would because I don’t think that’s the right aesthetic to make it feel like part of our world.”
There's also the question of how Sonic The Hedgehog will represent the title character's speed — one of his signature elements — within the movie. Post-production began about a month ago, so the special effects are still being finalized, but director Jeff Fowler — the movie’s resident Sonic superfan and internal defender of staying true to the character — knew from the start exactly how he wanted to visually represent Sonic's super-fast abilities. In fact, that was part of the original pitch to studios. Fowler, Moritz and Miller all worked on a test video for what they envisioned Sonic would be to show to their studio partners, and it revealed their early concepts for how the speed would work. (Coincidentally, they had asked Schwartz to sub in as the voice of Sonic in that test video, and he did such a great job that they ended up casting him for the role.)
“The first thing you need to do is put limits on it. If you can do anything, nothing is special. For me, it’s always about keeping it grounded and keeping it realistic,” said Miller. “We had some time to figure out the speed: What it looks like, what it feels like for a character to do that and how it relates to our world. It took a little trial and error, but that’s animation in figuring out what the effect looks like and what it does to the rest of the world around it. The speed changes over time because he evolves, because he can’t do everything at the beginning of the movie. It’s finding the visual language and figuring out how it’s going to evolve over time.”
That speed is slightly teased in the poster, but don’t consider that to be an accurate depiction of how Sonic’s fast-moving nature will be represented in the movie.
"Obviously the poster can only show so much. … That's a hint at what we're hoping to accomplish, but I think people are going to see things they've probably never seen before in trying to represent speed in this movie,” said Moritz. "We've worked so closely with the people at SEGA who are kind of the gatekeepers of Sonic to make sure we're lockstep. We're trying to make something that's for today that fans of different versions will love as well.”
My opinion? I'm in wait and see mode.
I also hope that members of the fan base don't start threatening the lives of the filmmakers over this. It's just a movie.
Don't you know the reason why Sonic has the one eye thing?
Honestly that's always been the most confusing part of his design.
◊ Like, just have that blue section between his eyes go down a little lower and you have two eyes. Still, things used to be worse. Remember the Satam and Adventures cartoons from the early 90s? Here is Sonic winking. He doesn't have any eyelids, his pupil just mutates into this grotesque shape designed to give the illusion that he's winking.
Edited by WillKeaton on Dec 10th 2018 at 11:43:08 AM
Yeah I have even less faith now.
From the looks of the it. With the " I don’t think that’s the right aesthetic to make it feel like part of our world.”" It's not going to be a Sonic movie, but a movie just featuring Sonic.
And there's the "limit his speed." Like what? None of the cartoons had this problem that they had to nerf his speed? So either he's gonna lose his speed and be powerless ala the first Thor movie or it's gonna be something else that's dumb.
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Nah, I can get what they're trying to say. Super speed is a Story-Breaker Power in the right hands if you don't give a significant amount of thought to what it can do and can't. We don't want sonic to pull inifnite mass punch a la The Flash, now do we. I mean I'd take it, but then the plot has to be about something that can't be solved by punching it really hard.
Edited by Yumil on Dec 10th 2018 at 7:57:50 PM
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Actually reading the article this time, they're no actually nerfing Sonic's speed, by the sounds of it. What they're doing is putting an actual number to Sonic's top speed, something the fandom has debated for years. They're not actually limiting him, they're just defining him which I'm more than okay with so long as that limit is at least the speed of sound.
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http://ultimatestormf.tumblr.com/post/180992269305/okay-hear-me-out-what-if-this-isnt-actually
Probably not true, but an interesting theory
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The funny part is I've seen developers troll like that.
Edited by erazor0707 on Dec 10th 2018 at 11:44:55 AM
A cruel, sick joke is still a joke, and sometimes all you can do is laugh.
so i made a new avatar
Whoever's in charge here isn't that clever.
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I hope to GOD it’s a troll. If the final design is something much closer to the games, all will be forgiven.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Dec 10th 2018 at 2:58:39 PM
so i made a new avatar
Sometimes a bad design is just a bad design, people.
To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."
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It's too bad to be fake. You don't intentionally make something that bad, it has to be an accident.
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But let's face it, we always knew this movie was going to be a dumpster fire.
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welp
https://twitter.com/FromHappyRock/status/1072178536805367808
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The memes begin.
A cruel, sick joke is still a joke, and sometimes all you can do is laugh.
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This movie is gonna suuuck
She/they. Hirrus Clutumnus is my comfort character
Wait, what if that’s just a trick Nicholas Kole made for laughs?
They wouldn’t really do that, would they?
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Dec 10th 2018 at 4:43:55 AM
so i made a new avatar
...you serious right now?
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I'm just going to sit in my corner with my Sonic comics and pretend this isn't happening.
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ditto man, though add sonic team racing to the mix
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I don't understand the confusion over Sonic's eyes. What's wrong with the way they are in the games?
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Absolutely nothing. Yeah, people like to joke about them but I don't think there's a person out there who is legitimately bothered by them.
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It just hit me. This isn’t the Sonic movie.
It's the SANIC movie.
(That’s right, I said it.)
Nah the guy said he did it as a joke. It's sad though that this looks believable.
Honestly this whole thing always annoyed me in general. Live action video game movies have never worked, they always either looked stupid or cheesy. They would of been way better off producing an animated film than this. We haven't seen a animated Sonic film in years.
I hope its a lot better than we think it will be but I am not getting my hopes up.
Edited by Wispy on Dec 10th 2018 at 5:08:36 AM
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Not true. The Phoenix Wright movie is actually pretty good.
I just want to see the face to know how deep into the Uncanny Valley this movie version of Sonic is