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An artist who worked on pre-visualisation concept shots for the Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) movie has uploaded footage to his Vimeo channel that shows a bizarre gremlin-like, placeholder Sonic.

Ellery Ortiz, a pre-visualization artist who works for Digital Domain created the proof of concept footage using early placeholder assets and models to visualise how the scenes would play out in motion. These concept shots are then evaluated by the animators and directors before being filmed and then used by the animators to create the final animation seen in the movie.

Working from storyboards, I created animation and defined timing of action in the shots. Sweetened with FX and Lighting elements. Defined camera composition and lens choices for the purposes of storytelling.

The Sonic model used in the shot looks unlike any other version seen, even the one shown in the infamous 2019 trailer.

What do you think of the evolution of Sonic's movie design?

Sonic the Hedgehog: Previs (Vimeo)

 

[HarveyHouston]

(screams and runs away from computer)

I certainly doubt that this is going to be in the final design. Sonic will still look like Sonic when it's all said and done.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

It's a shame we haven't got the movie with the ugly, "realistic" Sonic.
It would've been something so legendarely bad that would be remebered 'till the end of time.
Instead all we got was a mediocre "friend from another world" movie like any other of the kind.

 

[tabzer]

It's a shame we haven't got the movie with the ugly, "realistic" Sonic.
It would've been something so legendarely bad that would be remebered 'till the end of time.
Instead all we got was a mediocre "friend from another world" movie like any other of the kind.

You still have Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, and every other bad video game movie.

Oh... Final Fantasy....

 

[VinsCool]

You still have Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, and every other bad video game movie.

Oh... Final Fantasy....

Street Fighter too

 

[Tur7L3]

"I didn't wanted to sleep anyways."

 

[vincentx77]

Y'all, I'm sorry. That looks like some Garry's Mod shit to me.

So do all movies initially render their CGI on an early 90s model Macintosh, or...?

No, no dude.... At best it's an Amiga 1200 running Lightwave.

 

[MiiJack]

At least they didn't use the Pakistan Sonic.

 

[Crazynoob458]

thank you can no longer sleep

 

[HideoKojima]

Looks like a fan made intro for N64

 

[stanleyopar2000]

For why though?

Some conspiracy theorists thought that Paramount had the "fixed" Sonic ready and purposely made him bad initially for attention..

...this proves that if there wasn't any backlash, we would have that calf legged Sonic.

 

[The Catboy]

Some conspiracy theorists thought that Paramount had the "fixed" Sonic ready and purposely made him bad initially for attention..

...this proves that if there wasn't any backlash, we would have that calf legged Sonic.

That actually makes a lot of sense, ngl

 

[WaffleRaccoon]

I wonder what movie Rouge would have looked like. Probably a good thing we never saw that.

I doubt that we'll ever see a movie about Rouge because Sega doesn't really care about that character anymore.

 

[tabzer]

"Conspiracy theorists". 2020 is here and it's still bad stigma to consider backroom plots? Lol.

 

[Naxster]

That's not Sonic. It's Sunik

 

[Deleted member 397813]

So THIS is where @VinsCool got her pfp... i hate this

 

[bluetifae]

Halloween just came early D:

 

[Hells Malice]

This is actually for their new movie, Five Nights at Sonic's

 

[Wavy]

Don't know, looks like if the Sonic Movie had a PS2 game tie-in.

 

[Something whatever]

release this version

 

[Deleted member 42501]

About this movie, did anyone actually believe they used that freakshow Sonic first and then went back and edited it all once the fans started whining? Really?

To me it all smacked of net marketing at its finest as they knew people would shriek after seeing this:

and thus drum up enough hype and manufactured goodwill for the movie.