Fan Made Sonic The Hedgehog Cartoon Gets A Trailer

[tsu-money]

The creator of this animation is a furry. Surprise, surprise...

 

[Byers]

There are Sonic the Hedgehog fans?

 

[Doug]

This just looks like another Newgrounds Sonic flash animation, is this really that newsworthy?

Anyone who lived through the Console Wars wouldn't utter such blasphemy. A frightening time to be alive, indeed. There were two camps, no more. You had your S/NES or MS/MD/Genesis and that's all you had. Your parents weren't going to spring for another console, they weren't made of money. So you took your system and you loved the shit out of it. Then when other people didn't love the shit out of it, too, you beat them to death with your control pad. Sega had the advantage there, those Megadrive pads eventually had a few more buttons attached, then became the Dukes of Xbox. But it wasn't just schoolyard jeers and street fights. The battle between the two was fought most heatedly in the magazines. Dozens of gamer mags, in the days of yore, dedicated to one of the two camps. Pages filled of vitriol-fueled words and images of Sonic and Mario, fighting to the death with medieval implements of destruction. One particularly awesome image had Miles Prowler decapitating Peach, Luigi and some poor little mushroom bastard on the trot. Even the villains dropped their normal hatreds to take on the enemy in this bloody conflict. Bowser and Robotnik, though varied in discipline, were well matched in this regard.

Though the bloodshed died down as the 90s tore on and PC gaming, aided by the internet, really started to exert dominance, it wasn't until the entry of Sony into the fray, lopping heads and raping corpses, that the Console wars came to a close.

Indeed - I was but a nipper during the early stages of the Great Console wars, but I remember the battles between Nintendo and Sega (yes, the same sega who know just make crap Sonic games).

What happened to Sonic? Why does he suck so very much now - as for the OP: I doubt Sega will let this stand... after all, someone showing a GOOD Sonic might make people think "Hey, if this is what he used to be like, why the hell does Sega make such toilet water games?"

 

[Mstrswrd]

Actually, he was in talks for awhile with... some film company (Paramount, I believe), to have this made officially. Holy Shit. The talks fell through (Boo!), but he's continued making it. Hell, should he release it in parts, he can simply make it a fan flash film on Newgrounds.

 

[Rednog]

but otherwise this trailer looks as good, if not better than any of the official Sonic cartoons Sega has authorized throughout the years.

Pretty much like SuperMse said, I don't know how that claim is possible. It clearly takes from Sonic SatAm (which was amazing).

 

[Aedes]

Eh... well, it's not bad. But not great either.
Sonic never really attracted me. Probably becouse I never played one single game of him that was considered good.

 

[Low Key]

I can almost guarantee there will be no cease & desist order. The trailer claims it is for a non-profit movie, so that's means it's in the clear. Copyright, generally, can only be enforced if there is profit being made.

Anyways, the trailer looks well animated. I'd have to see more footage to make a decent assessment though.

 

[JWAN]

Listen to the music
Its a clear rip off of back to the future only some little *&#^@ of a kid changed the pitch for 3% of it

dont ask me about the link, it just appeared

 

[JWAN]

Surprisingly well crafted? I hope you're just referring to the animation, because after watching it three times, I have maintained my stance that it's the most awkwardly paced trailer I've ever come across.

EDIT: Though I suppose in the trailer's defense, it could just be the lack of sound effects that's throwing me off.

I had the same reaction initially and though I was specifically referring to the animation, the lack of proper sound does screw things up in my head too.

The music is plagiarized from back to the future all that kid did was screw around with the pitch

 

[JWAN]

Fuck Sega, they had their chance with Sonic, they blew it, and again, and again, and again. Each time worse than the last. It's time someone with some spirit show them how fans like their Sonic.

Terribly edited with plagiarized music in the background? lol
ok
Listen to the song, then listen to the back to the future theme song. same thing, different notes

 

[toapat]

well done, except that the music in the begining is obviously chopped together.

honestly, when does sega slap people with a cease and desist if they slap one sega logo on the thing?

 

[Jaebird]

Special delivery from 1993, when Sonic was pure awesome

 

[Cryfear101]

A sonic movie!
Now that would be awesome!

I can see myself sitting with my mates watching that friday night at my local Odeon.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Yes, it lacks vocal work, and some of the background animation is a bit rudimentary, but otherwise this trailer looks as good, if not better than any of the official Sonic cartoons Sega has authorized throughout the years. The "10 months of development" that went into this thing definitely shows.

This is a prime example of everything that I hate about today's 2D animation.

Everyone knows this is obviously based on SatAm [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(TV_series)], right?

I'm actually glad to see that it is. That was a great show, and I remember being really sad when it was cancelled back in 1994 (I think). Anyone who watched it (as I did) knows that the series ended on the mother of all cliff-hangers. I'm glad to see it being picked up again. Will it begin where the original show left off? Who knows? At any rate, I am glad that there is still some life in Sonic. It's not like Sega, Nintendo, and anyone else who has made a Sonic game within the last 3 years has done the little blue badass any favors. Yhatzee has said it pretty well, and I am glad the fans are attempting to right the wrongs.

What can I say? I grew up in front of a Sega Genesis, and I followed the SatAM series religiously when I was a kid.

I also think SatAm was a pretty good show. I'm simply saying that the trailer looks so similar to SatAm that one cannot necessarily claim that it looks better than it, and that any problems with it are also indicative of the problems of 90's animation as well.

 

[Tempest Fennac]

Um it was good. So who are the other dudes? Eggman looks kinda werid.

The other characters were from Sonic Sat AM/the Archie comics (the rabbit with the robotic limbs was named Bunnie Rabbot and the squirrel at the end was Sally Acorn). They never featured in any games excluding a brief cameo in the first Sonic Spinball special stage and a couple of games which were scrapped ( http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Mars and http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic-16 ).

 

[Charley]

Cease and desist? Unlikely... slap them with a retrospective claim on royalties plus interest, put feet up on desk and resume wishing it hadn't all gone wrong after the Dreamcast? There we go.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

The animation is solid but the trailer feels kinda cheeseball.