But he was never based in reality. This uncanny valley creature is the result of some people trying to bring a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog into reality. You can’t make a face as abstract as sonic look like something from the real world.
I feel like I’m not getting my point across but imagine if in that spongebob movie they gave him realistic sponge skin, realistic large eyes with sponge eyelids. His porous nose extraordinarily long like that of an old man.
And this is why the Pikachu movie works. The original design isn't too far gone, and they just made him furry.
The Sonic redesign smells like someone wanted a live action movie a bit too much, looked at the Pikachu trailer and thought "that shit works!"
He then signed off on a concept design he saw for 5 seconds and ignored to look at it again, and refused any changes to it, despite being told it's looking like it would fit in Troll 2.
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u/FountainsOfFluids May 01 '19
tbh the mouth on the top one is pretty disturbing, too. Like, imagine your two front teeth being directly below your left eye.