Sonic Shuffle, a party game for SEGA Dreamcast, was one of the earliest games to utilize cel shading, a graphical style that mimicked the look of 2D animation.

Below is a cel shaded model of Knuckles from the game. SEGA’s Jet Set Radio utilized the style before it.

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Artwork from the Japanese Shadow the Hedgehog guidebook.

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Charmy Bee artwork from the Knuckles’ Chaotix Japanese manual.

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Early concept art for Shahra from Sonic & the Secret Rings.

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Sonic’s first example of sequential storytelling was the Sonic the Hedgehog Story Comic manga. It released in three chapters in Mega Drive Fan magazine in June/July 1991.

It adapts Sonic 1. It briefly featured Sonic’s band in a panel, in the page below:

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For this month, will be focusing exclusively on early concepts and firsts for Sonic, to commemorate the character’s 30th anniversary.

Today, we bring you early concept art showcasing various elements that never made it into Sonic 1. The blond woman is named Madonna.

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Concept artwork for Sonic X-Treme boss “Mega Mite.”

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The raw cover for Sonic: Mega Drive - Overdrive, the canceled final issue in Archie’s Mega Drive trilogy.

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An early Silver the Hedgehog design, dated July of 2005.

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Concept artwork for Jet the Hawk, first revealed at a Sonic 25th anniversary event at Joypolis.

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The DS version of Sonic Colors introduced Mother Wisp, a massive wisp that made Planet Wisp and the entire wisp race.

When Eggman captured her and siphoned off her energy, she transformed into Nega Mother Wisp. Super Sonic had to defeat her to return her to normal.

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Shadow says goodbye to a version of Maria he met when he dove into a virtual version of Professor Gerald’s digital diary, moments before it disintegrated.

From Archie Sonic written by Ian Flynn and drawn by Tracy Yardley.

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On this day 15 years ago, ’s & ’s first Sonic comic was published!

The blurb on the comic’s cover, “out of the blue,” was apt, as they came out of nowhere and redefined the look & feel of Sonic comics as a whole.

Here’s to 15 more!

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This month marks the 15th anniversary of Ian Flynn’s first published Sonic comic, issue 160! We’re devoting the rest of the month to stuff from his books.

Freedom HQ debuted in the first issue of Archie Sonic, & was fixed up and reintroduced in Flynn’s first issue.

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Orca, an enemy from the cancelled 3D Sonic game for the SEGA Saturn, Sonic X-Treme.

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Enerjak is an ancient, godlike, chaos-fueled villain from Archie Sonic.

Dimitri, an ancestor of Knuckles, turned into Enerjak after absorbing 11 chaos emeralds. Knuckles became him after the Master Emerald was corrupted. Two other echidnas used the name before them.

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This early concept artwork for Sonic Battle demonstrates an earlier, less refined version of the game’s final art style. It was drawn in 2002 by the game’s director, Tomoyuki Hayashi.

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Scourge was once “Evil Sonic,” Archie Sonic’s alternate universe evil doppelgänger. He became Scourge during a foiled attempt to use the Master Emerald, which left him with chest scars and a green coloration.

He was introduced in Archie Sonic

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Tails artwork from Sonic Adventure’s official style book.

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New Sonic Channel art this month is all about that hilarious Sonic and Amy dynamic!

Cute couples get in free!


https://t.co/vdHq2jNAAk

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