Since its debut, the Sonic movie trailer has been met with fierce criticism over the character design of everyone's favorite hedgehog. With his creepy human teeth and small human hands, can you really blame anyone for not liking it?
Even Yuji Nake, the creator of Sonic, found the new character design distasteful, stating, "Looking at this Sonic's full-body visual, it makes me realize the importance of the character's head-to-body ratio and the roundness of his stomach. Couldn't they have created a design with a better balance than this?"
Sonic trailer
The trailer on YouTube is currently sitting at 300k likes and over half a million dislikes.
In a surprising turn of events, Sonic Director Jeff Fowler responded to the intense criticism over Sonic's design on Twitter and vowed to change it.
"Thank you for the support. And the Criticism," Fowler tweeted, "The message is loud and clear... You aren't happy with the design & you want changes. It's going to happen. Everyone at Paramount & Sega are fully committed to making this character the best he can be..."
This was a shock to everyone that someone from Hollywood was actually listening to the fans of an already established franchise. This was great PR move has already gone a long way to renew the interest of established fans.
Fans are praising Jeff Fowler for being open to criticism and have been posting their own edits of Fowler's design to represent what they believe could replace the current design.
And naturally, the memers needed to show their auti- I mean artistic skills as well. Their interpretations of Sonic's character design have been interesting to say the least.
At least they didn't lew- never mind...
While fans are excited to hear that Sonic's character design is being put back on the table, there's still a concern that the animation team would be working themselves to the bone to remodel Sonic before the movies release in November.
Fans have made it clear that they wouldn't mind if the movie was delayed if it meant they would be getting a quality design of one of Sega's most iconic characters.
Thank you Jason Fowler for listening to the criticism your movie has received and we're all excited to see Sonic's new look!
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