Although itself Sonic, the fast blue hedgehog and mascot of Sega, has not stopped being in popular culture, recently it has become a topic of conversation. After all, we recently learned that we would continue to enjoy his adventures with a new video game and the sequel to his popular movie.
Now, we get news about Sonic from the past of the blue hedgehog. Thirteen years after the release of one of his titles for the Nintendo ds: Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood, a stunning 2D animation of it has been revealed. After watching her, we wonder why she didn’t make it to the final game.
Sonic Chronicles was able to show us a beautiful 2D animation
Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood is a Nintendo DS title that was released in 2008. This left a bit behind the fast gameplay we were used to to give us an RPG with everything and turn-based combat. In addition, it was developed by the company Bioware, who we know from the saga Mass effect Y Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
At its launch, Sonic chronicles It received quite a lot of compliments in the visual realm, as many found it to have quite a pleasant art to look at. It seems that we could have had a little more of this in the intro video. This has been revealed by an animator that showed an animation which was cut from the final game.
In accordance with Jonathan Cooper, who shared the tweet, players would see this little 2D animation before starting the game. Regrettably, Sega preferred to show clips of the gameplay of Sonic chronicles about music, which made the audience unable to enjoy this peculiar intro.
This was the work of the animators Joel macmillan Y Nick DiLiberto, who treated it as a passion project. The unused intro of Sonic chronicles it was hand-animated at the artists’ homes, who then rendered and colored them in the studio. Jonathan He also shared some videos of the animators working on the intro, which let us see how hard they put into it. It is a pity that until now we are seeing it.
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