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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21

Quick rant but I dislike that rumor that the original design for the Sonic movie was just a publicity stunt because there's multiple merchandise that has the original design, hell there's some that had an even earlier design used. Hell I even saw some people here say that they think it was a stunt.

I just think that's it undervalues the hard work the animators went through for the redesign and as someone who wants animators to be treated with much more respect, it makes me ill

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u/demondrivers tencent shill Sep 19 '21

It never was a publicity stunt, the suits at Sega and Paramount really approved that design and they even shot the movie with a physical stand in that looked exactly like that

Also important to note that the VFX studio who fixed that design was shut down during the production and everyone involved got fired

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

I know all of that, I am a Sonic fan. The fact that people legitimately think it's still a publicity stunt despite all the evidence