This is an early design for Big the Cat
E-123 Gamma
Shadow
>>342697929
THAT FIRST BIG IS SCARY AS FUCK
>>342697998
*E-102
>>342698131
>one eye design
MY GOD
HE COULD'VE BEEN EVEN EDGIER
ok
Blaze
Cream
>>342697929
That first one is so cute.
>>342697998
I like those pre-Gammas, looks more like a classic Sonic character. It irks me that Sega devloped such a unique visual style in the Mega Drive games and then completely ditched it in Sonic Adventure.
Silver
>>342698131
Lets be glad the one we have was picked. If it was any of the early designs the sonic fandom may/may not have been more autistic.
>>342698478
Have you looked at Gamma? He already looks like a classic badnik
One of those designs looks too much like an Eggrobo anyway, so he'd be less distinct. Also the one in the top left was recycled partially into Zero
>>342698131
Literally Coldsteel.
Wisps
>>342698764
the bottom designs look so adorable
>>342698764
I really like the top-left ones.
I want to see the current wisps with mouths now.
Adventure Sonic
As you can see he had the longer spines but a much more Classic-like torso
Personally I think lengthening the torso makes him more athletic and makes the longer spines work. Apparently the redesign happened to begin with because it was hard to reflect his design in 3D at the time without making his spines flare out properly
>>342699020
Forgot image
>>342698447
I'd cream in all of them.
>>342698131
>the top two
>one-eye
Early classic Sonic
>>342698321
Bottom left is pretty neat.
>>342698540
Literally no good ideas whatsoever, it's a miracle the finished design isn't any worse.
>>342698131
I can honestly see retards like GUN mistaking Sonic for him in the concept art.
Tails
Nothing special or new here
Knuckles. Nothing special here either. I was hoping for the stage in development when he was a dinosaur
>>342697929
Am I the only one who thinks big looks creepy as fuck with his big yellow eyes?
>>342697929
>>342697998
Top left shoulda been the finished design for both.
Amy
Metal Sonic
That's it. Everyone go home
>>342699219
Also eggmans original design was the original protagonist design before being scrapped and them going with an animal design, but they liked eggmans design so they reworked him into the villain.
>>342698131
Bottom left may actually be decent.
>>342699604
that was neat as fuck
thanks for dumping
>>342699604
Metal Sonic's oval/chrome look is pretty retro scifi, now that I think about it.
>>342698164
>>342698469
well which is it?
>>342699604
Notice this is dated 2005, they were probably working out his model sheet for Sonic Rivals or something like that
>>342698321
chose the worst design other than bottom middle
>>342699830
definitely scary
>>342699830
More cute than scary
Either way, it's better than the final design.
>>342699830
A bit scary, but that's part of what makes it so cute.
>>342698131
Can these even be real?
They look nothing like everyone else's early designs and the top two are just for no reason super buff
its got to be a joke right?
>>342699290
Megadrive Tails was a lot more likeable.
>>342699102green eyes
Big had the best theme
>>342697929
Aw man, dopey Big was perfect.
>>342698131
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>342699290
Damn right, that's how you know it's rock fucking solid. Sonic and Knuckles were the same way.
it took me a long time to realize that Big was wearing sandals
>>342697998
All of these are good
>>342697929
Big actually looks big in the first one.
>>342703225
What game were you playing? He's huge.
>>342703530
Yeah, but he looks even bigger in the early design.
>>342699219
>HEDEHOG
What, no Rouge concepts? Boooooo
>>342698540
reminder that silver was based on Trunks from DBZ
>>342698131
I can't take the bottom right one seriously with the whole mono eye thing. He looks like a retarded cyclops
>>342697929
Reminds me:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674874709
>>342698131
Top two are retarded. But bottom left could work if the gloves weren't yellow.
I think that's the design they worked off to make modern shadow.
>>342697929
I thought it was this...
>>342704115
http://bigthec.at/
>>342704115
I gotta say, how well these old games were ported to PC is good on its own, but adding a workshop for romhacks is a beautiful thing and I'm really happy Sega did this.
>>342699102
I like the second one at the top.
This is more /toy/, but here's an early sketch of ReSaurus Eggman.
>>342705608
>Resaurus
What
>>342698321
They're all perfect!
Blaze is CUTE!
>>342705721
don't you mean blaze ishot
I liked Sonic Heroes
Fuck you
>>342705692
Pic related.
>>342698131
That one on the bottom- to the far right with the red eye and the downward dreads.
It'd be so fucking horrifying if concept art shadow's eye was capable of slinking and moving around through that one giant singular "eye" these fuckers have.
Like, it just sinks in and out or slinks from one eye to the other just across and through the divide.
But where's the concept art for Tits the Bat?
>>342706212
It was too dirty for a family stream.
>>342698131
Makes me wonder if they ever redesign Mighty, if they'll give him big arms. Unless his strength just stays a comic-only/American instruction manual-only thing
>>342705797
And I like Dreams of an Absolution
>>342699102
These designs really show how little the green eyes took away from his overall look.
>>342699102
>>342699219
that huge gap between sonic characters eyes is so dumb
>Wow that's a big cat, what shall we call him?
>>342707129
> Wow, a fast hedgehog, what shall we call him?
>>342707129
Pretty much every animal character until you get to the Chaotix has an obvious name.
Besides Amy.
>>342707129
Do you have a better name for him?
>>342707664
Sonic doesn't mean fast.....
>>342707129
>Wow that's a big guy, what shall we call him?
>>342707930
>Sonic doesn't mean fast.....
???
Ever heard of a fucking "Sonic Boom"? "Super Sonic speeds?" Kill yourself, fucking newfag.
>>342708360
Anon.
Sonic means related to sound.
Sonic boom is the noise caused by an object travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Super sonic speed means the speed of sound.
>>342697998
>that top-right Toriyama inspired Gamma
>>342698447
It's interesting that unlike the others, they didn't seem to know what animal they wanted her to be
>>342698447
thats cool how they reused that design for marine later on.
>>342707908
Paws
>>342708941
It also looks like they reused parts of the top right design on blaze, specifically the tail, Ponytial hair things, heels.
I guess Blaze and Cream being friends in Rush is probably a nudge to this.
>>342709404
Come to think of it, the bottom left one also has Big's tail, and I'm not positive but it also kinda looks like she's wearing a belt.
Cream and Big are also friends if Heroes was any indication.
Maybe Cream's just a cat person.
>>342708535
It's just Egg Robo with two hand guns.
>>342698131
This makes me wonder if they were originally going to go with a "Shadow is a flawed clone of Sonic" angle. Would explain why Shadow couldn't maintain his super form and needs inhibitor rings to survive.
The design we got is so much better though. I'm shocked we even got it based on those other designs. Really dodged a bullet there.
Top and bottom right are both better then what we got.
>>342698321
I love Blaze.
>Colors/Generations came out 5/6 years ago and we haven't had a worth-playing Sonic game since
>>342698131
I'm so glad that despite being uttterly terrible, Shadow could have been worse.
>>342698321
>Blaze never had boobs
>>342698131
Bottom left with white gloves would actually make a lot of sense
It never made sense that people confused Shadow with Sonic
>>342707129
>wow, that echidna has big knuckles, what shall we call him?
>>342698764
>bottom left
C U T E !
>>342698131
We lucked out there. I wonder how well he would have been received even edgier than he is.
>>342703920
As if that wasn't glaringly obvious. No DBZ parallel is more obvious than his little "Future Trunks" time travel garbage.
>>342717838
>those shades
yeee boi
>>342698540
>bottom left
It's Tronic!
Just change the hair and it might be okay for a different character.
>>342697929
That's a big cat
>>342707129
Uhh, Dr Octopus?
>>342707908
Ted
>>342718938
>>342708090
Bane?
>>342699486
>>342718139
Can we all agree his tails are basically Rayman limbs at this point?
Spinning around an axis on his butt is one thing. Staying behind him while his whole body spins around a different axis is ridiculous.
>sonic team was seriously going to give sonic a human girlfriend before sega of america stepped in to slap their shit
well i guess that's where elise came from
>>342698131
We literally got the best end of the deal here.
>no hair hog posted
I feel we missed out on something great my friends.
>>342697929
Why does he even wear a belt?
>>342719627
>that belly isn't skin
What the fuck?
>>342697929
Top left is that cat from ranma
>>342699219
>hedehog
>>342697929
Totoro the Cat?
looking at what a series could have been is so bizarre.
Imagine what the series would be like at this point but instead of eggman being the main villain and the enemies are robots you have this shit >>342719414
>>342719917
Pajama Eggman would have also been weird
>>342719642
>>342698764
Ayy
>>342699504
Her design after this, what went wrong?
>>342697998
>bottom right gamma
we could of had a better design of current gamma
>>342698131
>any of those
>muscles on a sonic character
>one eye
we could of had an even edgier design for shadow
>>342697929
They should have went with the top right design and Big's gameplay could have been him scavenging through the wild/city destroying the enemies that got in his way for that Frog which would be his dinner. It would have been like some kind of beat 'em up instead of fishing.
HEY BIG GUY hey little guy CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT'S INSIDE
>>342720559
>wrong
Right*
>>342719692
Animals do have different colored fur on undersides. You know that right?
>>342707908
Fat Cat.
>>342698131
>top left has Silver boots
>bottom right looks like Mephiles
Interesting
>>342719414
Is this the new Sonichu comic?
>>342719471
I like Zero's design. It looks like if he's wearing a turban.
Any early designs for Adventure Amy?
>>342719574
No different from Roger and Jessica Rabbit.
>>342698540
Why does he have a weed leaf on his face
>>342721686
Jessica Rabbit is not a human cartoon, just more anthropomorphic than others
>>342721862
>Jessica Rabbit is not a human cartoon
She is? Unless she's hiding those ears under that hair.
>>342698131
oh so that where Eclipse design came from...
>>342697929
Looks like Totoro
>>342698131
could you just imagine all the underfags being all over shadow if the bottom right was taken as the main design?
>>342722298
Marge Simpson is
>>342702712
HEY
>>342699604
>That's it. Everyone go home
But you forgot Jet which they also showed off.
>>342697929
Like the fuck huge cartoony one.
>>342697998
Dodged a god damn bullet. Would not have been able to take his game seriously with any of those.
>>342698131
>You are now aware we got the less edgier version
Nothing personal kid.
>>342698321
All win
>>342698447
Hate the character but they all work.
>>342698540
Really hitting Trunks on that 3rd one.
>>342698764
Remember chaos? Fuck you.
>>342699102
Agreeing with >>342706897
>>342699604
>Perfected the first time.
will there ever be a coldsteel game?
>>342723145
i want to fuck that bird
>>342723145
Holy shit.
Swifty the Shrew from that one Sonic Boom episode looks like that top left design for Jet.
Did Sega of America really reuse an early Jet design for a one-off Boom character?
That ended up being an Eggman robot?
>>342724265
>>342698131
I'm still shocked at how we ended up getting the good design for the final pass. It's like, sure the color scheme is still pretty edgy but it works well and the design is pretty inspired if you go with the "Shadow was inspired by the Super Sonic mural in Hidden Palace" theory.
>>342722558
konami pleasecome back
