SEGA chose to go with another title, Sonic Jam, a name submitted by Satoshi Okano, a designer who had joined SEGA in 1996 after serving as the planner, character designer and main graphic artist for KAZe Net’s Uchuu Race: Astro Go! Go! and a brief stint at HAL Laboratories. In fact, the origins of Uekawa’s design and - by extension - Sonic’s entire modern aesthetic, lie in the work of artist Satoshi Okano.īefore Sonic Mania was the name of a 2017 return-to-form, it was an idea that Sonic Team art director Kazuyuki Hoshino presented for a 1997 Sega Saturn port compilation of Sonic’s Genesis titles. Perhaps most important of all, Sonic Adventure marked the debut of Sonic’s modern look designed by Yuji Uekawa, evolving him from his child-like “Classic” design to a taller, cooler teen-esque appearance now known as “Modern Sonic” that visually rebranded his attitude-driven thesis statement for a new era.Īvid Sonic fans know Uekawa’s name and work, but not many are aware that he wasn’t the first to give Sonic a new coat of paint in the waning days of the 20th century. Not only did these games take Sonic in a bold new narrative direction, they also introduced core 3D mechanics that are still alive and well in all modern Sonic games - from homing attacks to grinding on rails. It’s hard to overstate just how important the Sonic Adventure series was to the Sonic franchise and video games as a whole.
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