"Give him a break. It's his first day, and he's very small." "He is little, and he is sleepy."

"But give him a break, it's his first day, and he's very small"

I'm so ready to sit down for New Frame Plus: the Feature Film

Fun fact: The person who did Shadow The Hedgehog cinematics was Jeff Fowler, director of the Sonic live action movies.

One thing that I've always seen as a missed opportunity is that they never utilize the character's ears to show how they're feeling which is normally a given when animating animal characters. The only instance I can think of is one scene in Heroes where Rouge's ears go droopy when she realized Shadow might be a robot. It's cute, why don't they do that more often?

"Of course the world's self-described ultimate life form comes standard with heelys, are you kidding me?? *chefs kiss*" best quote

1:12:52 Using Sonic Colors' music right before switching to the disaster that was Sonic 4 is definitely one of the best baits I've fallen victim to

"Animation IS exaggeration" - I love this quote.

1:42:02 I think sonic prime shows how sonics modern design can actually be animated incredibly well and allow him to convey tons of emotions and expressions. I don't think sonic needs a redesign but I hope the games take some notes from prime on how to animate modern sonic characters well.

Nothing gets me more than "he's in a solitary confinement cell and they've been torturing him for months"

“He does a little yawn cause he’s little and he’s sweepy”

Man, the bits about mocap reminds me of a teaching from one of my teachers; “If real life looks wrong, you make it look right.”

1:34:07

The fact that he did this for over five months and probably on his own and then afterwards adding subtitles to the 1 hour 45 minutes finished product is incredible.

Considering Sonic Boom was designed to animated TV series it makes sense that the character designs were conducive for quality animation,

Me in the beginning of this: oh this looks cool I'll check it out

I think I've figured out why Unleashed's running looks way better than previous attempts; it's because they finally realised that at the speed Sonic travels, he won't always have a foot on the ground pushing him forwards, he will spend some time floating very briefly as his front foot comes down and makes contact with the ground and each step will launch him forward a few metres as a time, making his strides larger to cover more ground, almost as if he is skating. Previous games pushed him to have more natural short stride which is where the issues with the sketchy vibrational look where they just ramp the normal animation up in speed instead of giving the faster speed it's own animation set. It also helps that they finally realised that at high speed he should act more like a vehicle than a person, and smoothed out running looks more believable at those speeds. It makes a lot of sense from a physics standpoint, Sonic is moving so fast that his feet are purely pushing him forward, not upwards. He's leaning so far forwards that all momentum is forward, and once he gets up to speed he's much more stable and only moves upwards a little bit.