After the great success of my Realistically Painted Bowser I decided to do another realistic version of a famous videogame character. This time I tried to imagine how Sonic would look like if he would be a real hedgehog. His white gloves and the red shoes he kept as another link to the original, but ...
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Artist Marcus Blättermann, a student at Germany's Burg Giebichenstein - University of Art and Design, decided that "the Hedgehog" part of Sonic the Hedgehog had been neglected far too long. As a result, he's offered up this version of Sega's speedster, hewing a little closer to the mascot's namesake animal.
In the end I decided to give him a color-pattern that resembles a West European Hedgehog but facial proportions that stick to Sonic himself. His white gloves and the red shoes he kept as another link to the original, but the shoes underwent a little redesign.
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I am so happy this realistic take on videogame characters is really taking off. You've seen Mario , were intrigued by Bowser and got traumatized by Pikachu with nipples. Well now it's time for another well known videogame mascot to get the realistic treatment. This realistic take on Sonic the Hedgehog was done by Marcus Blättermann, the same artist who made the realistic Bowser. Check out Marcus's site as he goes into the details on how he made this revision of Sonic and the process he went through trying to get Sonic to look as real as possible while trying to stay true to the classic character.
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