#dic sonic

[gruffdasmuff]

Christmas Blast’

[combotronrobot]

I had a lot of AoStH on in the background recently so felt about time to draw DiC Sonic again, saying his famous catchphrase too.

[jukoduko]

redesigns of sonia and manic from sonic underground!

[animatejournal]

Sonic the Hedgehog Studio: DiC | USA, 1993

[pipermintz]

[mydutyistosavetheflower]

[archiesoniconline]

Happy 30th Sonic SatAM!

Happy 30th Anniversary to Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM! Were it not for this cartoon, we wouldn't have Archie Sonic as we know it! So we express our heartfelt thanks to Ben Hurst, as well as everyone at Sega and DIC for creating the DNA for the world's most radical comic series!

[palaikai]

Haven't drawn much recently, but got inspired while rewatching SatAM.

[fidenciojesusfan92]

Do you like to Princess Peach and Sally Acorn from Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Nintendo High and Super Smash Bros. Series

[rcamayastudios]

Rotor the Walrus

[gruffdasmuff]

“Gotta Juice!”

“Inspired” by the recently (I think) uncovered SATAM production art. I coloured it myself and fixed the shoes.

[morwaldblog]

¿Qué le vamos a preparar hoy para desayunar al doctor Robotnik?

Inspired by the first scenes of the AoSTH episode "Robotnikland"

A drawing from march, I was bored and decided to do this, also inspired by a bunch of YTPs from Parodiadoranimado (user pretty popular in latam)

I like the cartoon by the way, such a weird and wacky version of Sonic

[cdgzilla]

AOSTH Sonic

[animatejournal]

Les Aventures de Sonic (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) Director: Kent Butterworth | Studio: DiC | USA, 1993

[blazehedgehog]

Was Sonic Underground overhated? Think it was the only Sonic show I kinda saw as a kid and I dont remember it being worse than any other cartoon (but maybe that is bad enough by sonic standarts🤷🏿‍♂️)

Nope! It was very bad! Very, very bad!

I stayed away from Sonic Underground back in the day because I could not handle Jaleel White's falsetto Sonic voice for his sister, Sonia. I also hated the fact they changed Robotnik's voice.

Somewhat recently, Mike (@bunchashapes), did a series of streams called "Artist's Corner" where he showed all of Sonic Underground on Twitch for an audience. It wasn't necessarily just to make fun of it, there was genuine artistic observations made, but it ended up being sort of like watching a train wreck where you can't look away.

Along the way it was also explained the awful conditions the show was created under. DiC wanted fast cash and still had the Sonic license from the SatAM days, so they rammed the show through production as fast as humanly possible with absolutely no care or attention for quality. The few people carried over from the SatAM production team openly voiced their displeasure at this but it was obvious DiC did not care.

Like, something that I've known for a while is the entire reason the show centered around Sonic playing in a rock band was something they learned working on Alvin & the Chipmunks: by having an original song in every episode, they could double dip on the syndication licensing. They could charge licensing fees once for the show and then again, separately, for the music.

Lots of episodes are downright incoherent and the animation is dirt poor. They were cranking these out fast and sloppy, leaving no time to develop or polish anything. Like, if you haven't seen it, look at this:

Strange scenes like this with weird movements and proportion problems weren't isolated to one or two episodes. Nearly the entire series is like this. On top of having tons of totally bland sing-song-y musical numbers -- sometimes multiple songs per episode! It was just a big ol' shotgun blast of trash.

To the point where Mike said he wanted to continue the Artist's Corner streams with other shows, but it's hard to find anything that compares to the strange low budget absurdity of Sonic Underground. (I suggested the Darkstalkers cartoon)

Sonic Underground really is something special and lives up to being a total disaster... which can be entertaining in the right context.

[hypocrisyofandrewdobson]

Why did Dobson like the DiC cartoons so much?

I assume it’s as simple as “it was on tv a lot when he was growing up/first real exposure to Nintendo characters”. Happens with a lot of people(I was a massive fan of the Sonic SatAM show, personally), the issue of course that in Dobson’s case, he apparently decided DiC was The One True Canon or whatever.