Video of Mushroom Hill for a New Generation
If you didn’t know better, you may have thought it was something out of LittleBigPlanet, the next big thing in Sonic fan gaming–or even the next big surprise Sega has in store for the franchise.
In truth, it is none of those. The video below–a short re-imagination of Sonic & Knuckles‘s Mushroom Hill Zone, may best be described as a proof of concept. It is the work of Robert Medina, a freelance graphic artist with experience in 2D, 3D, web, and Flash. 3D Studio Max is his tool of choice, and it’s likely the environment in which Sonic and most of the 2.5D Mushroom Hill–complete with subtle ground and background effects–was made. Adobe After Effects and Photoshop likely helped finish the job.
Initial reports–perhaps stemming from rays of hope–suggested this was the start of something bigger, perhaps a playable fan game. There is no evidence suggesting the possibility, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of fans who have viewed the video from at least keeping the faith to see more.
The piece has even spread interally among the offices of Sega, and beyond words affirming the polish of the piece (and acknowledgment they’ve seen some snark amid the tipoffs,) it’s unclear if any attempt will be made by the company to reach out to Medina, and put this into practice.
So, for the moment, just watching what could be and using imagination from there will have to do. The piece is below. Thanks to SorcererLance for sending it in. If you have news to share, be sure to share it with us by clicking News Tips at the top of every page.
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wow!!!!!
this is love for Sonic
looks so COOL & EPIC
The animation looks superb, but it’s only a fan video, so don’t get too hyped. It would be cool if SEGA made a game like this, but we will have to see how things go.
Am I smelling sonic 4 eps. 3?
@sonic_speed
Sonic 4 is new game
This video show HD Sonic 3 & Knuckles remake
I love sonic 4 and I love this animaton.
this zone is the best.
Bwahaha about Sega getting mad about dudes being jerks to him, Are they actually surprised? We should be so happy we get content ripped out of games like Yakuza 3 and covered up with 3 layers of lies and the numerous obvious problems that may or may not be addressed in Sonic 4
The video shows how gorgeous that old style would look in 3D rather than the nose filter overuse that pollutes the art of Sonic 4, the Hedgehog Engine should have been used to make stuff like this a reality.
Neat
@Dr. Eggfang:
Someone corect me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that the Hedgehog Engine was only used to increase the rendering speed (draw distance) of the game, not improve the actual graphics.Meaning it’s only useful if you move REALLY fast. Being the Classic junkie that you are, isn’t speed your worst enemy?
*correct
lol irony.
Eh, it’s okay. I’m not really that impressed considering its just a blatant recreation of Sonic and Knuckles.
At least that Doomsday Zone video was somewhat original.
Wow! It looks really good! It would have been better if he made his own cool level. But He have done a great job on the graphics and so on.
I think he should make his wn game with his own ideas.
@Skai Cyan
I think you should try looking up the capabilities of the engine along with irony because it seems you have no idea what either is about.
http://info.sonicretro.org/Hedgehog_Engine
It was designed to handle streaming data and CG quality graphics I don’t see why it wouldn’t be well suited to game that looks like the fan video
@Kits’Okami
You mean the one looked like a SA2 cutscene using the brawl model, yeah very original Super Sonic in space in 3D that’s never been done before. How many true 1:1 recreations of 2D Sonic ave you seen other than this one?
SONIC 5
trust me we probably see another video tomorrow its getting wild out here i am certain they might use the latest engine based similar to the DrectX 11 heaven benchmark or another Unreal 3 engine, its shows the PC has no limits with the fermi gpu power it can really shows, moved aside 360 and ps3 its time for the PC has some good use since the mid range cards are coming real close to release in sept i can’t wait for geforce gts450 or if i have more funds i go with 460gtx. And i know this video is a concept so its possible to make into a game using UDK tools since its has all the graphics using shaders 4.0 since crysis was possible so this one can we all have powerful computers anyway i am using 240 gts with quad core setup.
@Dr.Eggfang
Upon reading your link, it sounds like I’ve actually been giving the Hedgehog Engine TOO MUCH credit. I was crediting it as a graphics engine, rendering at high speeds, it sounds more like a lighting engine handling only the shadows of objects and light sources already in the environment. Honestly, I still think it’s moot for a 2D game, but I require some more information on my end, so you can just call this a victory for now. Also, I know how irony works, I asked for future corrections and then spelled ‘correct’ wrong. It’s situational irony, if this were a play of some sort it’d be dramatic irony.
SEGA should hire him and make a remake of the old Sonic games
Reasons why this is better than Sonic 4:
-Sonic doesn’t look ass-ugly
-The graphics on Sonic look good and fit with the rest of the game
-The physics are the same as on the genesis
-There’s no homing attack to pollute and cheapen the gameplay
-Sonic actually spins fast and doesn’t uncurl like a moron in mid-jump
-Sonic’s posture and body language is just like the Genesis games, as it should’ve been in Sonic 4
-Ditto for the animations
I’d take a well made remake of S3K any day over a cheaply, lazily made “new game” (lol) like what they actually had the guts to call “Sonic 4″.
At least that Doomsday Zone video was somewhat original.
It used a hideous model and Sonic had a retarded show-off attitude with tons of retarded pointless poses in it. That video sucked.
(EDIT – Inflammatory -T)
It’s a video that is a mock-up of what a videogame would look like (in this case an SK remake), therefore it’s ok to talk about it as if it were a game, and to compare it to other games.
I mean really, idiots, use your head.