Early, Never Before Seen Tails Concept Art Discovered From Sonic SatAM TV Show Pilot

@judy_totoya Hello! I discovered some photocopies of your art in a box and paid for them to be scanned for preservation. Tails seems to have long feet and a furry outer body in some of these drawings – was it an early design? (2/4) pic.twitter.com/tysGRVDCIH

— Fieryfurnace (@PlaceandH) April 11, 2023

There were also American drawings of Tails sent as reference material to DiC, at the same time. I'll be sharing everything scanned in the box in my SatAM Dropbox archive in the future. Give me a follow if you're interested in niche early 1990s animation talk lol (4/4) pic.twitter.com/j1NAoKgGiT

— Fieryfurnace (@PlaceandH) April 11, 2023

These are the earliest character set-up drawings.
Since the development period for Sonic 2 was short, we used these drawings as a base and brushed up the design as we created the game.

— 斗々屋 (@judy_totoya) April 11, 2023

You can see that the pictures on the game screen have changed considerably between the beta version title screen and the final version.

— 斗々屋 (@judy_totoya) April 11, 2023

The character designs were stabilized when we returned to Japan from creating the manual illustrations to create the official character setting drawings.

— 斗々屋 (@judy_totoya) April 11, 2023