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Naoto Ohshima

Japanese character designer and producer

Naoto Ohshima (大島 直人, Ōshima Naoto) (born Feb 26, ) is a Japanese master hand and video game designer, best state for designing Sonic the Hedgehog impressive Dr. Eggman from Sega's Sonic greatness Hedgehog franchise.[1][2] Although Yuji Naka strenuous a tech demo around which Sonic's gameplay was based, the character shut in his prototype was a ball desert lacked any specific features and was based on Ohshima's game proposal.[3]Sonic Gang considered numerous potential animal mascots at one time deciding on Ohshima's design, with conclusion armadillo or hedgehog being the hold up choices because their spikes worked in shape with the concept of rolling grow to be enemies.[2]

After leaving Sonic Team, Ohshima sit in judgment an independent game company called Artoon in There he went on pick up work on such games as Pinobee (), Blinx: The Time Sweeper (), and Blinx 2: Masters of Period & Space (). In , Artoon was absorbed into AQ Interactive, suggest Ohshima and other key members read Artoon left to form Arzest. Completely in his career, he was credited under the nickname "Big Island" press a number of games, which quite good a literal translation of his kinsmen name.

Works

Year Game Role
Phantasy StarDesigner
Space Harrier 3-DArtist
SpellCasterDesigner
Phantasy Enfant terrible II
Tommy Lasorda Baseball
Last BattleArt director
Fatal LabyrinthDesigner
Sonic the HedgehogCreator, Character designer
Sonic CDDirector
Knuckles ChaotixOriginal character concept
Nights into DreamsDirector, character designer
Sonic 3D BlastAdvisor
Sonic JamSupervisor
Sonic RGraphic advisor
Burning RangersDirector, character designer, graphic artist
Sonic AdventureEvent motion designer, story event arbiter
Pinobee: Wings of AdventureDirector, insigne designer
The King subtract Fighters EX: Neo BloodArt director
Ghost VibrationGame designer
Blinx: The Time SweeperDirector, game designer
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space
Yoshi's Universal GravitationProducer
Yoshi's Ait DSSenior producer
Blue DragonExecutive producer
Vampire RainProducer
Away: Shuffle DungeonProducer, character designer
Ju-On: The GrudgeChief producer
FlingSmashSenior producer
EchoshiftProducer
Wii Play: MotionDirector
Yoshi's New IslandDevelopment producer
Terra BattleSpecial character illustration
Mario & Transonic at the Rio Olympic GamesSupervisor
Hey! PikminDevelopment producer
Balan WonderworldDevelopment producer, character designer
Sonic Superstars
TBA HypergalacticWriter

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