Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)/Staff

This article pertains to the staff members of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).

Director/Game Story/Game Title

 * Shun Nakamura

Original Executive Producer

 * Yuji Naka

Producer

 * Masahiro Kumono

Chief Game Designers

 * Shun Nakamura
 * Atsushi Kanno

Game Designers

 * Hiroshi Miyamoto
 * Takao Hirabayashi
 * Masayuki Inoue
 * Takako Nagase
 * Makoto Hirata
 * Daisuke Shimizu

Chief Programmers

 * Yoshitaka Kawabata
 * Makoto Suzuki

Programmers

 * Ryuichi Ishiguro
 * Takuma Komatsu
 * Tsutomu Matsuo
 * Yoshihiko Toyoshima
 * Kouji Ogino
 * Yuichi Matsuoka
 * Kentarou Tomii
 * Naoko Shimura
 * Tomoatsu Imai
 * Yosuke Yamazaki
 * Hiromasa Kaneko
 * Takateru Ohyama
 * Ryouhei Yamada
 * Maki Nishimori
 * Yusuke Ichiyama
 * Daigo Matsuura
 * Hiroshi Iwasaki

Chief Artist (Art Director)

 * Akira Mikame

Character Artists

 * Yoshinari Amaike
 * Shinkichi Tanahashi
 * Akio Sakai
 * Takashi Iida
 * Masao Tsunoda
 * Sho Kunieda
 * Yuka Matsumoto

Enemy Artists

 * Wataru Watanabe
 * Masatoshi Yasumura

Motion Artists

 * Kentaro Niina
 * Motomu Hayashi
 * Tomoaki Yuyama
 * Hiroaki Take

Event Scene Artists

 * Tamotsu Kushibe
 * Yusuke Kashiwagi
 * Mamoru Ohta
 * Hiromasa Yoshida
 * Fumihiko Kagawa
 * Yukihiro Ishida
 * Tatsuya Yabuta

Effects Artists

 * Tadakazu Aramaki
 * Takafumi Yoshioka
 * Seiichi Tsuruoka

Menu Screen Artist

 * Eriko Mikawa

Field Artists

 * Yuki Takahashi
 * Kazuko Ito
 * Takeshi Matsuura
 * Yuji Yamaga
 * Kenji Odaka
 * Michio Abe
 * Hitomi Nagao
 * Hisae Jibiki
 * Mayo Sudo
 * Akiko Muto
 * Ryouhei Yanase
 * Naoko Irube
 * Masashi Kuma
 * Takashi Saito
 * Akane Hayashi
 * Ken Suganuma
 * Hideaki Fujisawa
 * Keihan Fujii
 * Shuhei Sakamoto
 * Ryuichi Yamanaka
 * Akiko Ikehara
 * Yuichi Komagata

SEGA OF CHINA Staff

 * Makoto Uchida
 * Katusnori Kosuge
 * Cheng Li
 * Shao Mingzhu
 * Li MuZhang
 * Fang Jie
 * Sheng FeiFei
 * Bao JanGang
 * Mei Ling
 * Liu ChengLing
 * Yu YongQing
 * Li Shuo
 * Jing Huan
 * Digital Media Labo Inc.
 * Polygon Magic Inc.

Storyboard

 * Tatsuya Yabuta (EnumaElisch.LLP)
 * Masaya Suzuki (EnumaElisch.LLP)

Lighting Imageboard

 * Yukihiro Ishida (EnumaElisch.LLP)

Artist Special Thanks

 * AM2 AuthMotion Team
 * Masaharu Nakayama
 * Yoshiyuki Tomatsu
 * Seiju Taniguchi
 * Makoto Yonezu
 * Taro Hino

Sound Director

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Music Composers

 * Mariko Nanba
 * Tomoya Ohtani
 * Hideaki Kobayashi
 * Taihei Sato
 * Jun Senoue
 * Takahito Eguchi

Senior Music Composer

 * Masato Nakamura

Recording & Mixing Engineer

 * Yoshitada Miya
 * Masahiro Fukuhara
 * Yutaka Yamamoto (Attic Arcade)
 * Yoshikazu Sasahara
 * Hideyuki Arima (Power House Studio)
 * Stan Katayama

Recorded at

 * Sound Crew Studio
 * Power House Studio
 * Onkio Haus Studio
 * Sound Inn Studio
 * Olympic Studio
 * Del Rey Studio

Mixed at

 * Sega Digital Studio
 * Attic Arcade Studio
 * Onkio Haus Studio
 * Sound Inn Studio
 * Mit Studio

Original Director and Original Wii Planer

 * Yojiro Ogawa

Drums

 * Toru Kawamura
 * Nobuo Eguchi

Electric Bass

 * Takeshi Taneda

Electric Guitar

 * Chewtaro Moritake
 * Yasutaka Kume
 * Jun Senoue

Acoustic Guitar

 * Chewtaro Moritake
 * Naganori Sakakibara

Electric Sitar

 * Chewtaro Moritake

Piano

 * Nobuo Kurata
 * Masaki Matsumoto

Chorus

 * Miho Fujiwara
 * Kazuko Hamano
 * Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

Flute

 * Bob Zung

Oboe

 * Hiroshi Shibayama

Accordion

 * Yoshiaki Sato

Strings

 * Kuwano Strings
 * Shinozaki Strings

1stVl

 * Hiroyuki Koike

2ndVl

 * Rei Koike

Vla

 * Tomoko Fukuhara

Vc

 * Tomio Yajima

Cb

 * Shinji Tanaka

Arranger

 * Takahito Eguchi
 * Yasutaka Kume

Additional Recording Director

 * Tadashi Otsubo

Recording Coordinator

 * Kiyoshi Yoshida (Attic Arcade)
 * Hidetaka "Carl" Shibata (Power House Studio)
 * Yoji Sugiyama (Witch Craft)
 * Kazuyuki Doki (RE-BIRTH)
 * Jun Senoue
 * Tomoya Ohtani

Supervisor Sound Editor

 * Tatsuya Kousaki

Sound Editor

 * Hiroaki Funane

Supervisor Sound Editor

 * Eiji "AJ" Nakamura (RedAJ Sound)

Sound Editor

 * Chiharu "Micchi" Minekawa (RedAJ Sound)
 * Kenichi "KEN" Saito (RedAJ Sound)
 * Yoshihiro "PIRO" Maeda (RedAJ Sound)

Post-Production Manager

 * Masayasu Yamashita
 * Kazuya Taniguchi

Mixing Engineer

 * Kazutaka Someya

Assistant Engineer

 * Tomohiro Fuchikami

Foley Artist & Editor

 * Yuka Kitazawa

Visual Technician

 * Natsuko Yamashita

Mixing Studio

 * DIGITAL EGG STUDIO MA-1

Sound Section Special Thanks (Sound Effects)

 * Todd Singerman
 * Lynn Grossman
 * Melody Santos
 * Ken Sakata (A&K CORPORATION)
 * Koji Matsumoto
 * Teruhiko Nakagawa
 * Ai Muroi
 * Naofumi Hataya
 * Masaru Setsumaru
 * Seirou Okamoto

VP Product Development

 * Jin Shimazaki

Voice Coordinator/Dialog Director (Voice Recording Director)

 * Eriko Kimura

Dubbing Production Manager (Voice Recording Producer)

 * Hiroyuki Inage
 * Yae Tateyama (TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION)

Voice Recording Studio: Studio Uni

 * OMNIBUS JAPAN

CG Movie Director

 * Minoru Kusakabe
 * Tomokazu Takahashi
 * Tomohiro Yonemichi

CG Movie Modeling
Hideyuki Higashi Yutaka Yamaki Emiri Minagawa
 * Yoshihiko Suzuki
 * Hiroaki Ohta
 * Toshiya Sugiura
 * Satoshi Takahashi
 * Hideaki Makinouchi
 * Takayuki Hayama
 * Yoshihiro Hanada
 * Takeshi Hoshino
 * Satoshi Kounosu
 * Kazushige Hayakawa
 * Tomohiro Mitsui
 * Naoto Kawaguchi
 * Jun Masuda

CG Movie Setup & Animation

 * Jiro Yamagishi
 * Yusuke Sakai
 * Kiminori Kusano
 * Kenou Hakamaya
 * Mio Tagiri
 * Tsuyoshi Tanaka
 * Takaaki Kise
 * Tatsunori Tomiyama
 * Tatsuya Akagi
 * Kengou Nukizono
 * Yoshimasa Kimura
 * Hideyuki Kinoshita
 * Kei Miyamoto

CG Movie VFX & Sequence

 * Yoshihisa Inoue
 * Keisuke Takahashi
 * Shuntaro Furukawa
 * Kouhei Kajisa
 * Satoshi Tomatsu
 * Tsubasa Nakai
 * Takeyuki Suzuki
 * Masayuki Tanaka
 * Takuya Hada

CG Movie Engineer

 * Taku Wakisaka
 * Toru Iwata
 * Jun Saito

CG Movie Management

 * Takeshi Itou
 * Masahito Imamura
 * Yoshifumi Sueda
 * Chikako Tanaka

CG Movie

 * Aoki Prod.
 * Blur Studio, Inc.
 * Shirogumi Inc.
 * Foro Grafico Co. Ltd.
 * Gemba Inc.

Motion Capture

 * SEGA Motion Capture Team
 * Takeo Iwata
 * Hiroshi Tanaka
 * Shunkichi Yukitake
 * Kimiko Nakaizumi
 * Hitoshi Noda
 * Yukie Hagiwara

Motion Capture Actor

 * Wonderman
 * Tony Hosokawa
 * Iori Sakakibara
 * Ami Sakai
 * Tomomi Ohta
 * Naoyasu Achi
 * Wataru Koga
 * Action Actor Group "Katsugekiza"

Dancer

 * Kaori Nishimura
 * Sachiko Takagi
 * Mariko Tagami

Choreographer

 * EASY

Motion Capture Data Editing

 * Double-O-Buck Inc.
 * Orbital Link Inc.
 * Dynamo Pictures Inc.

Publicity Artwork

 * Yuji Uekawa

Game Script

 * Kiyoko Yoshimura
 * Shiro Maekawa

Web Team

 * Mayumi Moro
 * Yuichi Kikuchi
 * Takeshi Ichimura

Special Thanks

 * Takashi Iizuka
 * Hirono Sato
 * Keith Palmer
 * Keisuke Nakamura
 * Yojiro Ogawa
 * Sachiko Kawamura
 * Masanobu Yamamoto
 * Tetsu Katano
 * Fumitaka Shibata (wave master)
 * Tetsuya Hotozuka
 * Takeshi Sakakibara
 * Keiichi Noda
 * Eitaro Toyoda
 * Yoshihisa Hashimoto
 * Takashi Atsu
 * Yoshiaki Hattori
 * Hitoshi Ohta

English Character Voices

 * Lacey Chabert as Princess Elise
 * Lisa Ortiz
 * Bella Hudson
 * Mike Pollock
 * David Wills
 * Dan Green
 * Maddie Blaustein
 * Kathleen Delaney
 * Jason Griffith
 * Pete Capella
 * Amy Palant

Product Marketing Manager

 * Yasushi Yamashita
 * Naoko Ooka, Satoshi Imai
 * Takeshi Shimizu

Retail Sales Manager

 * Akihide Ichimura

Sales Promotion

 * Osamu Sato

Public Relations Leader

 * Hiromi Seida

Technical Support

 * Takashi Shoji
 * Akihiro Etori
 * Osamu Ogata
 * Toyoji Kurose

Localization Support

 * Representatives at IBPD
 * Aya Takeuchi
 * Shinobu Shindo

Product Management

 * Junichi Shimizu

Japanese Character Voices

 * Jun'ichi Kanemaru
 * Koji Yusa
 * Daisuke Ono
 * Maaya Sakamoto
 * Takayuki Sakazume
 * Ryo Hirohashi
 * Nobutoshi Kanna
 * Rumi Ochiai
 * Taitem Kusunoki
 * Nawo Takamori
 * Taeko Kawata
 * Hikari Yono
 * Keiji Okuda
 * Yoshikazu Kazuma
 * Kenji Utsumi
 * Chikao Otsuka

Product Support

 * Akira Nishikawa
 * Hiroyuki Miyano
 * Yuki Takahashi
 * Daisuke Suzuki

Quality Control

 * Sunao Murayama
 * Yuji Nakamura
 * Kenji Oohashi

Support Team

 * Masayuki Takahashi
 * Kiyotaka Kondo
 * Yukihiro Taguchi

Software Manuals & Packaging

 * Yoshihiro Sakuta
 * Hisakazu Nakagawa
 * Hiroki Osawa
 * Takashi Nishimura
 * Tetsuya Honda
 * Colin Restall

CEO

 * Naoya Tsurumi

President/COO

 * Simon Jeffery

VP of Product Development

 * David Cobb

Technical Director

 * Jez Sherlock

VP, Marketing

 * Scott Steinberg

Director, Marketing

 * Don Mesa

Producer

 * Justin Lambros

Producer Assistant

 * Marta Khosraw

PR

 * Anne-Marie Stein
 * One PR
 * Jeane Wong
 * One PR
 * Dana Whitney
 * One PR

Creative Services

 * Jen Groeling
 * Heather Luchetti
 * Bridget Oates

Head of Operations

 * Tom Dudley

Online

 * Chris Olson
 * Leri Greer
 * Mike Dobbins

Mastering Lab

 * Rey Buzon
 * Andrew Byrne
 * Rhianna Kellom

QA Manager

 * Deni Skeens

QA Supervisor

 * Josh Morton

Senior Test Lead

 * Shawn Dobbins

Project Lead

 * Lee Frohman

Assistant Lead

 * Chad Ginsburg

Testers

 * Chris Pierce
 * Jesse LaGrange
 * Andrew Thanyawatpokin
 * Peter Koenig

Compliancy Test Lead

 * Stephen Akana

Compliancy Assistant Lead

 * Lawrence Mann

Compliancy Testers

 * Andrew Weaver
 * Joe Floyd
 * John Belcher
 * Eduardo Camacho

Voice Directors

 * Christopher Collet
 * Julie Rath

Production Coordinator

 * Salvatore Oppedisano

Pro Tools Engineers

 * Suzy Goldish
 * Paul Grassini
 * Mike Knoblauch
 * Alon Namdar
 * Questar Welsh

Special Thanks

 * Beejey Enriquez
 * Kevin Frane
 * Takashi Iizuka
 * Jason Kuo
 * Keith Palmer
 * Yosuke Moriya
 * Ben Harrison

Casting Director

 * Dawn Hershey, C.S.A.

Voice Director

 * Lisa Schaffer

VO Producer

 * Alexandra Dorris

Casting Assistant

 * Dave Lieber

Production Assistant

 * Wes Gleason

Recording Engineer

 * J. David Atherton

CEO

 * Naoya Tsurumi

President/COO

 * Mike Hayes

Development Director

 * Gary Dunn

Creative Director

 * Matthew Woodley

Director of European Marketing

 * Gary Knight

Localisation

 * Kuniyo Matsumoto

Senior Producer, Localisation

 * Akiko Uchida

European PR

 * Lynn Daniel
 * Kerry Martyn

Senior Brand Manager - Japanese Studios

 * David Allen

International Brand Manager

 * Ben Chalmers-Stevens

Creative Services

 * Alison Warfield
 * Tom Bingle
 * Morgan Gibbons
 * Akane Hiraoka
 * Arnoud Tempelaere

Head of Operations

 * Mark Simmons

Operations

 * Caroline Searle
 * Natalie Cooke

Online Services

 * Justin Moodie
 * Nina Ahmad
 * Bennie Booysen
 * Mike Evans
 * Romily Broad

Head of Development Services

 * Mark Le Breton

Master Tech. Group

 * John Hegarty
 * Jigar Patel

QA Supervisors

 * Marlon Grant
 * Stuart Arrowsmith

Senior Team Leads

 * Dominic Berzins
 * Julie Metior

Assistant Team Leads

 * Gabriel Ralls
 * Alex Humphries
 * Renée Teloka
 * Marlon Andall

Standards Coordinators

 * Mohammed Ajaib
 * Michael Hanley
 * Ali Hassan
 * Language Team Leads
 * Jean Baptiste Bagot
 * Sven Wittmaack

Game Engine

 * Havok

Sound Designed By

 * Dolby Digital 5.1

Lyrics

 * MIWA YOSHIDA

Music

 * MASATO NAKAMURA

Arrangement

 * AKON0
 * MIWA YOSHIDA & Vocal
 * Backing Vocal
 * Vocal Arrangement
 * MASATO NAKAMURA & Backing Vocals
 * AKON &. All Instruments Performance & Backing Vocals

Lyrics

 * MIWA YOSHIDA

Music

 * MASATO NAKAMURA

Arrangement

 * AKON00
 * MIWA YOSHIDA & Vocal
 * Backing Vocal
 * Vocal Arrangement
 * MASATO NAKAMURA & Backing Vocals
 * AKON &. All Instruments Performance & Backing Vocals

His World

 * HIS WORLD.... Ali Tabatabaee & Matty Lewis from ZEBRAHEAD

Music

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Words

 * Johnny Gioeli & Ali Tabatabaee

Strings Arrangement

 * Takahito Eguchi

Vocal Tracks Producer

 * Jun Senoue

ALL HAIL SHADOW

 * ALL HAIL SHADOW.... Crush 40

Music

 * Jun Senoue & Mike Szuter

Words

 * Mike Szuter

DREAMS OF AN ABSOLUTION

 * DREAMS OF AN ABSOLUTION.... Lee Brotherton

Music

 * Mariko Nanba

Arrangement

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Vocals & Words

 * Lee Brotherton

Vocal Tracks Producer

 * Remix Factory, UK

MY DESTINY

 * MY DESTINY.... Donna De Lory

Music

 * Mariko Nanba

Words

 * Candie Y

Arrangement

 * Takahito Eguchi

Vocal Tracks Producer

 * Jun Senoue

Executive Management

 * Hiroyuki Miyazaki
 * Masanao Maeda
 * Hideki Okamura

Chief Producer

 * Takayuki Kawagoe
 * Akinori Nishiyama

Executive Producer

 * Hisao Oguchi

Special Thanks to
All staff members and their families

Middleware Support

 * CRI Middleware Co. Ltd.

Technicalogy By

 * ADX
 * Sofdec

Created By

 * Sonic Team

Presented by

 * Sega