Sonic Unleashed/Staff (Wii/PlayStation 2)

This article pertains to the staff members behind the Wii/PlayStation 2 version of Sonic Unleashed.

Executive Supervisor

 * Takayuki Kawagoe
 * Naoya Tsurumi
 * Masanao Maeda

Executive Producer

 * Okitane Usui

Chief Producers

 * Hiroyuki Miyazaki
 * Toshihiro Nagoshi

Producer

 * Akinori Nishiyama

Director

 * Toshiyuki Nagahara
 * Yoshihisa Hashimoto

Art Directors

 * Hideaki Moriya
 * Sachiko Kawamura

Lead Programmers

 * Naoki Takishita
 * Takaaki Saito

Sound Producer

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Scenario Writer

 * Kiyoko Yoshimura

Character Artists

 * Noriyuki Kitazawa
 * Megumi Yamashita
 * Mikio Ohkubo
 * Hirotaka Ijichi

Lead Designer

 * Takao Hirabayashi

Designers

 * Takako Nagase
 * Masayuki Inoue

Lead Day Time Level Designer (Dimps)

 * Masaaki Yamagiwa

Day Time Level Designers

 * Masami Kikuchi
 * Shouhei Shimokawa
 * Masanosuke Shimizu
 * Yuka Kobayashi

Lead Night Time Level Designer

 * Minoru Yamazaki

Night Time Level Designers

 * Tatsuro Tsumori
 * Yoshihito Okuno
 * Kentarou Kiyono
 * Kyouko Kataoka
 * Atsushi Kanno
 * Emiko Sunaga

Lead Conversation Programmer

 * Hidehiro Bushisue

Programmers

 * Yohei Okai
 * Ryusuke Watanabe
 * Masahiko Hidaka
 * Fujio Tani
 * Hitoshi Yamashina
 * Atsushi Nakano
 * Hiroki Horiguchi
 * Mitsutaka Fukuhara
 * Toru Inoue
 * Hiroya Hasegawa
 * Ryosuke Ihara
 * Kyohei Kakimoto
 * Yukio Kaneda
 * Kenichi Koshida
 * Takaaki Ieki
 * Hiroki Hayami
 * Shinya Hironaka
 * Yuzuru Nakamura
 * Masatoshi Nakane
 * Takashi Miyahara
 * Naohisa Tanimoto
 * Hiroshi Iwasaki
 * Kentaro Tomil
 * Nobuo Nakagawa
 * Yusuke Ichiyama

Addtional Programming Support

 * Katsuya Kuramoto

Lead Artist

 * Daisuke Miyahara

Artists

 * Seiichi Fudo
 * Shintaro Washino
 * Naoki Matsue
 * Satoshi Takemura
 * Yuki Yamamoto
 * Motoki Uehara
 * Kazuhiro Kohata
 * Tomomi Kobayashi
 * Erika Baba
 * Junji Ihara
 * Eriko Sato
 * Masaki Yasumitsu
 * Tatsumi Harada
 * Shiho Yabe
 * Yuji Wada
 * Kumiko Yagura
 * Takeshi Mitsumoto
 * Mitsuhiro Sasatani
 * Tetsuya Mitomi
 * Masaya Etou
 * Takahito Kojima
 * Aki Kise
 * Nao Okinaka
 * Ichiro Yamana
 * Tamotsu Kushibe
 * Makoto Yonezu
 * Shinkichi Tanahashi
 * Keisuke Watanabe
 * Hideki Yano
 * Hiromasa Yoshida
 * Kentarou Niina

Lead Scripter

 * Sayaka Yamato

Scripters

 * Kohei Iwamoto
 * Toshiyuki Nagahara
 * Kuninori Dohno
 * Hiroaki Yamasaki

Addtional Production Support

 * Hideaki Hamachi
 * Yukihiro Higashi

Technical Support

 * Hiroto Hayashi
 * Kazuhiro Fumoto
 * Mito Yoshida
 * Akira Kanasugi
 * Noriyuki Tarumi
 * Toshikazu Kawada
 * Osamu Ogata
 * Takashi Ando
 * Makoto Suzuki

Lead Animator

 * Noriyuki Kuroki

Animators

 * Kazuhito Takahashi
 * Akira Kawanari
 * Keisuke Iwano
 * Keisuke Tochio

Lead Visual Effects Artist

 * Miho Hayashi

Visual Effects Artists

 * Waka Matsuo
 * Yuichi Tokuda
 * Naoki Nakashiba

Lead User Interface Artist

 * Shikana Kimura

User Interface Artists

 * Haruka Kimoto
 * Sawa Onishi

Additional Art Support

 * Kazuhiko Yamamoto

In Game And Opening Movie Concept Art

 * Aoki Prod.
 * Massive Black Inc.
 * Gentle Giant Studios

Game Character Design

 * Illustrators Unit Gurihiru

Lead Music Composer

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Music Composers

 * Kenichi Tokoi
 * Fumie Kumatani
 * Hideaki Kobayashi
 * Takahito Eguchi
 * Mariko Nanba
 * Yutaka Minobe

Sound & Music Scripter

 * Kenji Kojima

Game Title

 * Shun Nakamura

Special Thanks

 * Kouichi Sakita
 * Kazuhiro Kawakami
 * Yuji Nakayama
 * Makiko Nishimura
 * Kenjiro Morimoto
 * Tetsu Katano
 * Yojiro Ogawa
 * Masatoshi Nakamura
 * Yuichiro Yamamoto
 * Tatsuya Kimagi
 * Shinobu Yokota
 * Yoko Araki

Sales Promotion

 * Mitsuru Takahashi
 * Takafumi Ueoro
 * Yusuke Watanabe
 * Yasushi Nagumo
 * Reiko Chiba

Project Management

 * Seijiro Sanabe
 * Yasushi Yamashita
 * Takeshi Shimizu
 * Toshiro Nakayama
 * Hideki Yokaichiya

Sales

 * Akira Nomoto
 * Koji Nagata
 * Tkayuki Murata

Software Manual Production

 * Yoshihiro Sakuta
 * Colin Reatall

Overseas Consumer Business

 * Tatsuya Shikata
 * Aya Takeuchi
 * Ryo Urushibata

Quality Assurance

 * Seiji Hasegawa
 * Yuji Nakamura
 * Toshihiro Yuda
 * Kenta Takeda

Product Test

 * Junichi Shimizu
 * Akira Nishikawa
 * Osamu Sato
 * Hiroyuki Miyano
 * Yuki Takahashi
 * Daisuke Suzuki
 * Yuta Motehi
 * Yusuke Asano
 * Masanori Iwamoto
 * Genta Ishkikawa
 * Hirotsugu Igarashi
 * Emiu Akimoto

Special Thanks

 * Yoshiharu Honda
 * Kazunori Yagi
 * Naoki Kondo
 * Yukihiro Taguchi
 * Akiko Kuroda

President/COO

 * Simon Jeffery

VP Of Sales

 * Sue Hughes-Taigen

VP Of Product Development

 * Dave Cobb

Producer

 * Patrick Rlley
 * Jason Kuo

Assistant Producer

 * Kevin Frane

VP Of Content

 * John Whitmore

Senior Publishing Manager

 * Klay Vorlick

VP Of Marketing

 * Sean Ratacliffe

Senior Director Of Marketing

 * Rick Naylor

Director Of Marketing

 * Don Mesa

Product Marketing Manager

 * Judy Gillbertson

Assistant Product Marketing Manager

 * Ken Balough

Marketing Consultant

 * Maroella Churchill

Senior Public Relations Manager

 * Tall Flscher

Senior Creative Manager

 * Jen Groling

Creative Manager

 * Heather Lucchetti
 * Mary Disbrow
 * Marco Garcia
 * Bridget Oates
 * Teri Higgins
 * Carl Smolka
 * Greg Amen

Development Services Director

 * John Merlino

QA Supervisor

 * Mark Cartwright

Mastering Lab Supervisor

 * Rey Buzon

Mastering Lab Technicians

 * Keith Alloro
 * Chris Rilles
 * Ken Nacua

Senior QA Leads

 * Demetrius Griffin
 * Shawn Dobbins

Test Lead

 * Teressa Guest

Assistant Test Lead

 * Dane Day

Standards Supervisor

 * Stephen Akana

Standards Lead

 * Junior Sison
 * Eduardo Camacho

Standards Assistant Lead

 * Christine Letheby
 * Marta Khosraw

Standards Testers

 * Niroth Keo
 * Anthony Williams
 * John Stafford
 * Benjamn Hand
 * Tim Erbil
 * Dennis Di Bernardi
 * Jonathan Lalas
 * Tamara Williamson
 * John Belcher

Testers

 * Luke Hoppel
 * Justln Edwards
 * Tony Lo
 * Joana Raisfon
 * Johnson Tang
 * Camden Tayler

Hardware Technician

 * Matt Ellison

Web Producer

 * Marjorie Puruganan

Flash Developer

 * Mike Dobbins

Special Thanks

 * Osamu Shibamiya At Inbound Game
 * One Fr, Keith Palmer
 * Keith Dwyer
 * Omar Woodley
 * Christopher Kaminskl
 * Andy Alamano
 * Brody Phillips

President/COO

 * Mike Hayes

Development Director

 * Gary Dunn

Director Of European Marketing

 * Gary Knight

Head of Studio, Localisation

 * Kuniyo Matsumoto

Senior Producer, Localisation

 * Akiko O'Driscoll

Publishing Manager

 * Nathalie Ranson

Senior Brand Manager

 * Helen Lawson

European PR

 * Kerry Martyn

Creative Services

 * Alison Peat
 * Morgan Gibbons
 * Akane Hiraoka
 * Arnoud Tempelaere

Head of Operations

 * Mark Simmons

Purchasing Manager

 * Caroline Searle

Operations

 * Natalie Cooke

Online Services

 * Mike Evans
 * Chatlotte Mils
 * Kevin Eva
 * James Carsen

Legal Counsel

 * Nicola Steel
 * Mark Bennett

Licensing Manager

 * Nivine Emeran

Head of Development Services

 * Mark Le Breton

Localisation Manager

 * Marta Le Breton

Localisation Coordinator

 * Giuseppe Rizzo

Translators

 * Antonella Marras
 * Antonio Catanese
 * Carole Kuzelmann
 * Brihitte Nadesan
 * Jean-Loup Lansac
 * Jesus Alvarez
 * Marco Borrelll
 * Nicole Thomer
 * Daniela Kaynert
 * Jay Bannmuller
 * Sebastian Perez Salguero
 * Luis J. Paredes

Mastering Team

 * John Hegarty
 * Jigar Patel
 * Roy Boateng

QA Senior Team Leads

 * Julie Metior
 * Renee Teloka

QA Team Leads

 * David Tyler
 * Samuel Morgan
 * Tony Langa
 * Yusuf Ibrahim

QA Assistant Team Leads

 * Natasha Sandars
 * Paul Sedgmore
 * Simon Chang

QA Functionality Testers

 * Ben Hunt
 * Cara Gifford-Pitcher
 * Dan O' Callaghan
 * Deanne Anderson
 * Elwaleed Suliman
 * Errol Burke
 * Jamie Carpen
 * Jamal Ibrahim
 * Jasmine Lillywhite
 * Michael Drinkwater
 * Michael Veness
 * Nadine Bieshaar
 * Paul Hann
 * Stephen Etheridge

QA Language Senior Team Leads

 * Alessandro Irranca
 * Stephan Woischon

QA Language Assistant Team Leads

 * Goddredo Pagliei
 * Ilja Klemm
 * Ruggero Varisco

QA Language Senior Testers

 * Julien Grelet
 * Stephane Ramael

QA Language Testers

 * Alessio Nesl
 * Alexis Baudon
 * Antoine Fourmond
 * Antoine Pineau
 * Carolina Vidal
 * Christoph Masius
 * Edoardo Levanti
 * Gian Maria Angelucci
 * Ilaria Pizzill
 * Ivan Palma
 * Jorge Vllches
 * Krystiana Gulbub
 * Marcus Laqua
 * Mario Horky
 * Michael Willenborg
 * Pedro Albertini
 * Rafael Bermudez
 * Ricardo Rodriguez
 * Tiziano Loi

QA Standards Coordinator

 * Mohammed Ajaib

QA Assistant Standards Coordinator

 * Justin Amore
 * Mike Hanley

Standards Techincians

 * Aaron Wright
 * Alexander Maw
 * Anthony Phillips
 * Cornell Walker
 * David Skilton
 * Hiroki Saito
 * James Beaton
 * Sameer Malik
 * Shiya Allari

CG Movie Producer

 * Takeshi Itou

CG Movie Line Producer

 * Naoko Ajiro

CG Movie Director

 * Shinji Aramaki

CG Movie Art Director

 * Tomokazu Takahashi

CG Movie Project Manager

 * Chikako Tanaka
 * Rumi Osagawa
 * Akira Ito
 * Tomohiro Mitsui
 * Ayano Fukuda

CG Movie Production Manager

 * Kei Miyamoto

Head Of Layout

 * Kengo Takeuchi
 * Manabu Himikai

Character Modeling Supervisor

 * Jun Masuda

Sets & Props Supervisor

 * Hideyuki Higashi

Character Set Up Supervisor

 * Kei Miyamoto

Animation Supervisor

 * Jiro Yamagishi

Effect Supervisor

 * Masayuki Tanaka

Sequence Supervisor

 * Takuya Hada

Director Of R&D

 * Jun Saito

Tools Development Supervisor

 * Seymour Wakisaka

Pre-Production Artists

 * Minoru Kusakabe
 * Naomi Tsujishita

Lead Department Concept Artists

 * Shinji Usui

Department Concept Artists

 * Noriaki Hasimoto
 * Masanori Takimoto
 * Hiroaki Ueno
 * Hiroyuki Kinoshita

Department Artists

 * Naomi Tsujishita

Lead Character Modeling Department Artist

 * Kenichi Nishida

Character Modeling Department Artists

 * Toshiya Umeda
 * Satoshi Kounosu
 * Satoshi Takahashi
 * Hiroaki Ota
 * Takayuki Hayama
 * Emiri Minagawa
 * Simin Yano

Lead Sets & Props Modeling Department Artist

 * Yoshihiro Hanada

Sets & Props Modeling Department Artists

 * Kazushige Hayakawa
 * Hideaki Makinouchi
 * Yoshihiko Suzuki
 * Yutaka Yamaki
 * Naoto Kawaguchi

Lead Character Setup Department Artist

 * Kiminori Kusano

Character Modeling Department Artists

 * Kenou Hakamaya
 * Tatsuya Akagi
 * Kengou Nukizono
 * Ayako Sakurai
 * Tomohiro Hanawa

Animation Department Artists

 * Yusuke Sakai
 * Tsuyoshi Tanaka
 * Takaaki Kise
 * Tatsunori Tomiyama
 * Yoshimasa Kimura
 * Hideyuki Kinosita
 * Tomokazu Sakamoto

Effect Department Artists

 * Shuntaro Furukawa
 * Yoshihisa Inoue
 * Takeyuki Suzuki
 * Wataru Kitamura

Lighting Department Artists

 * Kohei Kajisa
 * Satoshi Tomatsu
 * Keisuke Takahashi
 * Tsubasa Nakai
 * Hiokazu Ayukawa
 * Takuto Yamamori
 * Tomoya Kowase

Software Department Engineers

 * Tomoaki Saito
 * Gaetan Guidet
 * Tatsuya "Cap" Syuzui
 * Yoko Sano
 * Tomoya Matsumura
 * Takamasa Matsunari
 * Shoma Hosaka
 * Toshifumi Sato (Cerntro System)
 * Atsushi Shibata (Webcore Corpotation)

Software Department Techincal Reseacher

 * Mio Tagiri

Lead System Adrministrator

 * Yuji Umeki

System Adrministrators

 * Toru Iwata
 * Yusuke Yangisawa
 * Yukari Oikawa
 * Yoko Washino===Matte Paining Artist===
 * Kazumasa Uchio

Concept Art VP Digital

 * Brian Sunderlin

Concept Art Director

 * Scott Spencer

Lead Concept Artist

 * Jp Target

Concept Artist

 * Ben Roman

Colza Design Artist

 * Rieko Nohara
 * Ayako Kawawa

Sound director & Lead Music Composer
Tomoya Ohtani

Drums

 * Hideo Yamaki
 * Masayuki Muraishi

Percussion

 * Yuki Sugawara

Electric Bass

 * Ichiro Fujiya
 * Takashi Taneda
 * Takumi "Fire" Matsuda

Wood Bass

 * Makoto Saito
 * Naomi Nakamura (Cafe Manouche)

Electric Guitars

 * Chewtaro Moritake

Macca Guitars

 * Shinji Kawase (Cafe Manouche)
 * Yoshifumi Yamamoto (Cafe Manouche)

Piano

 * Takahito Eguchi
 * Yutaka Minobe

Keyboard

 * Tadashi Otsubo

Accordion

 * Yoshiaki Sato

Vibraphone

 * Marie Oishi

1st Violin

 * Masatsugu Shinozaki

2nd Violin

 * Yasunao Ishida

3rd Violin

 * Kiyo Kido

4th Violin

 * Yuriko Mori

Cello

 * Masami Horisawa
 * Yasurou Choumei

1st Trunpet

 * Koji Nishimura

2nd Trunpet & Brass Arrangement

 * Masahero Kobayashi

Trombone

 * Kanade Shishiuchi

Saxophone

 * Yoshinari Takegami

Flute & Alto Flute & Bamboo Flute

 * Hideyo Takakuwa

Erhu

 * Kanae Nozawa

Bfuss Harp

 * Nobuo Yagi

Gamelan

 * Koichi Minagawa (Tokyo Gamelan)
 * Kohey Kawamura (Tokyo Gamelan)
 * Tomoyuki Hamamoto (Tokyo Gamelan)

Orchestra

 * Tokyo Phiharmonic Orchestra

Recording Directors

 * Tadashi Otsubo (Sega Digial Studio)
 * Atsushi Kosugi (New York)

Recording & Mixing Engineers

 * Daiel Matsumoto
 * Dave Darlington
 * Masahiro Fukuhara
 * Stan Katayama
 * Toshiyuki Yoshida
 * Yoshikazu Sasahara
 * Yoshitada Miya

Assistnat Engineers

 * Kazuya Kikkai (Sound Crew Studio)
 * Rei Mimoto (Towerside Studio)
 * Shigeharu Nakauchi (Onkio Haus Studio)
 * Shohei (Victor Studio)
 * Takahiro Suzuki(Towerside Studio)
 * Takehiko Naito (Sound City Studio)
 * Takuya Komiyama (Onkio Haus Studio)
 * Tohru Kumabe (Studio Blan)

Recorded & Mixed At

 * Attic Arcade Studio
 * Jungle Room Studio (Los Angeles, USA)
 * Orkio Haus Studio
 * Sega Digital Studio
 * Sound City Studio
 * Sound Crew Studio
 * Studio Blan
 * The Dei-Rey Studio (Los Angeles, USA)
 * Towerside Studio
 * Victor Studio

Recording Coordinators

 * Hidetaka "Carl" Shibata
 * Kazuyuki Doki (Re-Birth)
 * Kiyoshi Yoshida(Attic Arcade Inc.)
 * Yoji Sugiyama (Witchcraft)

Vocal Tracks Coordinator

 * Jun Senoue

Label Staff

 * Adam Pendiebury

Mastering Engineer

 * Tetsuya Yamaoto

Mastering At

 * Avex Studio

Supervisor Sound Editor

 * Tatsuya Kousaki

Sound Editor

 * Masaru Setsumaru
 * Tatsuyuki Maeda
 * Hideki Abe

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)

Sound Design & Mixing Engineer

 * Kazutaka Someya

Assistant Engineer

 * Kazushige Sato
 * Tomohiro Fuchikami
 * DiMAGIC Co. Ltd.

English Character Voices

 * Jason Griffith
 * Tony Salerno
 * Jay Snyder
 * Amy Palant
 * Mike Pollock
 * Chris Collet

Saivatore Oppedisano

 * Chris Collet

Japanese Character Voices

 * Jun'ichi Kanemaru
 * Ryo Hirohashi
 * Taeko Kawata
 * Chikao Otsuka
 * Cho
 * Tomokazu Seki
 * Ryoko Shiraishi
 * Tamotsu Nishiwaki
 * Yoshiyuki Kaneko
 * Noboru Yamaguchi
 * Eisuke Asakura
 * Etsuko Kato
 * Go Shinomiya
 * Tomo Adachi
 * Miho Hino

Voice Recording Producer

 * Takuya Ono

Voice Recording Director

 * Keiichirou Miyoshi

Special Thanks

 * Randy J. Miller (Rainmaker Artists)
 * Jeannette Perez (BMG Label Group)
 * Kevin Wong (Universal Music Publishing Group)
 * Frank Laehnernernann (Marina Records)
 * Yutaka Yamamoto (Attic Arcade Inc.)
 * Clinton Strother
 * Motoko Minagawa
 * Kazuo Koizumi (wavemaster Inc.)
 * Teruhiko Nakagawa
 * Naofumi Hataya
 * Ai Miura

Performed By

 * Jaret Reddick Of Bowling For Soup

Music & Arranged By

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Lyric By

 * Jaret Reddick

Vocals

 * Jaret Reddick

Guitars

 * Chewtaro Moritake

Yumiko Takahashi Drums

 * Masayuki Muraishi

Programming

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Performed By

 * Brent Cash

Music By

 * Mariko Nanba

Lyric By

 * Candie Y

Arranged By

 * Takahito Eguchi

Co-Arranged By

 * Mariko Nanba

Vocals

 * Brent Cash

Chorus

 * Yoshihiko Chino

Acoustic Plans & Programming

 * Mariko Nanba

Acoustic Guitars

 * Naganori Sakakibara

Strings

 * "Daisensei" Muroya Strings

Performed By

 * Tokyo Phiharmonic Orchestra

Music By

 * Tomoya Ohtani

Orchestraled By

 * Takahito Eguchi

Orchestra

 * Tokyo Phiharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

 * Koji Hajima

Music Percussion

 * Kaoruko Iwase

Orchestra Production Manager

 * Iori Iwasaki

Game Engine

 * Modified Internal Engine

Additional Game Engine

 * Havok

Sound Designed By

 * Dolby Digital Pro Logic 2

Special Thanks

 * All Staff Members And Their Families

Created By

 * Sonic Team

Presented By

 * Sega