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Kazuyuki Hoshino (星野 一幸 Hoshino Kazuyuki?) is an art director and character designer that works for Sonic Team at Sega, which he joined in 1991.[2] The first Sonic game Hoshino worked on was Sonic the Hedgehog CD as a character designer. He is notable for creating Metal Sonic and Amy Rose.
Credits[]
Games[]
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD - Character Designer/Special Stage Designer/Visual Designer
- Knuckles' Chaotix - Original Character Concept, Character Designer, Enemy Designer
- Sonic 3D Blast (Sega Saturn) - Special-Stage Artist
- Sonic R - Additional Artwork
- Sonic Jam - Artist
- Sonic Adventure - Art Director/Enemy Character Designer/Lead Field Artist
- Sonic Adventure 2/Sonic Adventure 2: Battle - Art Director/Character Design/Enemy Design/CGI Movie Director
- Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut - Character Designer
- Sonic Heroes - Art Director/Enemy Designer
- Shadow the Hedgehog - Art Director/Character Designer/Enemy Designer/Weapon Artist
- Sonic Gems Collection - Special Thanks
- Sonic Rivals - Art Supervisor/Artwork
- Sonic Rivals 2 - Art Supervisor/Artwork
- Sonic Unleashed (PlayStation 3/Xbox 360) - Special Thanks
- Sonic and the Black Knight - Special Thanks
Other[]
- Sonic Mania Adventures - Executive Producer
- Sonic Comic - Cover Director
Trivia[]
- His favorite game in the series to have worked on was Shadow the Hedgehog, while his favorite game to play is Sonic Heroes.[2]
- His favorite character in the series (apart from Sonic) is Dr. Eggman.[2]
- To support GameInformer's charity stream, Hoshino drew, colored and signed artworks of Metal Sonic and Amy for a giveaway to people who donated.[3]
References[]
- ↑ ■「creator's interview!」第4回目は『SA2』アートディレクター、星野一幸氏へインタビュー!.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shea, Brian (30 July 2021). Sonic Team Looks Back At The Blue Blur's First 30 Years. Game Informer. Retrieved on 7 August 2021.
- ↑ Aaron Webber (November 2, 2018). Twitter. Archived from the original on February 24, 2019. Retrieved on 2019-02-24.
External links[]
- Kazuyuki Hoshino on Twitter
- Kazuyuki Hoshino at the Internet Movie Database
- Kazuyuki Hoshino at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Producers | Akinori Nishiyama · Takashi Iizuka · Yuji Naka · Yoji Ishii |
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Programmers | Takahiro Hamano · Takeshi Sakakibara · Tetsu Katano · Yuji Naka · Yoshihisa Hashimoto |
Designers | Eitaro Toyoda · Hirokazu Yasuhara · Kazuyuki Hoshino · Makoto Yonezu · Manabu Kusunoki · Naoto Ohshima · Nobuhiko Honda · Hiroshi Miyamoto · Sachiko Kawamura · Shinichi Higashi · Shiro Maekawa · Shun Nakamura · Takashi Yuda · Yasushi Yamaguchi · Yoshitaka Miura · Yuji Uekawa |
Directors | Hiroshi Nishiyama · Kenjiro Morimoto · Morio Kishimoto · Takashi Iizuka |
Sound engineers | Hideaki Kobayashi · Jun Senoue · Kenichi Tokoi · Mariko Nanba · Masaru Setsumaru · Naofumi Hataya · Takahito Eguchi · Tatsuyuki Maeda · Teruhiko Nakagawa · Tomoya Ohtani |
Other | Tomoko Kanemoto · Yui Karasuno |