Yuji Uekawa

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Yuji Uekawa
Yuji Uekawa
Overview
Gender	Male
Nationality	Japanese
Company(s)	Sonic Team
Job	Character designer, art director

Yuji Uekawa is a character designer at Sega and a member of Sonic Team. The first Sonic game he worked on was Sonic R as the character designer, and he redesigned Sonic and all the other characters in the series for Sonic Adventure in 1998. He also designed most of the original Sonic X characters.

Credits

Character design and artwork

• Sonic 3D Blast (artist)
• Sonic Jam (artist)
• Sonic R
• Sonic Adventure (also character motion designer)
• Sonic Adventure 2
  • Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
• Sonic Mega Collection (illustrator)
• Sonic X
• Sonic Heroes (menu screen artwork)
• Sonic Mega Collection Plus (illustrator)
• Sonic Gems Collection (illustration)
• Sonic and the Black Knight (cutscene artist)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I (artist)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II (character artist)

Direction and supervision

• Sonic Adventure 2 (product support)
  • Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (product support)
• Sonic Advance (art director)
• Sonic Advance 2 (art director)
• Sonic Pinball Party (art director)
• Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (art director)
• Sonic Battle (design coordinator)
• Sonic Heroes (product support)
• Sonic Advance 3 (art director)
• Sonic Rush (art director)
• Sonic Riders (character art director)
• Sonic Rush Adventure (art director)
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sonic family character supervisor)
• Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Sonic family character supervisor)
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (via CS2 R&D)
• Sonic Free Riders (scenario supervisor, Sonic character supervisor)
• Sonic Colors (Sonic character supervisor)
• Sonic Generations (Sonic character supervisor)
• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Sonic character supervisor)
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (via CS2 R&D)
• Sonic Lost World (Sonic character supervisor)
• Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (Sonic character supervisor)
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (supervisor)
• Sonic Boom (Sonic character and universe supervision)
• Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (character supervisor)
• Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal (character supervisor)
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Sonic character supervisor)

Special thanks

• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Sega Superstars Tennis

Miscellaneous

• Sonic the Hedgehog (publicity artwork)
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (promotional visuals)
• Sonic Unleashed (publicity artwork)
• Sonic and the Black Knight (promotional visuals)
• Various Sonic Channel 2D artwork

Gallery

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Sonic Team members

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