@Rafaknight_rk I dig Shadow's back spikes just because is clearly way easier to animate his head in the case he looks back But yeah Sonic is just ugh

@Rafaknight_rk I think the biggest problem is that designers tend to get so caught up in reconciling the front and back silhouettes that they forget one of the core principles of 2D character design. Screw factual accuracy. If it looks weird, cheat until it doesn't.

@Rafaknight_rk Sonic x always bothered me so much because of this.

@Rafaknight_rk this is what happens when you make a character have to have a silhouette at all times i mean sonic quite literally only has 3 head quills lmao. it’s written on his character sheet too

@Rafaknight_rk I understand now that they did that probably because it's easier to animate. But I've seen plenty of Sonic animations by now that don't do this and look amazing while Sonic X looks terrible most of the time. Not to put blame on the animators. They had no time or staff.

@Rafaknight_rk 3 quills lmao

@Rafaknight_rk I prefer Sonic, Manic and Sonia's back Spikes/Quills from Sonic Underground.

@Rafaknight_rk I think you're not really giving them credit by saying that. I don't think it's because they didn't know how to draw them, I think it was a choice to make the animation easier. Would you wanna draw all of those quills for every frame of everytime they're facing away?

@Rafaknight_rk I kinda like the first image

@Rafaknight_rk It's accurate though. I think what makes it jarring is that we're always used to seeing stiff 3D models of him from the back. 2D is just gonna look different by default because it's flat lol

@Rafaknight_rk Man those things are hard as shit to draw I don’t blame them

@Rafaknight_rk What bothers me Is that they can draw Super Sonic back quills perfectly, and there Is in fact a scene when Sonic destransform from Super and we can see how it goes from properly having 5 quills to 3.

@Rafaknight_rk Look at shadow you know that the animators just did not know what to do 😭

@Rafaknight_rk Ngl I always thought this was a stylistic choice lmao

@Rafaknight_rk They literally had one job 😂

@Rafaknight_rk Metal Sonic looking ass Imma be real I like this show for the spin attack

@Rafaknight_rk It’s not a case of they didn’t know how, animation isn’t easy they probably simplified it to make it doable

@Rafaknight_rk Bruh

@Rafaknight_rk That’s what they get for basing the show’s art style off of the sa1 and 2 silhouettes

@Rafaknight_rk The first one is actually pretty decent ngl. Isn't great but ongod looks better than whatever the fuck the rest are.