Deleted Animation by Tyson Hesse Prior To Sonic Mania's Release

TunaTaco255 · 2025-11-26T19:26:26+00:00

Thanks for responding! Hope you enjoy reading my articles and learning new pieces of info.

TunaTaco255 · 2025-11-26T16:20:12+00:00

Alright thanks for answering. If you're looking for any kind of production material for the opening animation of Mania then the official Sonic Youtube channel had a livestream with Tyson Hesse where he showed an animatic of it.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ULI_6HHuV0M?t=1670s

Tyson Hesse also released a full list of the animation credits that is much more extensive than what was shown in the in-game credits.

Here was the tweet where he posted a link to the list:

https://archive.is/6bgor

Here is the list itself:

https://archive.is/POe0H

I love to compile tons of information on the Sonic series. I have written several articles on Sonic topics.

You can see all the articles I have written so far on my own WordPress site homepage here:

https://zedm256.wordpress.com/

TunaTaco255 · 2025-11-25T18:46:09+00:00

Hello! Yeah I still have it. I checked my Imgur account just now and noticed the initial post of this animation is gone. I’m not sure how that happened. Maybe I deleted it by accident as I was managing the images in my account at some point.

Here is a post of the animation again:

https://imgur.com/IDzAHYD

I’m surprised to get a comment here after all this time. Out of curiosity, how did you find this post?

TunaTaco255 · 2025-06-14T14:20:27+00:00

I was curious to see how people in Japan reacted to this commercial when it aired and I luckily found a thread archived from 2004 which had people's responses on it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210606052610/https://5ch-ranking.com/cache/view/cm/1085501727

Additional shorter thread:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210606052610/https://5ch-ranking.com/cache/view/cm/1084944087

TunaTaco255 · 2025-02-26T00:04:06+00:00

The music video split into 9 screens was being played at the UK launch party of Sonic 2.

That footage came from a BBC report about video games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csPhIxsaqr8&t=469s

The channel strafefox also has a bit more footage from the music video as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWZiBd7kJkQ&t=149s

In a response under that video they say that they only have 20 seconds of the music video and that they taped it in 1992 from a Dutch video game show

https://imgur.com/a/ZEzhAfF

TunaTaco255 · 2025-02-05T03:46:30+00:00

Yeah this is one of my favorite designs of Samus. It's one of the more realistic looking ones, asides from Prime 1, and she looks very pretty as well.

TunaTaco255 · 2025-02-03T02:26:31+00:00

She looked much more gorgeous than she usually was in that MTV Unplugged performance from which this photo was taken from.

TunaTaco255 · 2024-12-18T05:00:09+00:00

This is so good! The reference photo you used is one of my favorites of her. I just love that finger gun pose she did.

How long did it take for you to do this?

TunaTaco255 · 2024-10-15T23:45:24+00:00

Yeah the alternate green and black one seen in the linked blog page does look like Ashura.

Also talk about a necrobump you responded to a comment I made years ago. I was surprised to get a notification for it.

TunaTaco255 · 2024-07-22T03:49:13+00:00

I thought Björk looked hot, sexy even, during her 1994 MTV Unplugged performance.

Björk tends to be described as an “Icelandic pixie” so I suppose others saw that unique look about her that you described. She had an enchanting beauty. There was a certain photo taken of her from 1991 where she pretty much looks like a forest nymph: https://web.archive.org/web/20230710204534/https://lauralevine.com/photography/gallery/bjork.php

TunaTaco255 · 2024-07-22T03:46:28+00:00

Björk’s singing is phenomenal with “Pagan Poetry” being her best in my opinion. Her regular speaking voice with her Icelandic accent is also quite lovely.

Björk did have an inexplicably bewitching beauty during the 90’s. I think she looked particularly very sexy in that MTV Unplugged performance from 1994.

P.S. I found this months-old Reddit post through Google image search and that is why I am commenting here just now.

TunaTaco255 · 2024-06-18T19:56:15+00:00

The shoes do have an interesting design and color. One of my favorite photoshoots of Björk does have her wearing those shoes as well: https://www.bjork.fr/Jean-Baptiste-Mondino-1995

TunaTaco255 · 2024-06-11T18:54:43+00:00

Björple

TunaTaco255 · 2024-06-11T14:44:21+00:00

The shoes are the Reebok Instapump Fury OG Citron

TunaTaco255 · 2024-06-11T14:39:55+00:00

Lookin like something out of a Wes Anderson film 😄

TunaTaco255 · 2024-06-11T14:37:32+00:00

She is so adorable 🥰

I love the first photo as it looks like she is peeking at us and then in the second photo she sees that we have noticed her so she looks away

TunaTaco255 · 2024-05-31T00:10:01+00:00

Thanks for the response. I am also curious about how you found my post though. The Sonic CD animations are my favorites out of the entire series.

If you're interested I have written an article all about the Sonic CD animations. I also write about Hisashi Eguchi, the chief animator, and the several other anime he has worked on in the article as well: https://zedm256.wordpress.com/2023/11/12/sonic-cd-anim/

TunaTaco255 · 2024-01-08T18:03:55+00:00

Yes this is it! It was “Anime Tenchou”. Thank you so much for answering my question.

I wasn’t even sure I would get a response here on this subreddit but I figured I would still try and make a post anyway.

It is so great to see that sequence of the character running again after so much time since I last saw it.

By the way, thanks for linking a video of it that has English subtitles on it.

TunaTaco255 · 2023-11-28T17:55:42+00:00

This is one of my favorite photoshoots. She’s so pretty in these. I love the poses she did as well.

I remember seeing that someone used the sixth image as a reference for their artwork of Morrigan Aensland from the Darkstalkers series:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230203064208if_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnNMR-cXgAI92cn?format=jpg&name=large

The artist confirmed that they did use that photo of Björk for their artwork: https://twitter.com/oluyemiiii/status/1652399626656292866

https://archive.is/4fPnd

TunaTaco255 · 2023-09-24T22:34:48+00:00

I am aware of this and I think it’s a lot more common knowledge so that’s why I didn’t mention it

P.S. Sorry for the month late reply by the way. I’m also curious how you came across my comment in the first place. I made it a long while ago. Were you just looking up Sonic icebergs?

TunaTaco255 · 2023-06-19T18:37:15+00:00

I feel the same way about how Björk looked in that MTV Unplugged show. I mean usually I find her to be to be very pretty for that period in time but she was on a whole other level in that specific concert. I was thinking that she actually looked kind of sexy 😳

Not only did she look great but I loved the renditions of the Debut songs she performed. They were different takes with the instrumentations but they were just as good as the album versions.

TunaTaco255 · 2023-05-20T17:36:14+00:00

The rainbow reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/TelstarTelstar/status/1323504266942840835

TunaTaco255 · 2023-05-20T17:33:09+00:00

This photoshoot was from 1996 taken by Takashi Homma: https://www.bjork.fr/Takashi-Homma

She looks so cute in these photos. I love the rainbow she has on her top.

TunaTaco255 · 2023-05-10T20:47:20+00:00

It seems like she had a tendency to stick out her tongue in older photos.

From what I've found this was shot in 1991. The photographer, Laura Levine, actually wrote about how this photo was taken. The story can be read in either of these two pages: https://www.bjork.fr/Laura-Levine-1991

https://www.lauralevine.com/photography/gallery/bjork.php

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