Tezuka's involvment in Sonic Movie

[Tetsuwan]

I was watching my dvd of Sonic the Movie and during the credits I saw something that shocked me.







If you look as the credits for Animation and Finishing as they scroll by you see Tezuka Productions listed (3 times). I have seen this movie over and over ever since it came out on VHS and never realized Tezuka Productions helped animate this film.

This is interesting considering that later on Sega would work for Tezuka Productions by creating the Dororo: Blood Will Tell and Astro Boy game for the PS2. As well as Astroboy Omega Factor for the GBA and Black Jack: Hino Tori Hen for the DS.

I've loved this movie before (I considered it the best Sonic Animation ever) now I have even more respect for it.

[Mike Toole]

While it's true that Tezuka Productions devotes an awful lot of resources to continuing and augmenting the works of Dr Tezuka, his material isn't the only thing they work on-- at the end of the day, there's an animation studio that will hire itself out for any old project, if the price and timeframe is right. Tezuka Pro worked on the Fatal Fury movie, Master of Mosquiton OVAs, Shingu, etc.

That Sonic movie features Sonic flipping the bird. Heh heh.