Chezzymann
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So, I was thinking about why Sonic kind of has one giant eye, (Or why his eyes aren't separated), and I started looking at older cartoon designs.
I noticed that sonic is very similar to Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse. One thing in particular, is that the classic Mickey Mouse design has a similar "Ridge" around his eyes to sonic. He doesn't have one giant eye though because his entire face is just white.
My guess is that they were looking for inspiration from mickey mouse and for some reason misinterpreted the design in that they thought the black ridge or fur around mickey mouse's eyes was the outline of the whites of his eyes instead of just being fur around his face, and when they combined it with felix's face, boom. You get sonic the hedgehog's one eye:
ALTERNATE THEORY:
Mickey Mouse was still in black and white in the early 1930's, and they didn't really know what colors to use for him in in the sunday comics. So they colored the mouth area tan and the eye area white because, well, I don't know. Thus resulting in the "one eye" phenomenon. Why? Maybe they misinterpreted the design too. Maybe I misinterpreted it and he really did have connected eyes originally. I bet the sonic team could have drew inspiration from the coloring in these comic strips regardless though.
Of course later they addressed this coloring issue with the 'new' Mickey Mouse design by adding whites to his eyes, making his entire face tan, and getting rid of the one eyed stuff seen in the news paper.
I noticed that sonic is very similar to Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse. One thing in particular, is that the classic Mickey Mouse design has a similar "Ridge" around his eyes to sonic. He doesn't have one giant eye though because his entire face is just white.
My guess is that they were looking for inspiration from mickey mouse and for some reason misinterpreted the design in that they thought the black ridge or fur around mickey mouse's eyes was the outline of the whites of his eyes instead of just being fur around his face, and when they combined it with felix's face, boom. You get sonic the hedgehog's one eye:
ALTERNATE THEORY:
Mickey Mouse was still in black and white in the early 1930's, and they didn't really know what colors to use for him in in the sunday comics. So they colored the mouth area tan and the eye area white because, well, I don't know. Thus resulting in the "one eye" phenomenon. Why? Maybe they misinterpreted the design too. Maybe I misinterpreted it and he really did have connected eyes originally. I bet the sonic team could have drew inspiration from the coloring in these comic strips regardless though.
Of course later they addressed this coloring issue with the 'new' Mickey Mouse design by adding whites to his eyes, making his entire face tan, and getting rid of the one eyed stuff seen in the news paper.
That's all I've got.