The 'Sonic the Hedgehog' movie is getting a major change after 'loud, clear' criticism of Sonic's look — here's what's going on

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It turns out that converting Sonic the Hedgehog from a video game character to a pseudo-real thing has an uncanny valley problem.

Fans on Twitter and Tumblr were similarly critical.

The backlash was swift, loud, and primarily from people who could be described as"very online" — folks who can get the attention of the film's maker, Paramount, and Sega.3. On Thursday, just days after the trailer was released, the film's director said that Sonic was going to get changed ahead of the film's release."Sonic the Hedgehog" director Jeff Fowler took to Twitter on Thursday afternoon with a message intended to assuage concern over Sonic's look..

Given that the movie is expected to arrive in November, Fowler and Paramount still have some time to tweak the look of Sonic before the movie arrives. One artist on Twitter offered a pretty clear example of the simple changes that could be made to help make Sonic look less bizarrely human:

 

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