Data Design Interactive's Lost 3D Sonic Design Discovered!

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
  • One of the most infamous videogame companies of all time, Data Design Interactive, apparently had a 3D Classic Sonic the Hedgehog project! And it's only just been discovered over 20 years later!
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Комментарии • 262

  • @BadnikMechanic
    @BadnikMechanic  3 года назад +227

    I want an action figure of it.

  • @Shadamyfan-rs8xc
    @Shadamyfan-rs8xc 3 года назад +242

    It's probably a good thing that Data Design didn't make a Sonic game.

    • @amateurprogrammer25
      @amateurprogrammer25 3 года назад +25

      that's just what the sonic fans need. another game that will live on in infamy and will have videos made about it ad infinitum.

    • @snintendog
      @snintendog 3 года назад +11

      @@amateurprogrammer25 well this dating was before the BS age of DDI

    • @mondopatrick
      @mondopatrick 3 года назад +10

      it wouldve been ninjabreadman with a sonic skin

    • @TheRamblemanWhoSings
      @TheRamblemanWhoSings 3 года назад +9

      it would just be Ninjabreadman but with sonic

    • @mondopatrick
      @mondopatrick 3 года назад +4

      @@TheRamblemanWhoSings exactly lmao

  • @TheRealAmericanMan
    @TheRealAmericanMan 3 года назад +140

    I can’t wait for fans to put DDI Sonic in Adventure, Robo Blast 2, and Generations
    As is tradition

  • @BadnikMechanic
    @BadnikMechanic  3 года назад +89

    More information is being sent my way about this...
    May end up doing a follow up vid if there's enough of a demand.

  • @buttercupkat
    @buttercupkat 3 года назад +69

    "Obscure Video Game History You Don't Care About"
    And I took that personally!

    • @BadnikMechanic
      @BadnikMechanic  3 года назад +11

      Lol my video on Die Hard Trilogy made me say that! XD

  • @LastOfTheTimeLords97
    @LastOfTheTimeLords97 3 года назад +64

    This model does kinda look like it might have been using Richard Elson's Sonic the Comic artwork as reference.

  • @makotoyuki345
    @makotoyuki345 3 года назад +78

    Quite neat how all this lost media is being discovered lately

  • @retroscooter2119
    @retroscooter2119 3 года назад +237

    It's not even a bad design. It looks like a different world where sonic adventure never happened and sonic retained his classic appearance

    • @SN64YT
      @SN64YT 3 года назад +9

      Or if Sonic SATAM had a 3D game.

    • @JetixR
      @JetixR 3 года назад +7

      This seems like the Sonic Adventure Design in that universe

    • @Toast-vs6ix
      @Toast-vs6ix 3 года назад +2

      Very true

    • @BagOfMagicFood
      @BagOfMagicFood 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, it's like a different evolution line where Sonic doesn't just get taller and stretch his spines longer, but he also gets stockier and splays his spines out a bit more.
      Plus high little ears to go with AoStH's tiny-eared brown Tails, LOL

    • @SonictheHedgehogInRealLife
      @SonictheHedgehogInRealLife 3 года назад +1

      I wish that happened sonic adventure sucks

  • @redaknight
    @redaknight 3 года назад +21

    That sonic model looks like it would be in that one cancelled sonic movie
    Sonic wonder of the worlds I think?

  • @massecurr
    @massecurr 3 года назад +4

    Fun fact about that 3D Zool game, it is theorized that game became Ninjabread Man, Anubus 2, and the rest of the infamous DDI copy/paste Wii platformers, this is due to a cutscene that leaked of the unfinished game showing a world of sweets with designs that lined up with Ninjabread Man's level geometry

    • @mrsubbysubsub2
      @mrsubbysubsub2 3 года назад

      It was confirmed this week via some screenshots that were released from it:
      twitter.com/ObscureGamers/status/1336996584324677637

  • @spinballpac-man
    @spinballpac-man 3 года назад +22

    That design kinda reminded me of one of the STC designs of Sonic before you revealed that it was from an email for Fleetway!

  • @WilsTube
    @WilsTube 3 года назад +25

    As infamous as DDI is, their version of Sonic is pretty awesome!

  • @Legoluigi26
    @Legoluigi26 3 года назад +5

    I had to reread that title to make sure we're thinking about the same DDI.

  • @HyperMario2010
    @HyperMario2010 3 года назад +11

    "How many of you have heard of a company called Data Design Interactive?"
    From watching plenty of Vinesauce shovelware streams

    • @Tamago-xe4eb
      @Tamago-xe4eb 3 года назад +3

      Oh no... it's Data design.

    • @RadikAlice
      @RadikAlice 3 года назад +1

      _Cue Shane from Rerez losing his mind in the distance_

  • @yu-nee4642
    @yu-nee4642 3 года назад +3

    It kind of looks like Sonic but if a completely different, maybe foreign, company came up with the original design. Like a cereal mascot or something. I feel like it really shows how important art style can be.

  • @cyberwolf7834
    @cyberwolf7834 3 года назад +6

    A model this accurate to sonic is something I never thought I'd see from Data design

  • @RedFlameFox
    @RedFlameFox 3 года назад +3

    I'm 99% sure that Casper is from "Casper and the Ghostly trio" released in Europe by Blast, they used to publish those bad low budget games just like Phoenix Games and Midas Interactive from unknown developers, often they were reskins of other their games but with just a different graphics, which was Data Design's "style".
    I'm pretty sure then that Casper project became to be Casper and the Ghostly Trio or Casper's Scare School (which are mostly the same game with different levels, just saying)
    Also, that Wallace and Gromit Karting game probably was just another reskin of their PS2 licensed racing games, there are plenty of them.

  • @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647
    @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 Год назад +1

    Fun fact: DDI has actually made a (pretty good) Lego game which also had a Lego theme, Rock raiders

  • @MathieuLeblanc1991
    @MathieuLeblanc1991 3 года назад +6

    The design was probably based on the DIC cartoons which never had the gold buckles on the shows

  • @anonymoususer6774
    @anonymoususer6774 3 года назад +3

    I've been a Sonic fan since 1991, and thought I knew everything about Sonic until I came across your channel. Once again, you continue to blow my mind with your Sonic knowledge.

  • @ClexYoshi
    @ClexYoshi 3 года назад +8

    oh, hey, they found assets of the Zuul prototype that eventually became Ninjabread man. neat.

  • @bluestartalron8502
    @bluestartalron8502 3 года назад +3

    I think I still like this weird Sonic model because despite, as you said, looking like a clayish early 3D model, it still looks like Sonic. It's accurate to Sonic's design, just in a weird style. It's oddly charming and... cute, dare I say. Not bad coming from DDI of all people.

  • @PiggyPooPro
    @PiggyPooPro 3 года назад +8

    I saw this on Twitter a day ago! Glad to see this noticed.

  • @HyperDeathRee
    @HyperDeathRee 3 года назад +22

    I actually LOVE the claymation/stop-motion look of the model; what a great find :)

    • @edgardeitz5746
      @edgardeitz5746 9 месяцев назад +1

      So do I; is anyone trying to recreate a functioning character model in a game engine yet? I could see a fan game with this Sonic...

  • @Solesteam
    @Solesteam 3 года назад +6

    tbh I kinda like it, just move the pupils closer together so he doesn't look too badly stray eyed...

  • @RelicCipher
    @RelicCipher 3 года назад +3

    didnt fully read the title so hearing Data Design and seeing the logo felt like a kick in the shins

  • @phoenixv2460
    @phoenixv2460 3 года назад +5

    I'm speechless, but Lost media in other words is a complicated topic in its self

  • @chucke.cheesesmichiganprod1254
    @chucke.cheesesmichiganprod1254 3 года назад +1

    It gives me those Sonic The Comic and Sonic Generations Classic Sonic model vibes and what makes it funny is the fact that the model's legs are posed in a part way split while the arms are stuck in a T-pose type position and I bet if Sonic: Wonder Of The Worlds did come out, I imagine this would be Sonic's appearance in the film, and I need a plush based off of this design.

  • @atomix1074
    @atomix1074 3 года назад +1

    Man, dude. I just really love your channel for things like this. Like, who else would I learn nearly everything about Sonic.

  • @RadikAlice
    @RadikAlice 3 года назад +3

    While it is interesting, everything else around it piques my interest a lot. We've know for a while Ninjabread Man
    was pitched as a 3D Zool game, but seeing even just a still of before the change is kind of amazing.
    DDI's games aren't, nor were they ever good. But it's still history, and even the bad bits deserve to be preserved

  • @GrounderSez
    @GrounderSez 3 года назад +4

    Reminds me of the Sonic 3D: Flickies Island box art
    But damn this is interesting, I hope we find a raw model

  • @starnight8819
    @starnight8819 3 года назад +13

    I don’t know how to feel about this design… something about the head is off.

  • @EmeraldCoasttt
    @EmeraldCoasttt 3 года назад +3

    Imagine making a video about ddi in the 90's without mentioning their arguably most important game, lego rock raiders
    The sonic design being for fleetway makes total sense considering they also worked on a few books for lego in the uk, including a rock raiders book

  • @SonicKid-wy1hu
    @SonicKid-wy1hu 3 года назад +5

    I always get a boost of excitement when Badnik uploads.

  • @GBlastMan
    @GBlastMan 3 года назад +1

    This model for some odd reason reminds me of the now defunct fan game Sonic GL, has this "charm" that reminds me of that time where fans always tried to do a 3D sonic fan game and sonic always had this drastic designs because people couldnt do Sonic in 3D very well and there was a lack of 3D sonic models ripped from the games, nowdays you can just search for it on 3D model resource and have a better sonic looking character than making it from scratch.

  • @lightspeedmurphy7546
    @lightspeedmurphy7546 3 года назад +1

    Off Topic: The Casper game you mentioned did actually came out but only in Europe on the PS2 and yeah, it was the same crappy game as Ninjabread Man, Rock n Roll Adventures, Trixie in Toyland, and Anubis II. It does still boggle my mind though that we would finally get to see the original version of all of those recycled game when it was going to be a Zool game.

  • @SN64YT
    @SN64YT 3 года назад +1

    It looks like if Sonic Xtreme Sonic and Sonic SATAM had a baby and this is the result of it.

  • @1Soniccool
    @1Soniccool 3 года назад +1

    Data Design Interactive was going to make a Sonic for Fleetway Comics to follow the Sonic 3D Blast game.

  • @sneezingcactus5681
    @sneezingcactus5681 3 года назад +3

    Just noticed one of these pictures look similar to the sega 60th anniversary sonic wallpaper

  • @anonymousoff-brand7538
    @anonymousoff-brand7538 3 года назад

    it looks like a mascot suit made into a 3d model.
    also the 3d zool was speculated on before, specifically that it's prototype became the basis of their 6 reskinned wii 3d platformers.

  • @BlazeHedgehog
    @BlazeHedgehog 3 года назад

    The big socks look is so fun. I can't hate this funky little man

  • @WakoDoodle
    @WakoDoodle 3 года назад +4

    Man, so much lost or obscured sonic content coming out in 2020. Whether it's footage, prototypes or even unreleased, full music!
    It's awesome to hear news like this, great work @Badnik Mechanic !

  • @littenfire3563
    @littenfire3563 3 года назад +1

    Makes me think of Sonic R
    That playdoh look for Sonic is very nostalgic. Reminds me of Neverhood

  • @shadic3470
    @shadic3470 3 года назад +16

    7 views and 10 comments
    "OKAY"

  • @VIDEO-kr6xc
    @VIDEO-kr6xc 3 года назад +1

    And guess what, It Looks Badass Good As An model from the 90s and from An Limited Cheap Company, A merger between classic genesis Sonic and Satam sonic.

  • @jakezubrod7906
    @jakezubrod7906 3 года назад +1

    That 3D model is literally as old as me!

  • @dragonick2947
    @dragonick2947 3 года назад +1

    RUclips thinks this video is about Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island. I can't blame them.

  • @mrwolfyer
    @mrwolfyer 3 года назад +1

    What's the music from the second part of the video? The one that isn't Underground zone?
    Also, great video!

    • @Peannlui
      @Peannlui 3 года назад

      The music is from Space Harrier!

  • @MegaSombra
    @MegaSombra 3 года назад

    "Oh no, it's Data Design.....
    DATA DESIGN!!!
    UHG, NO!! ADVERT YOUR EYES..."

  • @stuff31
    @stuff31 3 года назад

    0:43 mini cooper flip pog

  • @talesfromiDEATH
    @talesfromiDEATH 3 года назад +1

    My first thought is that It may have been created to use for a cover and it just never ended up happening.

  • @ChaseMC215
    @ChaseMC215 3 года назад +3

    Data Design Interactive? As in Ninja Breadman Data Design Interactive?

  • @00ferman
    @00ferman 3 года назад +5

    This sounds neat already

  • @TheMetalSonic_1
    @TheMetalSonic_1 3 года назад +1

    I guess you could call it a irony, when Sega hired Data Design (or rather their D3 Technologies successor) to do that Sega Mega Drive Classics hub for PC and eventually for the consoles.

  • @Ihartwalrusguy
    @Ihartwalrusguy 3 года назад +8

    Imagine if Sega would stoop so low to hired DDI to make a new Sonic game instead of Sonic Team...
    Which evil is lesser?

  • @starmantheblaziken1453
    @starmantheblaziken1453 3 года назад +2

    Senik the Hoogeheg is the first thing I said looking at the image. xD

  • @Heir-to-the-BelmontClan
    @Heir-to-the-BelmontClan 3 года назад

    Saw soon as i saw the thumb nail. I knew it would be something to do with sonic the comic, I mean whole of 3D Sonic's design seems to be Heavily inspired by Richard Elson's art work.

  • @suns3t_t0wn
    @suns3t_t0wn 2 года назад

    It looks like the Fleetway Sonic design.
    Well, i watched the video, and now makes sense.

  • @MetallicMadGlitch
    @MetallicMadGlitch 3 года назад +1

    This model is actually based off of the Sonic 3 sprite

  • @mondopatrick
    @mondopatrick 3 года назад +1

    BRUH IMAGINE A NINJABREADMAN SONIC GAME OH FUCK

  • @Cheeseyu3000
    @Cheeseyu3000 3 года назад

    Also, that 3d zool game is already released under new skin, you know who it is, Ninja breadman!

  • @daorangeboi
    @daorangeboi 3 года назад

    Well that is ciertanly an interesting discovery, i hope the 3D model file of this design gets discovered. Who knows what we could do with it lol.
    I love how RUclips thinks this is related to Sonic 3D Blast
    .

  • @lssjgaming1599
    @lssjgaming1599 3 года назад

    Oh no not the people who made Ninjabread Man

  • @fernie-fernandez
    @fernie-fernandez 3 года назад +1

    So...what is Data Design’s new name, and where did you get that picture of where they mention that they planned to make Switch games...

  • @JomasterTheSecond
    @JomasterTheSecond 3 года назад

    I'd love to see the alternate timeline where DDI's Zool and Sonic games actually got released.

  • @SAWNIX
    @SAWNIX 3 года назад

    That Wallace and gromit kart racer looks really bizarre but I really want to play it

    • @CaptainCoolzCT-
      @CaptainCoolzCT- 3 года назад

      Did you know that there are 2 really good and impressive Wallace & Gromit games for PS2? The first is Wallace & Gromit In Project Zoo, a 3D Platformer / collectathon similar to Banjo-Kazooie and it’s really fun and has great music, notably the Mine theme and Boss Battle Theme. Curse Of The Were Rabbit is the second one, and it’s a 3D open-world game similar to Super Mario 64, where you stop bunnies from destroying veg and crops at day and fight really quite disturbing Were-Creatures at night. You seriously have to try them out, they are very fun. I’m not sure, however, how good the racing game would have been...

  • @Adamwinters
    @Adamwinters 3 года назад

    Model reminds me a lot of the Dic cartoon Sonic designs.

  • @littleguystar
    @littleguystar 3 года назад +2

    Even the Sonic 3 model was more on model...

    • @SIG7Pro
      @SIG7Pro 3 года назад

      i think the model was made to fit STC's style

  • @SouthRails
    @SouthRails 3 года назад +1

    I Was Like OMG ITS THE STUDIO THAT MADE NINJABREAD MAN AND ACTION GIRLZ RACING! I was Literally
    S C R E A M I N G I N T E R N A L L Y

  • @MegAmi24
    @MegAmi24 3 года назад

    Well that's something I've never expected to hear

  • @ronnielane8985
    @ronnielane8985 3 года назад

    The yellow buckles you say were missing aren't part of Sonic's design at the point in time that was made, they were added when Sonic Adventure redesigned Sonic for 3D.

  • @nottz.ayxsha
    @nottz.ayxsha 3 года назад +2

    Ok I've got 2 things, firstly classic sonic doesnt have the yellow buckle of his shoes, you would know this since sonic mania has come out and all the other classic sonic games, I think sonic mania is a good way to say 'sonic doesnt have a yellow buckle' because in most of the episodes he shows his shoes and stuff like that. secondly how do you find all of these crazy pictures and info?

    • @BagOfMagicFood
      @BagOfMagicFood 3 года назад

      I would say Classic Sonic's official _design_ always had the buckles, but it may not have fit into his gameplay sprite, and Western artists were always referencing either the sprites or a few pieces of stock art where his feet were turned outward, so they never knew about the buckles, the same way they didn't know the deal with Dr. Eggman's cape.

  • @monochromemann8000
    @monochromemann8000 3 года назад

    People are gonna be modding Adventure 1 and 2, Generations and Lost World to have DDI Sonic playable!

  • @eggsallent_boi
    @eggsallent_boi 3 года назад

    the 3d models reminds me of action figures paper back art for the figures

  • @abelrockadventures
    @abelrockadventures 3 года назад +1

    3D sonic's mouth is WAAAY too much to the left, and it doesn't look right.

  • @HerbieLock
    @HerbieLock 3 года назад

    My theory is that this model might be an early development model for Sonic Adventure. But since this video is a Classic Sonic model Sega probably changed it early on to the model used for the Dreamcast release of the game. Just my opinion

  • @sadrimadjlessi5495
    @sadrimadjlessi5495 3 года назад +1

    ik things can be tough righjt now but i hope you and you're family are doing good. have a good day or night badnuik!

  • @Everik-ct6pg
    @Everik-ct6pg 3 года назад

    Thank God we got Sonic 06 instead of a Data Design Sonic game.

  • @Gaboxf
    @Gaboxf 3 года назад +6

    The head being too small, and the ears being in the wrong position are driving me crazy, but it's still a pretty good model

  • @dakota6431
    @dakota6431 3 года назад

    I like how sonics body looks but not his head

  • @ZZtheDark
    @ZZtheDark 3 года назад

    Oh wait,I know these guys! DDI are bogus tbh.
    So its Fleetway that commissioned this weird 3D Sonic? Interesting.

  • @aminerminion
    @aminerminion 2 года назад

    when i saw the model i kind of thought of Sonic Xtreme

  • @minisoul01
    @minisoul01 3 года назад +1

    I mean make the fingers more round and in my opinion it's good but I mean if they made an action figure of it
    I would care less about the fingers this would be cool

  • @vendy-py7247
    @vendy-py7247 3 года назад

    Ah yes, chunky looking Sonic
    My favorite design

  • @borediideath6526
    @borediideath6526 3 года назад

    I won’t lie when I say even for a 3D model meant for a magazine from ‘98, it looks kinda mediocre by that time’s standards.

  • @nicholascooney
    @nicholascooney Год назад

    That Sonic actually looks good!

  • @lemmingscanfly5
    @lemmingscanfly5 3 года назад

    It's a little bit odd/goofy, but I would've mega appreciated it as a kid.
    Would've been cool shit, like the EU 3D Blast cover.

  • @SlightlyCreative
    @SlightlyCreative 3 года назад

    The model really reminds me of the Mario SGI renders, but with Sonic instead

    • @quaker47
      @quaker47 3 года назад

      They're both just as ugly, lol

  • @austinreed7343
    @austinreed7343 3 года назад

    Will we ever see elements from the Shiny Entertainment, Real-time Associates, and Lab Zero Games attempts at the series?

  • @brayden6449
    @brayden6449 3 года назад

    Scott the Woz is sighing in relief right now.

  • @Rylanimations
    @Rylanimations 3 года назад

    I really wish it was in the comic and the second it comes out I will buy it

  • @patg108
    @patg108 3 года назад

    i'd say they need to get those games up and working as much as possible. And probably release them for DC or PC

  • @QualityGarbage
    @QualityGarbage 3 года назад

    Anyone know what the music from the last half of this episode is from? It's not in the description and I have no idea where I've heard it before

  • @benmalsky9834
    @benmalsky9834 3 года назад +1

    Who else came here after watching Rerez's video on DDI?

  • @graymagicgamma7247
    @graymagicgamma7247 3 года назад

    What's the music in the background starting around 2:40?

    • @wfr2615
      @wfr2615 3 года назад

      Space Harrier Theme

  • @MasterDetectiveKiri919
    @MasterDetectiveKiri919 3 года назад

    The model looks interesting, unique style

  • @LARKXHIN
    @LARKXHIN 3 года назад

    I was just happy to hear an AT4W joke

    • @BadnikMechanic
      @BadnikMechanic  3 года назад

      He's a magnificent Bs***ard I read his book!

  • @JamesChessman
    @JamesChessman 3 года назад

    Very weird design, his back doesn’t have the correct spines. However he’s not missing buckles on his shoes (as mentioned in the vid) because that’s how the classic shoes were: only red and white.

  • @sten2897
    @sten2897 3 года назад

    Sounds weird, but it feels like this model was inspired by Batman's design in The Dark Knight Returns. Maybe it's the broad shoulders.

  • @josuecasiano5005
    @josuecasiano5005 3 года назад

    looks like the sonic the comic design, I like the comic so... I like the design too
    (edit:) oh, so the design was for sonic the comic, what a coincidence :)