Naoto Ohshima
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| Naoto Ōshima |
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| Place of birth: Osaka, Japan |
| Date of birth: 1964-02-26 (age 59) |
| Employment history:
Divisions:
Arzest (2010 – )
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| Role(s): Artist, Character Designer, Director |
| Education: Kyoto Seika University (1986) |
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Naoto Ōshima (大島 直人) is a Japanese artist and former Sega of Japan and Sonic Team developer, artist, and director, most known as the original designer of the characters Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman. Ohshima gained notoriety at Sega for creating characters and playing integral roles in the development of games like Phantasy Star, NiGHTS into Dreams, and Sonic Adventure. After leaving Sonic Team, he co-founded (and later became president of) an independent game company called Artoon. There he went on to work on such games as Pinobee and Blinx the Time Sweeper. In 2010, Ohshima and other key Artoon members left the company to form Arzest, another video game development company. Ohshima currently holds the title of Executive Vice President.
Contents
Career
Production history
Games
- (; 1987) — Design[1] (as Rockhy Nao)
- (; 1988) — Art Designer (as Bigisland)
- (; 1988) — Designer (as Big Island)
- (; 1989) — Designers (as BigIsland)
- (; 1989) — Fielder Designer (as Big Island)
- (; 1989) — Art Director (as BigIsland)
- (; 1989) — Designer (as Big Island)
- (; 1990) — Designer (as Big Island)
- (; 1991) — Special Thanks (as BigIsland)
- (; 1991) — Character Design[2] (as BigIsland)
- (; 1993) — Director[3] (as Naoto Oshima)
- (; 1993) — Special Thanks (as N.Ohshima)
- (; 1995) — Original Character Concept[4]
- (; 1996) — Director[5]
- (; 1996) — NiGHTS Designer[5]
- (; ?) — Director (as Naoto Oshima)
- (; 1996) — Advisors (SOJ)[6] (as Naoto Oshima)
- (; 1996) — Director
- (; 1996) — Visual Designers
- (; 1997) — Supervisor
- (; ?) — Advisors (SOJ) (as Naoto Oshima)
- (; 1997) — Graphic Advisors[7] (as Naoto Oshima)
- (; 1998) — Director
- (; 1998) — Graphic Artist
- (; 1998) — Character Designer
- (; ?) — Graphic advisors (as Naoto Oshima)
- (; 1998) — Story event coordinator
- (; 1998) — Event motion designers
- (; 1998) — CG movie producer
- (; 1998) — Opening movie editor
- (; 1996) — Advisors (SOJ)[8] (as Naoto Oshima)
- (; 2006) — Character Design[9] (as BigIsland)
- (; 2011) — Director
- (; 2011) — Director
- (; unreleased) — Designer
Videos
- () — Special Thanks
Music
- (; 1996) — Supervisor
- (; 1998) — Special Thanks
- (; 2014) — Thanks to (as Naoto Oshima)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (anime) (1996) — Supervisor
- Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (3DS version) (2016) — Supervisor (Arzest Corp.)
Magazine articles
- Main article: Naoto Ohshima/Magazine articles.
Interviews
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Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Naoto Ohshima
External links
- Naoto Ohshima at Twitter
- Naoto Ohshima at Instagram
- Sega Stars: Naoto Ohshima article by Ken Horowitz at Sega-16
References
- ↑ File:Phantasy Star SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic CD MCD JP credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Chaotix 32X good ending credits.pdf
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 File:NiGHTS into Dreams Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic 3D Blast MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic R Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic 3D Blast Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:SonicGenesis GBA US manual.pdf, page 18