Naoto Ohshima
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| Naoto Ōshima |
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| Place of birth: Osaka, Japan |
| Date of birth: 1964-02-26 (age 58) |
| 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
- Phantasy Star (Master System; 1987) — Design (as Rockhy Nao)
- Space Harrier 3D (Master System; 1988) — Art Designer (as Bigisland)
- Kujaku Ou (Master System; 1988) — Designer (as Big Island)
- Phantasy Star II (Mega Drive; 1989) — Designers (as BigIsland)
- Super League (Mega Drive; 1989) — Fielder Designer (as Big Island)
- Hokuto no Ken: Shin Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu () — Art Director (as BigIsland)
- Hokuto no Ken: Shin Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu (Mega Drive; 1989) — Art Director (as BigIsland)
- SpellCaster (Master System; 1989) — Designer (as Big Island)
- Fatal Labyrinth (Mega Drive; 1990) — Designer (as Big Island)
- Sonic Eraser (Mega Drive; 1991) — Special Thanks (as BigIsland)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Mega Drive; 1991) — Character Design[1] (as BigIsland)
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Mega-CD; 1993) — Director (as Naoto Oshima)
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Windows PC; 1996) — Director (as Naoto Oshima)
- SegaSonic the Hedgehog (System 32; 1993) — Special Thanks (as N.Ohshima)
- Chaotix (32X; 1995) — Original Character Concept
- NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn; 1996) — Director[2]
- NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn; 1996) — NiGHTS Designer[2]
- Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (Mega Drive; 1996) — Advisors (SOJ) (as Naoto Oshima)
- Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (Saturn; 1996) — Advisors (SOJ) (as Naoto Oshima)
- Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (Windows PC; 1997) — Advisors (SOJ) (as Naoto Oshima)
- Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn; 1996) — Director
- Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams (Saturn; 1996) — Visual Designers
- Sonic Jam (Saturn; 1997) — Supervisor
- Sonic R (Saturn; 1997) — Graphic Advisors (as Naoto Oshima)
- Sonic R (Windows PC; 1998) — Graphic advisors (as Naoto Oshima)
- Burning Rangers (Saturn; 1998) — Director
- Burning Rangers (Saturn; 1998) — Graphic Artist
- Burning Rangers (Saturn; 1998) — Character Designer
- Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Story event coordinator
- Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Event motion designers
- Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — CG movie producer
- Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Opening movie editor
- Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis () — Character Design[3] (as BigIsland)
- Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis (Game Boy Advance; 2006) — Character Design[3] (as BigIsland)
- Iri-san (Dreamcast; unreleased) — Designer
Music
- NiGHTS Original Soundtrack (CD; 1996) — Supervisor
- Sonic Team "PowerPlay" (CD; 1998) — Special Thanks
- 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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- Interview: Naoto Ohshima (2009-12-04) by Gamasutra
- Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima interview by Saturn Power (July 1997)
Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Naoto Ohshima
External links
- Naoto Ohshima at Twitter
- Sega Stars: Naoto Ohshima article by Ken Horowitz at Sega-16