Yuji Uekawa

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Yuji Uekawa
Place of birth: Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1969-04-22[1] (age 56)
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Role(s): Artist, Designer

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Yuji Uekawa's (上川 祐司) first major project was cult favorite Ristar, a character of his own design. His first Sonic title was the Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast, where he was a Special Stage artist. Since Sonic R, he's been the main series character designer. His hip, stylized drawings gave Sonic an entirely new visual personality in Sonic Adventure, and he's since loaned his talents to a number of Sonic Team titles, including Samba de Amigo and Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.

Around 2004 Uekawa transferred to Sonic Team's Artwork Section, becoming primarily responsible for creating character art used in publicity for the games, most prominently displayed on Sonic Channel. Since Sonic Colours in 2010 he has repeatedly been credited as one of the Sonic Character Supervisors.

Production history

Games

Music

  • Sonic X (2003) — Original Character Design
  • Sonic Boom (2014) — Sonic Character & Universe Supervision

Magazine covers

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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1998-25: "1998-25 (1998-09-11,18)" (1998-08-28)
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Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #1998-01: "1998-01 (1998-11-20)" (1998-11-06)
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Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #1999-01: "1999-01 (1999-01-01)" (1998-12-18)
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Interviews

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Yuji Uekawa interview by Sonic Channel (April 3, 2006) [Translated]

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Yuji Uekawa

References