Sonic Origins/Production credits

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Sonic Team

SONIC ORIGINS Development Team

• Sonic Series Producer: Takashi Iizuka
• Producer: Nobuya Ohashi
• Director: Katsuyuki Shigihara
• Assistant Producer/Game Design: Masashi Jinbo
• Lead Game Design: Kanako Kusunoki
• Game Design: Mio Ebara, Ayaka Iyazaki, Fumiya Kyoden, Yukinobu Arikawa, Ryusuke Kurita, Kazuki Shimada, Kazuhide Noda, Taiki Uchida
• Art Director: Keiko Suzuki
• UI Graphic Artists: Kei Tatsu, Jang Taekwon, Yuiko Kashima, Hiroi Sato
• Lead 3D Artist: Yuji Yamaga
• Character and Environment Artists: Kazuki Matsui, Masateru Kawasaki, Tomoko Arikawa, Shigeo Tamura, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Keisuke Nakayama
• Technical Director: Kazuhiro Matsuta
• Lead Programmer: Motoyoshi Sato
• Programmers: Maki Nishimori, Taisei Aso, Hiroaki Yanagisawa, Kentaro Oyama, Kazuki Nakamura, Ryosuke Nakauchi, Yoshihiko Toyoshima, Kenzo Sadahiro, Takefumi Nakayama, Hiroya Suzuki, Hideo Ikeuchi
• Sound Director: Jun Senoue
• Sound Department: Kenichi Tokoi, Teruhiko Nakagawa
• Animation Sound Editors by Sound Racer Ltd.: Kenichi Saito, Eiji Nakamura
• Animation Music Arrangement by: Tee Lopes
• Sonic 1 & 2 Original Music Composition by: Masato Nakamura (DREAMS COME TRUE)
• Licensing Coordinators: Wave Master Inc., Fumitaka Shibata, Kazuo Koizumi
• Art Section Manager: Hitoshi Furukubo
• System R&D Section Manager: Keiichi Noda
• System Programmers: Hiroshi Inokuma, Takahiro Sekiguchi, Koji Ogino, Akira Kanasugi, Takateru Ohyama, Fumihiro Narita, Takanori Miyata, Makoto Kohori
• Technical Artist: Yusuke Kashiwagi
• Sonic Character Supervisors: Kazuyuki Hoshino, Yuji Uekawa, Eitaro Toyoda, Yui Karasuno
• Development Support: Katsunori Uchibori, Ryuichi Taki, Takaharu Terada, Masaru Kohayakawa, Yoshitaka Maeyama, Takayuki Iwasaki, Kazuo Komuro, Hideyuki Katoh, Takeshi Numazawa, Shun Nakamura, Sachiko Kawamura, Koji Yoshida, Yasuyuki Tsuzuki, Yoshitaka Miura, Hiroyuki Abe, Hiroyasu Tamura, Yoshitaka Kawabata, Yoshinori Ohgane, Tetsu Katano, Yasuhiro Takagi, Haruyoshi Tomita, Naofumi Hataya, Fumio Itoh, Kagasei Shimomura, Shigefumi Tanzawa, Masami Inoue, Satoru Okano, Takayuki Kasai, Makoto Sugawara, Tomohiro Kashiwada, Masatoshi Nakamura
• Localization Department: Kazuaki Oono, Yoshiki Sugiura, Kashiwakura Go, Shusaku Itaya, Kim Hyekyoung, Chen Ying
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• PTW Shanghai Co., Ltd.: Kun Li, Zheng Li, Jingjing Li, Zhiwei Ma
• PTW (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Taiwan Branch: An Ting Chu, Danto Hung, Ya-Yun Tan, Hsin-Yi Lin, Ching-Wung Wang, Szu-Chen Liu, Yi-Hsiang Huang
• PTW Korea Co., Ltd.: Daesung Kim, Dongho Choi, Hyeji Kim, Taeho Jeong, Jihun Yun, Minseok Kim, Sangtaek Kim
• Radius5 Inc. ML Engineers: Kenta Sugawara, Masanori Shimao
• Remastering Editor: Reiji Watabe
• TOKYU Agency Inc.: Akiyoshi Sato, Hayato Okitsu, Daisuke Hasegawa, Yohei Shimokawa

SONIC ORIGINS Management Team

• Production Management: Akane Inoue, Rena Sakai, Sho Nanmoku
• Promotion: Tsuguharu Ishihara
• Community Management: Keita Fujiki, Naoko Fujita, Edmundo Prado
• Creative Video Development: Toru Muramoto, Takeshi Watabe, Shiori Ichinose, Miyuki Mase
• Digital Marketing: Mari Yamamoto
• PR Managers: Nana Yamaguchi, Haruka Kikuchi
• PR - Publicity: Huizi Jin, Seiji Takanezawa, Teruyuki Kaida, Mamoru Kodama, Yasushi Nagumo, Ai Yamada, Ryoko Masuda, Nozomi Yamada, Masako Funakoshi
• Sales Promotion: Ruiko Miyamoto, Toshiaki Tamesue, Sachiko Ide, Chifuyu Sakata
• Sales Manager: Katsutoshi Memezawa
• Sales: Tomohiko Hayashi, Keigo Kimura, Takafumi Osaka, Daisuke Matsunaga, Hiroshi Matsubara, Junichiro Suzuki, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Kota Aso, Masahiro Tanaka, Shinya Oosaki, FIELD CREW SERVICE Co.,Ltd.
• Sales Planning: Keigo Endo, Hiroki Ohta
• Merchandise Planning: Aiko Matsuda, Akemi Kamata, Yosuke Okunari, Izumi Shirafune, Jun Takemura
• Sales Management: Takashi Kabasawa, Youko Oda, Nobuaki Sone
• Public Relations: Tetsuo Sasaki, Natsuki Sato
• Global Marketing Support: Makoto Senoo, Erika Nagata, Natsune Kitaoka
• Asia Product Management: Moe Kobori
• Asia Sales: Shintaro Tanioka, Yuichiro Shimada, Rey Irie, Yuta Tamagami
• SEGA Publishing Korea Ltd.: Hyunju Kim, Kyusang Kim, Dayeong Lee, Haechang Song, Chiwoo Nam, Cheong Lee, Jihyeon Mun, Chikyun Won, Minji Kim
• SEGA Amusements Taiwan Ltd.: Takuro Mishina, Nina Lin, Chunchieh Hsu, Yuping Shih, Max Hsu, Wayne Li, Bill Huang, Chihyu Chang, Yihui Chien, Jianchih Liou, Lili Lee, Mike Wang, Yujin Tsai
• Marketing Supervision: Yusuke Suai, Junji Sudo, Satoshi Imai, Yohei Tanioku, Seiichi Kato, Koichi Hanatate, Daichi Mukai, Go Saito, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Takayoshi Ohuchi, Kousuke Honma, Hiroko Karube
• Project Administration Department: Akira Nishikawa, Toyota Tokoro
• Software Quality Control Team: Hiroshi Masui, Daisuke Suzuki, Yuki Shinohara, Daijiro Tsukahara, Naoto Yako
• Product Control Team: Isao Akiyama, Atsushi Hirano, Teruo Yabumoto, Junichi Miyaki, Yuki Sano
• Asia Operation Team: Makoto Ito, Ryuta Sakamoto, Satoshi Kuwano, Yoko Fukada, Susumu Ookoshi, Takenori Terauchi
• Quality Assurance: Tomoki Kaji, Yasuyuki Hattori, Yuji Nakamura, Shunya Shimizu, Yasuhisa Kawase, Atsushi Nakaza
• Customer Relationship Management: Atsuyoshi Okada, Mariko Okada, Minori Hattori, Nobuyuki Inoue
• Game Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Sunao Murayama, Takashi Nishimura, Iljun Kang, Yoshitake Ohta, Makoto Nishino, Hiroyoshi Takuma, Yoichi Takahashi, Colin Restall
• Creative Producers: Eigo Kasahara, Toru Ohara

Sonic 3 & Knuckles Developed by Headcannon

• HEADCANNON Lead Developer + Lead Programmer: Simon Thomley
• Programmer: Noah Joseph Hall
• Programmer: Derrek Harbold
• Lead Artist: Andy Collins
• Associate Artist and QA: Elizabeth Ramirez

"Sonic 3 & Knuckles" is using Headcannon's "Path Tracer" collision and movement system, featured in "HCGE" and "Methyl" Game engines (C)1997-present Simon Thomley / Headcannon

Sonic Origins Animation by

• Director: Tyson Hesse
• Writer: Ian Flynn

Powerhouse Animation Studios

• Executive Producer: Brad Graeber
• Studio Executive: Bruce Tinnin
• Supervising Producer: Shane Minshew
• Supervising Director: Kellan Stover
• Supervising Technical Director: Lindsey Chastain
• Producer: Rachel Citron
• Production Manager: Ryan Arrington
• Outsource Coordinator: Mark-Ryan Magallanez
• Production Assistants: Sergio Diaz, Ember Schwager
• Supervising Pre-Production Artist: Meg Kluck
• Pre-Production Artists: Mikk Dado, Tory Patterson, Savannah Ruddy, Suree Yowell
• Supervising Background/Layout Illustrator: Chris Beaver
• Lead Background/Layout Illustrator: Megan Redlich
• Background/Layout Illustrators: Caroline Born, Brett Carville, Maya Dumas, Ashley Lange, Dania Nava
• Supervising Animators: Tyler Richlen, Deanna Trudeau
• Animators: Carlos Bobadilla, Jeff Freeman, Aleksander Hristov, William Martinez, Sergey Savvin, Viacheslav Spirianin, Elena Suarez, Husain Untoro, John Varvir, Daria Verzilina
• Compositors: Sam Batterbury, Kevin Cavanagh, Jennifer Fields, Nick Graves, Sofia Puerto

HANHO

• Director: Kiho Whang
• Animators: Hyunduck Hong, Jongmin Kim, Gun Lee, Youngbum Lee, Hyangho Song, Sunhee Whang
• Model/Animation Checking: Heesun Kim
• Clean Up Animators: Heejin Choi, Soonhee Jo, Yeonhee Jo, Sungwkun Kang, Seol Oh, Seungyeol Oh, Meeyoung Park, Myosook Yoon
• Administrator: Sosang Yoon
• Supervisor: Seokki Kim

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Sonic CD Opening & Ending Restoration

• Director / Lead Editor: Brady Hartel
• Specialty AI Model Training: Austin Squitieri, Christian Vestermark
• Compositing / Touchup: Elaine Morland
• Special Thanks: Coury Carlson

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Sonic Production

• Director of Production: Austin Keys
• Producers: Shotaro Kobayashi, Hannah Motegi, Miki Takahashi

External Development Management

• Producers: Bao Calvin Vu, Aaron Roseman

Marketing

• Director of Marketing: John Choon
• Sr. Brand Manager: David Abramov
• PR Manager: Evan Bader
• Social Media Manager: Katie Chrzanowski
• Associate Social Media Manager: Kenneth Washington
• Social Media Specialist: Justin Thormann

Product Strategy

• Director of Product Strategy: Ryan Hamlyn

Creative Services

• Director of Creative Services: Hiroshi Nishiyama
• Manager: Jimmy Lenoir
• Graphic Designer: Petia Koutzarova

Business & Strategic Planning

• Manager: Makiko Suda
• Associate Manager: Ayumi Tanioka

Licensing

• Director of Licensing: Alex Gomez
• Sr. Management of Product Development: Sandra Jo
• Manager of Product Development: Mai Kiyotaki
• Product Development Specialist: Scott Murata
• Sr. Manager of Licensing: Michael Cisneros
• Associate Manager of Licensing: Jennifer Cox
• Licensing Specialist: Maria Romo
• Licensing Coordinator: Maida Chan
• Licensing Translator: Yusuke Sato

Animation

• Director of Animation: Yukio Kusumoto
• Sr. Manager of Development: Ian Drazen
• Associate Manager of Production: Jasmin Hernandez
• Special Thanks: Alan Hadaya, FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague, Katie Golden, Matt Group, Ryan Langley, Danny Russel, soundtrec, Adam Tuff

Sonic Team USA

• SVP & Chief Brand Officer: Ivo Gerscovich
• EVP: Hitoshi Okuno

Sega of America Publishing

• SVP of Product Development: Hiroshi Kadowaki
• Development Services: Bryant Green, Jack Miller
• Director of Production: Samuel G. Mullen
• Translator: Yosuke Osakabe

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• QA Leads: Darryl Le, Lucas Amutan
• QA Compliance Specialists: Johnny Huynh, Rob Stone
• QA Testers: Matthew Aclaro, Benson Ishii, John Jeon, John Nieroski, Melissa Nieroski, Sarah-Anne Valle
• Assistant QA Manager: Scott Williams
• QA & PD Ops Coordinator: Steven Kawafuchi
• PD Operations & Submissions: Chris Asano, Emil Tokaev
• Sr. Manager, QA & Dev Support: Carl Chen
• Release Director: Stuart Massie

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• Digital Operations Manager: Rain Gregorio
• Digital Operations Coordinator: Kurumi Flanagan
• Operations Administrator: Carlos Vega
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• Sr. Sales Manager: Danny Miscevich
• Digital Promotions Manager: Mike Manzanares
• Associate Sales Support Manager: Kirk Whang
• EVP of Publishing: Ryan Okum

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• Business Planning: Alex Pham, Karin Miyata, Sawako Yamaji, Yuko Shimura
• Forecasting & Research: Daniil Loza, Jiyang Xie, Christopher Perez

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• Product Coordination: Mikako Ogata, Minoru Iwasaki

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• Accounting: Junko Fukaya, Naoko Kogawa, Samantha Nasab, Akiko Takahashi, Noriko Watanabe, Samantha Tamura
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• Recruiter: Daniel Collins
• VP, Finance & HR: Misaki Gertz
• Director of Business Development: Dai Kudo

Legal & Business Affairs

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• Director, Legal & Business Affairs: Pamela Bingcang
• Sr. Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs: Katherine Zhang
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• President & COO: Ian Curran
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PTW

• President North America and India: Sijo Jose (PTW)
• QA Manager: Veerendra Naik (PTW)
• Project Manager: Praveen Vaman (PTW)
• QA Lead: Aditya Yadav (PTW)
• QA Team: Ajay S Nair, Manjunath Puttaswamy, Agassi Jacob Thomas

SEGA Europe Ltd.

• Director of Studio Operations: Marta Lois González
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• Localisation Project Manager: Miguel Lerma Garcia
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• Localisation QA Manager: Alessandro Irranca
• Localization QA Project Manager: Firas Al Sekran
• Localisation QA Associate Lead: Felix Neuperth
• Localisation QA Senior Testers: Brunella Angela Pontillo, Irina Nekrashevich, Mónica González Alacreu, Selvir Katich
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• Development Support Engineer: Shaun Young
• Submissions, Equipment & Mastering Engineer: Tony Langan
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• Italian Translation: Fabio Bortolotti, Chiara Di Modica
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• Brazilian Localization: Amanda do Prado, Bárbara Coelho Melo, Bruno Dias
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• PM: Ekaterina Dyakonenko
• Polish Team: Wojciech Brudziński, Asia Mleczak
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• Head of Operations, EMEA: Linda Kershaw
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• Operations Executive, EMEA: Linda Chiao-Hsien Smith
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• Operations Manager (PC Digital), EMEA: Clinton Allman
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• Operations Co-ordinator (PC Digial), EMEA: Daniel Clarke
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