Via the Cook & Becker blog comes the awesome news that SEGA has teamed with the art dealer to release a Sonic the Hedgehog 25th Anniversary Art Book. The book will cover Sonic’s entire history and will include design sketches, official illustrations, in-game and pixel art, promotional art and box art. The book will also contain never-before-seen artwork and will have interviews with designers and artists who worked on the series. Pre-orders have not yet opened, but Cook & Becker expect pre-orders to open wordwide in October or November with the ship date set as early 2017. There will be two versions, a Standard Edition and a Collector’s Edition.
SEGAbits News Post:
http://segabits.com/blog/2016/10/07/sega-and-cook-becker-to-team-up-to-release-the-sonic-the-hedgehog-25th-anniversary-art-book/---
This is really exciting! From the Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works book and the 3D Classics interviews, we learned that SEGA has a sizable archive of art, design docs and original hardware. The Sonic brand has utilized some of these pieces, as seen in the History of Sonic book, the Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works book, a SEGA art book from the 90s and the Sonic Generations image gallery. But with this upcoming art book it appears that pieces from the Sonic franchise will be given a proper full-on art book treatment.
I'm really hoping for a concise cover art gallery with all regions accounted for as well as a lot more design docs from the Genesis era.
Curious as to what stuff you are all hoping to see?
