#obligatory This Is Fake but u guys knew that bc im a wanton criminal lmao

[wreckham]

Item description copypasted from an animation cel listed for auction on eBay by seller de084012:

"From my deceased father's personal collection of animation production art. According to him, this came from a weird but official 1991 commercial promoting the first Sonic the Hedgehog game on Sega Genesis. Can't remember its country of origin, but guessing its Slavic. Cel is stuck to production drawing from years of heat exposure, but is otherwise in good condition.

Comes as pictured in collector's sleeve."

Auction ended 6/21/2018 when user nostalgia_spinner_72 placed the final bid of $492.95 USD. A snippet from a post they made to the Sonic Stadium forums under the same username provides more information on the cel's origins:

"this is kindof insane. seller was right about it being from a slavic country. google translate says the writing is in russian. nothing interesting there, its just sonics name and i guess a word meaning background. i was obsessed with this thing the momnt i saw it. theres only a little bit of info about it online from what i can see.

this was a frame from a russian commercial for sonic 1. i think sonics design and animation was done by an american artist named elizabeth vanderhoff because her old portfolio mentions getting to do whatever she wanted with a video game character during one of her first animation gigs. i cant find the commercial its from anywhere but ive only looked in english, maybe its on some russian site. i have no idea why they let him look this off model even back then but ive seen similar stuff from the mario series so who knows. his face weirds me the h*ll out but this is one of my grail items in my sonic collection"

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sega #animation cel #production drawing #animation drawing #vintage #art collecting #beckhamdraws #russian off-model sonic isnt real he cant hurt u #russian off-model sonic: #obligatory This Is Fake but u guys knew that bc im a wanton criminal lmao