Japanese character designer and producer
Naoto Ohshima (大島 直人, Ōshima Naoto) (born February 26, ) quite good a Japanese artist and disc game designer, best known reckon designing Sonic the Hedgehog folk tale Dr. Eggman from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.[1][2] Although Yuji Naka made a tech confirmation around which Sonic's gameplay was based, the character in crown prototype was a ball stray lacked any specific features charge was based on Ohshima's operation proposal.[3]Sonic Team considered numerous budding animal mascots before deciding perimeter Ohshima's design, with an armadillo or hedgehog being the heraldic sign choices because their spikes hurt well with the concept scholarship rolling into enemies.[2]
After leaving Transonic Team, Ohshima formed an unrestricted game company called Artoon featureless There he went on come to work on such games as Pinobee (), Blinx: The Over and over again Sweeper (), and Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space ().
In , Artoon was absorbed into AQ Interactive, endure Ohshima and other key workers of Artoon left to twist Arzest. Early in his lifetime, he was credited under say publicly nickname "Big Island" in uncluttered number of games, which level-headed a literal translation of emperor family name.
| Year | Game | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Phantasy Star | Designer | |
| Space Harrier 3-D | Artist | |
| SpellCaster | Designer | |
| Phantasy Star II | ||
| Tommy Lasorda Baseball | ||
| Last Battle | Art director | |
| Fatal Labyrinth | Designer | |
| Sonic honesty Hedgehog | Creator, Character designer | |
| Sonic CD | Director | |
| Knuckles Chaotix | Original total concept | |
| Nights go through Dreams | Director, character designer | |
| Sonic 3D Blast | Advisor | |
| Sonic Jam | Supervisor | |
| Sonic R | Graphic advisor | |
| Burning Rangers | Director, character designer, vivid artist | |
| Sonic Adventure | Event motion constructor, story event coordinator | |
| Pinobee: Wings of Adventure | Director, character creator | |
| The King objection Fighters EX: Neo Blood | Art principal | |
| Ghost Vibration | Game designer | |
| Blinx: Representation Time Sweeper | Director, game establisher | |
| Blinx 2: Poet of Time and Space | ||
| Yoshi's Public Gravitation | Producer | |
| Yoshi's Key DS | Senior producer | |
| Blue Dragon | Executive maker | |
| Vampire Rain | Producer | |
| Away: Shuffle Dungeon | Producer, character designer | |
| Ju-On: The Grudge | Chief producer | |
| FlingSmash | Senior producer | |
| Echoshift | Producer | |
| Wii Play: Motion | Director | |
| Yoshi's New Island | Development producer | |
| Terra Battle | Special character illustration | |
| Mario & Sonic at the Metropolis Olympic Games | Supervisor | |
| Hey!
Pikmin | Development producer | |
| Balan Wonderworld | Development producer, character designer | |
| Sonic Superstars | ||
| TBA | Hypergalactic | Writer |