Kazuyuki Hoshino

Kazuyuki Hoshino (星野 一幸, Hoshino Kazuyuki) is a video game artist who works for Sonic Team as the studio's creative director. His first role involved working with Sega on Sonic the Hedgehog CD as a character/sprite, special-stage, and visual designer. He is notable for creating Metal Sonic and Amy Rose. He was Sega Studio USA's art director and lead character designer until part of the studio was absorbed back into the Japanese parent company. At the American branch, he worked alongside Takashi Iizuka, as they both determined the best direction and style for their games.[2] As of 2019, Kazuyuki is the creative director at Sonic Team.[3]

Kazuyuki Hoshino
星野 一幸
NationalityJapanese
Alma materTama Art University[1]
Occupations
Years active1991–present
EmployerSonic Team (Sega)
Notable workSonic the Hedgehog series
TitleCreative director

Works
Year Title Role
1993 Panic! Graphic design
Sonic CD Character design, visual design
1995 Knuckles' Chaotix Character design
1996 Nights into Dreams Character design
1997 Sonic R Artist
Sonic Jam Artist
1998 Burning Rangers Internet support
1998 Sonic Adventure Art director, enemy design
2001 Sonic Adventure 2 Art director, character design
2003 Sonic Heroes Art director, enemy design, storyboard design
2005 Shadow the Hedgehog Art director, character design
2006 Sonic Rivals Art supervisor, character artwork
2007 Sonic Rivals 2
Nights: Journey of Dreams Art director, lead character designer
2009 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Art director, graphic UI artist
2011 Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games Senior art director
2013 Sonic Lost World Project support
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Senior art director
2014 Puyo Puyo Tetris Project support
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric Character supervisor
Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
2015 Sonic Runners Project support
2016 Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Senior art director
Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice Project support
2017 Sonic Mania Director of creative services, animation supervisor
Sonic Forces Director of creative services
2019 Team Sonic Racing
2022 Sonic Frontiers Character supervisor

References
  1. "Sonic Series Creative Director". April 2019.
  2. "Kazuyuki Hoshino - Sega Retro". segaretro.org. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. "Sonic Series Creative Director". April 2019.


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