From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

However, the developer decided not to change the visual style since it believes "really high-quality, awesome looking 2D pixel art" was part of the original PS1, PSP game's appeal.

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

" [W]e look at the pixel art — it's great — but when we think about 10-20 years in the future, we don't think it's going to be a viable art style or presentation for our players," Iizuka said ...

Speaking to IGN, Kato admitted he likes the style but the 2D pixel art of the original has been retained instead. "No, we didn't think about making it HD-2D," he said.

Sonic Superstars is an exciting return to the Blue Blur's 2D origins, but its new art style exists because its developers don't think the classic pixel art approach will be "viable" in future.

Well, it now appears that Thomas Feichtmeir, an artist who worked on Blasphemous, actually once pitched an idea to publisher Bandai Namco for a 2D pixel art version of Dark Souls III.

Sonic Superstars, the new 2D Sonic platformer from Sega coming out later this year, looks a lot like a fresh take on the famous blue blur. It ditches pixel art for a cartoony new visual style that ...

By contrast, Sonic Superstars features 3D character models and environments in a 2D perspective. It's certainly a more elaborate visual style filled with modern effects, but pixel art still has ...