Game Designer Division's Head by Yuji Naka until 2006. Now head by Takashi Iizuka.
- Yuji Naka (Founder of Sonic Team. also Producer & Programmer of Sonic the Hedgehog Trilogy later moved to form Prope)
- Hirokazu Yasuhara (Co-Founder of Sonic Team. also Director of Sonic the Hedgehog Trilogy later moved Naughty Dog)
- Takashi Iizuka (Director of Sonic Adventure also Founder of Sonic Team USA from 1999-2008)
- Tetsu Katano (Producer/Director of Sonic and the Black Knight)
- Yojiro Ogawa (Producer/Director of Sonic and the Secret Rings)
- Akinori Nishiyama (Scenario Writer of Sonic Adventure)
- Shun Nakamura (Game Story of Sonic Next Gen)
- Shiro Maekawa (Scenario Writer of Sonic Adventure 2 and Game Script of Sonic Next Gen)
- Shinobu Toyoda (Producer of Sonic the Hedgehog & Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Project Manager of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 later head of Sega Marketing Team. left Sega, in 2004)
- Masaharu Yoshii (Project Manager of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 & Sonic the Hedgehog 3 left Sonic Team, in 2002)
- Takao Miyoshi (Assistant Producer of Sonic Heroes)
- Youji Ishii (Project Manager of Sonic Adventure later moved to Artoon)
- Yutaka Sugano (Object Placement of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 later moved to Artoon)
- Yoshihisa Hashimoto (Director of Sonic Unleashed and Creator of the Hedgehog Engine later moved to Square Enix)
Artists & Illustrators
Art Division's Head by Naoto Ohshima Untli 1999. now Head by Kazuyuki Hoshino.
- Naoto Ohshima (Co-Founder of Sonic Team also First Character Designer of Sonic Team and Creator of Sonic the Hedgehog and Doctor Eggman later moved to Artoon)
- Kazuyuki Hoshino (3rd Character Designer of Sonic Team also Creator of Amy Rose and Co-Founder of Sonic Team USA from 1999-2008)
- Yuji Uekawa (5th Character Designer of Sonic Team)
- Yasushi Yamaguchi (2nd Character Designer of Sonic Team also Creator of Miles "Tails" Prower later moved TNS Co. Ltd.)
- Takashi Thomas Yuda (4th Character Designer of Sonic Team also Creator of Knuckles the Echidna and Assistant President of United Game Artists from 2000-2003)
- Yoshitaka Miura (6th Character Designer of Sonic Team)
- Nobuhiko Honda (7th Character Designer of Sonic Team)
- Sachiko Kawamura (Art Director of Sonic Unleashed)
CG Movie
Visual Entertainment is Founded in 1996 by Norihiro Nishiyama. Previously known as Sonic Team's CG Movie Division. first major project games was NiGHTS into Dreams. Also known as VE Sega Animation Studio.
- Norihiro Nishiyama (Founder of Visual Entertainment. left Sonic Team, in 2002)
- Tomokazu Takahashi (President of Visual Entertainment)
- Takeshi Itou
- Minoru Kusakabe
- Tomohiro Yonemichi
- Takashi Nakashima
- Naoko Ajiro
Notable Staff
The division was headed by Takashi Iizuka. Notable Sonic Team members that have stuck with the U.S. branch from Sonic Adventure 2 to NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams include:
Art Director: Kazuyuki Hoshino
Lead Programmer: Takeshi Sakakibara
Senior Programmer: Tomoyuki Naito
Music Composer(s): Jun Senoue
Lead Field Artist: Hiroshi Nishiyama
Field Artist(s): Michikazu Tamamura, Daizo Kinoshita, Takahiro Kudo
Miscellaneous: Atsushi Saito (Animation), Nobuhiko Honda (Character Design)
Music Composers
Sonic Team is also notable for achieving popular music in their games. There are a number of popular composers that have stuck with the developer for a long time, and are well known around the fanbase:
- Yukifumi Makino (head of Wave Master from 1991-2004 now moved to Delfi Sound Inc.)
- Fumie Kumatani
- Tomoya Ohtani
- Kenichi Tokoi
- Runblebee- (works with Kenichi Tokoi)
- Hideaki Kobayashi
- Tomonori Sawada
- Naofumi Hataya
- Mariko Nanba
- Jun Senoue (also works with Sonic Team)
- Yutaka Minobe
- Seirou Okamoto
- Taihei Sato
- Takahito Eguchi
- Masaru Setsumaru
- Tatsutoshi Narita
- Fumitaka Shibata (now head of Wave Master and Sega Digtal Studio)
- Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
- Tomoko Sasaki
- Hideki Naganuma
- Saori Kobayashi
- Junko Shiratsu
- Yayoi Wachi
- Tatsuya Kousaki
- Tatsuyuki Maeda
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