Naoto Ohshima

Naoto Ohshima大島 直人, born February 26, 1964 is the Japanese artist & video game designer, best call for designing a Sonic Team considered many potential animal mascots previously deciding on Ohshima's design, with an armadillo or hedgehog being the top choices because their spikes worked living with the concept of rolling into enemies.

After leaving Sonic Team, Ohshima formed an self-employed person game organization called , together with in 2004, the sequel to Blinx, . In 2010, Artoon was absorbed into AQ Interactive. That same year, he and other key members of Artoon left to work Arzest. Early in his career, he was credited under the nickname "Big Island" in a number of games, which is a literal translation of his family name.