The SatAM Vault: Model Sheets, the Series Bible and Rare Production Art

Model Sheets · The Void outlines · Backgrounds · Series bible · Master Cel · Sources

Welcome to the “SatAM Secret Vault”! This portion of the site contains all of the rarely-seen content from SatAM Sonic. Most of the content on this page is hard-to-find, and are things you’d never find by watching the show itself, and shows some behind the scenes making of SatAM! We still ask YOU DO NOT TAKE THESE PICTURES AND IMAGES for your own site, without permission. You can ask permission through our contact page.

By Luke, from our old site. Rebuilt in November 2026: every item is now a full-size image you can click through, sorted by episode.

Model Sheets

DiC’s model sheets showed the animators exactly how each prop and vehicle should look from every angle. Click any sheet to see it full size.

Heads or Tails (the pilot)

• Boomer’s Backpack 1
• Boomer’s Backpack 2
• Boomer’s Bib
• Boomer’s Fish
• Catapult 1
• Catapult 2
• Catapult 3
• Halo Catapult
• Catapult Broken Arm
• Catapult Repaired Arm
• Cluck’s Eyeball
• Uncle Chuck Photo
• Sleek Hoover 1
• Sleek Hoover 2
• Sleek Hoover 3
• Sleek Hoover 4

See them in context on the Heads or Tails episode page.

Hooked on Sonics

• Robotnik’s Hoover
• Button on Chair
• Laser Howitzer
• Shredder Remote
• Sonic Radar

Sonic Racer

• Hoover Racer (Sonic Racer)
• Antenna Relay (Sonic Racer)
• Generator Computer (Sonic Racer)

Sonic and the Secret Scrolls and Warp Sonic

• Box With Screen (Secret Scrolls)
• Freedom Stormer (Secret Scrolls)
• Telescope (filed under Warp Sonic)

Miscellaneous

• The Haystack
• Patrol Vehicle 1
• Patrol Vehicle 2
• Patrol Vehicle 3
• Patrol Vehicle 4
• Power Ring
• Sonic’s Backpack
• Trashcan and Lid
• Hedgehog Alert Light

Unidentified

I have no idea what these are…

• Car Pipe
• Sonic Watch (I want one)
• Spitball Bullet

If you know which episode the car pipe, the Sonic watch or the spitball bullet come from, tell us.

“The Void” Story Outlines

Two drafts of the story outline for The Void, Ben Hurst’s Season 2 episode in which Sally finally finds her father. Outlines were the step between the pitch and the script.

Outline 1

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Page 7
• Page 8
• Page 9

Outline 2

• Cover
• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Page 7
• Page 8

Backgrounds

Painted backgrounds from the show – the layers the characters were animated over.

• Robotnik’s badlands base
• The Freedom Fighters’ blind spot
• An underground bunker
• Crawl Space
• Large Hangar
• The outside of Robotnik’s base
• Inside of badlands base
• Swirling sands

The SatAM Bible

This is a copy of the SatAM Bible. It’s not the first bible, and it’s obviously not anywhere near the last. This bible contains the original name for Snively (Quizley), says Antoine’s accent is British (not French, as we know it is), and talks about Nate Morgan. Yes, Nate Morgan of the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics series was originally a SatAM character! However, perhaps it’s for the best that they decided to change things the way they did, or else we would have had another AoStH. I mean, as much as I like AoStH, we don’t need two series of it.

Interesting to note that on Page 10, whoever was marking on the sidelines (probably its author, Len Janson) mentions a game (“Will not appear in game. He [Tails] rolls up instead.”) I didn’t notice it at first, but I remember hearing rumors about a game called Sonic Mars that was to take place in the SatAM/Archie world; perhaps this was a reference to this game… OR the more likely answer, since it was revised before Sonic 2 came out, it’s Sonic 2 that they’re referring to. It’s entirely possible that Len could have been referring to the Sonic-16 demo that was made (as it was based off SatAM, and would later evolve into Sonic Mars).

The last thing to note is on the last two pages there are story ideas. The Quest obviously later on became Sonic Boom, Heads or Tails became… well that’s obvious, but the original concept is different. As for Bug Off, it either evolved into two separate episodes, Harmonic Sonic, Sonic Past Cool (the spying on Knothole, and someone wanting to keep a pet), or the idea was scrapped altogether.

Do Not Take for your Own Site Without Permission!

• Cover
• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Page 7
• Page 8
• Page 9
• Page 10
• Page 11
• Page 12
• Page 13
• Page 14
• Page 15
• Page 16
• Page 17
• Page 18
• Page 19
• Page 20
• Page 21
• Page 22
• Page 23
• Page 24
• Page 25

The “Master Cel”

An “Animation Cel” was sent to us by user “Denn”. His story is this:

This story seems to fit. The characters are in their “Season 1” appearance, and Cluck is present. Were this made during Season 2, we’d probably have Season 2 Rotor, Sally with a vest, and irises in their eyes as opposed to being a solid color. I would say this probably hung in some important hallway in DiC with other such cels of their shows, as offices as such sometimes have.

Update: Denn’s story has an interesting echo. A Sega legal document that surfaced in 2025 shows that Sega was angry with DiC for selling SatAM cels – more in our cancellation article.

More SatAM on Sonic Scene

• Season 1: From the VaultModel sheets shown with their episodes.
• SatAM: the series pageHistory, characters, cast and credits.
• Season 1 (1993)All 13 episodes, characters and the Vault model sheets.
• Season 2 (1994)All 13 episodes, from Game Guy to The Doomsday Project.
• Why SatAM was cancelled
• SatAM airing history
• The fabled SatAM game

Sources

Everything on this page comes from Luke’s own collection.

• Luke’s ‘SatAM: The Vault’ and its images (sonicscene.net/images/cartoons/satam/satam_vault/)
• The Master Cel story: “Denn”, as told to Luke
• Sonic Stadium, ‘Newly unearthed document sheds light on Sonic SatAM cancellation’ (2025)