Brick-Based Mario Videos Prove Everything Looks Better In Lego
Posted by Damien McFerran
Build it and they will come
Following on from the awesome Lego Zelda shield we featured a while back, we've stumbled across some amazing Lego-themed Super Mario videos.
Created using what appears to be a clever combination of computer editing and actual brick images, these videos replicate the look of Mario's early NES adventures via the medium of the classic Danish construction toy.
YouTube user brixelo is responsible for the awesome series of clips, which are also accompanied by the original music for that all-important authentic feel.
You can check some of them out below.
[via youtube.com, reddit.com]
#1
3Dash said:
Cool! It almost looks fake but it's really cool!
#2
FonistofCruxis said:
Nice videos, very impressive too.
#3
True_Hero said:
Lego + Mario + Free Time = Awesome
#4
GeminiSaint said:
I have a very hard time believing these are real. They look more like CGI to me.
#5
grumblebuzzz said:
I do believe these are animated with CGI, but with a Lego motif. Still cool though.
#6
MrWalkieTalkie said:
Did I just witness the trailer for 3D Classic: Super Mario Bros.? XD
#7
thegraveyardboy said:
my brother Otto made a Lego Mario animation on YouTube which is really unappreciated with such little views it would mean a lot to me and otto if you did a little feature about it!
;0
sincerely
thegraveyardboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfLSlFCUsnM&feature=plcp
#8
x-mas_mii said:
@MrWalkieTalkie you made me think, 3d classics super mario all stars+super mario world. I would like that.
#9
Platypus said:
Mario can be made from ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!
#10
RetroBrony91 said:
Very incredibly close camera angles aside, that was amazing!
#11
mudjo said:
He clearly hasn't built these in real life, but bothering to design and animate it was impressive!
#12
Super-Mario-Fan said:
Cool
#13
pixelman said:
Yeah, these don't look real at all, but still... pretty cool.
#14
WaxxyOne said:
It's OK, but I don't think real legos were involved in much if any of the making of those videos. Obviously the camera work is far too smooth to be filming stills of real legos and the frames are way too smooth to have been done by hand.
At best, the characters could have been made from real legos one frame at a time, and then the images of those edited into a CGI lego version of the levels, but I don't know why they'd go that far. If they have the ability to take a full screen of Mario and turn each pixel into a CGI lego, then that's probably all they did.
#15
Araknie said:
Looks only like a texture pack for the game, look at the mistakes done by missing block and the fight with bowser. You can't waste time doing this little thing if it was stop motion, also too much fluid.
#16
Hej-san said:
Nice animations. But it looks very computer-made.
Please check out the "Super Mario Lego™ official trailer" I made. The link is below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igade6AKqUs
#17
Henmii said:
Nice!