This non-Wii, non-console battle, non-price related Super Mario 3 goodness from newly launched animation site BitFlicks was soaked up by my beleagured brain like water into a sponge. Check out the link below to see the movie, which employs a mix of LEGO, stop motion animation and CGI, according to the site.
Only quirk was that the designer obviously didn’t know the old run and jump diagonally trick to get the star from the box at the end of the level. Also, kneeling on those white platforms for a few seconds would have yielded a warp whistle, but this is still cool none the less.
UPDATE: As we are well aware of here at Infendo, Digg.com can be a double-edged sword in terms of generating traffic. It would appear as though BitFlicks has been Dugg and will be up later.
I would check out the video but that website is rather unresponsive and relatively non-functional…..
It’s on Google Video now:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9063427433520263492
And it doesn’t look like he did much more than apply a 3D Lego texture filter to a cropped video clip. I doubt any stop-motion was done in this at all.
I disagree with you my friend. It looks like he just took a video of the first level off of something like an emulator and then just used the legos as if they were sprites and went frame by frame through the animation and just took a picture of each frame. It’s not all that hard, just EXTREMELY time consuming.