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Video : First level of Super Mario Bros. 3 done with Lego's watch!

bitflicks.com — Title says it all.

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  • falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -24/+9This isn't completely real.

    "The BitFlicks style is a mix of stop motion animation, LEGO and CGI, all mixed up until the lines between each element begin to blur."

    They used CGI so it's almost like cheating... still cool though (I'll digg it).
    • CrookieMoonster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Well, it doesn't exactly say how much CGI was used, but if they used stop motion animation, I going to say a small portion of the clip actually needed CGI, to recreate the level almost exactly like the original, like the bricks shining. Everything else would be easily recreated with stop motion animation. And were you not going to digg it?
    • consoneo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12http://duggmirror.com/videos_gaming/Video_First_level_of_Super_Mario_Bros_3_done_with_Lego_s/
    • EricJD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36Does it have to be 100% real to be cool?
    • DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2yup burried inaccurate.
    • MiddleGirth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22You say that the title says it all, but does it really?
    • HalfBrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@EricJD
      No, indeed, have you ever seen the products of a plastic surgeon?

      BTW, very cool video, I wonder how many FPS it is.
    • StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -25/+15As a 3d animator, I'll say this:
      1) make a model of a plane with raised bumps to make the lego block.
      2) record a video of mario 3
      3) set the video as the texture of the bumpy plain.
      a half-hour project at most.

      Dugg down as lame.
    • kbox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27@StarManta
      Go do it then.. Your half hour starts now...
    • freqout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11just my opinion, but i don't think a single actual lego was involved in the making of this video.
    • actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Great, they learned how to distort and overlay video on a lego board.
  • Bara, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Wow, really impressive. I liked that more than I should. Although, why was it kind of "zoomed in" ... It would have looked a lot better had it been at the same "resolution" as the game.
    • tidu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Yeah, those extra 1,000 blocks of blue sky would have really made it better.
    • Bara, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Yes, yes it would. At least then it would look like the game rather than looking like you're looking through a telescope.
    • pooper, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2That above comment says it all.
  • titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Indeed I do say it all. *flies away*
    • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Didn't say much there, did ya?

      And it would really only work if your SN was "title."
    • titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Why only title?
    • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Because you saying "I do say it all" means - titlesaysitall says it all.
    • alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2you changed your icon!
    • titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know, I like my new one better.
  • 8177, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Cool. Too bad mario avoided most of the targets. Would have liked to see one of those angry mushroom squashed. Greatl video nonetheless.

    Dugg
    • night141, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I dugg your comment just because you said "angry mushroom squashed."
  • matija, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1hullo
    • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4yup, it got dugg allready. It's dead.
  • Spazkake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3youtube anyone?
  • Sagags, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1

    Dugg Mirror.
  • challahc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1so unrealistic, who goes through the first level of mario 3 without getting a leaf.
  • gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1someone link us to teh duggmirror
  • demonmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Dugg Mirror

    http://duggmirror.com/videos_gaming/Video_First_level_of_Super_Mario_Bros_3_done_with_Lego_s/

    Lazy, lazy, lazy...
  • nubnub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0doesn't play...
  • moonhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ergh. Need a video mirror. YouTube / Google Vid anyone?
  • TheVetos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10DONT MARK AS INNACURATE!!! it ruins all crediblitly of a story, what was he supposed to title it?
    "Made of mostly lego bricks, but they cheated" ?!?
    • rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Don't worry, I didn't mark it inaccurate.

      I marked it lame for "title says it all" and misspelling of "Legos".
  • demonmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually the video DOES play (on the Mirror)... be patient?
  • kendawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7To me it just looks like a pixelated video on a Lego texture....which is not impressive. It would be cool if there was some 'realness' to it.
  • addrake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0http://duggmirror.com/videos_gaming/Video_First_level_of_Super_Mario_Bros_3_done_with_Lego_s
  • bmson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2amazing
  • theonlydrayk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.bitflicks.com/videos/SMW3_5Mbps_640x480.flv
    (20.1 Meg)
    • RandomGuySteve, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Why the hell is there no link in the mirror? Sigh..

      Video is down. Link is down. Mirror doesn't have Video.

      Someone finally posted a link to google video.
  • arkmtech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Maybe I'm alone here, but... I'm guessing this is a Fraps + NES Emulator screen-capture of Mario 3, cropped in video-editing software, and screened onto a 3D-model of Lego bricks.

    Not that it isn't cool - It just doesn't seem all it's cracked up to be.
  • marioluigi123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's a still picture:

    http://www.bitflicks.com/videos/SMW3_5Mbps_640x480.jpg

    LEGO? You decide.
    • dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I say it's real... There are shadows on the lego pieces that would make it either a VERY good fake, or real...
      (You can see the height of the pieces above the blue backdrop, particularly in the holes in the tree where there is no black border)

      I say it's at least mostly real. (Besides, it would be SO much more fun to make it stop motion. Faking it would be boring by comparison.)

      You can also see the pieces being changed in the black backdrop near the end)
    • rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's CG. There's simply no way a human could do that. It would take years.

      Ockham's razor says he wrote a script that converts the pixels of a movie into Lego blocks.
    • OnePunchMickey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I'll second that.

      "LEGO" is the plural! And before anyone tells me to get a life, spelling and punctuation are important you illiterate muppets.
    • gaijintendo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hate to point this out, but there is a bit of a cottage industry in making lego pieces look real. Look up LegoDraw BrickCad and so on and see just how many people are playing around with Maya and coming up with photorealistic pieces.

      If you use software like this, it makes watching this harder to believe.
  • 1town, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Theres no way in hell that was stop motion.

    Lke arkmtech said, most likely a low res projection onto the lego surface
  • brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I thought this was going to be actual lego figures jumping around, not just a flat mosaic.
  • Litespeed, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1No digg simply because it's referred to as "Lego's" in the title. Setting aside the completely wrong use of an apostrophe, Lego is the product name for the bricks and toys.

    More info: http://anonymouslefty.blogspot.com/2005/09/lego-bricks-vs-legos.html
    • DoctorNo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Get a life,

      Lego or "lego's", the video was cool.
    • dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I agree with Dr.No, regardless of weather it's wrong to call the LEGO bricks "Lego's" (which I'll admit it is, even if it's common practice) it's still a cool video, and still worthy of being dugg.

      At the same time as saying this is totally diggworthy, I would like so say that it would be nice if people did either use LEGO as a collective noun (like sheep are not sheeps) if they are too lazy to say LEGO bricks, and learn to use apostrophe properly. English is messed up enough without more rules being broken...
    • Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Why even link to a blogpost with such a horrible, repeating background? It ruins our eyes.
  • gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2it didn't look Lego enough for me if you ask me
  • Burton1098, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5what an amateur. He didn't even duck behind the white block ;)
  • millerbrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Stop the video at any frame you'd like, and look at a few individual pixels. Each pixel corresponds to a Lego "nub". If it isn't stop motion, it's at least halfway decent CGI.
  • DavidLightman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6THE PLURAL OF 'LEGO' IS 'LEGO' NOT 'LEGO'S' !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • pfunked, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The LEGO company has an official way of pluralizing their product. LEGO bricks, LEGO toys, etc. Never Lego or legos. Lego's is right out.
  • Sike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Totally awesome. Like TOE-TAIL-EE. Althought it doesn't really resemble Legos, it's cool nonetheless.
  • r2builder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Genius idea, the only thing that ruined it for me was that the wood grain was out of scale of the lego bricks, so you could tell that something was off - great concept though! Reminds me of that Michel Gondry video for the White Stripes - Fell in love with a girl:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=J6TcX_TKLcg
  • anonatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am calling this legit, not to mention, much like a pair of breasts... they are real if I can enjoy them!
  • ptaylor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Video is OK, but this cannot be a real Lego vid. Let's be honest. StarManta is right, this is a layered animation, I don't know about 1/2 creation though, but an actual photo by photo creation of a Lego board can't be this fluid, but layered animation can.
  • alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This sucks... I was expecting a 3-D movie of tall legos, not just flat legos put across a board... :(
  • oldnavy1918, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2THAT WAS STUPID!!! BURRIED FOR THE DUMB LAMENESS!
  • RaGa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1*****
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