If you’ve seen the trailer for The Minecraft Movie, you’ll have noticed that there’s something about it that feels really strange. Really strange. You can clearly see that the creators have set out to bring the universe and essence of Minecraft to the big screen through a style that preserves the grid-like aesthetic of the sandbox. However, when breathing life into that world, you have to squint to try to understand a little bit better what they’re showing us. The good news is that the same footage works a little bit better in the classic voxelated style.
For the record, the aesthetics are not a personal appreciation, but rather something more generalized: the trailer for A Minecraft movie At the time of writing this article, it has surpassed 31 million views, but the proportion of thumbs down (more than a million, According to Forbes) doubles the “Likes” obtained on YouTube. What if instead of actors and animals with strange silhouettes the aesthetics of the game were restored?
Through his YouTube channel, the user Alumio has remade the first trailer from start to finish A Minecraft movie turning each frame into a scene recreated in the style of Minecraft. In fact, the content of his channel is based primarily on creating “blocky-style” music videos and shorts based on the aesthetics of the Mojang game, so he is quite experienced in the subject and the result is not only very attractive, but is also full of amazing details.
Starting from the original audio track, Alumio not only has he animated all the characters, but he has recreated each set piece by piece. Block by block. So when we see the character played by Jason Momoa Built instantly, the room in the trailer finds its perfect replica showing how it would look in the game with its corresponding details. Not to mention the way the huge landscapes have been made for the long shots, which deserves a very special recognition.
However, the weight of the film will not be so much in its details as in the way in which the main characters manage to capture and bring to the film the fun and the infinite possibilities of a game of MinecraftThat said, and so you can properly compare what was achieved with the trailer, here you can also see the first official trailer of A Minecraft movie.
Will the next big blockbuster be based on a video game, like Super Mario Bros. The Movie; or will we be faced with a case similar to that of the Borderlands movie? What is clear is that in all three projects Jack Black has a leading role and in two of them he has won over the public. We will have to wait for the April 4, 2025 to see if the actor, rocker and video game lover makes it as the live-action version of Steve for movie theaters.
Or maybe we’ll have to wait a little longer for Alumio to dare to recreate A Minecraft movie whole in his own “Blocky style”.
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