Live-Action Minecraft Trailer Full of Cardboard Epicness

[Tom Goldman]

Live-Action Minecraft Trailer Full of Cardboard Epicness


A top notch visual effects studio shows us what it'd be like if Minecraft were half real.

From the creators of videogame cheats in real life [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105961-VFX-Studio-Inputs-FPS-Cheat-Codes-in-Real-Life] and other great videogame shorts comes something even more epic. Corridor Digital has put together a short live-action Minecraft movie trailer called Minecraft: The Last Minecart, complete with costumes made of cardboard boxes.

The video centers on two Minecraft characters named Niko and Sam trying to survive in a world filled with zombies and other Minecraft enemies. Corridor Digital used its visual effects prowess to overlay actual graphics from Minecraft onto the real world.

The effect is cute when it shows Niko and Sam using a workbench, but when they end up fighting zombies it becomes pretty damn impressive. Cardboard box-wearing actors are killed in sprays of pixelated blood, and then a Creeper enters and blows a Minecraft-esque hole in the world.

Thanks to pork chops, Minecraft: The Last Minecart even has a happy ending. Maybe not as happy as a Minecraft fire [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107756-BioWare-Developer-Pops-the-Question-in-Minecraft].

Thanks The Zango [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/friends/The%20Zango]!

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[hittite]

Diamond shotgun. Niiiiiice.

 

[Toasty Virus]

I was JUST watching this..

HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DO THIS?

 

[mocruz1200]

numbers dont go high enough to measure how awesome this video is

 

[Therumancer]

Cool, but I can't help but wonder if Notch ever releases a true final finished product for Minecraft, if the sheer amount of inspired awesomeness will continue, or if everyone will have gotten burned out on it before it was even done.

 

[Formica Archonis]

A top notch visual effects studio shows us what it'd be like if Minecraft were half real.

Top... notch? I sincerely hope that was accidental. Because I have a stick in case it wasn't.

I was JUST watching this..

HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DO THIS?

Because we were all checking Notch's Twitter feed at the same time.

 

[cairocat]

A top notch visual effects studio shows us what it'd be like if Minecraft were half real.

...Really, Mr. Goldman?

 

[BabySinclair]

If the diamond shotgun ever enters the game it will officially take over as the biggest time sink of all time. Someone mod this in already.

 

[Scarim Coral]

All I have to say is BRAVO! That was amazing! and excellent effects!

 

[Tom Goldman]

A top notch visual effects studio shows us what it'd be like if Minecraft were half real.

...Really, Mr. Goldman?

Top... notch? I sincerely hope that was accidental. Because I have a stick in case it wasn't.

I did notice the similarity as I wrote that. I left it in... why not

 

[i am not god]

So good! They really need to make more of these.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Somehow that reminds me a lot of Doomsday Arcade.

That crater from the creeper looked amazing, too.

 

[Danpascooch]

This is, by a wide margin, the best thing I have or ever will see.

[HEADING=2]ever[/HEADING]

 

[aldowyn]

Because it came up less than 6 hours ago and is rapidly spreading through the internet? I've seen it from at least 4 independent sources already.

 

[The Random One]

But Creepers only come out at night, I SHALL NOT STAND FOR THIS BLATANT DISREGARD OF MINECRAFT CANON

I like how they kept all the gore and violence Minecraft is known for, though.

 

[katsumoto03]

Wow. Just wow.

I have been rendered speechless by this work of art. I think I'll go change my pants now.

 

[Aiden_the-Joker1]

I thought SCIENCE! was impressive-and it is- but that video was amazing.

 

[sir.rutthed]

But Creepers only come out at night, I SHALL NOT STAND FOR THIS BLATANT DISREGARD OF MINECRAFT CANON

I like how they kept all the gore and violence Minecraft is known for, though.

They may only come out at night, but they last all day too. I don't know how many times I thought myself safe only to run into a creeper in the mid afternoon.

OT: That was amazing. And so the day is saved yet again, by a pork chop.

 

[Shade184]

Oh god, my day has just improved by a thousand percent. This is brilliant.