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| Type | Informal musical |
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| Starring | Melissa Benoist |
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Psyop |
| Date | November 18, 2017 |
| Length | 1:41 |
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The Super Duper Minecraft Musical is a live action/animated hybrid short film, made to promote the Super Duper Graphics Pack.[1]
The video begins on a stage, decorated with a lone grass block with an azure bluet on top. Melissa Benoist walks onto the stage, picking up dirt, singing about personal preference. The curtains open, revealing a small hill in the Overworld, which she climbs, before connecting two cables carried with parrots, marked "Super" and "Duper." Connecting the two, the world's textures begin to convert to that of the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
A Super Duper pig riding a minecart passes by a chicken, converting it instantly. Wolves patrol a snowy plains biome and get the upgrade in milliseconds, while a villager appears out of nowhere. A pig strolls through a badlands biome, and is transformed into a creeper. As Melissa continues singing, the biome changes to a desert, which frightens the creeper. A chorus of llamas appear, as a villager interjects. The biome then changes to a snowy plains, as a squid leaps out of the river and chickens fall from a hot air balloon, transitioning Melissa to a pond.
Stepping across lily pads, Melissa jumps off a cliff into a cityscape, her fall apparently broken by an explosion. Somehow okay, and now in a new outfit, many more mobs begin to dance with her, including Steve, Alex, and many characters from skin packs, climaxing the video as it reveals a huge collection of floating terrain. In the final shot, Melissa is back on the stage, and knocks over a Super Duper zombie.
Have you ever thought: Sorry, you’re just not my type;
You’ve got style, but you’re not for me?
But then along comes an image that creates some hype,
And it makes you smile to see
What this world can be
When you’re given the key
To the super-duper, so heart-pounding,
Awesome, stellar, and astounding
Vision that the world has never seen;
Where the specular maps amaze you,
And the danger doesn’t faze you;
In this land where dreamers rule, and you’re the queen.
A llama chorus starts to form,
And soon they’re dancing up a storm.
You said it! What else could be in store?
You feel the wind as it whips on by,
Caused by the chickens who fly so high;
And as they touch the sky, your spirit starts to soar,
’Cause for the first time, you truly see yourself.
So you dig down deep, and you take a leap,
And you land right back where you started, but everything feels new
In this super-duper, realistic, extra-special, fabulistic,
Mystical and magical, dramatic, never tragical
World that waits for you!
We got the script from 215 McCann to create a musical, which of course is such an exciting prospect because the nature of musicals is just so playful and inventive. Creating this sort of musical theme around Minecraft felt appropriate because the nature of Minecraft is to be so playful. We see our singer come out, the curtains open, and then all of a sudden we see this beautiful Minecraft world. Something we’ve always enjoyed doing at Psyop is to invent new ways to create a voice for different brands.
One of the things we loved about this is that you start from literally a sketch on a piece of paper. then we have designers do a style frame where it’s a full color sketch. Then we start working with set designers and they start building the things that were in the sketch. We’d seen everything grow from figment to fulfillment, and then Melissa (Benoist, star of Supergirl) gets there and starts performing, it just brings all this life to it. It was breathtaking. Our highest personal accolade is when our commercials are entertainment. So how do we expand the brand’s identity and package it into a beautiful commercial? Hopefully that’s what we’ve done!
Actress Melissa Benoist, best known for Supergirl but also Glee and The Longest Ride, sings all about Microsoft's world-constructing game in this new video.
The Super Duper Minecraft Musical has Benoist performing in front of a green screen with the various sights and sounds of Minecraft's world. The whole tune is surprisingly catchy, whether you have an affinity for the subject matter or not, and Benoist definitely has a voice that makes the whole thing gel really well.
Check out the video below and then pretend not have it stuck in your head all day.
We love it when games go musical. And if you happen to love both Minecraft and Broadway, this number is for you. Created to promote its upcoming Super Duper Graphics Pack, Minecraft released “The Super Duper Minecraft Musical!” The peppy video, which takes place in the boxy universe where anything is possible (as long as you’re willing to build it), features Melissa Benoist of Supergirl and Glee as she discovers the brave new world of Super Duper Graphics.
Minecraft mightn't be the sort of game that inspires song and dance, but Melissa Benoist from Supergirl and Glee is here to prove that assumption wrong.
In an ad for the game's Super Duper Graphics Pack set to release next year, Benoist sings about Minecraft and all the possibilities there are to be had...from an optional DLC graphics pack.
Gotta sing about something, we guess.
| November 18, 2017 | The Super Duper Minecraft Musical is shown at MINECON Earth 2017. | ||||||
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| May 14, 2018 | The Super Duper Minecraft Musical is nominated for "“Best Animated Film (Branded)” at the Webby Awards. | ||||||
| 2018? | The Super Duper Minecraft Musical is nominated for “Best TV or Theatrical Ad” at PROMAXGAMES AWARDS. | ||||||
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