The real-ish-like face of Mario

[Black Mage]

Looks right to me, almost natural really, in a freakish sorta way. Brings to my mind the Mario of the SMB Super Show, with a rougher stereotypical Brooklyn accent, verses the stereotypical Italian accent of N64 Mario.

Actually, this is one of the better examples of cartoon-to-reality renders I've seen.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/Motzart120/realmario_comunicadoresinfo.jpg

From http://comunicadoresdeplantao.blogspot.com/2008/03/real-face-do-mrio.html

[The Pezman]

Heh... he looks like a mutant. I can imagine him now, gasping "Kill me."

[Hylian Lemon]

For me, it's going back and forth between natural and freaky. The eyes are the weirdest part.

Either way, whoa.

[Zombie]

That is really creepy.

:-(

[Fishy]

I can see what peachy sees in him.

[chrono26]

i say get rid of the hair by his chin and its right on. i'm gonna have some weird dreams after seeing this

[Shadow Wolf]

FUCK YOUR SIGNATURE BLACK MAGE! We both KNOW you can't win the game!!! And you just ruined my LONGEST not losing streak EVER!

[Synchronicity]

That's just... Creepy...

Some people must have a lot of free time...

[OverCoat]

In before Ron Jeremy

[Black Mage]

Can you just imagine the frightened children if they can make him look that that in future games? Hell, I'd be disturbed and mind-fucked if I had to play as that!

[SynthesizedStampede]

That is...well that is sorta creepy. I think I woulda been fine with it if not for the eyes. o_O

[Moseph]

His irises match -- Photoshop artifacts FTW!

[Darklink42]

Yeah, shrink down the eyes and it'd look like like a real guy, hair and everything.

That's seriously some crazy stuff right there.

[Paratha]

The REAL reason why Nintendo decided not to put more emphasis on graphics in developing the Wii.

[Strike911]

Haha!

It looks like that troll guy Hoggle from that movie Labyrinth... you know, the one with David Bowie in it and his crazy scary tight pants.

[Raziellink]

Uncanny valley.

[suzumebachi]

so good. I want a super hi-res version so I can have it as my desktop (to replace the mario bros 3 screen i'm currently using)

[Overflow]

I agree...If the eyes were smaller, it would be a LOT better.
Right now, he's just creepy.

[megadave]

That thing is stupid. Mario wouldn't look like that in 'real life' because nobody's face would grow such a way in 'real life'.

He'd be a 5 foot something stocky dude, like Lou Albano but not quite as ugly.

[Torzelan]

Looks like some one stuck a Mario cap on a character from the Asterix & Obelix movie.

[Darklink42]

That thing is stupid. Mario wouldn't look like that in 'real life' because nobody's face would grow such a way in 'real life'.

He'd be a 5 foot something stocky dude, like Lou Albano but not quite as ugly.
Actually, people's faces do grow similar to that. It looks weird as hell, but it does happen. I saw a guy the other day at a parade that had a very similar head shape. That picture was the first thing that popped into my head too.

[jmr]

Yeah, shrink down the eyes and it'd look like like a real guy, hair and everything.I think you'd have to do more than make the eyes smaller. Did you even notice the huge honker of a nose?

[Tenucha]

Looks right to me, almost natural really, in a freakish sorta way. Brings to my mind the Mario of the SMB Super Show, with a rougher stereotypical Brooklyn accent, verses the stereotypical Italian accent of N64 Mario.

Actually, this is one of the better examples of cartoon-to-reality renders I've seen.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/Motzart120/realmario_comunicadoresinfo.jpg

From http://comunicadoresdeplantao.blogspot.com/2008/03/real-face-do-mrio.html
I agree it's both really cool and really freaky.
I say Nintendo sticks with what they got.
This is a really good render either way

[Gollgagh]

so good. I want a super hi-res version so I can have it as my desktop (to replace the mario bros 3 screen i'm currently using)

super-higher-res

http://xs125.xs.to/xs125/08110/realmario818.jpg

[Amayirot Akago]

My eyes, the goggles do nothing!

[MechaFone]

It's so charming, and yet...I think if I put this up on the computer, I'd wake up in the morning to my wife screaming 'WTF IS THAT?! TAKE IT OFF!!'

[Gollgagh]

It's so charming, and yet...I think if I put this up on the computer, I'd wake up in the morning to my wife screaming 'WTF IS THAT?! TAKE IT OFF!!'



Do it! Do it!

[Power Smoothie]

FUCK YOUR SIGNATURE BLACK MAGE! We both KNOW you can't win the game!!! And you just ruined my LONGEST not losing streak EVER!

I know how you feel, I recently lost with a score of 6 months :/

That picture is seriously odd.

[Hausdog]

Reminds me of those real-life Pokemon.
Geodude:http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/Senor_House-Mouse/geodude.jpg
Koffing:http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/Senor_House-Mouse/koffing.jpg

[Overflow]

Any more of those real pkmn?

[MechaFone]

Reminds me of those real-life Pokemon.
Geodude:http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/Senor_House-Mouse/geodude.jpg
Koffing:http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/Senor_House-Mouse/koffing.jpg

Hahah wtf?? Those are sick! Show some more or give us a link. Awesome.

[SynthesizedStampede]

Hahah wtf?? Those are sick! Show some more or give us a link. Awesome.

SECOND'D. If there are ones of non-humanoid ones, I want to see what they did with friggin' Gyarados.

[Hausdog]

I just saw some images of them in a GameFAQs topic that purged. I just learned that it's a Something Awful thread, and I tried to look for it but I got sidetracked by this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2083009

Wait! Found the pictures!

http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=4767&display=photoshop&page=2#entries

[Moseph]

I just saw some images of them in a GameFAQs topic that purged. I just learned that it's a Something Awful thread, and I tried to look for it but I got sidetracked by this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2083009

Wait! Found the pictures!

http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=4767&display=photoshop&page=2#entries

Actually, that SA thread was better than the Pokemon pics.

[The Coop]

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/Motzart120/realmario_comunicadoresinfo.jpg

Right there is some good old fashioned nightmare fuel. Turn Mario into that for the next game, and kids will be waking up in the middle of the night screaming about how Mario and his face are coming after them.

[big giant circles]

Right there is some good old fashioned nightmare fuel. Turn Mario into that for the next game, and kids will be waking up in the middle of the night screaming about how Mario and his face are coming after them.

/agree. it didn't help that they made him look so... old and wrinkled i suppose

[MechaFone]

lmao. I tried putting it up on the computer, but it lasted about three seconds. She took one look at it and said it creeped her out really bad.

[FR]

No real life luigi?

[Gollgagh]

lmao. I tried putting it up on the computer, but it lasted about three seconds. She took one look at it and said it creeped her out really bad.

Hahahaha

great work

[prophetik]

i guess i don't see why he's so creepy.

[TheSnowStorm]

Well, I'm not going to play another Super Mario game ever again.

I want to see a real life Peach and Daisy.

[Hylian Lemon]

i guess i don't see why he's so creepy.
Yeah...I actually think it looks pretty cool. It's just when I focus on the eyes for too long, really.

[Gollgagh]

i guess i don't see why he's so creepy.

nor do I


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[prophetik]

I want to see a real life Peach and Daisy.

qfe 10chars sucks balls!

[Gollgagh]

10chars sucks balls!

mine's funnier

[friendlyHunter]

I don't find it even remotely creepy either... who can say no to those cute little eyes?? ^_^

But I can see how it might be disturbing to some... which is why computer animated movies about CARTOON animals should stop trying to make said cartoon animals have such realistic textures. Most cartoon animal movies that I've seen do it right (especially Ratatouille, where they did EVERYTHING right :wink:), but some movies make me wonder why they went so realistic... especially when it horribly detracts from the cuteness. For instance the only character in Over the Hedge that was remotely cute was the turtle..... but maybe they did that on purpose?

On that note, I do NOT want to see Peach and Daisy!! Or rather, I'd want to out of insurmountable curiosity, but then might regret it. Bring on WARIO AND WALUIGI!! 8O


But I really came to post about this:
I just saw some images of them in a GameFAQs topic that purged. I just learned that it's a Something Awful thread, and I tried to look for it but I got sidetracked by this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2083009

THANK YOU for that thread!! Hilarity, happiness, shock, sadness, hope for our future, and even- erm, "romance"... and a whole bunch of boring pointless repetitive posts between the comic gold which is clearly labeled by our friend Cookie Monster himself. Highly recommended for anyone who would like to read a thousand brutally honest and true short stories and- what the hey, I'll just recommend it to everyone.

[Black Mage]

Hows about some Homer?

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/Motzart120/realhomer.jpg

[The Coop]

Hows about some Homer?

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/Motzart120/realhomer.jpg

"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked... just... like... THIIIIIS!"

[Eon_Blue]

"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked... just... like... THIIIIIS!"

Oh god I thought the same thing. So awesome. :nicework:

[XZero]

There's a good reason many people when playing Galaxy or Smash Bros (or, thanks to that horribly creepy Homer Simpson hovering a little over my post, when watching the Simpsons) don't think about them as being part of reality. The thing that's remained consistent with both of these is that the eyes are just terribly disturbing.

This reminds me of the first time I saw Trey and Matt's real-life rendering of the South Park kids. It made sense, yes, but it was just... wow...

[Hausdog]

That Homer is disturbing. Eyes are the most expressive part of the face, so we really notice it if something's wrong with them.

[Overflow]

Lol, these are great.
Are there any others?

[prophetik]

homer is kind of freaky. THAT i can admit.

[big giant circles]

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk59/jaxpixeloo/animatedhomer.gif

awesomeness

[AarowSwift]

Soooo... Anyone here familiar with the concept of the Uncanny Valley?

Here's a good write up. It's an idea directed at robotic design but fully applies to any character design.

http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/nonfiction/uncanny-valley.html (http://www.arclight.net/%7Epdb/nonfiction/uncanny-valley.html)

And really, this is why cartoon characters should never be represented realistically, unless of course the purpose is to invoke revulsion. This is also why the more realistic a character in a video game is rendered, the less convincing they tend to be as anything other than creepy CG manikins.

[Hausdog]

I've heard of it, but I just now found out what it is (I used Wikipedia because your link's broken or something). It's a good point. It's my opinion that video games need to be as stylized as possible because "good graphics" just plain look bad.

[Overflow]

I've heard of it, but I just now found out what it is (I used Wikipedia because your link's broken or something). It's a good point. It's my opinion that video games need to be as stylized as possible because "good graphics" just plain look bad.

QFT. I knew this one guy who hated games like Mario galaxy because he said they didn't look "realistic". Mario galaxy has great graphics, regardless how "realistic" mario looks. I mean, do we really want him to like that creepy, unshaven, buggy-eyed monster?

I, personally, do NOT want games to be photo-realistic. Characters should look fun and weird. But, I have to admit, games like gran tourismo 5 look AMAZING:shock:

[prophetik]

i enjoy aspects of photo-realism in games - not because it looks like they videoed some poor sop to get beaten up or something, but because i can look at it and say "that's quite good animation". was witcher or assassin's creed perfect? no. were they really, really good? yes. and i respect that.

[Hausdog]

I play video games to be entertained. This is often easier with something that looks "fun" than with something where I'm constantly reminded of how fake it is because of the contrast between the almost-real graphics and the completely unreal action.

[Black Mage]

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk59/jaxpixeloo/animatedhomer.gif

awesomeness

Likewise:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/Motzart120/srm_compare.jpg

[friendlyHunter]

I play video games to be entertained. This is often easier with something that looks "fun" than with something where I'm constantly reminded of how fake it is because of the contrast between the almost-real graphics and the completely unreal action.

Yes... I find it odd how games spend so much effort on realistic graphics, but then make the most basic of game interactions incredibly unrealistic.

"Wow, those explosions look so real, I feel like I'm really there!" (Looks down) "Oh yeah right, I'm a disembodied hand holding a gun with a circular shadow underneath me. And doors open magically when I stand in front of them, and all doors can open both ways, and then the doors magically close when I leave them alone for ten seconds, and I'm carrying 15 different guns in my invisible briefcase......" =(

Maybe the bad 1990's graphics of System Shock 2 actually made it scarier??? I mean the SS2 mod with more "realistic" models just looks silly and incredibly non-scary... again the "being reminded that it's not real" by trying to make it look real. Even Bioshock; I'm not finding that game nearly as scary as SS2 (but maybe I just haven't gotten far enough yet...)

[Zombie]

Because of that homer i will not sleep tonight.

[friendlyHunter]

This should make it better:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4122/sparklenc8.gif