Aredard Hess's new film "Minecraft" is a strange duck. It is based on "Minecraft", the only best-selling video game of all time (and it can be assumed why the film studio would like to customize such a valuable IP), but the game is an open sand box that allows players to route and crafts at its own pace. There are no quests or levels or mythology of the game and there is no conspiracy to follow. Making a movie from "Minecraft" seemed to be a stupid affair, and the idea was circularly ridiculed on the internet before the movie was released. The only regress in adapting the material was to put the right people in the Universe "Minecraft" and make his film In a comedy in a slap. It was enough to earn a "Minecraft movie" $ 163 million in its open weekend.

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The look of "Minecraft Movie" is also a little strange. "Minecraft" was made to look deliberately low-Fi, with players taking control of the blocked, unrealistic characters and pushing through the world that is also made of cubes. It was like a 3D rendering of an 8-bit Ness game. For "Minecraft Film", Fantasy Overworld is really cubic and blocked as the game, but now has a more realistic texture. The natives of the overview have large block heads, but also skin, teeth, lips and eyeballs. Animals in the prevailer have a square, symmetrical appearance, but they are also unconvincing biological.

There seems to have been an earlier version of the film - when it was still developing in 2015 - it missed a little more in a naturalist direction. There was time When Rob McLean led the projectAnd he threw Steve Carl in a significant role. He also ordered a few works of art for the film that made the world "Minecraft" to look a little less blocked (but still sports enough angles to be recognizable). Part of the art of that project were discovered on Twitter/X from the account @mcmovieupdates. They look pretty cool.

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One of the more impressive designs for 2015 was an enderman with eerie forms of the human body. Endermen in the original game "Minecraft" were tall, chains, all black monsters with dazzling purple eyes and hard walking. In the latest Hess film, enderman is equally hard, and a block-like, just a little more "round" than in the game. Some of the early artworks, Credited to Will GrobeIt shows an enderman who lurks in the woods like, well, a slim man. Disturbing, his hands and forearms are not blocked at least, but outstretched versions of real human hands. It seems to have been built a physically, built -in enderman's life size, and the blue -eyed monster looks really frightening. Can you imagine that one of those coming to you in a dark street?

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Another physical props was a kitten "Minecraft". Like the animals in Hess's film, the kitten still had square features and eyes, but also more natural growing fur and mustache. Melecani's design ethos seemed to make the world "Minecraft" as real as possible. Indeed, some of the Twitter/X works show a huge cave, and cubic shapes seem to look more like a natural geological phenomenon than in the movie Hess. You may think of the highway of the giant in Ireland, which is made from the natural occurrence of hexagonal stone.

Artist Vans Kovac He also worked on the 2015 version of "Minecraft Movie", and he actually designed an Ender Dragon, a creature that is not seen in the final film. The dragon Ender was also vaguely cubic, but mostly because it was made of shale and minerals. Kovacs announced his designs for an ended dragon To his account in Kara. These same designs show characters in the form of man standing along with the blocked version of Steve as it appears in the games. In Hess's film, Steve starred in Jackack Black in live action, so there seems to be a major conceptual change during development.

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The final movie was still a hit. It made $ 163 million in its open weekend.