Welp, these things had been done for a few months now, and I'm just now sharing them with Tumblr! #lazysloth
Anyway here are my concept posters for the upcoming animated Super Mario movie.
I originally started working on these shortly after posting the last batch of Nintendo film posters to the blog. If you recall, the original poster that I made for the Super Mario movie was extremely simple; a red hat on a white background with the release window. Compared to the other five posters, particularly the Starfox one and the Smash Bros one, it didn't look like much effort was put into making it. So, since there actually IS an animated Mario movie out on the horizon, I decided to expand on the subject a little more than I already had.
So, instead of making one poster, I made six! One 'final' poster, and five individual 'teaser' posters.
The 5 'teaser' posters are all set up in the same way; One Mario character standing inside of a large ? Block. I tried to make it look like each character is emerging from the block in the same manner as items like mushrooms do when they are hit from below.
Each character has their own unique background color and tagline. While I'm not particularly fond of peach's tagline, I do really like how the other 4 came out. Especially toad's tagline! It's TOADALLY awesome! YA GET IT? TOAD-ALLY! AH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAA!!!!
The 'final' poster, on the other hand, is probably one of the more complex designs that I have come up with. I took heavy inspiration from some of the posters for 2018's Ocean's 8. Look them up, and you will see somewhat of a resemblance.
I divided this poster into 5 segments of equal size. Each segment contains the following;
a. a different and unique color,
b. a fragment of the ? block symbol. Put them all together, and you get 1 whole picture (It was actually a huge hassle to get those placed just right), and...
c. one of the five Mario characters that were featured in the teaser posters. I've strategically placed them in a way that makes them look like they are coming out from behind the segment that is in front of them. That way, the poster illustrates an illusion of 3d space/depth.
In case you haven't already noticed, all six posters feature a realistic looking Movie Title that I pretty much made from scratch. It's the one thing that all of these posters share, and I am very happy with how it came out
Overall, it ain't bad for something made entirely in Microsoft Word! After a couple months in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait. #rippingoffagabennewallquote. Enjoy the posters and I'll catch you in the next big post!
