Minecraft:The Super Duper Minecraft Musical

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The Super Duper Minecraft Musical is a live action/animated hybrid short film, made to promote the Minecraft:Super Duper Graphics Pack.<ref name=":Psyop">Template:Citation</ref>

Summary

The video begins on a stage, decorated with a lone grass block with an azure bluet on top. Template:W walks onto the stage, picking up Minecraft:dirt, singing about personal preference. The curtains open, revealing a small hill in the Minecraft: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 Minecraft:pig riding a Minecraft:minecart passes by a Minecraft:chicken, converting it instantly. Wolves patrol a snowy plains biome and get the upgrade in milliseconds, while a Minecraft:villager appears out of nowhere. A pig strolls through a Minecraft:badlands biome, and is transformed into a Minecraft: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 Minecraft:squid leaps out of the Minecraft:river and chickens fall from a hot air balloon, transitioning Melissa to a Minecraft:pond.

Stepping across lily pads, Melissa jumps off a Minecraft:cliff into a cityscape, her fall apparently broken by an Minecraft:explosion. Somehow okay, many more mobs begin to dance with her, including Minecraft:Steve, Minecraft:Alex, and many characters from Minecraft: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 Minecraft:zombie.

Characters

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Lyrics

<poem> 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! </poem>

Quotes

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

History

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Trivia

Although appearing prominently in the video, stone stairs were not a part of the game at the time of this video's creation.
- Similarly, a structure resembling a Minecraft:camel appears in the background of a shot.
The scene of a pig switching places with a creeper is likely a reference to the creeper's origins.
Cacti can be seen placed in midair and next to itself, which is impossible.
Following the short's appearance at MINECON, Minecraft:Lydia Winters remarked "who better to show us Super Duper Graphics than Template:Wikipedia?" referring to Melissa Benoist's breakout role on the Template:Wikipedia. It's unclear if she was cast for the sake of this pun or if it was simply thought of for the show.

Gallery

Promotional images

Screenshots

The first shot of the video.

The first shot of the video.
Steve catching Melissa.

Steve catching Melissa.
Melissa holding a dirt block.

Melissa holding a dirt block.
Melissa looking at a dirt block.

Melissa looking at a dirt block.
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Melissa noticing the curtain opening.
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Melissa discarding the dirt.
A different shot of the stage.

A different shot of the stage.
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Melissa climbing stone stairs.
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Melissa grabbing the Super Duper cords from parrots.
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Melissa uniting Super and Duper.
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The connected wires.
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Melissa enveloped by the light.
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Confetti appears alongside the texture change.
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Blocks convert across a hill.
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Ditto.
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A railway appears.
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A Super Duper pig approaches a chicken.
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An entirely transformed plains biome.
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A wolf approaches the conversion.
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A converted snowy plains.
Pig walks through the badlands.

Pig walks through the badlands.
Pig mid-transformation.

Pig mid-transformation.
Pig is transformed into a creeper.

Pig is transformed into a creeper.
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The former pig follows Melissa.
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The creeper is startled by the teleportation.
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Melissa strikes a pose.
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The Llama chorus appears.
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Melissa dances with the llamas.
"You said it!"

"You said it!"
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The llamas jump.
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Melissa appears in a snowy plains.
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A Super Duper squid jumps out of the water.
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A second squid and polar bears appear.
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A snowball is thrown.
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The mobs react to the snowball.
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Melissa holds chickens.
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Chickens fall from a hot air balloon.
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A better look at the balloon.
A tropical fish swims by.

A tropical fish swims by.
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Melissa’s reflection, a Minecraft Minecraft:player of herself.
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Melissa looking at her reflection.
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Melissa looking away from her reflection.
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Melissa getting up.
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Melissa leaping into a lily pad.
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Melissa stepping on another.
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Melissa jumping off a cliff.
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An explosion in the cityscape.
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Melissa enveloped in the explosion.
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Melissa in a new outfit.
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The start of the climax circle dance.
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Melissa knocking over a zombie.
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Development images

Concept art for the musical, seemingly of the climax.

Concept art for the musical, seemingly of the climax.
Concept art of a scantily clad woman and pianist on a stage.

Concept art of a scantily clad woman and pianist on a stage.
Concept art of a rainbow and a dinosaur-like structure.

Concept art of a rainbow and a dinosaur-like structure.
Concept art of an orchestra, including characters such as Minecraft:Conker and Minecraft:Kazooie.

Concept art of an orchestra, including characters such as Minecraft:Conker and Minecraft:Kazooie.
Concept art of a duck.

Concept art of a duck.
Concept art of a duck surrounded by fireworks.

Concept art of a duck surrounded by fireworks.
Concept art for a location.

Concept art for a location.
Concept art for what appears to be a kraken, or similarly giant squid.

Concept art for what appears to be a kraken, or similarly giant squid.
Concept art of a minecart track shaped like someone playing a saxophone.

Concept art of a minecart track shaped like someone playing a saxophone.
Concept art for a pig wearing a rocket.

Concept art for a pig wearing a rocket.
Concept art for a minecart tunnel shaped like someone playing an electric guitar.

Concept art for a minecart tunnel shaped like someone playing an electric guitar.
Concept art for what appears to be a cannon shaped like a saxophone.

Concept art for what appears to be a cannon shaped like a saxophone.
Concept art for the Super and Duper plugs.

Concept art for the Super and Duper plugs.
Ditto, but with the appearance of a pig and a Minecraft:fish.

Ditto, but with the appearance of a pig and a Minecraft:fish.
Animatic of the climactic dance number.

Animatic of the climactic dance number.
Animatic of mobs converting to Super Duper.

Animatic of mobs converting to Super Duper.
Animatic of the texture pack being loaded.

Animatic of the texture pack being loaded.
Melissa on a green screen.

Melissa on a green screen.
Melissa training on her stunt choreography.

Melissa training on her stunt choreography.

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