HOW DID THIS GET PLAYED // Super Mayrio Month!
The delightful show How Did This Get Played likes to have a theme month from time to time. For the month of May the theme was Super Mario Brothers! At first, my direction from the team was the idea of putting their respective heads on the characters of Mario, Luigi and Yoshi. But I just couldn’t wrap my head around it and all my ideas on solving that problem were coming up busted.
Then the idea struck me! If this is a podcast about video games hosted by avid gamers, well I bet all three of them have a Nintendo Mii character. And if that’s the case, maybe I could render high resolution vector images of those Mii characters. And then I can illustrate Mario Bros. style hats to pull the whole thing together!
I reached out to the producer Matt Apodaca (in the yellow) to see if he could provide me with screenshots of everyone. He kindly obliged. With that I set to recreating their characters on my Nintendo Switch. Then I took some larger photos / screenshots. I placed those shots into Adobe Illustrator and put together what you see here. I’d say it’s a good day when you use a game console for work. :)
With that, I put a few social assets together, some merchandise, and we called this project a wild success!
Listen to the podcast here.
