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@cometmedal.bsky.social

24M. 日本語OK! Artist, writer, musician, game dataminer. Graphic design @stifflermfg.bsky.social. Ex-concept artist @Team Ari Games. Texture archeology/writer @Render96/VGTP. Writer/editor @tcrf.net. #art ・ #info ・ #datamining DO NOT REUPLOAD/AI/NFT MY ART

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The Cutting Room Floor@tcrf.net · 2w ago

We're rolling out a new tool to help compare images throughout the wiki! These are on limited pages currently but the selection is expanding. Shoutouts to Hawk for its work on this!

Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · last mo.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 contains an unused post-processing effect that is supposed to draw an outline around objects and make the game appear like a comic book. This likely went unused due to looking very rough and filling objects with random black splotches.

Source: Supper Mario Broth, game modified by inserting an unused PostOutlineArea object into Yoshi Star Galaxy
Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Super Mario Galaxy skyboxes use perspective tricks to reduce the number of polygons that would normally be needed. The Melty Molten Galaxy skybox appears to be two large spheres, but is actually an illusion painted onto the sides of a burger.

This is what Melty Molten Galaxy's skybox looks like in the game. Artist's conception of what it is representing: two stars connected with magma pillars. However, moving the camera to the edge of the skybox reveals that the stars are not modeled spheres, and are instead partially drawn onto the wall. The full model is a perspective trick that draws the horizon onto the sides of a burger-shaped skybox so that the spheres would not have to be modeled. Modeling actual partial spheres of that size would require them to be extremely smooth, which would use a lot of polygons and can be avoided with this burger trick. Source: Peardian, models.spriters-resource.com/wii/supermariogalaxy/asset/354100; noclip.website
Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Addendum: as it turns out, this flag was originally designed for Super Mario Sunshine and then scrapped during development, then rescued from the unused files to be used in Super Mario Galaxy! Someone on the team may have been particularly fond of this reference to not let it go to waste.

The flag was originally used on a tower in Delfino Plaza. tcrf.net/Prerelease:Super_Mario_Sunshine/E3_2002, via "MSGTheEpic" on Twitter
Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Super Mario Galaxy, there is a flag atop a tower in Sea Slide Galaxy depicting a seagull in a unique style not shared by anything else in the game. This is actually a reference to the classic 1984 Hayao Miyazaki film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Tower in Sea Slide Galaxy [picture of tower with flag on top in the distance] Close-up of the seagull flag [flag depicts seagull with mushroom in beak] Intro to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) [tapestry with extremely similar seagulls with skulls in their beaks] Source: Captain Byte! (cometmedal.bsky.social), Reddit user "chorolou"