Over on Boing Boing Offworld, our Brandon's spotted the handsome 3D Mario objects of Tibori Design. Want.
More retro inspiration: there's something about how the shading softens the hard pixel lines in Tibori Design's Dotter Dotter series that makes me almost lust for either a next-gen game done up with the renderer or — fire up your 3D printers — figure playsets of each. Nintendo's already essentially done the latter nearly spot on with their Super Mario Bros. dioramas, so it's up to somebody now to do the former.
