Minecraft music video

Wagner James Au sez, "Brett, who recently created the epic 8 mile Minecraft highway, has a new video, and this time, he's hacked Minecraft into a machinima platform to make this incredibly beautiful music video. To make the steady tracking shots, for example, he built a Minecraft rail system made of glass."

Minecraft Machinima: Beautiful and Innovative New Video from Maker of the 8 Mile Minecart Viral Hit (Thanks, James, via Submitterator)

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Blocky video; meh. Sweet audio; yay! Here’s the download from busking site Jamendo for lzn02′s album “FAR”.
kaini

i think that’s the first time i’ve ever seen spam on boingboing :(

in other news, yep, minecraft is crack.
Dabbles

I prefer this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOpkpW1tDAM
It makes the game feel much grander and epic.
- Astragali
  
  Great link there, Dabbles – that was awesome to watch!
  
  And, of course, Notch doesn’t need to spend a penny on advertising his game…
ZDepthCharge

It’s a Minecraft remake of Koyaanisqatsi…
Johnny Justice

It’s nice. I wish the guy would use the default textures though. The “hi res” texture packs don’t fit the boxy world so well.
- Anonymous
  
  The painterly pack, which he is using, is all native resolution textures. They just look a hell of a lot better than Notch’s own programmer art.
Anonymous

The description on youtube, “…to show what minecraft is before people create and mine. The way the world is before we change it” nailed it for me. BEAUTIFUL. MOVING.
Baldhead

do people actually play the game or just do stuff like this?
VICTOR JIMENEZ

This game is crack cocaine. And is simple as hell!
- Anonymous
  
  “Cocaine’s a helluva drug!” – Rick James
Anonymous

#10: That is the game. You mine stuff and you build stuff.
theawesomerobot

I love that he had to build an in-game camera track to film this