In honor of the recent announcement of the Illumination Animation Mario movie cast, I decided to attempt the Photo Mash assignment. For this assignment, I wanted to make an edit of an image from the original 1993 Mario movie, replacing Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo with Chris Pratt and Charlie Day.
I started by finding an image from the original film that featured Mario and Luigi. Next, I found images of Chris Pratt and Charlie Day where their heads were in roughly the same positions as Hoskins and Leguizamo. I cut out their heads in Procreate and superimposed them on top of Hoskins and Leguizamo. To make sure their heads were merged appropriately with their bodies, I left a bit of their necks on and used the blend brush to provide a smoother transition from the face’s color to the neck’s.
I worked on this immediately after one of our longest rehearsals, so I didn’t feel like writing up a blog post about it immediately. However, I still wanted to share it since I thought the image was funny, so I posted it on Twitter, where the official archive account for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie liked and retweeted it.

One response to “The Mario Movie”
I’ve been laughing about this all week! Congrats on the retweet, by the way!