Pokémon Gold Player Character Recreated In Stop-Motion LEGO Video
A clever Pokémon fan has remade the player character of Pokémon Gold with LEGO-based stop-motion animation. Fans have used LEGO and stop-motion to recreate scenes from popular games and movies in the past, sometimes to an impressive level of detail.
Stop-motion is a simple, albeit very time-consuming form of animation. Stop-motion is typically created by taking successive photographs of some sort of model, each image bearing minute changes to the last. These images are then treated as video frames and played together to create the illusion of movement. The process of physically manipulating models by tiny degrees means that even the shortest of sequences can take hours to create. On the other hand, its simplicity makes it very accessible. As a result, many fans have taken to acting out scenes with figures while others work in another medium such as plasticine or clay, like one Genshin Impact fan did to recreate Dvalin from his introductory cutscene.
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Now Reddit user uBeckrs has used LEGO in order to faithfully remake Ethan, the male player character from Pokémon Gold, in an impressive new piece of stop-motion animation. Due to the original Game Boy Color game's graphical limitations, Ethan's overworld sprite was rendered with only three colors (including black outlines) and a handful of pixels. This same basic design has been brought to life with the use of 1x1 LEGO studs on a 16x16 square white background, the equivalent to a single tile in Pokémon Gold's overworld. Imitating the original pixel art, the short clip uploaded to Reddit shows a red and peach-colored Ethan walking in a perfect recreation of the original Pokémon game's animations, complete with sound
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