Nov 24 2010The Many Faces Of Super Mario Mushrooms

Graphic artist Mathijs Sterrenburg (whose favorite video game is Legend of Zelda, FTW!) went and created 120 different variations of the power-up mushroom from the Super Mario franchise. These are them (well, 30 of them, the rest are after the jump). Damn -- how cool would it have been if there was a power-up mushroom that turned you into Vader? I'd have force-choked Bowser from level 1-1 and been back to the Death Star in time to blow up Endor! F***ing love the smell of burnt Ewok in the morning.
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Reader Comments
1. mew - November 24, 2010 3:06 PM
nyan
2. andrea;) - November 24, 2010 3:07 PM
gotta have my shroomss.
3. Pelona - November 24, 2010 3:09 PM
Forts!
4. Jeremy - November 24, 2010 3:10 PM
impressive work!
5. Mathijs - November 24, 2010 3:11 PM
Thanks for the feature of my artworks :)
6. alyson - November 24, 2010 3:14 PM
very creative Mathijs- you can tell a lot of work went into them
7. Seth - November 24, 2010 3:19 PM
@5: If this really is your work, I'm sorely disappointed in you.
You include Waluigi, but leave out Wario.
You include Tails, but leave out Sonic.
What's up with that, man? Disappointed!
8. The Future - November 24, 2010 3:19 PM
Pssst. You guys. This way -
9. Kirby the love Blob - November 24, 2010 3:23 PM
COULD EAT THEM ALL, EASILIY
10. Mathijs - November 24, 2010 3:24 PM
@Seth,
I didn't made wario yet, it is in poster 5 actually but that is not done yet ;)
About sonic, in a 100% frontview perspective you can't see his spike's or the shroom would be way bigger then the rest + the distortion of the shape looked really odd, that's why e's not in it, i tried ;)
11. Yep - November 24, 2010 3:28 PM
Nice, but seems incomplete.
How about a Million Pop Shroom project.
I identifying the history of pop culture in the form of Mario mushroom form.
12. Bones - November 24, 2010 3:33 PM
Where's the Afro Disco haircut ??
13. Mathijs - November 24, 2010 3:34 PM
@Yep
A million pop? Like pop stars?
Cause there is one big problem, you can't put faces on the shroom =/
Why? They loose their mouth + they get really distorted because of the shape of the shroom + people with dark hair can't be used and long hair makes the shroom cell too long compared to the other shrooms.
14. Mathijs - November 24, 2010 3:36 PM
@Bones
Afro's are usually black, black on black doesn't go really well ;p
And a big afro would make the shroom cell too big compared to others, lot to think about when making them actually haha
15. Cheese - November 24, 2010 3:41 PM
These are stupid. OMG! Logos pasted on recolored mushrooms.
Art fail.
16. Ollie Williams - November 24, 2010 3:44 PM
@15
I couldn't have said it better myself. Great, you spent time cutting and pasting famous characters on mushrooms. And?
17. duuuuuh - November 24, 2010 3:44 PM
This is stupid.
18. Drew Laserdeath - November 24, 2010 4:00 PM
I was bummed 'cause I couldn't find Midna, but then I saw boob. That made up for it.
19. naas - November 24, 2010 4:01 PM
yes but.... can you eat them?
20. dave - November 24, 2010 4:02 PM
@18
Whose boob?
21. mike - November 24, 2010 4:10 PM
cool work.
i am cracking up at how random some of your mushrooms are!
22. Mathijs - November 24, 2010 4:13 PM
@ 15 & 16
Try painting them instead ;)
Copy-pasting them would just be lame.
23. Elura - November 24, 2010 4:28 PM
i saw boob!
24. Cheese - November 24, 2010 4:41 PM
Next can you paste some images into the little TV power-ups from Sonic? That should require about as much work.
CTRL+X
CTRL+V
Repeat
This is shitty.
Art fail.
25. Mathijs - November 24, 2010 4:48 PM
@ 24
Read 22 ;)
26. Tristanked - November 24, 2010 4:51 PM
Cheese, shut freak go do something better than, come back and get GW to post it so we can make fun of you, oh wait your probably too useless to come up with something original so go fuck your self douche bag.
27. I J K D O G - November 24, 2010 4:52 PM
Cheese is an assclown and his children will have cancer. This is pretty cool art. Instead of being a troll, Cheese, you should do something other than bring diseased children into the world.
28. Tristanked - November 24, 2010 4:54 PM
well said @27
29. Geekologie Writer - November 24, 2010 5:05 PM
cheese stop being a giant d-bag before i send you to your room without supper
30. Sike Oh So Shull - November 24, 2010 6:17 PM
some r good most r dumb
31. Geekologie Writer - November 24, 2010 6:50 PM
Yeah., What I said .^
32. the_tof - November 24, 2010 7:33 PM
Cheese may underestimate the work that goes into it, however many of them are like he says, logos pasted into the appropriate layer in photoshop.
Of course there's nothing wrong with setting up your layers to do the work for you, that's part of the photoshop game!
Personally I think the idea was cool and some of them are kinda neat, but there are way too many "filler" icons in here that water down the overall effect. If only the best 25% or so were shown it would have been much more effective.
"Too many 'shrooms. Simply cut a few and it'll be perfect!"
P.S. the cloud is my favorite, it's iconic yet mysterious. I'd be curious to see what happened if mario ate one of those!
P.P.S. No TRON 'Shroom? I think that'd have worked well.
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34. SuperWoody64 - November 25, 2010 1:17 AM
Death star and bowling ball for the win dude!
Also good call with red m&m, love me some billy west.
Loving these, I'd love to see some more.
35. Nataya - November 25, 2010 5:34 AM
Nice mushrooms!
36. Twizzler - November 25, 2010 5:54 AM
I think these are cool. My favoritez are the Navi, Chomp and zombie onez. :3
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54. Keanan - November 29, 2010 11:07 AM
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55. Joe - January 30, 2011 2:47 PM
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56. Cloud - February 25, 2011 3:05 PM
Very nice mushroom keep making more