The World of Super Mario - Part 1

Warp Pipes
Next, we’re going to make the warp pipes. Remember, a the shortest possible warp pipe is 64px (one tile for the top of the pipe, one tile for the pipe itself), and their height can be as tall as you like, so long as the overall height is divisible by 32. For now, I’m going to create a 64×96px warp pipe.

So start with a new document in the dimensions that you want your pipe to be and fill it with the sky blue color (#5482E4). Then, on the top, outline a 64×32px black rectangle with a 2px wide border. Fill the square with the pipe shadow color (#04AE04).

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 20

Next, we want to draw the pattern for our highlights. This is pretty simple, 3 stripes down the left of the pipe done in the pipe highlight color (#BCFE1C). We want a 6px stripe, a 4px gap, a 12px stripe, a 2px gap and a 4px stripe, like so.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 21

On the right side of the pipe, we want to 4px stripe with an 8px checkerboard pattern to the left, like so:

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 22

Now, to create the lower part of the pipe, just bring everything in two pixels on each side and continue it on down the length of your image, like so.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 23

Finally, add a highlight, and a shadow, along the top of the pipe to finish it off.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 24

Hills
Moving along, let’s create some hills. Hills are oddly sized, and though they require a 128×60px block of tiles (4 tiles wide, 2 tiles high), they don’t really fill up the space. Still, let’s start by creating a 128×64px image and once more, give it the sky background color (#5482E4).

Next, go in 18px from the left side of the canvas and, using the hill green color (#04AE04), make a 2px high, 92px wide line (this should bring the line to exactly 18px from the right edge of the canvas).

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 25

Continue stacking 2px high dark green lines up the canvas, each time shortening the line by 2px on each end, until your hill is 32px high.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 26

On the next row, bring the line in 4px on each side, then 8px on each side, then put a 2×2px black square on the end of each line and at the top of the hill to finish its outline.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - The World of Super mario - Fig. 27

Finally, put a couple of trees on the hill to finish it off.

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Added Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 at 7:53 pm under Drawing & Painting.