It’s only April, and we’re already getting a taste of Halloween. Remember when “-Removed Herobrine” was a common sight in Minecraft’s patch notes? According to one ofMojang’s producers forA Minecraft Movie, that addendum could be found in the film’s development process, and it wasn’t a joke.
Creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson asserts that the scene with the supposed Herobrine easter egg wasn’t meant to look like that.
In the scene, Henry gets put into a trance by an Enderman, where we see visions of Steve saying some nasty stuff. Olafsson says that in that scene, Steve’s eyes were intended to be purple, matching the power of the Endermen.
“When it was rendered, one of the character’s eyes kept coming out white in the final rendered frames,” says Olafsson in a post onX. “We wound up keeping it like that, because the VFX studio ran out of time.”
They saw those pale eyes, and wanted to remove them - tried several times, even - but they kept coming back. Ultimately, fate would have them appear in the final cut, despite Mojang’s orders to replace white with purple. At least, that’s the tale.
Olafsson’s story doesn’t seem implausible - a lighting error causing a chromatic color to shift into a more generic white certainly sounds within the bounds of reality - but there’s something about it that just doesn’t sit right with people.
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It’s all just so poetic, isn’t it? The legend of a digital ghost, haunting people’s Minecraft worlds and refusing to leave despite the dev team patching it out repeatedly - suddenly appears in the movie in the exact same way. Really just feels like a proper haunt. Good fun.
It’s all a bit too poetic. Olafsson is indeed alleging these things about the Minecraft Movie’s development, but whether they’re true is another thing entirely. And based on responses, several people aren’t buying the story.
PC Gamerpoints out that this guy has already done some Herobrine hijinks before. Someone asked him if Herobrine might appear in a Minecraft Movie sequel, to which his response was a cheeky reference to how often Mojang had purged the character from the game.
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The most likely option seems to be that the Herobrine easter egg is intentional, but it was done in such a way that it can be read as an accident. A way that would let viewers rationalize the ghost’s appearance as a trick of the light, because obviously, a spirit can’t infect all copies of a media property… right?
It’s good fun. At the very least, it beats seeing a second white-eyed Steve in a distant, foggy background for only few frames.
So is Olafsson’s story the real, honest truth? Only you can decide that for yourself, but you certainly wouldn’t become the first person to deny it. There’s no way a ghost could manifest in a VFX error, while also predicting that things would be too fast-paced for them to fix its changes…
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