UK group Lost Levels are hugely influenced by videogame music, and indeed, videogames in general, ploughing an intriguing furrow between indie pop and the US blipcore scene. For their latest single release, Early Sheets, the chaps hired Steve Jones, a recent graduate of Games Art and Design from Norwich Uni to create the video. The result is a brilliant pastiche of retro gaming tropes, based around a fictional 8bit hero, Enzo the Explorer, who escapes his 2D platformer environment, eventually ending up in the real world.

"Having listened to the band's music, and understanding their influences, I thought a retro 8bit-looking video would really suit the song," explains Jones. "I looked at games like Dig Dug, Pitfall, Repton Thru Time, and of course Mario, and after a few initial sketches, Enzo was born." The video took four months to complete, with much of that taken up rendering the 'real world' sequence. The whole thing was created on a single PC, using Nevercenter Silo for modelling and Maya for animation, texturing and rendering. The video was then edited together in Sony Vegas.

Have a look and see what you think...