To promote its upgraded graphics package—and graphics are the whole banana when it comes to a world-building game—Microsoft’s Minecraft tapped Supergirl‘s Melissa Benoist to take players on a musical journey through the game’s new landscape and building tools.

Microsoft’s new “Super Duper Graphics Pack” promises “excessive visual razzmatazz” (and explains exactly what that means in the link) but briefly, the game is adding 4K graphics, dynamic shadows and more natural movement and realistic elements.

The musical number made its debut at MINECON Earth on Saturday, Nov. 18, with music written and composed by The Bring It On Musical‘s Tom Kitt. The Super Duper Graphics Pack will be available early next year for Xbox One and Windows 10.

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CREDITS

Client: Microsoft / Minecraft

Agency: 215 McCann

Chief Creative Officer: Scott Duchon

Creative Director: Neil Bruce

Director of Integrated Production: Alex Spahr

Producer: Sarah Sweeney

Director of Business Affairs: Mary Beth Barney

Business Director: Peter Goldstein

Account Director: Drew Porter

Senior Account Executive: Sam Brody

Director of Strategy: Brian Wakabayashi

Strategy Director: Cassidy Wilber

Production Company: Psyop

Director: Kylie Matulick, Todd Mueller

Managing Director: Neysa Horsburgh

Head of Productions: Drew Bourneuf

Executive Producer: Christine Schneider

Producer: Nick Read

Associate Producer: Jacob Markson

Lead Technical Director: Jane Byrne

2D Supervisor: Lane Jolly

Designer: Paul Cayrol, Kenneth Lee, Luke Lucas, Chris Martin, Andrew Park, Marc Samson, Sylvain Sarrailh, Kenesha Sneed, Robin Thompson

VFX: Mathew Rotman, Ryan Hurd, Lorenzo Silano,

Previz Artist: Dan Vislocky, Jack Anderson, Kevin Phelps, Jean – Dominique Fievet

Modeler: Scott Denton, Elias Glasch, Greg Mawicke, Diego Melgar

Texture Artist: Jenny Yang

Rigger: Nelio Naut, Josh Sobel

Lighter: Jane Byrne, Michael Johnson, Joey Sila, Alan Yang

3D Animation Lead: Will Kistler

3D Animator: Jayant Kumar, Tarun Lakshminarayanan, Melik Malkasian, Kevin Phelps, Jasmin Segarra, Alan Yang

Compositor: Krystal Chinn, Lane Jolly, Brendan Smith, Danny Song

Flame Artist: Adam Flynn, Sam Shiflett

Matte Painter: Andrew Park

Storyboard Artist: Finlay Britton, Max Forward, Tristyn Pease

Editor: Brett Nicoletti

Assistant Editor: Rob Cavedo

Live Action Production Company: Psyop

Directors: Todd Mueller & Kylie Matulick

EP/Head of Production: Monica Reimold

Producer: Trevor Allen

DP: Crille Forsberg

Production Designer: Martin Krejzlík

Minecraft Set Production: Block Works

“Super Duper (World That Waits)” written by Tom Kitt
©2017 Tom Kitt Music (BMI), all rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., All rights reserved.

Music Production: The Practice Worldwide

Producers: Ali Theodore and Anthony Mirabella

Recording Studio: One Union Recording

Senior Engineer: Matt Zipkin

Producer: Lauren Mask

Recording Studio: LIME Studios

Audio Mixer: Jeff Malen

Producer: Kayla Phungglan

Executive Producer: Susie Boyajan

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