Animal Crossing: Best Designs & Builds From Movies

Animal Crossing: New Horizons allows players to express their creativity, using a massive catalog of furniture items and a wide variety of design techniques to bring their visions to life. Many players draw inspiration from pop culture, building impressive homages to TV shows, movies, and other video games on their islands that earn plenty of praise from the Animal Crossing community online. With the tools available in-game, players have created fun, faithful, and eye-catching references to movie scenes and settings that delight film fans and Animal Crossing players alike.

Animal Crossing gives players a lot of freedom in terms of how they play the game and design creations of their own. With the game’s gorgeous graphics and robust customization options, there are seemingly unlimited creative possibilities, and players who have spent hundreds of hours playing over the last two years are still coming up with incredible new designs. Players can make their Animal Crossing islands a true paradise by including references to their favorite movies, utilizing both indoor and outdoor decoration techniques to create designs with plenty of attention to detail.

After the 2.0 update in November of 2021, players were given even more flexibility to create with thousands of new furniture items, new design features like ceiling decorations and partition walls, and lighting effects that set the perfect scene for movie-inspired designs. Combined with other tools like terraforming and custom designs, players have been able to recreate iconic shots and settings using some clever design tricks and a lot of hard work. Animal Crossing players are never short on inspiration, and these impressive movie creations are nothing short of amazing.

Animal Crossing Player Is Off To See The Wizard With Wizard Of Oz Build

Featuring both the field of poppies as well as The Wizard of Oz’s iconic black terrier, Toto, Reddit user asuna86 has recreated two wonderful settings from the 1939 technicolor film in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Both the Yellow Brick Road and the Emerald City are represented in this beautiful build, with the two areas being connected by a green Pipe from the Super Mario Bros. update. By customizing Animal Crossing’s ice furniture to be green, asuna86 was able to capture the dazzling impression of the famous Emerald City, which is also cleverly represented at the end of the Yellow Brick Road with an intricate custom design panel. This colorful Wizard of Oz design is an excellent homage to the movie, evoking a ton of nostalgia for fans of this brilliant classic.

Spirited Away Bathhouse Comes To Animal Crossing In Impressive Build

In addition to the amazing Wizard of Oz build, Reddit user asuna86 has also recreated the iconic bathhouse from Studio Ghibli’s critically acclaimed film, Spirited Away, with an astoundingly accurate design that almost looks like a screenshot of the movie. Using a myriad of Animal Crossing’s custom design patterns that they created, asuna86 managed to capture the bright yet imposing aesthetic of the massive building that served as the movie’s main location where spirits go to rest and refresh themselves. Even the red bridge leading to the bathhouse is present in the design thanks to some impressive terraforming and topography tricks, making this design an absolute picture-perfect recreation of the beautiful shot of the bathhouse from Spirited Away right down to the very last detail.

The Sky Meets The Sea In Animal Crossing With Moana Island

Using an amazing and inventive perspective trick, Reddit user spicy_pea managed to recreate a view of Moana’s island of Motunui on their own Animal Crossing island. Despite seeming vast and open, this island actually only takes up a relatively small space, using a wide river that spans the entire screen to make the curvature of the map create the illusion of a great distance. This creative use of Animal Crossing’s game design aspects makes for a breathtaking spectacle that fans of Disney’s Moana will absolutely adore, and spicy_pea has even posted a timelapse video featuring the second island’s construction for players who would like to implement this clever perspective trick on their own islands.

Studio Ghibli Animal Crossing Island Stuns With Kiki’s Delivery Service Design

Studio Ghibli fans will recognize the detailed aesthetic of Kiki’s Delivery Service featured in this stunning island design by Reddit user kayoncr. Drawing inspiration from both Kiki’s Delivery Service and Ponyo, the entire island is designed to evoke major Ghibli vibes, and their Reddit post features an adorable outdoor café complete with a Kiki character cosplay.

This uses a number of custom brick designs with incredible attention to detail that brings Kiki’s quaint town to life in Animal Crossing, along with the beautiful brick buildings that line the streets. Several hot air balloons can even be spotted in the background, reminding players and fans of Kiki’s Delivery Service of the movie’s airship. Studio Ghibli movies are a great source of inspiration for Animal Crossing players, both featuring chill, idyllic scenery and aesthetics that blend well together and create some extremely serene island paradises.

Animal Crossing Player Recreates Toy Story Room For Stitches

Packing in plenty of Disney nostalgia, Reddit user Fair-Stranger1860 used Stitches’ vacation home in the Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise DLC to recreate Andy’s room from the classic Pixar movie, Toy Story. From the blue cloud wallpaper to the toys represented on the floor, this build features a ton of details that make this charming room impressively accurate. Of course, this toy-themed room is a perfect vacation home for Stitches, who could technically be considered a toy himself and fits right in with the playroom aesthetic of the design. Some of Andy’s toys are even left out on the floor, including Rex, Bo Peep, Slinky the dog, and Hamm the piggy bank, making this an instantly recognizable room for Toy Story fans of any age.

Detailed Animal Crossing Build Showcases Howl’s Room From Howl’s Moving Castle

Thanks to Animal Crossing 2.0’s introduction of ceiling decorations, Reddit user Rose_moji was able to recreate the cluttered, mystical bedroom of Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle. Using a number of hanging beads, vines, and chandeliers, Rose_moji created a strikingly accurate portrayal of the charismatic – albeit melodramatic – wizard’s chaotic bedroom. The design also features a variety of shiny treasures and ornate furniture items such as the elegant chair and a striking golden bed. The organized chaos of the room is perfectly constructed, resulting in an elaborate Animal Crossing: New Horizons recreation that could practically be in the movie itself.

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