Smith has been the subject of any number of memes and videos poking fun at his actions during the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday.

This latest effort comes from Bruno Scopazzo, a designer, VFX artist and broadcast graphic animator from Buenos Aires in Argentina, who decided to put his considerable talents to use creating the spoof video which channels the spirit of the popular Capcom fighting video game franchise.

The resulting clip was shared to TikTok under the handle bruscopa, where it has already been viewed over 958,000 times. It can be watched here.

An inspired lampoon of the incident and a video game familiar to millions, the clip sees Smith and Rock quite literally replace two characters that feature in the opening titles of arguably the franchise’s most popular entry, Street Fighter II.

Facing off to the sounds of the game’s iconic soundtrack, the video sees a pixelated version of Smith strike a similarly digitized version of Rock in a manner much like the one witnessed at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

The pixelated Rock then sinks to the floor before Smith’s face can be seen turning towards viewers and smiling. The action then pans up to the top of a skyscraper, much like in the original game, where the words “Oscar Fighter” are visible.

Presented in the same Street Fighter-style font with the words “insert coin” flashing near the bottom of the screen throughout, the video’s attention to detail is second-to-none and was clearly worth the effort, with the clip striking a chord on social media.

While some have expressed boredom over the ongoing focus on Smith’s actions and the incessant stream of gags online, fans were quick to praise Scopazzo’s wonderfully rendered effort.

Mexicansuperman916 wrote: “How do people just keep coming up with these good Memes,” with Broken_Paradise writing: “this is the best one!” The video was quite literally a game changer for crazychocolisto who declared: “I will never play the game the same. I will be thinking of this.”

Keltin2002, meanwhile, commented: “As tired as this Will Smith thing is……gotta admit that was some very impressive work! Nice job.” BloodBathCEO said they “screamed laughing at work” after watching the video, with singularcombination adding: “Just when I was over it..the best one yet comes.”

It even left some feeling nostalgic about their misspent youth with Matt Wagner writing: “Now I want to go to the arcade,” while daddyandjj b said: “thanks for the laugh and the memory flashback brother.”

Not everyone was entirely appreciative, of course. CraigMcGuire78 said: “this is cool, but some people have way too much time on their hands.” Scopazzo replied: “yeah! some of them waste it and some make some art with it!” with another fan, Joshrio78, agreeing that this was “time well spent.”

The visual effects whiz has since returned to TikTok to share another video showcasing the painstaking making of the Oscar Fighter clip. That video, which has already been watched 200,000 times, can be seen here.

Scopazzo told Newsweek: “I’m a pretty nostalgic guy, I have a lot of pop culture going through my mind mostly all the time so I can quickly connect random things. The moment I saw that slap in the Academy Awards, the action and the camera angle just rang a bell in my memory, and that Street Fighter II intro popped out immediately!”

He said he was driving late on Monday when he decided to “make a little animation about this thing.” Knowing time was of the essence, he got home and set to work, despite the fact it was “almost midnight” when he sat at his computer. That attention to detail kept him busy too.

“The video took around five hours to make, just because I like to work a lot on little details, especially when I’m working on something just for me,” he said. “I’m the artist and the client at the same time in those cases and it is something I like to enjoy. It was a funny thing to do, I was laughing every time I played it.”

Scopazzo said the trickiest part was to keep the original background behind the fighters, which required him to remove the original characters and fill the space with more of the crowd before laying the animated Rock and Smith on top.

He said he never set out to go viral. “The key is to enjoy making it,” he said. “It’s all about that.”

Quizzed on what he thinks of the original incident, Scopazzo said: “It would have been better for everyone there if Will had just answered him with a good comeback. I don’t know if that would be as effective as that slap, and probably we wouldn’t be talking about that worldwide right now.”

The clip comes hot on the heels of another viral video which appeared to show fellow Best Actor nominee Andrew Garfield mimicking the Oscars slap.

Prior to that, fresh footage giving viewers a closer look at Jada Pinkett-Smith’s reaction to the incident also found its way onto TikTok.

Meanwhile, another video capturing Rock’s shocked demeanor in the aftermath of the slap has also garnered attention on social media.

Update 04/01/22, 11:05 a.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from Scopazzo.