Paper Mario Goes to School

[Logan Westbrook]

Paper Mario Goes to School

A Japanese student brought Mario to life on the walls of his or her school in a short stop-motion animation.

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Mario's adventures don't always take him to exotic locales like the Mushroom Kingdom. When the Koopa army attacked a Japanese school, Mario zipped over there to deal with the problem, and a student caught the entire thing on film.

Ok, you caught me, that's not what actually happened, but the truth - that a student at a Japanese school spent two weeks making this video after classes were done - is no less impressive.

Sadly, I don't have a lot of information about who made the video, but what I can gather is Mario and all the other characters are made of sticky notes and that the video was made on a very small budget - around fifty-five bucks - as an entry for a local culture festival, which the student was very keen to win.

Source: Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5559937/paper-mario-moving-for-real]


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[Crazy_Bird]

Awesome work.

I guess it most have been pretty hard to animated this thing with nothing but sticky notes and at first I had the impression that some digital effects were used.

 

[Crayzor]

Awesome. Must have been a real pain to make though.

 

[DigitalSushi]

That is so full of charm, its wonderful hearing those sound effects in use.

 

[scotth266]

Ah, stop-motion animation. The endless source of low-budget entertainment.

 

[DazZ.]

I wish my school had beds...

Looks more like a hospital though.
No it doesn't.

 

[uppitycracker]

Wow, that is AMAZING!!! I was waiting to see mario die, glad it ended as such

 

[copycatalyst]

Great find.

 

[AvsJoe]

*misses first mushroom*
Who doesn't grab mushrooms?

*misses second mushroom*
*foreboding senses tingling*
*dies*
Saw that coming.

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[Obhraonian]

I hope they won as that awesome

 

[OANST]

How much money is fifty-fifty bucks anyway?

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Is it sad that the first thing about the video that impressed me was the Mario song in stereo sound?

Uh, yeah, that was pretty cool.

 

[neoontime]

Wow, that was awesome but i wonder how long that took.

 

[Jared]

Thats certainly impressive. I like it! Someone has some talent for sure!

 

[OmegaXIII]

Awesome stuff. The stairs amused me quite a bit

 

[Divine Miss Bee]

How much money is fifty-fifty bucks anyway?

around 45.5 euro, or just over 5,000 yen for this kid.

 

[silver wolf009]

Cool, ive never been a big fan of stop motion but this is nice.

 

[Owlslayer]

I have said it before (actually, not on The Escapist) and i say it again: Japan is awesome. A bit crazy, but awesome nonetheless. The video was great and well-done. Made me remember my feeble attempts to create stop-motion videos about random stuff crawling around my room, or Lego characters running around. Ah, good times, good times.

 

[OANST]

How much money is fifty-fifty bucks anyway?

around 45.5 euro, or just over 5,000 yen for this kid.

Wasn't a serious question. I was pointing out a typo in the article.