Construction Paper Animation Explains Star Wars in Minutes

[Tom Goldman]

Construction Paper Animation Explains Star Wars in Minutes


This is the most relaxing version of the Star Wars trilogy you'll ever see.

I've never cried when watching Star Wars, but there's a first for everything. This video created by musician Jeremy Messersmith and animator Eric Power that covers the entire original trilogy in the span of two minutes through construction paper animation sure got me close.

The music video was made to accompany Messersmith's Tatooine, which is quite obviously a song about the planet of the same name from Star Wars. Messersmith calls Power and himself "original trilogy fanboys," so the intention of the creation was to align his "lo-fi song" with a "very 2D music video."

So just sit back, get yourself a handful of popcorn, and enjoy the relaxing sounds of Messersmith for a couple of minutes. The video might skip certain scenes, but the construction paper version of Emperor Palpatine's smile almost negates everything evil he's ever done, and the destruction of the Death Star has never been so cute.

Eric Power has also created animated videos with a similar style that here [http://www.ericpowerup.net/2010/08/zelda-on-paper-2.html].

Source: Eric Power [http://jeremymessersmith.com/]

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[Daemascus]

This is all you need to know about Star Wars. Screw the Prequel trilogy.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Awesome. And Prequel free.

 

[Les Awesome]

`nice'

 

[messy]

Twin Sons, very clever.

 

[Armored Prayer]

That... was alright.

It kind of skipped way too many important parts, but overall its not bad.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Awesome. Yes, the Emperor's smile was adorable. And I also loved the part where the two Imperial walkers just look at each other, like dogs or something.

But I must say, not a fan of the music.

 

[Jared]

Basically sums it up - Who needs like 16 odd hours of film!

 

[Tiamat666]

Interessting name... Messersmith. "Messersmith" very likely comes from the German "Messerschmitt", which is derived from "Messer Schmied", meaning "Knifesmith" in German. I wonder why the family at one point decided to translate the latter from "Schmitt" to "Smith" but not the "Messer" to "Knife".

Anyway. Nice video!

 

[AzraelSteel]

I assume I'm the only one who has no idea what's going on in most of that video? Probably because I've only seen the original trilogy once, back when it was rereleased in the nineties...

 

[icyneesan]

Its so adorable <3~

 

[Baldry]

[HEADING=1]B-E-A-UTIFUL[/HEADING]
That was quite awesome...and cute and a real tear-jerker!

 

[SomeBritishDude]

That was...Lovely. Best way to describe it.

 

[mythgraven]

Its neat and all, and Id never knock someone's personal construction paper project, but the premise seems a bit... already done?

Does anyone in todays day and age really -need- anyone to boil down star wars for them? And assuming they did, arent there like... a million similar efforts on break, noob, and youtube?
(This is, after all, the internet.)


A+ for effort, A+ for star wars, C- for Ive seen this all before.

Whiskey Echo!!
mythgraven

 

[Andronicus]

It looks cool, but I'd hardly use this as an "explaination" of Star Wars to anyone who hasn't seen it; they really just seemed to pick scenes at random, and there was barely enough to get anything approaching a sensible storyline from it all.

Still, stop-motion stuff is awesome, and papermation stuff equally so.