How We Recreated the Wess Dance from Mother 3 - Part 1

[@Curiomatic]

This one was a long time coming, but we finally got it done! If you haven't seen the original Open Sesame HD video we posted back in April, check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnyaqWV5hrR8oKc

[@TeamSoraPresents]

"Animators are actors with pencils." Never heard that before, but it's absolutely true, so I'm totally saying that from now on.

[@cawalexi]

Looked it up to be sure - its a Chuck Jones quote!

[@TeamSoraPresents]

@@cawalexi It is?! EVEN BETTER!

[@El_Pendejo_De_Si_Mismo]

I use mouse to draw

[@SpennyEcks]

Listening to Cara talk about how her initial blocking felt stiff explains animation struggles to a tee! The worry of pushing a character too far or too little (even without an existing reference) is always a tough balance to achieve. Props to her for nailing the look in the end 🕺

[@livvy94]

12:25 yeah... Usually when people try to do claymation-style or spritesheet-style 3D animation, people complain about lag without realizing it's on purpose. I'm glad to see people got it

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

People are fixated in realism these days and it won't go away.

[@andytheawesome7592]

I’ll never forget the person I know who said “The framerate is too low for Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse! It looks so ugly!”

[@ozmaozmaozmaozma]

I could watch anyone from Curiomatic talk about their projects for hours. It’s always so engaging and I love seeing their thought process behind every step of their work.

[@michaelworku1803]

Your pfp horrifies me

[@ozmaozmaozmaozma]

@@michaelworku1803 that is mean. it is literally just a selfie of me :’(

[@Flintofmother]

It always amazes me the amount of detail and works you all put into these projects that are basically fanart, I really hope these bring you as much fun and professional success as it brings us joy to all the people who watch them.

[@bagodrago]

If any of the Earthbound games actually got full-scale remasters, I'd be disappointed with anything less than this.

[@rasnauf]

This channel is criminally underrated.

[@ARDIZsq]

This is amazing. I was hoping we'd get to see a discussion behind this video, and here it is. For me, the claymation feel of it is EXACTLY what I felt like a remake/HD version of Earthbound/MOTHER 3 would look like. Everything about this, to me, is perfect. The lighting, the models, the textures, the animation, and the font. (Shoutout to Curioglyphic) Can't wait for the part 2 discussion. (And let's get that reference video of Cara doing the Wess Dance XD)

[@peterduprey7286]

There was a taunt Lucas had in Project M that did this dance. It took a very long time and there was a hitbox at the end that killed in one hit. Your animation looks way better.

[@mycatnamedseven-up9726]

Yeah, i remember that... it was so awkward to watch..😳

[@mak_707]

I can't believe that my favorite part of Mother 3 was given so much love and attention for adequately no reason! I love this, thank you!

[@Jonloo1]

Yo! I had no idea the cover of the room music was done by Scruffy! It's nice to see little behind the scenes like this, I enjoy seeing what kinds of references you good fellows use.

[@aomieee]

When I first saw the Wess dance remake I thought it was from an official remake of mother 3, I didn't realise it was fanmade until i saw this video. Amazing job at emulating the style of nintendo switch remakes and the claymation!

[@petarus]

I love the quality of this presentation, especially the music credits!

[@cellophanezebra4663]

1:14 years of being a fan of this series and never knew, i feel robbed for some reason.

[@koghog]

I'm so psyched to see you do Mother 3 stuff! You guys got me into the game back in 2016!

[@gravity119]

I love hearing you guys talk about this stuff. It’s so inspiring. I’m currently a graphic design major but I’d love to get more into animation and stuff, it just seems so creatively fulfilling

[@NargaCat]

In my experience in recreating animations from 2D, you always feel like there's more of a restriction. On one hand you wanna be as accurate as possible but sometimes models just won't do what you want them to do and the complications with keyframing make ya feel like you just wanna strangle yourself with the spaghetti you made. Ya kind of have to think outside the box with the tools you have and add your own little bit of extra to compensate. Absolutely love the Osohe Dance she set up, I kind of wanna do that myself now.

[@gappyshamp]

God, this was glorious, you guys are seriously such an inspiration to me. This is real entertainment, keep it up guys! :,))))

[@randowboosh6772]

I hope with all my heart that one day we will be able to play mother 3 with graphics like this completed by ppl as dedicated as these guys

[@MERCHIODOS]

we need for scenes from Mother 3 recreated. I would love a battle scene recreated

[@SuperDeano1000]

So glad to see this, guys! And happy it all came out so well. I’m sorry I couldn’t stay apart of it due to personal and health issues. Dat bootay shake though.

[@MookalH]

love you guys, very underappreciated work

[@bearbones7913]

You guys have no idea how happy I am! It's awesome to see new videos, especially a breakdown from this channel

[@cheldardo]

Babe wake up, new Curiomatic video

[@gulfgiggleanimations4472]

One thing I also liked about the animation was that the frame rate reminded me of pixel sprite animation, because pixel sprite animation also requires that same sort of lower framerate, even if you wanted to increase it you need to have those strong keyframes, like megaman’s 3 frame walk cycle.

[@spaceace9103]

This is fascinating. Love seeing you break this stuff down

[@sora1008]

Very Informative and Motivational

[@85percentnation]

It's kinda funny how the Star Fox promotional material used puppets because Shigeru Miyamoto was a big fan of Thunderbirds.

[@TIN_Tevlev]

I love these vids 👍👍

[@PK-Radio]

I love anything Mother 3

[@fuwafuwa4016]

Wess model looks perfect

[@kleaflab]

I'm really glad for this tutorial.

[@toxiquid]

god damn this looks SO nice!!! I LOVE this type of stuff hahaha

[@Turner1]

Man I love it when this channel uploads

[@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航]

What a tease in the intro blurring it out! Nice editing!

[@90s_Baby]

WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED, YET AGAIN!!!

[@Dudex11a]

This is really impressive. I appreciate the amount of effort you guys put into your work!

[@marksmann6546]

This video is amazing, led me down so many rabbit holes and I feel like ive learned alot

[@degmcgee]

i rewatched the video literally the moment this got uploaded

[@doniarts]

Sweet good timing for this one 👌 been Wanting to know how you pulled it off

[@moonshinetheleocat1235]

To be fair... while nintendo hardware is usually behind. They still do some insane shit with what they have.

[@vu1pix]

Can Nintendo hire y'all?

[@HyphenatedReality]

Seems like you really worked your asses off to make sure Wess's character and best qualities are being highlighted, huh?

[@devonteedwards2093]

This looks really awesome

[@codenamexelda]

The claymation reminds me of Bob the builder

[@sirkingpinmonroe4439]

I love Mother 3 💛💛

[@gushen_]

More Mother 3 animations!

[@fybso3057]

Why does duster have a single strand of pink hair?

[@DoctorMario606]

MAN WE NEED A REMAKE LIKE THIS COME ON NINTENDO PLEASE

[@DifferentLOL]

More where that came from please!

[@mastermarkus5307]

I have mixed feelings regarding not making more detailed eyes for the characters when they are being updated with more detailed _everything else_, but I also totally understand that there's precedent for doing that,with the official clay models of the previous games as well as the Smash Bros versions of Ness and Lucas, and also that it's something that official art really gives no hints at, so you'd be interpreting that part of the characters entirely by yourself.

[@benoitonokoko1225]

ayyy mother 3

[@physicsNMH]

Awesome

[@alejandrohernandeztoribio6022]

I missed this channel

[@wi11ow8]

I really hope the mother series gets a game with all 1-3 games in this clay style. I feel like if it was similar to links awakening On switch, it would really incapsulate the pixel art of the gba. Well done!

[@sk33m-qe3ym]

How do i create an indie series based off this

[@森永エンジェル]

元のデザインのタッチを残したまま3D化するの凄すぎる‼️🌏💕 (゜ﾛ゜;ﾉ）ﾉ

[@a-ramenartist9734]

Mother 3 as a wes anderson film a wess anderson film

[@arturolink801]

Hey tambien los fams de mother que hablan español existen Excelente trabajo magnífico Trabajo expendio jijiji

[@brandonbarrantes67]

i love you ❤

[@saadanaim3485]

S'il vous plaît es ce que vous pouvez réalisé les jeux final fantesy sortie sur Nintendo et super Nintendo et game boy advance _final fantesy 1 _final fantesy 2 _final fantesy 3 _final fantesy 4 _final fantesy 5 _final fantesy 6 j'aimerais tellement les voir comme ca.

[@Boomrainbownuke9608]

7:06 that is way too many polygons than necessary. why would a model for a game need 147,354 polygons?! that more sounds like a model for a movie than a game!

[@Curiomatic]

Welcome to the #NextGeneration

[@artsyomni]

Jokes aside, movie models are subdivided for renders, so the base topology is often well below 100k (not counting things like hair particles, cloth, or other things that get simulated), but for renders, the subdivision puts the model well into the millions!

[@Boomrainbownuke9608]

@@artsyomni im more speaking how many it has that is being impacted by the hardware.(or is it the software? idk im not an engineer) ive seen what movie models usually look before. including by doing the same thing myself. i just find it silly that a model for a game would have that many polygons. when you really wouldn't notice any difference if it was less unless you zoom in really close.

[@Boomrainbownuke9608]

@@artsyomni the devs of that spiderman game did get the game to run well regardless. which is impressive in my eyes.

[@zamtranger]

uhh

[@jonyelpapi6867]

Comment

[@clownsingularity]

speak of the devil

[@fybso3057]

Bob the builder artstyle

[@kaisser8915]

Colin's Bear Animation is better

[@Curiomatic]

No argument here.

[@Dr.Strange_-_Grave_-_]

I want Nintendo to see this and have you guys get greenlit to make the game! 🥲