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Yes your so good at stop motion

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That‘s what I was trying to achieve! :D

BAH BAH!!

Bro you just spoiled it for me I was just about to watch it

Thanks KZfaq mobile for SPOILING THE VIDEO with THIS COMMENT

My pleasure, I'm super happy you liked it! :D

Glad you liked it! It was actually also my main kart back in the Wii U days! :D

Thank you so much for your compliment, it means a lot! :D

@@mayoshixia question

@@Gabo_Koopa Feel free to ask anything! :)

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed! :D

Thank you so much lad, I'm glad you liked the video and karts! :D Yeah, the Lego Mario sets are really dang unfortunate. I think they really shine with all the buildable characters, those look really great and faithful to me. Dorrie, Yoshi, DK, Bowser etc., great stuff. But what really stings are all the background builds. Take DK's hut, Bowser's castle oder Peach's castle for example. Those are basically just really weird facades of what they're supposed to be, instead of actually feeling like the exact thing from the game. At least there sets line the Airship that are better in this regard. And the Mario figure itself is also a little whack, especially if you try to make stop motion animations with it. So yeah, hopefully the new Mario Kart sets will be alright! :)

I'm glad you enjoyed! :D

Glad you enjoyed! :D

Glad you enjoyed! :D And don't you worry, I got big plans for the future! :)

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you liked it! :D

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed! :D

@@mayoshixihi a question

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed! :D

Yes, I am so happy about that! :D I have had a blue Yoshi as my KZfaq character since 2017, a long time before even the green Lego Yoshi released, so finally having a blue Yoshi is so awesome!

I'm happy for you 😁

Thank you so much, I feel very honored, I am so glad you liked it :D

Check out the first link in the video description! ;)

Make a new lego jurassic World stop motion please

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed! :D

@@mayoshixi I would love to become a stop motion expert like you!

That's fantastic! :D (Even though I don't really think of myself as an expert 😅) Well, if you want to get better at animating, you'll definitely need some patience, but if you're willing to put in the work, there's no reason why you couln't become really good at animating! :D The two most important things in my opinion when it comes to improving is to regularly practice and to watch tutorials and try to incorporate the stuff you learned into your own projects! :) Take little steps at a time, slowly pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and trying new and harder challanges :)

Thank you so much! :D

Thank you so much, I‘m glad you enjoyed! :D

@@mayoshixi I have a question how do you make it look like there in the air?

With a technique called masking! I would suggest you to look up masking or how to make things fly in stop motion on youtube, there are a lot of videos that explain what you‘re asking very well!

@@mayoshixi oh yeah I’ve heard of it and done it I just wasn’t sure if you did that

Me too.

Yes, I am in fact capable of predicting the future! :0

Thank you much, I'm glad you enjoyed! :D Ok, basically, when you're starting out, of course your work will be rather bad, take a look at my older videos, those are really not good at all! But that's all right, since of course you're not good yet after only having started out, no human ever was good at anything right away! :) So it's actually really simple. You'll improve the fastest if you just practice regularly. Practicing a little each day on a regular basis will help you the most in that regard! And you have to make sure to slightly increase the difficulty of what you're working on as you get more and more experience! When it comes to stop motion specifically, forget about making big financial investments when you're starting out. Just grab any phone or tablet with a camera, build yourself a tripod for it to keep the camera steady, and just focus on animating (the free app stop motion studio has everything you need)! And lastly, simply watch KZfaq tutorials and try to immediately incorporate what you learned into your work (that last part is important), there are so so many great videos out there!

Thank you very much, I will follow your advice 😉

Glad to help :)

Yeah, Koopa is totally the underrated gem of Mario Kart! :D

@@mayoshixi my go-to combo is Koopa with the circuit special, tri-force tires, and the plan glider. Super fast and very maneuverable!

Ah yes, a lightweight character with a fast kart combo, always great! And really sleek looking as well! :) Yeah, it probably won't surprise you that my main is in fact blue Yoshi. With the Biddybuggy and small tires, the drift boost fills up super quickly, which I find super fun to play :D

@@mayoshixi that’s a good one! I’ve been using that combo for about 2 years, now. I don’t necessarily race competitively, so it’s more about looks and aesthetic than performance. I find the combo to be rather iconic

Yeah, totally, I completely agree that aesthetic and the fun you yourself have with your kart is faaar superior to using what is considered meta and competitively viable! Some of my less experienced friends I play Mario Kart with always pick all the competetive kart builds, thinking that it will somehow increase their chance at winning, and I still destroy them in each race anyway, even when I'm using some rather goofy characters and karts instead :)

Yesss, I hope it's gonna be glorious! :D

You betcha!

Thank you so much! :D

Thanks a lot! :D

Gö, eigentlich komplett unnötig aufwendig, aber i hab de Idee afoch umsetzen müssen!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed! :D

Oh my god that would be perfect! :D

@@mayoshixi that would :)

Oh my god, you can't believe how happy I am to read absolutely valid and friendly communicated criticism! :D Yeah, you're totally right. Every shot feels so slow and like you said, the camera angles are almost aaaaalways the same, it's hideous. The fact that the race track is literally just straightaways with two turns doesn't help either. So yeah, it's definitely flawed (even though pretty much every creative work has at least a few "flaws"). I actually animated the scenes in the beginning of 2021 and was too busy to enter post production until 2023, when I had gotten a lot more advanced and had the same thoughts as you. So yeah, I knew it'd only be a matter of time until someone noticed the flaws as well. Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing your opinion, I really appreciated it! :D And if you feel like it, let me know about the other small things that could be improved which you mentioned :)

It turns out I am very slow. 1. It felt as though because the models themselves are quite big that you couldn't make moves with them the way you could if either the track was bigger or the cars smaller. 2. One thing i loved to do when making my own stopmotion race was working with the crowd. With the crowd in this being so open, I would have liked just some small touches here and there to give more life to the background. Or even just to background objects, like maybe make a mushroom release spores or someone climbing on the Easter island head. 3. I don't feel as though the water and sky sections did much to enhance the racing. I think it's mainly the atmosphere and their length. The shortness of it feels kind of slapped on and it isn't interactive beyond "they are in the sky and water." Since you also have a desert portion, an Oasis would fit the theme of the track and work better within the design, and I would personally cut out the sky section altogether. Personally, animating things in the air is tough. 4. The item boxes stick out like a sore thumb when not being built out of bricks the way everything else is. The back is also just blue but I don't see a super great way of getting around that. That's all I have in terms of more niche problems I had. Also for future reference watching F1, WRC, and other motorsports I'd massively helpful for checking out some neat camera angles, and I would also draw inspiration from things like Need for Speed and Gran Turismo for more cinematic stuff.

@@SailorWhyachi Thanks for sharing your opinions! :D 1. Yes, although I think there's a cool contrast between Koopa's super tiny maneuverable kart and Bowser's enormous, but totally unpractical and chunky vehicle. A king would obviously invest in a big, imposing vehicle, whereas a poor Koopa would just use the bare minimum required to race. 2. Toootally, it would make everything feel so much more alive and infinitely enhances the immersion. 3. Nah, I think those are really cool and were a lot of fun to make and look really fancy. 🙃 I obviously couldn't make a Mario Kart video without flying and underwater segments. But I can see where you're coming from when you're saying they don't add much from a pure racing perspective. But to be honest, doesn't that kinda make it very faithful to the Mario Kart game itself? ;) 4. Yeah I can see that, having those as well as the item wheel items in Lego form would have been a lot cooler. I gotta be honest, I think the movie Cars probably has the biggest potential for being inspirational in a project like a Mario Kart animation! You see, F1 is filmed in real time with real existing cameras, whereas I'm making animated films. I can place my camera in the absurdest and most insane of places, which obviously wouldn't physically work in real life in a real race! :) But anyway, thanks for the taking the time to share some of your opinions! :D

I unfortunately already took it apart after having finished the video... 🥲

@@mayoshixi oh ok, no problem

Sorry, what exactly do you mean mean with dice? When I think of a dice, I think of those things -> 🎲 , but there aren't any in this video, so I hope you can forgive my confusion 😅

I'm talking about the Mario Kart question mark Item randomizer that gives items when you hit it

Ah, of course! I found a video online of an item box spinning in front of a green screen, which I utilized throughout my video. Then, I just stitched together a simple exploding into particles animation in the program Apple Motion, which I used each time a character breaks one of the boxes. :)

Thanks! It looked amazing

Glad you liked it! :D

Phew, making the karts was quite challenging, it took a lot of patience to come up with the final designs, and I had to break down a lot of my bigger lego sets to get the pieces I needed 🥲

@@mayoshixi It was worth it nonetheless

Okay.

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I designed and built all of those myself. I'm not exactly the most competent Lego builder, so they aren't actually that complex.

That's a little complicated to explain, but I basically took each of Koopa's body parts, cut them out in Photoshop, and animated them growing out of the parts of the shell in my editing program.

What's Photoshop?🤔

Pretty much the best image editing program. I suggest you to do some research on Google or KZfaq about it if you're interested in how it works. :)

AND THE TAN PART HOW DID IT CHANGR COLOR????🤔🤔🤔🤔

oh that was actually the simplest part. You know how animated films consist of a lot of individual images? In many of those images, the shell is tan, because the pieces I used for the shell don't exist in the same color as Koopa's body. But at one point, from one image to the next, I switch out the empty shell with Koopa. That's where the color change comes from.