Super Paper Mario Animatic: "The Man I Used to Be"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Production Time: August (Beginning) - November (End) 4 Months
Well, it’s finally here! It’s been quite a challenge to put this together, but I think it was fun to make, and hopefully enjoyable to watch! Onwards to more animatics, and here’s information that will hopefully pique your interest or answer any questions!
SPM Animatic? Seems like a Count Bleck animatic…: Now some people may be disappointed by the lack of Dimentio and the other minions...but mainly Dimentio because he is the fan favorite. Well, I originally had plans to make another SPM animatic, but instead focusing on the minions instead. The song I chose would also be from the musical “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the song being “A Story Told.” I planned to do that, but I got a bit tired from this one. I’m not interested in doing another SPM animatic right after doing this one. I’m going to put this idea in the archive for either another day in the future, or just not do it because I’m bored by it. Anyways, sorry for any potential misgivings for those who thought that my SPM animatic would include other characters.
HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS???: OH I’M FLATTERED ME WHO IS SHOVING QUESTIONS AND UNNEEDED ANSWER IN YOUR FACE HOLE. I will answer all of this in an upcoming PROGRESS VIDEO!
I will go over the process on how I made the video, from idea phase to editing to end product! If you have any questions, feel free to ask below. I have a comment pinned below that you can reply to regarding questions. Please reserve that to just questions that I’ll add to my progress video, thank you! Makes it easier for me to organize, alright :V. If you don't care...um I'm sorry.
Interested in the aspects used in this animatic?: I’ve been posting the aspects on my deviantart page and soon my art tumblr blog (I forget to post there a lot). I’ll post the rest when I find the time to. You can see backgrounds, and additional props I’ve used throughout the animatic to make the process just a LITTLE bit easier and more detailed.
Thank you for watching, and I genuinely hope it met with your expectations, and I hope you enjoy! Please provide me with constructive criticism if you have any! I’m always willing to learn more. Any questions regarding this animatics production? (I’m flattered that you would be interested!) Please reply to a comment pinned below with questions only. It makes it easier to organize the information.
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Any questions regarding how I made this animatic? Reply here! I’m making a progress video after the fact. Please reserve this just for questions. It helps me organize :P. Thank you for watching, and I hope you enjoyed!
Oh, and first or whatever.
what program did you use to put these all in order, and set the music?
HealerKira Please read the credits at the end. I have the list of all the programs I used there.
It’s Windows Movie Maker.
Where is the song from
Okay I’m about two years late, but I’m impressed by how you were eagle to pose this character and give them clear gestures despite not having arms! How were you able to accomplish this?
@@Boom23648 | Ah, the challenges of drawing Count Bleck. I actually sketch out his arms while doing the gestures, and then just draw in the gloves (or at least, imagine where the arms are. i don't remember anymore tbh. it's been a while. I don't do sketch in his arms anymore. At this point, I just draw in hands. :x). I also use pretty expressive hand gestures, so you can read him a bit more easily. Additionally, and probably most importantly, I gave him pretty long "glove sleeves" (the bits of fabric that extend off of the hand portion of the glove), so it'll give the implied illusion of his arms, and where they would be. That's a useful trick for no armed characters :V.
And thank you :D.
"There's still time! You can still stop the prophecy from destroying everything!
Yeah because if that's really her...if she's alive, you have to stop all this!"
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"You know not what you are saying Nastasia.
The prophecy can no longer be stopped by Count Bleck.
No one can stop it."
This scene...
He wasn't that, he was a good man at heart.
Anyone else still caught up on Super Paper Mario ever since 2007?
Yes my favorite Mario game ever
It's literally 2020 now and I still catch up once in awhile. The game turns 13 in April. That's insane holy moly.
Super Paper Mario is always going to be my favorite game. No matter how old it is.
Heck yea!
It’s the best Mario game ever made, so yes.
It should be illegal to make something this good. Someone could die from over-exposure to pure greatness and creativity.
I love it! Fitting music, makes me want a SPM movie where Bleck has a musical number :D
Honestly, I was tempted to make an animatic of EVERY MUSICAL NUMBER from the Count of Monte Cristo, but then I realized it would probably take me 3-5 years (unless I make the rest look like total garbage, which I just wouldn't even bother). If there was a community effort to do that, then that would be DOPE. Be super cool.
I'm actually trying to work off of Man on the Internet's Musical Bytes to make a full musical for SPM😁
My lad count bleck is so happy!! Lookat him go! Happy bean!
I like the parts where he picks something up just to yeet it into non-existence on the next frame
This is amazing! So smooth! Great song!
Meanwhile Dimentio is just watching this from the shadows,rolling his eyes all the while.
Lyrics:
I've seen a thousand wonders
I've lived a hundred lifetimes
But not until this moment
Have miracles seemed real
As fleeting as a shadow
The time goes by unnoticed
The hate that drove me forward
Is gone and I am face to face with...
The man I used to be
Dreams I dared to dream
When love was all
The innocence of youth
Like memories of truth return
To learn forgiveness
The man I used to be
Cannot be outrun
Our past still lives
Whatever else I've done
Forever in his eyes, he'll see
The man that I used to be
And all the years will melt away
And lights will fall much softer now
For all the pain is gone
Hope is what moves on
I will be there
As near as her next prayer
As merciful as sweet redemption
Once blind, now I see
Once a slave and free
Give me a star
To home would guide my heart
To resurrect a part of me
The man who I used to be
Zaxor Von Skyler,you actually remembered the lyrics of this. =^•^=
Wowza, very nice very nice. I'm not much into musicals, but that song is definitely fitting. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go yell at whoever's chopping onions in here.
I agree
HAPPY BLECK IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS NOW
The Count of Castle Bleck!
Zaxor Von Skyler I wish this musical would hit state side. I want to here the reprise of I Will Be There in English!
I keep on getting Super Paper Mario videos in my recommended. Im not complaining tho
I'm pretty sure this can be legally classified as a MASTERPIECE!
HEY THIS IS REALLY GOOD..................
Is it wrong that this made me cry? I don't know maybe the art with a mix of personal childhood nostalgia for Super paper Mario. And just how pretty it looks! I do have a question though, I'm thinking of trying to make animations sometime in the future, do you have any advice for how to make a clean animatic? Thank you for offering to answer questions!
Sorry this took me so long to reply, but I was just so stupid flattered. No, it's not wrong. I'm really glad that I made the animatic well enough to evoke that feeling! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and it tickled that feeling of nostalgia! Super Paper Mario is just a magnificent game and I had to do it justice.
I'll keep your question in mind, and I'll try to answer it as best I can in my process video! I'm still learning, and I still have no idea what I'm doing, but hopefully something right. Until then, since I don't know when I'll get to it, I suggest you make a small paper booklet for each animation you plan, and label them as such, that ways you can plan and think while you're away from your computer. Use that for the roughs, and then do a more elegant animatic on the computer based on your thoughts that you put in the pamphlet. There's more stuff, but I'll get to that in the other video :D Thanks you so much!
Thank you! I'm glad I made you so happy! I'll keep your advice in mind and I'll be looking forward to the process video!
The Count is happy... and that's how things deserve to be.
You did a fantastic job in portraying Blumiere's emotions: the last, triumphant end of the video is just so uplifting that I can't help but smile too!
Amazing work! 👏😍
This, my friends, is what we call beautiful
awesome video also poor count he lost the love of his life timpani
the details!!! the expressions!!! THE ENERGY!!!!!! THIS IS A -chef’s kiss- MASTERPIECE!!!!!!
The Design of Count Bleck is Wonderful
Very fiting for the count
Now this. THIS is incredible. I haven't found many if any super paper mario animatics in forever. I remember first seeing this years ago but I couldn't remember the name- I'm I glad I found this again. You're a talented artist, and this animation really proves it. If you ever plan to make any more animatics for the channel, or have the will to, I'd love to be there and see it.
Thank you so much for this very kind comment. I'm so glad you found and enjoyed my lil ol animatic!
I do have plans in making animatics in the future, for I have about 3 in the pipeline. However, I'm currently slogging through quite a few long term things that makes me unable to produce more for quite a while, as well as a webcomic, so more in the future, and I plan to make them better (also original), but not any time soon :V
@@Cowsaresushi Entirely understood, non the less, I look forward to them! What's the name of your web comic? I'd love to check it out
I KNEW I WASN’T THE ONLY ONE THAT DIDN’T THINK OF THIS WITH THAT SONG.
I'm so sad that I'm only discovering this beauty now. Better late than never I guess ^^ I love this so much!
My show scene song: The man I used to be
Ha-no-ami season 1 episode 6: it’s going to be ok
A true masterpiece!
Like your art!
For once (on a SPM video) I don’t see any of my SPM friends. *You know who you are… I’M LOOKING AT YOU MICHI.* but other then me not being scared for once, (Because I swear to Grambi they follow me) this is so good. The way Bleck looks, his movements, the backgrounds, I LOVE IT. This voice really fits him so well and this is great beyond words. I love SPM, it fuels my Chaotic Heart. Thank you for this gem of a masterpiece.
Amazing song with a great story I’m really glad Count Bleck reformed and became an anti-hero he is Nintendo’s greatest Anti-Hero ever made this song reminds me when I got the happiest moment of my life by giving one my friends from Junior High School the most dramatic point of view before Kung Fu Panda’s, Wall-e’s, Get Smart’s, Madagascar Escape 2 Africa’s, Bedtime Stories’s, Phineas and Ferb’s, Avatar: The Last Airbender’s, The Penguins of Madagascar’s pilot episode Gone in a flash’s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003’s, Sonic Unleashed’s, Super Smash Bros Brawl’s, Mario Kart Wii’s and Mario Super Sluggers existence now that I finally got to the happiest moment of my life and all of those dramatic points of views I feel happy and a free man now
for moments I forget this is a Paper Mario animation, my God, is Beautiful!!
This is honestly the most beautiful thing I’ve seen on the internet in a very long time.
*deep breathe* Y E S
But seriously, some people here in the comments already said that and I agree: the facial expression are just !!!!! sooooo great! I like how they are a little over the top, dramatic, but somewhat comical. I think that fits Bleck well, the way he talks and all. He's very dramatic, but also comical sometimes (with the whole talking in third person thing and whatnot)
Thank you for making this xD
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SOOOO GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me with the Bendy fandom:
Mix of my first Paper Mario and my first musical. This is an emotional masterpiece
This was strangely beautiful.......
Bravo! :) ^-^
HOW AM I JUST NOW SEEING THIS?? An entire animatic for my blueberry boy?? Thank you so much for this masterpiece!
I'm super late to this party but I absolutely love this!
How dare you make me cry at 3am
Im a little late to the party but Ive just been watching this repeatedly, and i dont regret a s ECOND OF IT
This is so good i cant even describe it
The song choice (i adore the count of monte cristo omgdhsb) , backgrounds, lighting, the EXPRESSIONS,
Everything! Keep it up, man!!
Awww thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed my silly little animatic (I'm blushing).
If it peaks your interest, I plan to make animatics every couple of months (2-3 a year if everything goes according to plan) and each one should be better than the last. The next one should be released in a couple of months if I stop being so lazy. Again, thank you!
Cowsaresushi (Coral) you're welcome man! You've got some serious talent as also proven by your recent stuff too. After i saw this i looked at your newer stuff and im still rewatching them, lol. I'm excited to see whats to come and I'm a definite fan!
So powerful.
I absolutely adore this
*Sobbing tears of joy and sorrow* Man! I miss the spin-off series! This pleases me! Its so detailed! Honestly, Makes me want a SPM musical and maybe an animated series.
This Animatic is SO beautiful. Perfect song for Blumiere (T//v//T)
I love this!! This is so amazing made!!!
This Count Bleck so cutie! ^^
This was... beautiful. The awe inspiring song choice, the vivid expressions, the intricate backgrounds, the flawless anatomy; all found in a gorgeous animatic for a game that many people have forgotten. This video put tears in my eyes and joy in my heart ❤️
Omg this is beautiful
Count Bleck reminds me of Dr.WD Gaster
Someone make a animation about Gaster with this song
Your art style is not only beautiful, but very expressive. I feel chills run down my spine every time I watch this animatic. Excellent job!
YOU SHOULD BE HIRED BY DISNEY!!
holy shit m8 that was incredible
Well This.... This...... This Is Fucking Amazing!
This is so good! ^^
I even love how you made the Count reform ^^
This is an amazing animatic. Terrifically drawn. The effective use of shading in addition to the monochromatic color scheme is really nice to look at, and Bleck’s expressions are just so effective at showing his emotions.
Your choice of song for this is also outstanding, and I feel it really fit’s Bleck’s character.
Fantastic job all around with this!!
holy cow
I've never seen the source, and never heard this song before. But I LOVE this animatic! The song is PERFECT for the Count, and it's so beautifully drawn!
SCREAMS Y ESSSSSS I LOVE THIS LORD
This is amazing! I would love to see a full out animation for this!
Thank you! Unfortunately, this is the final product. I have little to no experience in animating, and I'm currently working on new projects. I generally don't revisit old projects. The newer projects I'm working on will be a tossup between less frames with prettier visuals and more frames (more animated, but still not quite fluid...probably *shrug*) but less detailed (no colors, shading, etc). Hope you enjoy any new projects I make!
BEAUTIFUL WORK!! lovely movement and shadows!!!
This gave me shivers it’s so amazing
This needs way more views! This needs way more likes! THIS IS AMAZING! This gave me shivers frien you did a great job!
Aww thank you so much! I'm so glad you really enjoyed this animatic (Also I see you also found my deviantart account hoohoo). Glad I gave the shivers because it meant I did my job well, heh ;D.
I hope you'll like my next upcoming animatic! It's not Super Paper Mario related, but rather my own stuff I made on the whim, so I hope that comes out just as well.
This needs more views
My heart!
HOW DARE YOU PLAY THIS DOWN FOR ME YOU EGG
aa this looks so pretty
Holy frick im gonna cry this is great
*Agh!*
*mY hEArt!*
*It's bEEn mUrdErEd!*
*And yOU cAUsEd It!*
My god this is incredible!
i see you're trying to kill me dead! this is really good ;-;
This is beautiful! But tbh his face looks like a turtle at times
THIS IS AMAZING OMG
Hey YO EPIC! THIS IS WONDERIOUS!💜
Great job!!
woooah!! This is amaizing! You did an awesome job with this!!
Very good
Now time to make a mic kirby remix. AAAAAAGGRGHGHGHHGHHH
I love it ❤
its good, but why mario?
Why not?
Perfect for anikin
I love it!! ❤
What is the character name? I can't find it
Count Bleck from Super Paper Mario!
Wow
Hello! I'm here in 2024.
Just wanted to say: Why does the Count in Castle Bleck feel like Stolas singing in his wizard mansion?
Do I have your permission to animate bits of this? I love this animatic so much.
OH I WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY HONORED (thanks for asking. appreciate it)
Please credit me somewhere in the video though, and can you send me the link when you finish? I would love to see it!
Cowsaresushi (Coral) Ok! I may only do certain parts, since I don’t have a lot of free time. Plus, I’d like to put a lot of effort into this. I’m happy you’re on board with it too! I hope I can do it justice! You did such an incredible job with this.
Oh yah, I don't expect you to animate the whole thing (that would be absolutely maddening). Just have fun and good luck!
Also, thank you!
😢