Truly, World 1-1 is a work of art, and so it’s only fitting that Japanese Twitter user @KisaragiHutae6 has used his artistic skills to entirely recreate the level in an entirely unexpected place: the pages of a notebook!

“I drew Super Mario Bros. in my notebook,” @KisaragiHutae6 casually tweeted, and if you’re expecting a few doodles of the Nintendo mascot, think again. The talented artist has recreated all of World 1-1, and once again, don’t underestimate him, because he didn’t just sketch the level layout either. In the video @KisaragiHutae6 shared, Mario is fully animated as he runs, jumps, smashes blocks and stomps enemies.

Even the game’s power-ups make an appearance, with the World 1-1 Super Mushrooms, Fire Flower, Invincibility Star and even 1-up all appearing exactly where they do in the game. And yes, the powered-up Mario does shoot fireballs!

But as cool as it all looks, what exactly is going on? Is this some sort of digital animation with effects and filtering to make it look like paper, sort of like what Nintendo does with its own Paper Mario games?

Nope. @KisaragiHutae6’s video is all meticulous stop-motion animation. He started by drawing and cutting out all of the background pieces and character character poses he’d need.

動画内では分かりづらいものの、紙ならではのこだわりを持った出演者達です。実際に折ったり燃やしたり、クリボーのやられ方を考えるのは、とっても楽しかったです。 pic.twitter.com/GeawVAkagb

— 如月 二重 6 (@KisaragiHutae6) February 11, 2019

Then he opened up two notebooks and placed them side by side, giving himself a renewable canvas four pages wide to work with, and set to work photographing each individual frame in the video.

On the one hand, working with an early 8-bit motif made the project easier, since it meant fewer different frames of animation needed to be drawn, as older games on lower-spec hardware were all about skillfully reusing the same visual assets over and over. Even still, it took @KisaragiHutae6 three hours to draw all the art he’d need (using ballpoint pens), and after that he spent 14 hours rearranging the pieces and filming the animation.

ドンキーコングがひたすら樽を転がすだけです。#ドンキーコング #アイロンビーズ pic.twitter.com/Y4Mz2m7H2d

— 如月 二重 6 (@KisaragiHutae6) December 2, 2018

Amazingly, stop-motion illustrations aren’t even @KisaragiHutae6 primary creative outlet. Most of his art involves recreating Nintendo characters with beads, like this look back at Mario’s pre-Super days.

He’s also a Pokémon fan, and so old school that his artwork is done in the gray scale of the original non-color Game Boy graphics.

アイロンビーズで初代ポケモン151匹を作りました。制作期間は3カ月でした。1匹ずつ丁寧に撮った動画もあるので、よければご覧下さい。#ポケモン #アイロンビーズ pic.twitter.com/c1MlSc0FzB

— 如月 二重 6 (@KisaragiHutae6) November 23, 2018

Again, the only art materials @KisaragiHutae6 used were a pair of notebooks, some pens, and a craft knife to cut out the illustrations. Even then, the notebooks were spares he had lying around that he had no use for, and it just goes to show how much a dedicated artist can accomplish. Of course, Super Mario Bros. goes all the way up to Level 8-8, so hopefully one day we’ll get to see some more of the series reimagined in this awesome way.

Sources: Twitter/@KisaragiHutae6, IT Media

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