Nintendo Wii + A-ha = one crazy stylish video

by David Hinkle { Oct 24th 2006 at 11:25AM }

As an entrant into a contest to win a free Wii, You Tube user mathysvande spent close to 80 hours creating the embedded between drawing and the computer. As an homage to Nintendo and the Wii, the video is heavily inspired by the video for musical group A-ha's song Take On Me.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: a-ha, nintendo, nintendowii, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Super Duper Mario @ Oct 24th 2006 11:31AM

80 hours? oh sad that it sucks....

Anooon @ Oct 24th 2006 12:23PM

80 Hours is crazy.... That works out at about 1 and a half hours for every second of footage, no way did it actually take that long, its ridiculous.... But its a pretty kool video, not sure if it was worth all the hassle though...

Sethd85 @ Oct 24th 2006 12:28PM

That was great! I could see Nintendo using that and really fleshing it out, and adding a little more depth to it. Awesome video.

Ily @ Oct 24th 2006 12:29PM

sucks....? You about what?

Rob @ Oct 24th 2006 1:00PM

Still nothing to do with A-ha, other than the hand-drawn shaky looking part. The whole appeal of the A-ha video was the hand-rotoscoping on live footage.

That said, bravo to the creators on the effort and an entertaining video.

calvin Carl @ Oct 24th 2006 2:55PM

What do you mean this sucks? This animation was great. The person obviously made the choice to give it a rough playful feeling, as the amount of professional production was evident. So to everyone that just says "it sucks," stop being dicks and atleast explain why you think so. Animation is an art, therefore talk about it like art.

Sorry to go all crazy about, but I am a painter, and there is nothing worse than someone just saying "I like it," or "I don't like it."

Rob @ Oct 24th 2006 3:05PM

Just to be clear, I was complimenting this Wii video, although I also like the A-ha video.

Justin @ Oct 24th 2006 4:17PM

Nice work, I like how everything morphed and whatnot.

Very cool, I think it'd make a great commercial with a little more work.

dvddesign @ Oct 27th 2006 1:38AM

Hey, Anoon? Let me know when you've actually done hand-drawn animation before and you let me know how you sped up the process past 90 minutes a second. That's actually remarkably fast, and certainly reasonable for his efforts considering that it's not in color, under 3 minutes, and seemed to have a good deal of flow to it with no bad jumps in the animation.

I would've done the drawing on a computer had I had the inclination since the whole scanning thing gets old fast, but hey, do what you gotta do.

Good luck and I hope you win dude.