In Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, characters have smoothed moving parts, and naturally we can see how certain characters move. For example, when Paper Mario walks, we can see his feet swinging like a pendulum. This brings an interesting question: how does Paper Peach walk under the skirt?
Indeed, nobody seems to ask this question but that means it’s also a question begging for some natural suggestions, and off-the-wall ones. This idea initially started out as a mere sketch and some strange suggestions, but eventually I wanted to use it as an opportunity to draw animation.
This animated piece is my serious attempt, whereas previous ones were just small stuff. Indeed, the real challenge is coming up with how the legs move in motion. Some, they were easy, but many of them were difficult. For example, the Regular one features normal walking, but animating a walk is not so easy.
A couple of them got revisions. Float had less feet movement but I decided to redraw it to give it clearer movements. Also, wheel initially have the feet moving clockwise until someone pointed out that it looked like it moves backwards, which is a good call because I didn’t notice it.
Hopefully these look good enough to get some laughs! I felt accomplished looking at all the animation I spent nights doing.
ALT