Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto defends The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's fast pacing
The story
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a certified box office hit , but critics haven't been too kind to the sequel - which wasn't entirely surprising looking at the original's middling reception - and online conversation has been pointing out that, even if you overlook its issues, the pacing feels a bit off . Read more
From the source
The one person who hasn't stopped batting for animation studio Illumination is Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto , who's now explained why he believes The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's fast nature is good, actually, and closely resembles his approach to video game creation.
The bits come from an interview shared by Nintendo Dream which Nintendo Everything later translated. In it, Miyamoto explained how one approach to creating a movie is creating "small, partial units" that work on their own and together form a 90-minute movie, for example. "30 units of 3 minutes each make up 90 minutes. And it's very similar to my own method; I don't make anything unnecessary, but I hardly throw anything away either. So, Illumination's technique involves a lot of swapping and rearranging of those units, creating something with incredible density."
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