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Super Mario Beads 3: The Beads Are Back

Mario animated in beads, navigating a suburban Sweden landscape of sidewalks, boot heels, supermarkets, hillsides, and bookshelves? Yeah, this is another one of those. It’s a sequel to this:

Which was a sequel to this:

Here’s how Marcus and Hannes Knutsson made it (in Swedish, with English subtitlles if you clock on the CC button):

They aren’t the first to do bead animation of Mario. There was this:

 

And this:

But it’s the combination of bead animation and live action that’s most compelling.

HT: Laughing Squid

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