Not to sound like a dated old kook, but a long time ago, animated movies weren't made using CGI like Pixar does. They used to be done by drawing frames by hand, with subtle changes from one to the next. After a few hours of drawing God-only-knows-how-many frames, you show the series of pictures in the right order, and you have a few seconds of animation. Tedious as all hell, but honest, even rewarding.
Using computers for animation has since made this old world method obsolete, but Youtuber etoilec is keeping the practice alive with flipbooks. He's done a number of books on DragonBall Z, one on soccer player Ronaldinho, even another on pop-sensation Psy, but this is the first one on the old school Mortal Kombat 3, complete with Shao Kahn voiceovers and background music from the game's Temple / Church level. In it, bionic armed Jax takes on the younger, more Alice Cooper looking black magic sorceror, whose shape shifting abilities are in full effect.
Etoilec even manages to make the fight all the more exciting with dramatic, violent close ups, and unsually gorrier than normal stage enders. But what's Mortal Kombat without a little bit of internal fluids?
The match begins with Jax rushing at Tsung with a dash punch, stunning him, then quickly pummeling his face with a kwick kombo. Jax then rips out the dazed Tsung's arm, bashing him with it to the other side of the stage, before a high kick turns Tsung's face into mush.
The second stage has Tsung starting things off strong, using his ground fireballs to take Jax to new heights, then morphing into Nightwolf to nail the plummeting Jax with a tomahawk, before finally morphing into Sindel to finish Jax off with a sonic scream into his ear.
With one victory for each fighter, things progress to the tense final round. I won't spoil who wins, but the Finishing Move is in full effect, one of the fighter's borrowing a fan favorite from the series' other dark sorceror, Quan-Chi.
You can check out the whole thing below.
