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There is soooo much to learn from retro game design that applies to design and animation today…like why does Mario look the way he does? The answer teaches us everything about smart design! The mustache, the overalls, the hat...they were all solutions to design problems! Mario’s sprite in Donkey Kong was designed on a canvas limited to 16x16 pixels with only 3 animation frames to depict a run cycle due to hardware limitations. But Shigeru Miyamoto made the character and movement read perfectly d