While the rest of us were wasting our lives, a Vine user named Johnny McHone has spent the last two months making an incredibly detailed stop-motion animation adventure starring Link from The Legend of Zelda.
Seriously. Like we didn't already have enough reason to feel like perennial underachievers, now a series of six-second Vine clips is making us feel worse.But honestly, these are amazing. The series started in January and ended this week after 29 installments created under the hashtag #LinkandtheVine.
The story sees Link questing to find a treasure and fighting off claymation monsters:In the end, he finds, what else? A Vine treasure chest.Once finished, McHone compiled all 29 short films into a full video. The whole animation is barely 3 minutes long, which is still basically the Vine equivalent of War and Peace.McHone is a professional stop-motion animator, which is pretty obvious based on the quality of the work. It's not his first foray into Vine animation; in February he won an award for this short, surreal Vine series:So what have you done with your life lately?
Screengrab via Johnny McHone/YouTube