Majora's Mask - Terrible Fate

A tribute to the legendary game, this short showcases Skull Kid’s dark origin story. Our take on how the Zelda Universe could be realized in film. A labor of love for all those involved, this is a gift to the fans.

Director: Mike Grier
Story Adaptation: Josh Grier
Animation Director: Hunter Schmidt
Mask Seller: Masashi Odate
Skull Kid: Joe Zieja
Cinematographer: Boa Simon
1st Assistant Camera: Jenny Hou
Lighting & Rendering: James Beck
Music & Sound: Theophany
Skull Kid Design: Nate Hallinan & Art of Vic
Skull Kid Model: Anders Ehrenborg
Majora's Mask Model: Cordell Felix
Mask Seller Model: Carlos Ortega and Pedro Conti
Clock Tower Concept: Kalen Chock
Clock Tower Modeling: Karem Yamin
Rigging: Chris Lesage
Animation: Jakob Christensen
Pre-Vis: Julie Griener, Rachel Beltran, Jacqueline Yee, Aharonit Elior, Taylor Reynolds

[adirblazkowics]

Is it just me, or does this animation look strangely better than your average theatre movie?

[dannywolf]

when you hear about a game being made into a movie, you'd expect it to look like this.

[Kapper_]

When the CGI is so incredible that you can't tell the difference with the backgroung which is a real forest...

[yvonnesterling]

After six years, I finally realized that Skull Kid's stumbling and screaming when he puts on the mask is directly inspired by Link's animations when he puts on the transformation masks. And Skull Kid looking up at the camera for one final scream means the transformation is complete, just like with Link's masks.

Amazing. Beautiful. Absolutely astounding the amount of details the animation team here added. It's 2023 and I'm still noticing new things

[TheGamerFromMars]

Now I want to see a Majora's Mask movie.

[Sleeeeeeeeeeepi]

This hits a little different when you know he’s really just a poor lonely child that got lost in the forest and turned into a skull kid ... ):

[ihavenoexperiencewiththist]

this got me hyped up for a movie that doesn't exist.

[elvickRULES]

With the Mario movie so successful, I’d love to see a dark, eerie Majora’s Mask movie. I know it’ll never happen. But a person can dream

[TARS_]

If there is a Zelda game that deserves a movie, it is Majora's Mask

[merk]

As peter griffin once said “why are we not funding this?!”

[elongates]

This makes majora seem scarier than ganon

[whoknowswhocares]

What makes this even better is hearing the Happy Mask Sales man talking in a normal voice in the begining, getting more and more anxious, then at the end laughing out of pure insanity as his mind falls into chaos along with all of Termina.

[manguymanfellaman]

This shows that skull kid is the victim to majora too. Just an innocent, reckless child. He met with a terrible fate, didn't he?

[luigiwannabe]

3 years and counting.

Thank god Nintendo has not even THOUGHT of taking this down.

[PorkChp]

7 years later and this is still one of the best animations I've ever seen. I wish it could become reality.

[thegamerator]

The sequence when Skull Kid succumbs to Majora's Mask is something out of a horror film. A well-written horror film.

[hanskasperstorhaug]

Why does it look like it`s animated in 2040

[guiguig]

it gets more dramatic when you realize this is about a kid's life being ruined by a small amount of curiosity leading him to a dark future

[TheBBCSlurpee]

3:57 that blend of the scream leading into the actual skullkid scream is so clean bro

[Tahkaullus]

Hey Nintendo, it's been two years, where's the movie?

What d'you mean this isn't a trailer?