Mario Artist: Talent Studio

Mario Artist: Talent Studio is a Japan-only game released on February 24, 2000 for the Nintendo 64DD, as part of the Mario Artist series. It was one of few games released for the system, because the system was a failure. The main feature is the creation of characters, whom the player could put into different movies and animations, such as the character walking down a catwalk. There are many customizable features for the characters, such as body style, size, face, hair, clothes, bio, voice and more. The character creation may be a prototype for Miis, even though it has many more features. The player can also import these people into the other Mario Artist games. The game can also insert pictures from cameras and videos onto 3-dimensional models, and then animate the models. Using the bundled Capture Cartridge, the player could create movies by running a video camera through it.