Behind the Scenes - Prince of Persia (1989) [Making of] 

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The producer gets to hug

The younger brother was still a kid.

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Of course you have to chose a couple of the same height, to make things easier.

Actually i've put a copy next to the joconde at the louvre museum at france 🎉

It looks like it's rotoscoped

@@MrJeanBombers It is.

MrJeanBombers yep you are exactly right the sole creator and designer of the game Jordon Mechner (who has his own RU-vid channel btw) filmed his brother jumping, climbing and running with a video camera, he then took the individual film frames and traced over them with tracing paper, scanned them into the Apple 2 and digitised the frames then he animated them with his custom animation tool kit and that’s why for a game released back in 1989 it’s movements were so realistic

@@quietdemon8138 wow so basically the prince character is his brother!

They had to start somewhere. They had a low budget.

They use the same rotoscoping techniques for a lot of animated movies as well. That's why several of the Disney characters in old Disney movies have such lifelike expressions and movements.

They didn't even have good VHS, they had super 8

Back in the day no video camera was cheap!!!

@@Peter_1986 Especially in _Sleeping Beauty_

This is what was great with these games: they were hard. Like really. All of them. Dune 2, Prince of Persia, The Lion King, Galacta The Battle for Saturn, Donkey Kong Country (on Super NES): I was never able to finish one of them even as an adult. It took me 15 years to finish C&C Red Alert, I couldn't do it as a child. Same with Half Life (#1 of course). And the fact that usually you couldn't even save the game made it even harder, but also way more fun, because it was a real challenge for yourself. The joy that I got each time I was able to make some progress in one game was incredible. Since they were so hard, the pleasure of playing them was spread out on several years, and as you would evolve as a teenager and as an adult, your ability to progress in the games was increasing. Nowadays you can finish many video games in a matter of a few hours. It took me one night to finish Call of Duty Modern Warfare (the first version). If you're looking for a modern video game which feels like these good old games, I would definitely recommend Factorio. One game takes at least 20 hours, probably more 40h when you're a beginner, and there are an incredible amount of possibilities with it so you can challenge yourself and have a lot of fun. If you have some other suggestions, please share them here!! 🙏

Just like lightsabers.

defintly !!

Castle level

I appreciate that

Exactly. Take a look at Factorio if you don't know it, you might like it.

Fordzy see my other comment job this thread. First it’s rotoscoping and not motion capture. Second the technique used her was used years before in several games.

@@litjellyfish Rotoscoping is a type of motion capture. You capture the motion.

@@ThePreciseClimber well if that case animation itself is a capture of motion. Even if it’s drawn directly by hand from a visual reference. What I refer to is the definition of motion capture when the term was coined. And it’s not rotoscoping. As said rotoscoping as a term and concept was done starting in the late 1930s

@@litjellyfish > well if that case animation itself is a capture of motion Some of it was, yes. But some of it wasn't. Motion capture should mean "the capturing of the motion," otherwise it's a bad term. Like immersive sim.

@@ThePreciseClimber well thing is that rotoscoping is not capturing anything. It’s exactly what it’s stated to be. Project a reference photo so an artist (or sometimes automatically digitally) can trace that motion. Whole motion capture actually captures motion data that is translated to motion. Again this is how the terms are defined and used. It might not be the best terms but that is how it is so we should ideally use them accordingly to that or it might be wrong info

@GodZpeed X7 it's a *J O K E*

@@asrielplays3302 I can imagine no better compliment than GodZpeed commentary.

@@asrielplays3302 ASRIEL KKK

Until Ubisoft got a hold of the franchise.

Frank Micucci sands of time was awesome but the rest of their Persia games have been pretty much mediocre

@@quietdemon8138 They did get Jordan Mechner on Sands of Time reboot from 2003... but after that, it kind of went its own way. But old Prince of Persia is great!

​@@quietdemon8138Warrior Within, Two Thrones and the 2008 version would like to have a word for you

Even you know you're lying.

They used rotoscope

Leonardo di parma just want to say that this has nothing to do with mocap. That is both a totally different concept and tech. This is good old rotoscoping. A technique that started to be used for traditional animation back in the late 1939’s Still it produced great result. And even today for 2D sprite animation it can be better to use than mocap. Also to be a complete nagger ;) this was for sure not the first time this technique was used in video game. The game done before by the same designer Karateka used the same technique. Also impossible mission for C64 5 years earlier (84) used this technique for the main characters smooth animation.

Fashion shows.

The bone

and where are motion capture videos for the jaw doors and spike traps?

@@markhorvath7611 haha so I think when the prince die from those things, the animation is not as real as the prince jump or run. Maybe it is the cause.

It was just one dude: Jordan Mechner. It was a different time.

Or late captain Phil Harris from Cornelia Marie

No. It's rotoscope

Firstly you have to go through all the battles and dangers!

Prince of Persia > Karateka

that is right i remember playing prince in the middle of the 1990's on MS DOS computer at school

It's the apple ii version of the game. A beta version of it, from what it looks like.