Though it may seem crude these days, Jordan Mechner's original Prince of Persia animation was state-of-the-art in 1989. But the method by which he got it is even more impressive. Mechner shot his kid brother, performing the moves he needed, on a video camera and then, using rotoscoping, plopped them directly into his game.
Now, you can watch the actual home movies and it's positively shocking how closely they resemble the final moves the prince was performing way back in the late '80s. Watch it just below the break and just try not to get a little emotional. Try!
What? So all Game devs are pedophiles now? Is that what you're saying?
Seriously though what are you referring to... it better not be just the fact that the person running around in the video is under 18. Your view on pornography is fail.
what? to begin with, you comment doesn't make much sense, this isn't the same as today's mo-cap technology...apparently I was misunderstood as Im not trying to call any game developer or anyone for that matter a pedophile.
I'm just mentioning it because a friend was recording a bunch of kids at the playground as reference for a college project, and you could hear people passing by calling him a pedophile...
Yes, pedophilia accusations are borderline ridiculous these days - I fell into that boat once with the cops for seeing someone 3 years younger during my freshman year at college (???) - but I don't understand what on Earth sparked your comment...
What a dumb comment. Filming your younger brother do some running and jumping so that you can mo-cap it is hardly the same as hanging around a pre-school with a video camera and then fondling yourself to it later.
The original Prince of Persia, obscure? Right. No one ever heard about it.
Riiight. Crappy. Right. You were playing those remembered by everybody like... gunship. And you DO realise Populous was made for PC first then PORTED to every single system under the sun (just like Prince of Persia).
I wondered why the prince always stumbled around. It was endearing that he wasn't a super-hero type... But this explains why he moved like an awkward teenager.
