MrJeanBombers yep you are exactly right the sole creator and designer of the game Jordon Mechner (who has his own TH-cam 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
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.
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!! 🙏
Oh god... This video mus´t dissapear never. Should survive at least, until the next century. The origen of a real legend and masterpiece of videogames.
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.
@@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
@@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!
Awesome video. I've been thanking since first time played POP, HOW THEY MAKING IT? It's like a dream. The Story, music, animation and movements. I adore this game.
@@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.
10:05 they couldn't Rotoscope that with less repetition in the cells somehow especially with such limited storage capacity ? I guess key frames and such may not occur to such a young developer, self described as self taught ;]
No wonder I was so impressed by this game back then on the super Nintendo , high quality game , and this was the first mo cap ever done in video game history
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.
l love the realistic animations though, wow. Mocap(or motion capture?) is a lot better. So they recorded it and only crop the character instead of a green screen or these weird gadgets they have with face expressions? In detail if possible.
I want to know why the SNES run this game in better graphics and the DOS computer at that time was more expansive then the consoles and dont have better graphics?
Funcl fact the original version of prince of Persia was made in Assembly. Assembly is just a lmaguage that J tegrates with binary numbers computer understand
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So, one guy runs, jumps, falls, rolls, but they put another to hug the princess. That's unfair.
😂
The producer gets to hug
The younger brother was still a kid.
This belongs in a museum. It's a Masterpiece
Actually i've put a copy next to the joconde at the louvre museum at france 🎉
Props to the guy who impaled himself for making the fall realistic
I was always impressed by the high quality animations of such an old title. Cool to see how they did it.
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 TH-cam 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!
Before Assassins' creed, Mirror edge
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Once upon a time, there was a Prince.
Yeah I was always captivated by they animation of this game. Everything else at that time was so rough and this game was realistic and smooth.
This game was beyond its time by a large margin
This game has a amazing animation
I was shock at the first
Wow, not even capturing the moves and footage in a studio. Just outdoors with a cheap video camera. Hats off to these guys.
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_
To think all of this was rotoscoped to make the movement in the game quite fluid and authentic. Great memories as a kid growing in the 90's.
Just like lightsabers.
This game kicked my ass when I was a kid. SO hard yet so fascinating I couldn't stop playing.
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!! 🙏
Awesome! I wish we had more videos like this, documenting game development in the 80s and 90s.
Still one of the best games ever made.
defintly !!
Castle level
I remember being 9 years old, in shock, watching and playing this in a Philips 8086 with cga monochrome. What a time.
Oh god... This video mus´t dissapear never. Should survive at least, until the next century.
The origen of a real legend and masterpiece of videogames.
Pixel animations are better looking than the best current 3D engines
I appreciate that
Exactly. Take a look at Factorio if you don't know it, you might like it.
Mechner is genius. Probably first motion capture in gaming history.
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
Amazing video! Very interesting too see how it was made. Jordan Mechner is a genius!
What an absolute legend Jordan Mechner is
Karateca and Prince of Persia were the first games to use motion capture of real actors and influence games to this day with the use of mocap
2:25 happiest times in gaming
Better animations than Mass Effect: Andromeda
@GodZpeed X7 it's a *J O K E*
@@asrielplays3302 I can imagine no better compliment than GodZpeed commentary.
@@asrielplays3302 ASRIEL KKK
Bless 🙏🏿 everyone on this project it's Magnificent And thank you Mr Mechner And Mr Guillemette👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐⭐👍🏿
It's great to see this! Also, glad yo didn't include the reference footage for the guillotine parts
Was one of my 2 favorite computer games back in the 90s.
This is art
Prince of persia is the best
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!
I played this game in 91 or 92 on my highscreen 386DX :) nice old days... PoP 2 was a revolution later
Amazing that this footage exists!
I'm glad I subscribed. What an interesting video.
A Timeless Classic!🌹🌟💯
awesome video... i used to play it when i was like 5 years old
Amazing. Thanks for the uploader
always AMAZING to watch !
Awesome video. I've been thanking since first time played POP, HOW THEY MAKING IT? It's like a dream. The Story, music, animation and movements. I adore this game.
I enjoyed this video very much. I loved the reboot game on the original Xbox in 2003 but I remember they had the classic on that disc.
This is amazing
AMAZING
Legend
This is truly amazing to watch, I only wish I could see more development footage after the 3rd month, to see everything up until the test footage
Just realized that middle-east prince has the ability of western swordfight
Animation looks much better than most of modern games
Even you know you're lying.
Amazing development story
pretty insane animation for a 30 year old game
They used rotoscope
amazing !!
thx for uploading :)
did yu create this video, or was it made back then..?
how'd yu acquire this footage..?
awesom insight!
Amazing
I had no idea Pop was so old amazing stuff
love this game's music
Gold.
Very nice
I'm not crying. You're crying.
Infancia vrgs, un placer y un privilegio saber cómo se grabaron las escenas
so, guys. where did you find a model for a awaking skeleton?
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.
Just imagine the Prince Of Persia guy! I would love accolade.
Why some animation frames are corrupt there? Video convertion artifacts?
Chills
The book is pretty cool: “The making of Prince of Persia”
As a kid I`ve tryed to jump like the prince.
10:05 they couldn't Rotoscope that with less repetition in the cells somehow especially with such limited storage capacity ? I guess key frames and such may not occur to such a young developer, self described as self taught ;]
Who else knows that it was coded in assembly language. Unbelievable!
Hermoso. Que lindo ver un gran juego nacer.
No wonder I was so impressed by this game back then on the super Nintendo , high quality game , and this was the first mo cap ever done in video game history
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.
que genial yo lo jugaba en diskette en los 90
the motion capture that way before the motion capture.
32 anniversary of prince of persia
The Best Game In DOS
Are these developers/engineers still alive??? How they managed in 1989??? They are the foundation really.
It was just one dude: Jordan Mechner. It was a different time.
2:15 lol that man looks like Devon Larrat, an arm wrestler
Or late captain Phil Harris from Cornelia Marie
l love the realistic animations though, wow. Mocap(or motion capture?) is a lot better. So they recorded it and only crop the character instead of a green screen or these weird gadgets they have with face expressions? In detail if possible.
3:27 Oh.... wonder who the actor was.
can somebody reply me the full sprite sheet for the prince?
if not, thats fine
Any tutorial to do this ik unity
Animations can be compared with Splinter Cell Black list movements.
Internet archive/Wayback Machine this wonder!!!
Y así nació el parkocur 😁
1989 Prince of Persia is made. 1990 tripods are invented.
Music 🎶
80s parkour :-)
I like the smile of the real princess!
Wow you guys actually chopped off a guy to see how it would look. Kudos!
im here because of prince of persia remake
First motion capture ever.
No. It's rotoscope
It would be awesome to have Prince Of Persia Maker just like Mario Maker!
1:10 - Is it Éric Chahi?!...
A baby who was born that day is 36 years old...☹️
Somehow, the running animation didn't translate into the actual game. Did they run out of memory and have to lose some frames?
RIP Tina LaDeau
The princess is very beautiful. I'd like to kiss her.
Firstly you have to go through all the battles and dangers!
This game was way cool and hard, good graphics good story line, not like These days game
KARATEKA
Prince of Persia > Karateka
if your are watching this,means you are OLD! :P
that is right i remember playing prince in the middle of the 1990's on MS DOS computer at school
entonces pasaron de la vida real al juego todos los movimientos... con razon son bien naturales los movimientos
0:47 is this a different game?
It's the apple ii version of the game.
A beta version of it, from what it looks like.
Lol 1985. Year i born.
I want to know why the SNES run this game in better graphics and the DOS computer at that time was more expansive then the consoles and dont have better graphics?
Funcl fact the original version of prince of Persia was made in Assembly.
Assembly is just a lmaguage that J tegrates with binary numbers computer understand
Bad brother. Hugging a woman makes someone else do it.
I don't remember the prince being blonde
they didn't rotoscope the death scenes and traps?? bro that's so fake i want my money back.