Hot topics

    • gadgets

    Comment

    Prince of Persia video shoot: Come back with me/to 1985

    John Biggs

    View Staff Page

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
    Comments
    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1854745&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
    Prince of Persia Animation Reference 1985 from jordan mechner on Vimeo.

    Get out the tissues, gaming fans, because there won’t be a dry eye in your cubicle. What we see here is Jordan Mechner’s reference shots for the original Prince of Persia, a game that brought the dream of photorealistic rendered graphics out of the darkness. Mechner shot his brother David doing jumps, slides, and climbs which he then painstakingly rendered in PoP’s inimitable style. The result is one of the most familiar and beloved games of the 1980s.

    via BBG

    Tags: , , , , ,
    blog comments powered by Disqus