Jordan Mechner's brother David performing the Prince of Persia's rotoscoped moves
I love these old VHS tapes of Jordan Mechner's brother David, then 15 years old, performing the moves that would end up as the smoothly-animated Prince of Persia. [via The Verge]
Mechner took the best runs, jumps and moves, edited to create the appearance of an impossibly athletic and agile hero, and rotoscoped them with pixel-perfect precision. — Read the rest
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