10 Earliest Games With Smooth Rotoscope Animations
462Even though modern graphics can make your ultra-detailed video game characters come to life, without proper movement animation the magic of controlling something more than rag-doll would be quick to end. Thatโs why in early stages of video games developers came to conclusion to just copy the movement of real people. For that task they borrowed the technique well known in cinematography, called rotoscoping.
Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which hand or computer-drawn animation is created using live-action footage as a base. The animation is created by tracing over each live-action frame. The technique has been used in a wide variety of theatrical films and other film and television projects, though its application in the creation of video games has been much more limited.
In this video we review the first uses of this impressive animation technique applied to video games and how it evolved in its early stages.
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Games Featured
0:00 Intro
0:21 1984 Karateka PC MS-DOS
0:52 1989 Prince of Persia PC MS-DOS
1:28 1991 Cruise for a Corpse PC MS-DOS
2:01 1991 Another World PC MS-DOS
2:42 1993 Flashback PC MS-DOS
3:23 1996 Prince of Persia 2 PC MS-DOS
4:07 1994 Dragonsphere PC MS-DOS
4:42 1994 Lester the Unlikely SNES
5:14 1994 Heart of the Alien SEGA CD
6:02 1995 Wetlands PC MS-DOS
6:34 Outro
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