(TV) How it's Made: Prince of Persia!?

Tumerboy

So, I don't know how many of you have seen the show on Discovery called "How it's made"? I have a love hate relationship with it (it's simultaneously very interesting, and incredibly boring.)

Anyway, I was flipping past the discovery channel the other night, and saw someone working on a character in Max. Turns out the show was showing "How Video Games are made." And it was very obviously a Prince of Persia game they were showing (there was even text on some of the concept art they showed)

Presumably this was at Ubisoft?

Anyone from here make it on the show? I saw the back of a couple of Animator's heads.

killingpeople

limnk

Asherr

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0FoYgZmlMs[/ame]

Cody

Awesome! I love the crotch shot at 2:38. Priceless.

Slum

Oh shit, the characters costume isn't decided until after all the animation is done? I think we've been doing it wrong!

Tumerboy

Cody wrote: »

Awesome! I love the crotch shot at 2:38. Priceless.

HA HA! Ya I laughed my ass off when I saw that too.

Slum, I like how everyone who does art on the game is an "animator"

ThatDon

News to me, Animators, seems to do EVERYTHING!

lol at "Thousands of computer codes"

Thanks for sharing.

commander_keen

They had to show the crotch shot, its one of the most important features in a video game.

JasonLavoie

I see... so that's HOW IT'S MADE :P

flaagan

Seen this quite a few times over the years, always been rather impressed at how well they portrayed 'working on a game'. Off in a few areas, obviously, but still probably one of the best versions of such a presentation I've seen yet.

danr

i'm not watching that video. I don't have to. I've seen plenty of these insights into game developers on telly, and therefore know exactly how games are made.

you get a pre-made character, rotate it and zoom in and out a lot, then spend ages in a mo-cap studio or sound recording booth. There are no programmers.

is that about right?

Ott

hmm....I'm pretty sure they got a few things wrong.



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BkHt8ybWkg[/ame]

Pedro Amorim

YOU NEED TO TIGHTEN UP THE GRAPHICS IN LEVEL 3!

Flynny

Almost as bad as those tv adverts recomending "IT Courses" that get advertised with gauranteed salary of £30k+ .

Damn, wish i could animate with my xbox pad! that would rock!

stimpack

LOL this is awsome. You can totally date this vid by looking at there monitors alone.

KeyserSoze

Tumerboy wrote: »

(it's simultaneously very interesting, and incredibly boring.)

So true. That's what makes it the perfect program to watch while taking a mid-day nap on the couch. Whenever I'm getting sleepy and I see that a few episodes of How it's Made is coming on, I'm like, "sweet, jackpot!"

cgjeff

Why didn't anyone tell me that we weren't supposed to start checking for bugs until the game was finished. God damn.. think of all that wasted time.

And here I thought that it was QA's job as well.. when all along it was supposed to be done by the animators! Lazy ass animators pushing their work off onto underpaid QA guys.

rooster

hold on, did he just say motion capture was videoing some movement and then reproducing it on computer? hruh?

Funky Bunnies

The More You Know ⋆

Geezus

I think it was fairly accurate...maybe some poor word choices, and a quick gloss over (obviously) of the entire process. Someone was telling me that the show was originally from France, and they translated some of the earlier shows before getting their own "American" version. So maybe the poor word choices come from a loose translation?

sir-knight

I stopped watching that show when they had video of an animator getting up to act out a motion to understand the timing better and called that motion capture.


edit
ah.. 4:16 this is the show that I saw that made me go wtf.

leilei

Geezus wrote: »

I think it was fairly accurate...maybe some poor word choices, and a quick gloss over (obviously) of the entire process. Someone was telling me that the show was originally from France, and they translated some of the earlier shows before getting their own "American" version. So maybe the poor word choices come from a loose translation?

How It's Made is a Canadian show.

Slum

Oh right cheap, there aren't any people in canada who speak french.

Saidin311

leilei wrote: »

How It's Made is a Canadian show.

That is definitely an American version of the show though. The one up here is narrated by a Female. It's been re-narrated for sure.

The show is also French created (Quebec based). And this particular episode is quite old.

Only because I happen to watch The Discovery Channel a lot and enjoy this show am I posting. The point of the show is to enlighten the average person on manufacturing processes. Most of the things featured on the show are factory things, like how springs are made, or how plastic grocery store bags are made, lightbulbs etc.

They obviously took a lot of liberties in with this as it has to fit into a 5-10 minute segment. The show should really stick to the 'factory-made' things. It's a great show though.

Tumerboy

It's a great show, but my god! the narration is more boring than Al Gore! Is the female Canadian version as boring?

Saidin311

Tumerboy wrote: »

It's a great show, but my god! the narration is more boring than Al Gore! Is the female Canadian version as boring?

semi. She uses a bit of inflection, it's not as monotonous as this dude is.