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Originally Posted by Kurufinwe
Unsurprisingly enough, the top-100 confirms the genre's love of hand-drawn graphics. I found it extremely weird that there were slightly more games with hand-drawn characters than environments. It would seem weird to stick hand-drawn characters in, say, 3D environments. And then I realised that there are actually two games that do just that: Hotel Dusk and its sequel Last Window.
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Thanks for your work, Kurufinwe, I like these things
I would only add, that characters in Hotel Dusk and Last Window were rotoscoped - as well as characters in The Last Express, who were put to 3D computer rendered background. In adventure games genre, that is pretty much everything that has been done by this animation technique (at least to my knowledge). Of course, plenty of older arcade games (most notably Prince of Persia 1 and 2), but also Another World, used this technique.
In these 3 adventure games, I think it really works fine. Btw I love how rotoscoped games, movies (check out Ralph Bakshi's films, from contemporary: Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, or Renaissance, Chico and Rita, Alois Nebel), series, music videos and commercials look all so different in result.
http://lastexpress.markmoran.net/production.html
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