Horizon Zero Dawn Render Shows Amazing Structural Detail

A Horizon Naught Dawn fine art render has emerged from a GDC presentation organized by Guerrilla Games' junior art managing director, and the return shows an amazing amount of structural detail.

Horizon Zero Dawn

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2022 was held final calendar month, but little past little, more than presentations from the gaming event surface. During the issue, Horizon Zip Dawn developer Guerrilla Games, organized an fine art direction bootcamp presented past the studio'southward inferior fine art director, Maarten van der Gaag.

Guerrilla outsources assets on a very large calibration and as a result has a very small internal nugget fine art team, simply a relatively large concept art team. This scope of outsourcing requires a very mature outsourcing pipeline and comes with its unique advantages and problems.

This talk volition give a detailed insight into the asset art pipeline at Guerrilla Games, why Guerrilla Games chooses to accept this approach and discusses its advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore it offers insights in the process of creating the highly detailed briefs that are required for Guerrilla'south approach. And explains how Guerrilla guards the quality in the creation of nearly all of its game-assets using outsourcing vendors.

Horizon Nada Dawn features highly detailed art-avails

While the presentation itself details how Guerrilla creates high quality art assets for their titles, 1 of the slides provides an insight into the amazing amount of structural particular within Horizon Zero Dawn. Check out the render down below. To prove the render is from the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn, nosotros've included a shot of the render'south file details as well.

Equally tin can be seen, the return showcases i of the roof models within the game. Judging from the basefile proper name, this particular model is used by Aloy's clan - the Nora clan. A healthy corporeality of components is beingness used to render the model, and Guerrilla seems to take used diverse reference models for their in-game render. Especially the 'edges' and 'rope texture' references are quite amazing. The bottom view of the roof render shows that the forest has been 'cut out' in the top beam, and adds to the particular of this particular art-asset.

Horizon Zero Dawn is scheduled for a release exclusively for the Playstation 4 somewhere this year.