The Art of Horizon Zero Dawn

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Not only did the game’s designers utilize motion capture effectively for running and fighting, they also drew on it for dialogue. In total, 29 Guerrilla artists have posted their contributions to Horizon Zero Dawn in their ArtStation portfolios. When you walk or swim across a river, she makes comments about how it will take a while for her clothes to dry.

We’ve joined forces with ArtStation to release an Art Blast that showcases their incredible body of work, which spans a range of disciplines from Concept Art to Character Art, and from Asset Art to Animation. There are a total of five Cauldrons in the game, and overriding them is one of the best side quests in Horizon Zero Dawn. Humans hunt these mysterious living machines for parts, to use for clothing, armor, weapons, and currency.The decorative elements of their clothing and items are derived from female anatomy, particularly the womb. Concept Designer Miguel Angel Martinez Monje has posted some of the concept art he created for Horizon Zero Dawn, an action role-playing video game developed by Guerrilla Games. The developers chose to take the time to create quality—Assistant Art Director Roland Ijzermans stated, “From the outset, we wanted to make sure that we did justice to Horizon Zero Dawn ’s unique vision for a post-post-apocalyptic future. For example, Striders are very much like horses, Grazers resemble deer, and Watchers were originally inspired by a small bipedal dinosaur.

It’s in the ruins of this bunker where Aloy first uncovers bits and pieces from the Old World as she courageously explores the forbidden area and activates some of its technologies. Life hasn’t quite found its way into this hole yet and unlike the greenery of the surface, this location is full of deteriorating parts of what used to be a massive bunker.

They’re often found in locations just like the one pictured, somewhere deep in the forest where there’s an unusual concentration of machines in a clearing. To jump from obviously computer generated expressions to in-game expressions that looked and felt real and natural in games released just one year apart is astounding.