Horizon Zero Dawn doesn’t look realistic, it looks hyper-realistic, dev says
BBC’s nature documentaries have, in the last decade, become the go-to source not just for close-up looks at the far reaches of the world, but also for ways to make our HD and Ultra HD televisions look their absolute best.
When the team at Guerrilla Games set out to make Horizon Zero Dawn for the PlayStation 4, BBC’s documentaries were a huge inspiration for the game world, the studio’s art director revealed in an interview with Kotaku.
But if you’ve ever watched reality television of any kind, you know what we’re seeing, even in a documentary, isn’t realistic. Guerrilla knows that, too, and set out to capture what director Jan-Bart van Beek calls hyper-realism.
“It’s a form of hyper-realism that we started calling ‘BBC-realism,’†he said. “It’s all shot in perfect condition, at the perfect time of day, with exactly the right dramatic light angle, cloudscapes, and weather. There’s a lot of cinematic grading to add contrast, atmosphere, and saturation to the screen. It’s a film process that takes weeks to find those conditions and film a 10-second snippet.â€
Horizon is that, but all the time.
Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/03/24/horizon-zero-dawn-hyper-realism/