Sony shows how the machines of Horizon Zero Dawn became the dominant species

 
Sony and Guerrilla Games have released a new video on Youtube, showing how the machines of their upcoming open world RPG, Horizon Zero Dawn became the dominant species.
 
“Taking the Shellwalker as an example – the busy, cantankerous workers of the machine’s ecosystem who protect their cargo with fearsome determination – we saw the creative process from the very beginning; taking a rudimentary sketch of a crate-carrying walking platform and going back to nature to see how the real world would deal with the task. “Using photographs of fiddler crabs and pistol shrimp for inspiration, the artists then adapted how these creatures gather food, carry their shells and protect themselves against predators in a series of sketches that gradually began to take on more of the Horizon Zero Dawn aesthetic. Armour plating is added, then the back-and-forth between artist and animator begins to ensure natural movement balances with the game design and that the Shellwalker moves, attacks and defends itself in a way that makes it a useful worker for the machines and a challenging foe for Aloy.”
You can watch the video below. Horizon Zero dawn is due out on March 1st 2017 only on PlayStation 4.
Source:PlayStationEurope