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With Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games has capitalised on its technical acumen to deliver one of the most beautiful open world video games to date. The environment is massive both in scope and scale, featuring everything from vast deserts and dark forests to snowy mountain tops and abandoned skyscrapers. In this Digital Foundry World in Motion time-lapse, we'll be visiting several biomes across the world of Horizon, showcasing the attention to detail on display. From individual leaves to gargantuan mountain ranges, the detail on offer is breathtaking. In creating this video, we visited four distinct corners of the environment to better showcase the variety on display. The last time-lapse we produced - Assassin's Creed Syndicate - took days to produce, slowly but methodically moving from location to location, with each shot taking around an hour to capture. Thankfully, Horizon makes things much easier in this regard - the powerful photo mode offers full control over the time of day, meaning you can enjoy a full 24-hour period within just 15 seconds. It's glorious. The photo mode also allows you to adjust depth of field, disable on-screen characters, play with exposure and more. It's a powerful tool and it's all handled in real-time without additional processing.
In creating this video, we simply captured several different sequences while using the photo mode with the interface hidden from view. While adjusting the time of day we could use one of the analogue sticks to carefully move the camera carefully along a set path - something we can't usually do in a standard time-lapse. In a few scenes, we enabled depth of field to highlight the level of detail on display when looking at objects near the camera.
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