Game & Art Night!
From all the Gist classmates I only knew my sister. We have similar interests so decided to sit close (not next to) to each other. Another illustrator joined us who soon left the minor. My sister had told me about a girl from a different class who regularly streams on Twitch and I decided to have a look. Soon after , I met another Gist classmate on Twitch. We started a WhatsApp group for us four Gist people plus a few others from a different class. I'm not sure who started the idea of holding a Game & Art Night (sounds like me) but everyone agreed that it was a good idea. Planning a day, including a sleepover, was so troublesome. Everyone has their own schedule for the week and squishing through that wasn't easy. After several weeks of planning and even using an online agenda we found two days the most people of our group could join. Some still couldn't. Boyfriends were allowed to come along as well.
The night started with snacks and Pizza. After that gaming and drawing in the same room . I think we got to know each other much better after this special event :) I only took one picture that night of one of the participants having a fever, sleeping on the ground. Not going to share that here. The other pictures area life of the game Horizon Zero Dawn made by a Dutch game studio. The game just got released and we enjoyed taking ingame beautiful screenshots of the perspectives and lights.
The date for the next Game & Art night has been set. Took us only a few weeks this time! The date's the first Friday after the exposition of Gist. I think about 7 will join this time. Maybe we should add a theme...
Our goal is to keep this group and grow as artists together.
A few weeks later Guerrilla announced a behind the scenes documentary about their game Horizon Zero Dawn that was going to be on NL1, I think? I was so excited!! Disappointed after the documentary... It was more of a documentary about American die hard gamers without a social life. A small part was very interesting, though! Guerrilla explained how they were able to create such a huge world in their Horizon game and still make it playable without crashes and lag. While moving around in Horizon's world everything looks 3D , full of detail and depth. Well, lots of it is fake 3D. The trees in the distance turn from 3D to 2D pictures of trees so the computer can process the game flawlessly. The gamer will never notice the trees are flat because the trees are too far away to see properly anyway. In the screenshot I took below, the trees are 3D. Lots of them are birches, I love birches.
