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Heres a wonderful commision of Juno with beta its there first kiss ;w;.

art by the wonderful @aloyxtilda rfrefhrhf i cant even fathom how pretty juno is in this i keep this peice close to my heart!/gen

[zgasly]

Meet Ersa, my OC ereloy child!

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I played Horizon Zero Dawn: Frozen Wilds and tried to mix styles x) I love this game especially for its concept art .. I saw the art book at the store the other day but well no money for that x)

[cicakkia]

Unusual creature sketch 3 pose A #illustration #sketchcharacter #sketchdaily #deer #fantasycreature #fantasycharacter #fantasy #animalsketch #fantasyart #sketchdrawing #sketchcreature #inktober #digitaldrawing #digitalsketch #conceptsketch #conceptdrawing #draweveryday #drawingsketch #practicemakesprogress #practiceart #creaturedesign #creatureconcept #creatureart https://www.instagram.com/p/CMy2-hZDoC-/?igshid=1jwe5neris870

[maqsimous]

Made a neat poster.

Check out Kotakali’s full series here! 

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The official trailer for my upcoming new original character film, Horizon Zero Dawn - Sun and Shadow!

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Here is a second article that I found following GameRant’s spotlight on The Song of Kotakali. This time ScreenRant picked it up, and they even did some digging of their own and gave The Nora Mother - My second series - A spotlight, too! The Nora Mother was still in production at the time but it has since been completed. I will be making blog posts on Sequoia’s journey in that series next!

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Here is the 15 minute preview of my upcoming new fan made movie, Horizon Zero Dawn Sun and Shadow! This will be the third major OC story that I’ve produced in ZD.

[junothezenith]

Mawt the first and only human biosynthetic hybrid, the undying, the unyielding death.

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juno in her zenith "shirt” during her life as a child and teenager in the zenith holding facility, her shirt is remiscent of her mothers suit. much like tildas it is white,gold and purple

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goofy aah beta x juno things

no juno is not "Pregnant" her belly gets distended over her three month period becuase of utereal lining build up, infertile roe and old blood

ye i like exploring even the weirdest parts of junos biology makes me feel more connected to her too idk why i guess thats just becuase i enjoy spec evo to much XD

[maqsimous]

This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. A full remaster of the final sequence of Chapter VI in the Song of Kotakali. My favorite sequence in Kota’s entire series, her grand finale when she rides to meet Aloy at Sobeck Ranch was planned from the beginning of her story. I knew that’s how I wanted the series to end the moment I began writing it.

So, to give Kotakali the finale she deserves, I’ve taken the filmmaking techniques I have learned over the course of doing these stories and reshot the entire sequence. I am quite pleased with how it turned out!

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Cinematography shots from my upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn movie, Sun and Shadow! These are actual stills from the film, not from photo mode!

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I made a Horizon Zero Dawn music video featuring Heilung’s new song “Anoana” and I think it turned out pretty neat!

Kotakali’s origin story on screen as she survives the brutal murder of her parents by rival Banuk, and embarks on a spiritual journey to discover the Blue Light.

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In a very cool spotlight on The Song of Kotakali, a journalist from GameRant reached out to me regarding my first series. I had an interview and article published about my work! The whole series doesn’t have that many views, but I honestly don’t care. I am so proud of Kotakali as a character and how her journey turned out that I’m happy with the way it is. But to receive a little extra attention like this is absolutely humbling and exciting!

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Horizon Zero Dawn - The Song of Kotakali - Chapter IV - The Blue Light

Perhaps the most important chapter to Kotakali’s story in terms of lore, this chapter begins with an emotionally gut-wrenching scene between Kota and CYAN as she returns after facing Tenaden.

I become very attached to these characters as I write them, and this effect is emboldened even more since I am able to bring their stories to greater life with these video series. Watching Kotakali become upset and emotional and confess her feelings to CYAN, the only “person” in the world she has right now, tends to hit me pretty hard. Even in editing as I see it come together I’ll feel it, let alone the final product.

Of course we return to see how facial animations will work in all conversations and even cutscenes when I’ve swapped Aloy’s model to Kotakali, which makes these conversations possible. A very neat discovery that adds to the experience!

We see the rise of Kotakali’s true nemesis, Girish, a former Banuk who has relinquished his tribe to join the Tenakth, and a rogue Utaru woman known only as “The Druidess”.

Though more importantly, this is where my biggest ideas of original lore come in. The concept of the machine druid, and their abilities of “machine empathy”.

To break it down simply:

Official Lore - GAIA created the machines to look like animals because she laments their demise. So in their honor, the terraforming robots she uses on Earth look like fauna and megafauna.

Official Lore - GAIA is sentient. A true AI, with emotions and moral and logical decision making powers. The same goes for CYAN, who is very much an emotional being as we learn in The Frozen Wilds.

Original Lore - The Machine Druid concept involves tapping into both of these facts. If GAIA is emotional and sentient, and she created the machines to appear as animals out of love, it is possible that a tiny piece of her sentience and her emotions go into each and every single machine that is made. With this knowledge the Machine Druid uses language, emotion, and most of all patience, to learn how to communicate with and eventually domesticate/override the machines!

In fact, this idea gains even more ground with the release of Forbidden West. We see that the Plowhorns sing and communicate with one another verbally. This goes beyond simple transmission communications, as the machines are now actually using audible language to speak to one another. If the machines can speak to each other with sound, then humans could perhaps do the same if they learn the way.

I did not plan for this coincidence, as The Song of Kotakali was completed before Forbidden West released. So this all just happened to work out incredibly well in the story’s favor! I did however plan for the lore to fit as well as possible to be acceptable as canon.

Another semi-original concept I added to this chapter was CYAN calling to Kotakali through her Focus. It was established that this could be done in Zero Dawn already with Aloy and Sylens, and so I simply borrowed this idea and gave it to my characters. In another happy coincidence, we see this being done much more in Forbidden West as Team Aloy is regularly speaking to each other through their Focusses.

So, at long last, Kotakali completes the Song of her late mother. She learns the abilities of the Machine Druid and Machine Empathy, and dubs her new friend and Broadheads steed, Rides Through Snow. She rides off into the snowy forest as tears shed from her eyes with joy, and CYAN recites to her a comforting poem.