WARD LETEN

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My second year on Syntra was pritty much the same as my first year. But since there is much to learn in the world of visual effects, i decided to do another year to increase my skills, make the taks more challenging and my portfolio a little better. Ofcource, at the end of the year we had to make another short movie, again based on a game. And i chose for the beautiful game Horizon Zero Dawn.

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From the start i knew this project would become much harder than my first one. The game wasn't released yet and the world only had seen 1 teaser trailer. So that was the only piece of concept i had to base my video on. It gave me many options for which direction i wanted to take for the movie, but on the other hand it was hard and risky because every possible option could be unloyal to the main story of the game.

It became one of the reasons why this movie is still unfinished, because i kept on writing and doubting about the story, trying my best to mimic the real game as much as possible. 

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Even the movie was (and still is) unfinished, i learned a lot from this project. Looking back to this, i can say that i definitely took to much on my plate. I had made very nice robot with little to no references and had (again) an incredible costume (made my Lucia Fransen and Linda Van Beethoven). Sadly i took way to long and big on the story and ended up with 5 times as many vfx shots as last year. With the little time we had to make our movie, i never had the result i wished for and is the movie still a work in progress. A fun project to keep in mind to work on in my free time.

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