Horizon GAIA Cast – Episode 4: Exploring the Tribes
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Anne and Chanté are joined by senior writer Annie Kitain and principal character artist Arno Schmitz, as they examine the cultures, fashion, and beliefs found in the different tribes across the world of Horizon.
Highlights include their discussion into how the team approach creating the tribes; how the team use fashion to make it easy for players to differentiate between tribes; why the Carja seem the most advanced out of all the tribes we meet in Horizon Zero Dawn; and how the team designed the Tenakth and Utaru characters we see to look so different from all the other tribes.
Annie Kitain is a senior writer on Horizon Forbidden West. Arno Schmitz is principal character artist on Horizon Forbidden West, and was senior character artist on Horizon Zero Dawn.
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ESRB Rating: Teen with Blood, Drug Reference, Language, Mild Sexual Themes and Violence.
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| 0:00.0 | rated T for team. Hello and welcome to Gaya Cast, a spoiler-filled deep dive podcast into the |
| 0:17.0 | world of Horizon from the team here at Gorilla. We're looking forward to |
| 0:20.4 | diving into the law, hearing some behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and maybe even learning some new things. |
| 0:26.0 | Our first series of episodes will be focusing on Horizon Zero Dawn, the first installment of the Horizon series, |
| 0:31.2 | which we launched in 2017. I'm |
| 0:33.7 | Chante and I'm joined by my co-host Anna. Hey Anna. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi, it's great to be back. |
| 0:38.8 | Brilliant. And also we have our two guests today. |
| 0:41.3 | Please introduce yourselves. Yeah, so I'm Annie introduce yourselves yeah so I'm |
| 0:43.9 | Annie Kattain I'm a senior writer here at Gorilla and I'm part of the narrative team |
| 0:47.3 | hi my name is Anna Smith's and I'm a principal character artist and back then I was a senior character artist on Horizon Zero Dawn. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | This episode we're diving into The Tribes, the different groups of civilizations around the Horizon franchise. |
| 1:04.9 | We come across many of them throughout Horizon Zero Dawn, including members of some we haven't |
| 1:08.9 | had a chance to fully engage with just yet. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm really looking forward to this episode. How about the rest of you? |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. Yeah. Let's get started. |
| 1:17.7 | So in Horizon Zero Down we meet various tribes. |
| 1:24.0 | How does the team approach like designing these? |
| 1:27.0 | So, from a visual perspective, we started out with this very huge like flow chart based on what we got from narrative |
| 1:37.6 | So we kind of divvy up the tribes in a few different categories for example how |
| 1:46.0 | Technologically sophisticated they are, how cultural they are, how rich they are in terms of natural resources, what landscape they live in, all these type of things and all those narrative |
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