Minecraft City Photo Looks Just Like Real Life | Screen Rant
A talented and detail-oriented Minecraft player recently shared a build of a photorealistic modern city. This impressive post is just one of many such popular creations spawning from the best-selling building and survival title, whose regular updates and massive collection of Minecraft graphical mods allow for robust and varied crafting options for ambitious gamers.
There's virtually no limit to what players have been able to put together in Minecraft over the past decade. Everything from fantasy landscapes and replicas of fictional locations from IPs like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings has been realized within the 2011 building game, and players are seemingly always finding new and impressive ways to express their creativity. These innumerable creations come courtesy of Minecraft's sprawling selection of in-game building materials, decorative accents, and Redstone engineering components. By utilizing the game's Creative Mode, players are able to gain unrestricted access to all these tools, unshackling their creativity and letting them create breathtaking pieces of digital art; some players have even replicated classic works of art like Alexandre Cabanel's Fallen Angel in Minecraft, having the game serve as a bridge between contemporary and antiquated art forms.
Instead of recreating famous pieces of art or birthing a magical, dream-like world, Redditor Salamantic has opted to serve up an urban landscape that is nearly indistinguishable from real-world cities-- at least in the screenshot provided in their post. The image shows a slice of what appears to be an established metropolis, with sleek skyscrapers, an elevated highway, street lights, and a tranquil river-walk. Thanks to the build's complexity and the positioning of the screenshot, many commenters on the post are noting that they were immediately fooled into thinking that the image was of a real city.
One of the most interesting aspects of Minecraft creations is the fact that they can be traversed and interacted with; A traditional photograph or painting of a city, town, or natural vista may look stunning and evoke a number of different emotions in those that witness it, but the interface between the witness and the work typically ends there. While that element of restraint is important for many pieces of art, the ability to explore a work of art, or even the suggestion that the piece can be explored, offers an entirely novel and valuable experience.
That is what pieces like Salamantic's do best-- they allow onlookers to wonder what it might be like to stroll through them and inspect their particular properties with scrutiny and appreciation. Creations like this one certainly take a great deal of talent and experience with the game's systems, but Minecraft's user-friendly mechanics make these sorts of builds approachable. Hopefully, more photorealistic cities will come out of Minecraft in the future.
Source: Salamantic/Reddit