Project Blackjack - Drifting & Video Made Art

As gamers already know, driving games make up one of the main genres in console and arcade gaming alike. Driving game enthusiasts often fall in one of two categories; the arcade/family fun type racer such as the Need For Speed & Midnight Club series, and the simulation type racer such as the Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport & Project Gotham Racing series.

Traditionally, the simulation racer community has always been in search of lower lap times and the perfect racing line, but now, there is a new emerging crowd that is slowly and surely spreading its influence across the driving game community - the drifters. The introduction of more realistic physics engines coupled with the ability to essentially fully tune the in-game cars down to exact suspension rebound settings & camber alignments, enabled gamers to successfully initiate very long & smooth drifts in-game.

A drift team in particular, Project Blackjack, caught my attention with one of their Forza Motorsport 2 drift videos which they titled The Rising Storm. Besides the drifting abilities of the drivers, an aspect of the video that intrigued me was that the entire video was shot in Forza 2, with in-game cars placed at strategic locations around the tracks as camera cars. One can only imagine the amount of time used and dedication of the team to be able to create a video such as this.

Catch the video from Youtube embedded below and have your say in the comments section.

More of their Youtube videos here: ProjectBLJK