my innovation journey starts inland, south of morocco s major cities and mighty atlas mountains, just north of the sahara desert, near the quiet outpost of ouarzazate. this part of saharan morocco is known as the door of the desert. the landscape out here, it s almost like it s from another world. feels like we could be on mars. these plains receive three times the sun as parts of northern europe. ..and are home to a world leading project of staggering scale. this is noor, a solar power station, putting morocco at the forefront of pioneering renewable technology. i m used to feeling small, but this makes me feel even smaller. hello, abed, salam. hello, my friend, salam. nice to meet you. nice to meet you, too. this is incredible! and lots of sun. lots of sun, yeah. which is what we want for something like this. yeah. this is not an ordinary solarfield. panels with over 7,000 mirrors follow the sun. and i can hear lots of sounds at the moment. it s quite eerie. is that the pan
you ve even got my watch on there. models like this are crafted using the game design platform unreal engine. can t believe how realistic that looks. this calls on different specialists across modelling, texturing, lighting and character design. so everything on here is an individual texture. how do you then go about which i imagine is the difficult thing how do you go about making it move? we make like the rigging. it s like creating virtual bones. i ve actually got a virtual skeleton inside me. can you actually make me look better than i do now? yeah, i promise that. well, don t promise too hard! but, yeah, 0k! yeah, that ll be easy! i can make you look better! all right. hamza s professional game assets are astonishingly intricate a sign of morocco s ambition to become the video game hub of africa. 0h, there s trains. i love trains. yeah. and you can really see, when it s like this, the individual elements and all of the little textures that go into making something like this.