--- title: Building a Creepy 3D Fantasy Environment Inspired by... description: Environment artist Helena Hansen walks through creating Blighted Harbour, a Greek mythology-inspired fantasy harbor scene and her first Blender project. She... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-creepy-3d-fantasy-environment-inspired-by-greek-mythology-jufzoc2gq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Creepy 3D Fantasy Environment Inspired by Greek Mythology | daily.dev og:description: Environment artist Helena Hansen walks through creating Blighted Harbour, a Greek mythology-inspired fantasy harbor scene and her first Blender project. She... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-creepy-3d-fantasy-environment-inspired-by-greek-mythology-jufzoc2gq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JUFZoc2GQ.png og:image:alt: Building a Creepy 3D Fantasy Environment Inspired by Greek Mythology og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Creepy 3D Fantasy Environment Inspired by Greek Mythology **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Environment artist Helena Hansen walks through creating Blighted Harbour, a Greek mythology-inspired fantasy harbor scene and her first Blender project. She covers moodboarding without a fixed concept, blocking out in Unreal Engine, modeling and sculpting a centerpiece boat and character using Blender and ZBrush, texturing in Substance 3D Painter, using SpeedTree for foliage for the first time, Houdini for cloth and rope simulation, and rigging/animating the character in Unreal Engine. She also details her lighting approach using skylight and directional lights, black-and-white value checks, and composition split into foreground, middle ground, and background. The project took about two months, with challenges mainly from learning new software simultaneously. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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