--- title: Famous Manga Artist Built Full Rural Town In UE5 For His... description: Manga artist Inio Asano (Goodnight Punpun, Solanin) spent a month building a detailed rural town in Unreal Engine 5 as reference material for an upcoming... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/famous-manga-artist-built-full-rural-town-in-ue5-for-his-next-story-ukzrzbwzl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Famous Manga Artist Built Full Rural Town In UE5 For His Next Story | daily.dev og:description: Manga artist Inio Asano (Goodnight Punpun, Solanin) spent a month building a detailed rural town in Unreal Engine 5 as reference material for an upcoming... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/famous-manga-artist-built-full-rural-town-in-ue5-for-his-next-story-ukzrzbwzl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UkzRZBWzL.png og:image:alt: Famous Manga Artist Built Full Rural Town In UE5 For His Next Story 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. # Famous Manga Artist Built Full Rural Town In UE5 For His Next Story **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Manga artist Inio Asano (Goodnight Punpun, Solanin) spent a month building a detailed rural town in Unreal Engine 5 as reference material for an upcoming one-shot manga. He uses Blender for modeling and UE5 for everything else, purchasing assets where available and creating custom ones as needed. Notably, he hasn't written a single page of the manuscript yet. The piece also highlights other UE5 environment projects, including a recreation of Kinosaki Onsen using 3D Gaussian Splatting. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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