Slum House
- THE SLUM
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Tools Used
- Maya
- Zbrush
- Substance Painter
- Marmoset Toolbag
Sacred Sanctuary is a personal exploration into stylized environment design, atmospheric lighting, and modular architectural composition. Set within a tranquil, overgrown sacred space, the environment evokes themes of lost divinity, quiet reflection, and nature reclaiming forgotten structures. The goal was to create a calming and immersive mood-driven space, where architecture and organic elements coexist in subtle harmony.
Slum
House
Built entirely as a real-time scene, this project challenged me to find a balance between stylization and realism, paying special attention to texture variation, soft lighting, and material readability across the environment.
Katerina Valma
Responsibilities & Workflow
- Full environment creation: modeling, UV mapping, retopology, texturing, lighting, and final scene layout
- Focused on modular asset workflow and layered vegetation blending to build a believable and optimized space
- Emphasis on mood and composition to guide the viewer through focal points and ambient storytelling
- Sacred Sanctuary represents my ongoing pursuit of visual storytelling through stylized world-building and light-driven narrative. It was also a valuable opportunity to refine my real-time rendering pipeline.