Blender 5 and Unreal Engine 5.7 form the complete 2026 stylized environment pipeline. This workshop teaches you to build an efficient modular kit using the 20-Material Rule mindset and export via GLB for perfect handoff into Unreal’s modern toolset. If you can model props but your “street scene” collapses into misaligned walls, broken scale, messy UVs, and lighting that never quite lands, this course is built to fix the uncomfortable middle bit: turning individual assets into a cohesive, production-friendly environment.
In this workshop you will create a stylized haunted street modular kit in Blender 5, export it cleanly, then assemble and finish the full environment in Unreal Engine 5.7 with terrain, water, procedural dressing, moody lighting, atmospheric fog, and a final establishing shot. The problems we solve (the stuff that usually ruins a modular set)
You will learn practical fixes for the most common failure points:
- Parts that “nearly match” until you rotate them, duplicate them, or try to extend a building.
- Walls that look fine in Blender but break the moment they hit an engine grid.
- UVs that drift, texel density that changes, and materials that make one house look sharper than the next.
- Light leaks, odd shading, and normals that make stylized assets look accidentally broken instead of intentionally wonky.
- A street that reads as “random kitbash” because composition, value contrast, and mood were never planned.
What you will build
By the end you will have:
- A reusable modular building kit (walls, corners, trims, doors, windows, roofs, supports, story props) that fits together reliably.
- A complete Unreal Engine scene: landscape shaped with Landmass, a river using the Water system, PCG-assisted street dressing, vertex-painted variation, foliage and trees, and a cinematic lighting pass with Lumen, volumetrics, and ground fog.
- A short Money Shot camera move that presents the street as a portfolio-ready establishing shot.
How the course is taught (Neil + Luke split)
This course is a true 50/50 pipeline.
- Neil teaches the Blender phase: modelling habits that scale, modular logic, UV discipline, texture consistency, and export prep.
- Luke teaches the Unreal phase: importing and validating the kit, building the street, shaping the terrain and river, dressing the scene, and finishing the mood and cinematic.
Lessons are intentionally focused. Each session solves one problem, then you apply it immediately to the haunted street. You will move forward with simple milestones instead of “I will polish that later” chaos.
