03 Meadowside City 3D Environment Personal Project

Meadowside
City.

A cozy low-poly city surrounded by mountains and sea. Every building, road and tree modelled by hand in Blender. A personal world built from geometry and light.

Year

2023

Role

3D Modelling · Game Asset

Tools

Blender 3D

Industry

3D Art · Game Asset

01 / Concept

The idea behind the city.

Meadowside City started as a personal challenge: design a complete low-poly environment that felt lived-in and believable, without relying on complexity. Every element had to read clearly from an isometric camera: rooftops, roads, parks, docks.

The low-poly aesthetic was a constraint that became the vision. Fewer polygons forced intentional decisions about what to include and what to leave out. The same thinking that drives good design.

The city sits at a natural crossroads: mountains to one side, ocean to the other. This geography shaped the layout: a commercial core, a waterfront strip, residential blocks stepping up the hillside, and green corridors threading through it all.

"A city where geometry does the storytelling. Every flat face a deliberate choice."

Step 01

Reference & Sketch

Gathered city layout references, isometric game art, and urban planning diagrams to map the city structure before touching Blender.

Step 02

Blockout

Rough geometry blocks placed to establish scale, roads, zones and the relationship between the city, mountains and sea.

Step 03

Modelling

100+ individual assets modelled: buildings, roads, trees, vehicles, docks, terrain and water. Each optimised for low-poly silhouette.

Step 04

Lighting & Render

HDRI and sun lighting tuned to bring warmth and depth. Multiple camera angles rendered for a complete presentation.

02 / Overview

The world, wide angle.

03 / Environment

Blocking, Layout, Wireframe.

04 / Architecture

Buildings, up close.

Each building was designed as a self-contained object with a distinct silhouette, readable at a distance. Commercial blocks sit taller at the city core while residential structures step back, respecting the overall skyline.

Rooftop details, window patterns and facade variation were added to break uniformity without adding polygon complexity. The city has 40+ unique structures, none repeated without variation.