Establishing Workflow for the Environment

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I've been doing some research and looking into how I'm going to create the environment. I needed to establish a workflow for stylized projects so I've been working on creating the first model:



First meshes tend to take a while to make because I'm trying to get to grips with establishing the art style, the modeling, texturing and rendering techniques and the workflow process. Hopefully, now I can speed up a bit in creating some of the assets.

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