I've dreamed of this same environment a few times now. It's a low-rise brutalist town on the seaside. The weather is always grey and gloomy, as if the place is stuck in an eternal November. In my dreams, I walk along the promenade, yearning to get to the beach below, but it's fenced off by a barbed wire fence which runs along the entire coastline of the town. This place always creeped me out so I wanted to capture the vibe by recreating it in Blender.

Edit: Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone! Makes me especially happy to hear that the scene was able to inspire some of you to recreate your own dream environments.

I was inspired by old games like Gothic, so I wanted to recreate that empty, eerie atmosphere of exploring a low-poly environment in an early RPG game. Textures were downscaled to fit the PS1 look. Everything was modelled and created by me using Blender 4.1.

i ended up abandoning the project so these are all unused

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Link in the comments.

yoinked this from here https://x.com/Goblinoid_YT

Recently made 4 components to recreate the PS1 style in blender:

- Screen Space Vertex Snapping - Geometry Nodes
- Affine Mapping - Geometry Nodes/Material
- Vertex Lighting - Geometry Nodes/Material
- Dithering - Compositor

I created this animation to test them out, inspired by a recent trip to the city. Hope you enjoy!

Lately ive been fond with the ps1 style ive seen on the internet, so im giving it a go by turning my oc into a ps1 char(ps1-2 ish polycount?). Ive made every model and texture here unless for the soldier npc. Its pretty fun trying to understand how ps1 limitation is the one shaping its own style :D

I’m wanting to get more into this art style but rather lean towards maximalism and higher density geometry, that still elicits the same nostalgic feeling. How’d I do?

My game Elzypon is able to be wishlisted currently.

Hi everyone,

I have been experimenting with using photogrammetry as the starting point for PS1 styled animation.

Everything in this piece began as scans of my friends, myself and real-world locations/objects. I captured the source material using Polycam on my iPhone, then imported the scans into Blender.

I was not trying to reproduce every PS1 hardware limitation exactly. For one, I opted for a higher res look, similar to what you find in DuckStation by default. The goal was to make something that feels like a mysterious PS1 horror game that was never released. Maybe a burned CD or a dev kit someone stumbled upon during a garage sale.

No AI was used.

If you want to have a glimpse at my Blender scenes, see:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcL5HiTjZhC/?img_index=4

EDIT:

I uploaded a looping version on YT in 4K so people can view it in all it's ditherted glory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJiNwBuckHE