Mystery Shack Diorama Tutorial

This eight-part video tutorial series demonstrates the creation of a stylized 3D diorama from scratch, focusing heavily on projection mapping techniques. The workflow blends 2D illustration and 3D modeling skills, showing how to hand-paint textures and project them onto 3D geometry to achieve a 2.5D illustrative style with limited camera movement.

The course covers the entire production pipeline, including initial composition sketching, virtual reality modeling blockouts, camera adjustments, animation, texturing, rendering passes, and final compositing. While Blender acts as the central hub for layout, object animation, projection texturing, and rendering, the full demonstrated workflow also incorporates Gravity Sketch, Substance Painter, Photoshop, and After Effects. The instruction combines step-by-step demonstrations with narrated time-lapse recordings, built primarily for intermediate users.