A fan of the online role-playing game Genshin Impact (PC, PS4, Mobile) has rebuilt the harbor city of Liyue Harbour as a model, investing about 1,000 hours into this project.
What kind of project is this? A Chinese player of the co-op RPG Genshin Impact set out to recreate the harbor city of Liyue Harbour. And in great detail. In a video, he shows you how he went about it.
The video, however, is in Chinese, but you can see well what he had to do and how the result looks. You can watch the video on the platform bilibili.
1,000 hours for a Genshin Impact model
How much work is involved in the project? The player invested around 1,000 hours in the preparation and planning of the project, the design, 3D printing, and finally painting and setting up the models.
As you can see in the video, the city has been recreated down to the last detail. You can even see crates and barrels on the streets and the shingles on the roofs of the houses.
At first glance, it could simply be a video from the game. However, upon closer inspection, you can tell that it is a model.
What kind of city is it? Liyue Harbour is the capital of the Liyue nation. It was founded after the Archon War, when Rex Lapis led his people to the south of Mount Tianheng and established the harbor city there.
What does the model remind us of? The Japanese development studio Mistwalker is currently working on a new JRPG called Fantasian, which is scheduled to be released exclusively for Apple Arcade at least in 2021.
The special feature of the game is that all environments are created as models and then photographed. The characters move in modeled landscapes. This creates a unique and special atmosphere.
The model of Genshin Impact’s harbor city Liyue Harbour fits in very well here.
What do you think of the model? Would you also recreate something like this?
Want to know more about the heroes in Genshin Impact? Then check out the MeinMMO article Tier List for Genshin Impact – The best characters.
