Dreams artist recreates jaw-dropping Unreal Engine 5 train station demo

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(Image credit: Martin Nebelong / Media Molecule)

Mere days after a frankly unbelievable Unreal Engine 5 demo of a Japanese train station went viral, another artist has recreated the scene in෴ Dreams. 

Martin Nebelong of Dreams developer Media Molecule shared a short, work-in-progress look at the recreation earlier today. The clip is only 11 second♛s, but it shows a lot of the environment, and the inspiration is clear.

. "Really inspiring attention to light and detail🅘." 

"Seeing something like that obviously makes me want to make a sไcene inspired from♋ that in Dreams," he added in the description of a mirror for the video.

Environment and prop artist Lorenzo Drago told us that his original Unreal Engine 5 scene took roughly a month of work to create. Nebelong says his Dreams version has thus far taken "♚3 - 4 hours of work," excluding the rocks between the station's missing train tracks. 

Even in its unfinished state, this recreation is positively stu♔nning, from the speed with which it was made to the level of detail realized in Dreams. It's a testament to both Nebelong and Drago's technique, as well as the power of the tools they're working with. 

I shared the video with Drago to get his thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚoughts on it. "I've just seen it, it's r🔜eally cool," he told me. "Can't believe I have fanart now."

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