Valley View Mall is a shopping mall built in the 1970s and demolished in 2019, located in Dallas, Texas.

The mall gained popularity again after the popular YouTuber and filmmaker Kane Pixels released "The Oldest View" a series where most of the action takes place in the mall underground. 

The Mall is a 3D replica of Valley View Mall.

I spent a month making my version of the mall. Combined with 6 years of experience in blender, this is the final result (see video below)

In this 10-hour-long tutorial, I will show you how the process of creating a mall and animation looks from start to finish

We will go through all the processes of creating such a large project.
From collecting information, reference images, organization, to modeling, texturing, unwrapping, lighting, animation, post-processing, and more.

At the end of the tutorial, you will be able to create the animation from the video above

With the tutorial, I also share the blender file used to render the animation along with more than 100 assets ready for the asset browser

More about The Oldest View asset pack below

Language: English + subtitles
Duration: cca 10 hours
Video resolution of the tutorial: 2k
All resources and links are included 

Chapters
0 - Tutorial Introduction - 3 min
1 - Introduction to the project - 3 min
2 - Start with Blender - 10 min
3 - Blocking scene, part 1 - 5 min
4 - Blocking scene, creating one store - 4 min
5 - Blocking scene, more stores - 8 min
6 - Finishing blocking - 9 min
7 - Floors - 5 min
8 - Holes in the floor - 7 min
9 - Adding thickness to the floor - 13 min
10 - Fence - 14 min
11 - Finishing the fence - 11 min
12 - Placement of columns - 3 min
13 - Assets - 7 min
14 - Lamp modeling - 16 min
15 - Lamp and promo material modeling - 10 min
16 - Gold material - 7 min
17 - White glass material - 5 min
18 - Emmisive material - 9 min
19 - Plaster material - 7 min
20 - Promo materials - 8 min
21 - Mirror modifier - 2 min
22 - Elevator and escalators - 7 min
23 - Elevator, details - 6 min
24 - Fountain modeling - 8 min
25 - Fountain modeling, part 2 - 9 min
26 - Glass material - 8 min
27 - Soil, material - 5 min
28 - Details - 8 min
29 - Escalators - 22 min
30 - Third floor - 8 min
31 - Third floor, part 2 - 12 min
32 - Chair, modeling and texturing - 15 min
33 - Table and chairs - 22 min
34 - Store 1, modeling - 13 min
35 - Store 1, texturing - 20 min
36 - Store 2, modeling - 6 min
37 - Store 2, texturing - 22 min
38 - First render - 11 min
39 - Tiles - 6 min
40 - Compositing and lighting - 12 min
41 - Plaster material, improvement - 11 min
42 - Project breakdown - 20 min
43 - Animation - 15 min
44 - Rendering - 10 min
45 - Post-processing part 1 - 11 min
46 - Post-processing part 2 - 11 min

The Oldest View Asset Pack 

I will share the blender file I used to render this animation with all the assets ready for the asset browser as well as instructions on how to use files or record your animation for YouTube or other purposes.

In addition to the 16-minute instructions, I will also share with you 2 tutorial titles (out of 46 from the step-by-step tutorial) that are related to the assets to help you understand how to use them.

Packet includes:

1_VALLEY_VIEW_MALL_main_file.blend - Blender file from which my animation was rendered. (mall + all assets together, even my cameras used for animation)
2_STORES_only.blend - 28 stores ready for asset browser
3_ASSETS_rest - 75 assets used in the scene ready for the asset browser
THUMBNAILS for a better preview for asset browser
Video instructions with a total duration of 27 minutes

46 Tutorial Chapters