The Travelling Fish (Borderlands style)

AllyAlbon · Nov 2016

I wanted to create a game prop inspired by Cory Loftis' concept art of a floating fish tank, but I wanted it to be highly stylised and graphical - what better inspiration than Borderlands! Here is Mr Shiny the Travelling Fish. He is not a friendly chap.

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Nuclear Angel · Nov 2016

He that is awesome! =D Beautiful translation of the concept you went from. Are you thinking of giving this a scene or just the prop?

pixelpatron · Dec 2016

Came out great! Love it! Mind posting some textures?

Gannon · Dec 2016

nice!

Texelion · Dec 2016

Now let's say he is a really intelligent fish and can control the tank with his mind to go where he wants, and there is a voice synthesizer so he can talk.

Also he has La Tourette.

Better ( or worse ) than a Cl4p-tr4p companion.

NoRank · Dec 2016

Totally nailed the borderlands style. How did you do the black lines around the models?

For what I see, I'd guess you did a second mesh with a bigger scale, inverted the normals and gave it a black diffuse color. Is that right?

Anyways, awesome job!

erroldynamic · Dec 2016

Really cool!

Handwiches · Dec 2016

Damn, took it to the next level. This is a really awesome example of building off from a concept.

JamesMeader · Dec 2016

awesome job, well done.

Michael_Ingrassia · Dec 2016

Ooooh...AWESOME!

gsokol · Dec 2016

Hot damn thats cool.

You added so much personality to that fish beyond the concept, I really dig that.

How did you get that edge outline effect around the model? You can't do any sort of shader magic for that in Sketchfab right? It almost looks like you modeled in one sided black strips to achieve that?

harry1511 · Dec 2016

gsokol said:

Hot damn thats cool.

You added so much personality to that fish beyond the concept, I really dig that.

How did you get that edge outline effect around the model? You can't do any sort of shader magic for that in Sketchfab right? It almost looks like you modeled in one sided black strips to achieve that?

The edge outline effect can be achieved by duplicating the mesh, invert its normal, push it out a little( the further you push the thicker the line is going to get), and apply an unlit diffusion material to it. Or at least that is the trick with Toolbag.

GeoCat · Dec 2016

This turned out really great! Wish there were more game's done in styles like these....

EricElwell · Dec 2016

Cool! Really nice handling of the style. The "eyes" on the tank read well from the front, but get a bit lost on the side and profile view. Though, that's kind of a minor accent anyway. Thanks for sharing!

no1dead · Dec 2016

Very well done, it near perfectly replicates the style of borderlands. Only gripe is that it doesn't carry some of the humor in it.

Everything else was very well done.

Faivu · Dec 2016

Wow! Such a great work on the texture to make it feel like Borderlands. Really nice ^^

Faivu · Dec 2016

Wow! Such a great work on the texture to make it feel like Borderlands. Really nice ^^

Zi0 · Dec 2016

Fantastic piece!

Bumblebee · Dec 2016

wooow

AllyAlbon · Dec 2016

harry1511 said:

gsokol said:

Hot damn thats cool.

You added so much personality to that fish beyond the concept, I really dig that.

How did you get that edge outline effect around the model? You can't do any sort of shader magic for that in Sketchfab right? It almost looks like you modeled in one sided black strips to achieve that?

The edge outline effect can be achieved by duplicating the mesh, invert its normal, push it out a little( the further you push the thicker the line is going to get), and apply an unlit diffusion material to it. Or at least that is the trick with Toolbag.

Thanks everyone, some great feedback - glad that I have managed to capture the Borderlands feel with this prop!

For those that have been asking about the outline effect - @harry1511 hit it on the head. The mesh is duplicated and made slightly larger than the original, dependent on how thick an outline is required. Then normals are reversed so as to point inwards, and then an unlit, black material/texture is applied. Useful technique but of course you will be doubling your polycount to achieve it!