3d Fishies

Erik Asorson

I was recently hired to create a bunch of 3d fish for an upcoming application from Arid Ocean:

http://www.aridocean.com

Here are some of them. These are the high LOD versions at 1,200 polys apiece, there were two lower LODs also created at 500 and 250 polys respectively. The textures were done at 512x512 and are a combination of photomanip & digital painting.

notman

NIce.. are these your creation? Or photos? Me likey either way

KDR_11k

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The textures were done at 512x512 and are a combination of photomanip & digital painting.

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Asthane

I'm amazed he got the fish to sit still on the scanner.

notman

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Doh... thanks. I forgot to read the top area

Erik Asorson

Here is a render of one of the meshes...

KDR_11k

Why does the medium LOD have nore horizontal loops in the fins than the closest LOD?

yeluis

this are really cool. ypu have any animations on them?

rooster

kdr: could be for animation purposes, but I get what your saying the shape isnt defined much by it

great work, very vibrant

Erik Asorson

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Why does the medium LOD have nore horizontal loops in the fins than the closest LOD?

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Yes it's for animation purposes. The different LODs will be seen at different distances from the camera. At the lowest LOD the fish will be less than 1" onscreen so any animation on the fins would barely be noticable, making additional segments unnecesary. The top edge of the fins are done with transparency in the texture, not geometry, so even on the low and med LODs the fins would not appear all blocky like they do on the mesh.

Lee3dee

Where's Nemo? Now im in the mood for fish fry

Asthane

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Why does the medium LOD have nore horizontal loops in the fins than the closest LOD?

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Yes it's for animation purposes. The different LODs will be seen at different distances from the camera. At the lowest LOD the fish will be less than 1" onscreen so any animation on the fins would barely be noticable, making additional segments unnecesary. The top edge of the fins are done with transparency in the texture, not geometry, so even on the low and med LODs the fins would not appear all blocky like they do on the mesh.

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I don't get it? It sounds like you're just explaining what LOD's are, not why the highest poly model should lack some of what the medium has.

Hollowmind

He's just saying why does the med res one have the extra loop that I have highlighted below while the high and low res ones don't. You could snap together the highlighted in green vertices without losing anything.



Other than that minor quibble with that LOD great work!

Asthane

(The tail as well, has more vertical loops in the medium than the high and low)

rooster

Ah I misunderstood too, that is a bit weird