Got help from Kristof Lovas for an issue with the fish mouth clipping through water, technical thread here: http://polycount.com/discussion/194623/solved-inside-the-fishs-mouth-custom-depth#latest Since it was so stylized, ended up just using a simple alpha texture for the ripples. More images on…
I challenged myself to try to design the fishing rod and fish to match the style of the concept art. Choosing the colors was probably my biggest challenge. Nothing seemed to work for the rod, so after looking at reference realized the problem was I needed more detail in the shapes to avoid the toddler toy look:
Modeled out the roof planks more. Struggled a lot to hide the fishing rod from the front view, I don't think it works compositionally, and I really don't want to compromise the silhouette from the angle depicted in the concept art.