Project 2: Final Statement

As of the past year, I’ve found myself enamored with drawing fish. I’ve made zines and illustrations of all kinds of fish, including local freshwater fish, tinned sardines, redfish, jellyfish, and more. For this project, one of my fish drawings served as inspiration, which then led to me deciding to create a series of underwater sea creatures in Blender to make into a TikTok filter. I wanted to have simplified forms of these animals to make the modeling easier since this project was my first time using Blender.

Overall, I created three unique filters of a jellyfish, a school of fish, and an octopus. The first filter I made was the jellyfish filter, which mainly involved uv-spheres. The movement on this filter is very fluid because of how each bone was parented, allowing the central bone to control the ‘flowy’ movement of the jellyfish. My second filter was the school of fish, modeled after a collection of fish drawings I had made. I originally wanted to model all ten fish, but because of time constraints I only modeled one. I used a Bezier curve for the fish to follow a circular path, but it slightly distorted the shape of the fish. For my final filter, I made an octopus. It followed similar modeling to that of the jellyfish and school of fish, but I texture painted for this model. It was my first time texture painting, and texture painting really helped give it the cartoony look and pull it out of realism.