Cuddlefish
Snuggling with the fishes
So many tweaks, I had meant this to be simple like bumble bee, but i kept looking at the renders and thinking “hmmm not quite happy with that, I think I’ll make a small change”.
Some of these tweaks were upping the number of bones in the tentacles from five bones to errr more due to it looking a bit blocky, the tentacles were also originally smooth, but i then decided to add suckers.
The body initially was just a uniform material, but this looked a little bland so i added in some texture painting to control a blend with a second material.
The hair was also originally a single colour and particle system, the colour was ‘jazzed’ up with a colour ramp, and the addition of two more hair emitters, with one of these emitters overlapping with the other two emitters, adding layers to the hair.
The hair was further tweaked in particle editing, to give a controlled direction to the hair so it looked a bit more like the creature(s) were moving through something.
One of the final tweaks was to deform the mouth a bit, to pull up a couple of corners so as to create a hint of a smile so as to make the cuddlefish more friendly.
