A simple fish

[Roger]

I needed a simple project to get back on track, so I thought I'd have a go at a fish. It is still really rough. This is very much going to be a stylized fish as opposed to a photo-real fish.

[Gerry]

Hey Roger, do you have a sketch or something to indicate what you're going for?

[pixelplucker]

I made this gold fish a long time ago, might be a good starting point or you can just fiddle with it and have some fun.

goldfish.zip

[Roger]

I was actually going to do some sort of goldfish, but I may give this another try using a rotoscope.

[Gerry]

Trying to make something like this up in the modeling window is doing it the hard way! Definitely a roto, or at least a sketch.

[pixelplucker]

I agree, any model you should have some rough sketches at the minimum to work from or you run into snags where proportions and general look of what you want gets lost.

 

Snag some basic pictures of real fish and once done you can modify the model.

[Malo]

If it helps, I had this little flash animation for a fish (modeled in Sculptris to create the rotoscope) modeled in AM ... we see the steps by steps :

flash animation

[thefreshestever]

If it helps, I had this little flash animation for a fish (modeled in Sculptris to create the rotoscope) modeled in AM ... we see the steps by steps :

flash animation

 

top notch!

[pixelplucker]

Some pencil sketches of side and front scanned in would work too.