Candy Dispenser Fishtank
Here's another model to round out the year, this project was very fun & I learned a great deal about animation drivers, vector math, particle systems, graphic art & shaders in general.
This likely would've been finished a month earlier but I had a spate of bad health, so timely reminder for everyone to take care of their health.
Here's to the new year!
This animation is made with the displace modifier targeted at a null object moving to the left of the scene.
Here is the wireframe view.
Obviously it's not optimised for a real-time or game project.
Here are the particle systems for the aquarium gravel & different candy types.
These are the textures.
Due to limited randomised rotation options, all of the particles featured the logo which broke the illusion of a pile of candy. So I added another particle system without the logo.
This is a high-opacity texture view of the water object.
To create the fake plant I started with a single leaf & a spline.
Using Blender 5's array on a curve modifier I placed the leaves onto the spline then copied it to put leaves on the other side.
After this I converted the spline to a mesh & rotated & resized the object.
Here's the wire version of the fish.
As you can tell, the body is a cube & the fins are planes.
To get the colourful & shiny fighting fish textures I tried a couple different approaches before picking the one from the top fin.
This is the node tree is for the fin texture.
Here's the texture for the body, this texture took the longest by far as the scales were extremely challenging.
Here's the node tree for the body texture.
Finally here's the full texture view.
I have no idea how litigious mike & ikes are as a company & don't wish to find out so michael & ichael it is.
For a fake m&m logo I dropped the ampersand entirely & because I think it's funny.