So my squid started out as “Design Tag”, something us RIT kids do when we have free time. I had always wanted to do something underwater with squids so in about 2 hours I quickly came up with this:
design tag squid
Building off of the whole underwater theme I had also really wanted to build a diver that could go deep sea mining and I eventually came up with this:
Dive Dive!
It made sense to bring these two things I love together: underwater deep sea mining + squids, so I quickly got together some style frames for overall look and feel.
styleframe
styleFrame
Tentacles!
The next major changes I made involved the global lighting, I ended up using a combination of fog/depth with visible/volumetric lights to simulate the caustics of the ocean. I ended up having to to do some more complex rigging for the tentacle using XPRESSO in cinema 4d. I also applied sub-surface scattering to the tentacles to give it a different look and feel that changed from low-light situations.
The final render is on my portfolio site.
