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Anglerfish
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  1. 01

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    Initial blocking and sculpt

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    Retopology

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    Scales stencil texture

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    Quick rig

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    Sculpting scales and more detail

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    Small fish

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Andy Goralczyk
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Scales stencil texture

To create the saggy scales of the anglerfish we need a tileable stencil height-map. Since displacement is currently very inaccessible in 2.8, I faked the height profile using a gradient mapped to the Z-axis. With an array of scales I quickly render a texture that can be used for sculpting more detail.

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