Here is a preview of Blinky the goldfish which was used within my character animation project in 2003. The story lies upon a goldfish (Blinky) having been taken from his home abroad and literally 'plonked' into a tiny goldfish bowl for further show and tell within a school room. The narrator is a group/tour guide leader in this story who is very enthusiastic but at the same time rather brutal and heavy handed when dealing with the fish. He seems cruel through his actions but doesn’t realise it as the fish is becoming more and more frustrated. For Blinky's body - I modelled him via spline modelling and then attached bones with IK properties. To texture him I simply created the formation of the colours in Adobe Photoshop and then applied a fish-scale map over the top to give texture. Once imported into 3DS Max I added a bump map of the same fish-scale map to give a more realistic effect.

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