3D Artist Toquita experimented with a stylized approach, moving away from realism to craft this mesmerizing underwater setup featuring cute, felt-like fish.

Made in Blender, the piece features fluid animation with smooth, gradual movement, alongside a realistic fabric texture where individual fibers remain distinct and lifelike. The WIP footage unveils the creative process and shows how the knitted texture was visualized.

Here's the artist's first work crafted in the felt-style technique, also made using Blender:

Earlier, Toquita leaned toward a realistic representation. For example, this Lego character was created mostly in Blender, with some additional work done in Maya. Texturing was done in Substance 3D Painter, rigging in Maya, and rendering in Maya with Arnold GPU:

The guitar model was made using Maya and Substance 3D Painter:

This amazing photorealistic house was visualized using Blender:

If you like the charming felt-style graphics and want to recreate this style, check out Felt Maker, a tool by Adrien Latran for creating procedural felt and fabric fuzz in Blender with Geometry Nodes, and Woolly, a procedural knitting shader from DoubleGum:

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