Here is something Hideo Kojima would find cool. Death Stranding could definitely use this Dead Fish Pile substance created by an Environment Artist Eric Wiley.

Eric created this material as a silly exercise in building shapes. The artist tried a more complex shape in Substance Designer and decided to go with some dead fish.

More substance practice, This was a silly exercise in building shapes. I wanted to try a more complex shape in designer so I tried to do a fish. 100% substance, no resources of any kind. I don’t know why I made this. haha.
Eric Wiley

Breakdown

Fish Graph with the 4 outputs the artist used in the end. Height, Value, Fin Mask, and Fish Mask

Gif of the Main Blends

Gif of Tail Fin
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Instead of creating all the shapes inside Designer wouldn’t it be easier to import an SVG into Designer as a base shape and work from it?
Yeah, it’s no brick wall. Really high-level stuff. The graph alone looks like a chip from a nuclear submarine.
Well, that makes me feel pretty shitty about the brickwalls I can just about produce in Designer! I need to get back to playing around with this incredible piece of software…
Thanks for sharing and detailed production breakdown
i thought there wouldnt be anything better than akeytsu for creating easy animations. im happy if i am proven wrong.
Keith, I just wanted to stop by and say: Thank you.