Christ of the Abyss

3D Model

Making progress on underwater scenes ( but still more to come :) ) !

Original scan from @ariosgeo, and inspiration from Il Cristo degli Abissi, a submerged statue of Jesus in Italy.

Modeling:

• The scan was remeshed with mmgs from 500k verts to 7k, keeping the face and hands at a higher resolution.
• The ocean surface and ground were created with blender’s ocean modifier.
• Light shafts are simply a randomized array of elongated planes.
• The fish is a lowpoly model ( a 30s model ).
• A particle system was created for fish instances, with force fields applied (boids physics, vortex, attraction force and collision on the statue)

Texturing/lighting:

• Mix of concrete and coral on the statue
• Sand on the ground
• Nothing on the sea surface
• Radial opacity for ground and surface
• Voronoi textures baked as emission on the statue and the ground, to simulate the light deformation through water
• Lots of color processing