• Explore
      Highlights
    • Popular
    • Staff picks
    • Downloadable
    • Collections
    • Blog
    • Forum
    • Challenges
    • Community members
    • Sketchfab Masters
    Browse by category
    • Animals & Pets
    • Architecture
    • Art & Abstract
    • Cars & Vehicles
    • Characters & Creatures
    • Cultural Heritage & History
    • Electronics & Gadgets
    • Fashion & Style
    • Food & Drink
    • Furniture & Home
    • Music
    • Nature & Plants
    • News & Politics
    • People
    • Places & Travel
    • Science & Technology
    • Sports & Fitness
    • Weapons & Military
  • Buy 3D models
      Highlights
    • Best selling
    • Animated
    • PBR
    • Low poly
    • High poly
    • 3D Printable
    • 3D Scan
    Browse by category
    • Animals & Pets
    • Architecture
    • Art & Abstract
    • Cars & Vehicles
    • Characters & Creatures
    • Cultural Heritage & History
    • Electronics & Gadgets
    • Fashion & Style
    • Food & Drink
    • Furniture & Home
    • Music
    • Nature & Plants
    • News & Politics
    • People
    • Places & Travel
    • Science & Technology
    • Sports & Fitness
    • Weapons & Military
  • For business
    Sketchfab for Teams
    Augmented Reality
    3D Viewer
    3D eCommerce
    3D Configurators
    Become a Partner
    Find a Partner
    Pricing
    Customer Stories
/
Cancel
loginSign UpUpload

Mosquito in amber
3D ModelNoAI

Avatar of norgeotloic
Loïc Norgeot
team
9k
9047 Downloads
53.9k
53888 Views
1.6kLike
Report
Triangles: 14.3k
Vertices: 10.1k
More model information
NoAI: This model may not be used in datasets for, in the development of, or as inputs to generative AI programs.Learn more

Messing around with refractive materials!

The Mosquito scan (415k tris) is from Geoffrey Marchal.

Modeling:

  • The scan was first remeshed with mmgs and baked to a lighter version (11k tris).
  • The amber fragment was roughly sculpted in blender (“I have no clue what I’m doing” style), keeping the main face flat (clay strips + flatten brushes).
  • The small fragments inside the amber were done by splitting all the main fragment edges and applying the “shrink/fatten” tool, followed by a random Displace modifier. Exterior fragments were then removed with a boolean modifier.

Material:

The important parts are the roughness and normal maps, which are a mix of PBR textures (rougher edges, smoother main face), while the refractivity is just a product of tweaking Sketchfab settings: opacity set to refractive and using the object’s roughness.

License:

CC AttributionCreative Commons Attribution

Learn more
Published 6 years ago
Apr 8th 2018
  • Animals & pets 3D Models
  • Science & technology 3D Models
  • baking
  • 3d-scan
  • park
  • mosquito
  • realistic
  • dna
  • fossil
  • paleontology
  • jurassic
  • amber
  • refraction
  • refractive
  • photoscan
  • texturing
  • photogrammetry
  • glass
  • blender
  • pbr
  • lowpoly
  • material
  • dinosaur
  • shader
  • noai

76 comments

You must log in to comment.
enterprise
  • Enterprise Solutions
  • 3D Configurators
  • 3D eCommerce
  • 3D Viewer
  • 3D Advertising
  • Sketchfab for Teams
  • Customer Stories
  • Pricing
  • Become a partner
ecosystem
  • Exporters
  • Importers
  • Developers & API
  • Augmented Reality
  • Virtual Reality
store
  • Buy 3D models
  • Best Selling
  • Categories
  • Become a Seller
  • Free 3D Models
community
  • Explore
  • Help Center
  • Education
  • Museums
  • Blog
  • Forum
  • Challenges
  • Sketchfab Masters
about
  • Company
  • Careers
  • Press Kit
  • Features
  • Contact us
© 2023, Sketchfab, Inc. All rights reserved.
Terms of useRefund policyPrivacy policySitemap