The Old Pier

Some barnacles sitting on a post

Some barnacles sitting on a post

The whole scene in one shot

The whole scene in one shot

The barnacle itself!

The barnacle itself!

So for this project I wanted to really model a barnacle to lean into higher poly modeling. I also wanted to try learning Quixel Mixer and see how that compares to Substance Painter. It took me a while to get the scene where I wanted, having to learn how blender handles water and cloud animations, but I got it to a good point.

I wanted to add a few more things and really blend the textures alot better, but my PC kept running out of memory, even though I optimized and removed things out of the scene. So for now, this is what my PC can handle, so hopefully in the future I can revisit this and add alot more detail.