Yunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old.

*Wiwaxia* had a tiny body covered in overlapping defensive **sclerites**. The hidden, lower surface consisted of a muscular foot and mouthparts for scraping food, like algae, off the sea floor. Wiwixia would have crawled slowly over the sea floor in search of food, as many similar molluscs do today.

First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Wiwaxia papilio

Quirky Series - FREE Animals Pack

Best viewed in fullscreen :)

"Walk beneath the largest animal on Earth and explore dozens of other exhibits representing 4.5 billion years of natural history.

Hintze Hall is the gateway to our collections and galleries.

Inside it, you can wander among meteorites, mammals, fish, birds, minerals, plants and insects, and hear stories about the people whose work and ideas have shaped the Museum." ~ http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/galleries-and-museum-map/hintze-hall.html

View the sames scene as a point cloud:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/hintze-hall-nhm-london-point-cloud-be909aa8afa545118be6d36397529e2f

900 photos, RealityCapture, unofficial scan :)

![](https://i.imgur.com/0NH2iK8.png)
![](https://i.imgur.com/JzUBotw.png)
![](https://i.imgur.com/OsJJ0B6.png)

Hintze Hall, NHM London [surface model]

Yunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old.

<i>Vetulicola</i> had a large **body** with triangular **pouches** on either side and a segmented **tail** for swimming. The pouches may be gill slits opening into an internal body chamber, as found in modern tunicates, such as sea squirts and salps. It is thought that <i>Vetulicola</i> fed by drawing water in through the wide frontal opening to internally filter microscopic food particles suspended in water, with waste water expelled through the side pouches.

Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Vetulicola cuneata

Namibia, Southwest Africa, ~543 million years old.

Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Namacalathus hermanastes

Yunnan Province, China, ~518 million years old.

*Cotyledion* lived on the sea floor, using **tentacles** to feed on particles suspended in the water. Some individuals have been found attached to small fragment of trilobites. The overall body shape, presence of tentacles surrounding the mouth and U-shaped gut, are characters that unite *Cotyledion* with entoprocts – a modern group of animals that measure less than a centimetre across.

Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Cotyledion tylodes

A collection of reprocessed scanned animal skulls ([other free assets here](https://skfb.ly/6yQSW)), initally designed to be used as as game props, particles or for optimized renderings. 

**BUT**:  the method I used for remeshing and texture baking was not adapted in this case, and many normal inversions for instance have happened. Moreover, as these assets were batch-processed, I neglected some parts of the material, hence some black zones on the scans... 

You can of course still use them for your projects, but know that the quality on those baked models is not that good! Plus 1024px is too few for those complex objects...

Each model is made of 2500 triangles, and 1024 pixels albedo and normal maps.

The original scans were first remeshed with [mmgs](http://mmgtools.org), and decimated, UV unwrapped and baked in blender. Normal maps are ready to use for Unreal Engine, don't forget to flip their green channel in Unity!

All the original scans come from the great collection of UVic Libraries - @uviclib .

Lowpoly Animal Skulls - 1

Lion Crushing a Serpent (1832)
by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796 - 1875)

Although his contemporaries criticized his style and his choice of animal subjects, Barye is today esteemed as the founder of the Parisian animaliers.
The noble lion, representing the new King and the people of France, is shown in a triumphant struggle against the serpent, symbolizing Charles X (reigned 1824–1830) and the ousted Bourbon dynasty. The pair additionally suggests a celestial sanction for Louis-Philippe’s reign by alluding to the constellations of Leo (the lion) and Hydra (the sea serpent), which “ruled the heavens” during the days of the July Revolution (July 27-30, 1830).

![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/lion_preview.jpg)

The scanned sculpture is a copy made by Guy Hain, who is a French art forger who produced number of fake bronze sculptures.
The Lion is located by the entrance of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.

Lion Crushing a Serpent

The blue whale is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales. At up to 29.9 metres  in length and with a maximum recorded weight of 173 tonnes, it is the largest animal known to have ever existed.

Blue whale

Sparrow - Quirky Series

Crane modeled after traditional origami.
 This model is part of my Chinese Zodiac inspired model collection, read more about it here: https://runemarkstudio.com/unity-assets/origami-animals/

Origami Crane

License: **CC0**  

  
Animalia 動物界  
　Arthropoda 節足動物門  
　　Insecta 昆虫綱  
　　　Hymenoptera ハチ目・膜翅目  
　　　　Vespidae スズメバチ科  
　　　　　Vespa スズメバチ属  
　　　　　　Vespa mandarinia japonica オオスズメバチ  
  
ハチ 蜂

CC0 オオスズメバチ 🐝 Japanese Giant Hornet

This helmet, with its rather special appearance, is one of the few preserved objects that we know was owned by the Swedish king [Gustav Vasa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_I_of_Sweden). 

It was made in Germany in 1540, probably in Augsburg or Nuremberg, which were home to some of the most skilled armour makers of the time. The visor, the part that covers the face, did not originally belong to the helmet, but it is thought to be of the same period.

A helmet of this type was made not for battle but for celebratory occasions. In the 16th century, full suits of steel armour were the height of fashion. For parades and other royal festivities, the social elite would dress up in specially-made sets of costume armour with a close helmet. During these celebrations it became popular, in the early 16th century, to wear close helmets with grotesque visors in the form of animal or human faces, like this one, to enhance the festive atmosphere and heighten the sense of theatricality. 


Scan by Erik Lernestål

Helmet with Grotesque Visor

License: **CC0**  
  
Animalia 動物界  
　Chordata 脊索動物門  
　　Amphibia 両生綱  
　　　Anura カエル目  
　　　　Rhacophoridae アオガエル科  
　　　　　Rhacophorus アオガエル属  
　　　　　　Rhacophorus arboreus モリアオガエル  
  
両生類 カエル 蛙

CC0 モリアオガエル 🐸 ♂ Forest Green Tree Frog

A quick experiment (edit: now a WIP for the [mechanimal challenge](https://blog.sketchfab.com/sketchfab-3d-modeling-challenge-mechanical-animals/) I just discovered!) with hard-surface, and I still have a long way to go !

This model is (more than) based on ["The Timber Beneath"](http://www.scoobasteve.co.nz/2013/01/the-timber-beneath.html), a wonderful sculpture by **Stephen Lambert**.

The different "organs" as well as textures were just randomly thrown around, but with some more practicing, I definitely think I'll start enjoying this style and find a nice designing/modeling/texturing workflow, to hopefully design original models some day.

Also, none of the mechanisms make any "mechanical sense", which is why I did not animate the model. As before, that could change with some more attention brought to details, and a little bit of thinking before acting :D

![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lw3hJS-2rVk/UQEH9xQEHQI/AAAAAAAAAYg/Vr3p9L4T5bE/s1600/Shark_SLambert_03.jpg)

Mechanical Shark

License: **CC0**  

  
Animalia 動物界  
　Arthropoda 節足動物門  
　　Insecta 昆虫綱  
　　　Hymenoptera ハチ目・膜翅目  
　　　　Vespidae スズメバチ科  
　　　　　Vespa スズメバチ属  
　　　　　　Vespa simillima xanthoptera キイロスズメバチ  
  
ハチ 蜂

CC0 キイロスズメバチ 🐝 Japanese Yellow Hornet

License: **CC0**  

  
Animalia 動物界  
　Chordata 脊索動物門  
　　Osteichthyes 硬骨魚綱  
　　　Perciformes スズキ目  
　　　　Scorpaenidae フサカサゴ科  
　　　　　Pterois ミノカサゴ属  
　　　　　　Pterois lunulata ミノカサゴ  
  
海水魚 魚類

CC0 ミノカサゴ 🐟 Luna Lionfish, Pterois lunulata

This is an animation of an subadult Atlantic Sturgeon.

This 3D model is a composite of images from a subadult Atlantic Sturgeon  (Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus) housed at the Maymont Nature Center (https://maymont.org/animals/nature-center/), and a scan from a preserved Atlantic Sturgeon from the Natural History Collection at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (https://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/nhc/home).

CG artists Jer Bot, Johnson Martin and Robert Gutierrez used Blender to reconstruct the full fish from these scans and images, as well as animate the movements. Thanks to the Maymont Nature Center, the Richard Lewis Media Group (http://rlmg.com/), and the Natural History Collection for facilitating the work.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 66A - Atlantic Sturgeon

Animals Pack Little

A dark knight, inspired by "Dark Souls" and "The Lord Of The Rings". 
My focus with this project was to practise hard-surface modeling along with some animal study.

The groundstuff was made by using megascans.

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