I've seen plenty of ocean effects with 3DS Max, this is done with Maya and .obj files only. XD

Ocean Wave -  w/Maya

This is a 3D model of a subadult Caribbean Reef Shark (Carcharhinus perezi) that was modeled after a shark swimming underwater with the OceanX and Cape Eleuthera Institute team in January 2019.  Divers captured video of this shark swimming, and artist Robert Gutierrez used Blender and preexisting shark data to recreate this individual.  As this model was recreated from photos and other data, we make no claim that it perfectly reflects an actual shark, but we have strived to be as anatomically correct as possible.

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

Model 54A - Caribbean Reef Shark

Another addition to the tribute series to the rare ocean species. That's  Uca Mjoebergi - rare fiddler crab, but now textured and even animated! :-) 
This is not just some random moves - it's actually  Uca Mjoebergi' mating dance - as you can see, it's shoving off his bigger claw and trying to convince you in his own maturity and masculinity. 
Also, you can check out raw sculpture here: 
https://skfb.ly/6o7vw

Stages: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/k1e4d

Oh, and there is a GIF of this crab: http://imgur.com/7kiHeX5

Dancing Crab - Uca Mjoebergi

Check out the [forum post](https://forum.sketchfab.com/t/final-vikings-thor-and-the-midgard-serpent/17395) for more information!

*At the end of time, when Ragnarok is coming, the serpent Jormungandr will escape its prison in the depth of the ocean. Thor, son of Odin, the all-father, is destined to fight this midgard moster. On this day, thunder will roll through the sky, the earth will sidder and waves will raise to destroy all. On this day the end of time wil come. On this day, the thunder god will die.*

After 60 hours of hard work, and dedication, the scene is finally complete. I've really pushed myself to create as much detail and variety as possible. All the weapons, and most of the shields, the characters are all different. Everything has been touched by hand In an effort to reduce automation and create a most authentic work.

I had a lot of fun making this! And I really enjoy seeing the works of others.

Thor and the Midgard Serpent

Free old map scroll 3D model. I've made this model using a few awesome old paper textures:

* [Vintage paper texture](https://www.photoshopsupply.com/patterns-textures/vintage-paper-textures)

* [Old map texture](http://www.textures4photoshop.com/tex/paper/vintage-old-map-texture-free-background.aspx)

Here's another attempt:

Explorers and swashbucklers of old used maps like this to navigate the high seas, and their journeys often ended in lasting mementos - tattoos that told tales of their adventures. [AI Tattoo Generator](https://www.mockofun.com/ai-tattoo-generator/) may not be able to replicate the salty ocean air or the creaking of wooden decks, but it can help modern-day buccaneers design their own treasure-worthy ink.

Old Map 3D Model

Inspiration from: Hong Kong Monster Building ![monster building](http://zolimacitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Monster-Building_6_Heritage_zolima-citymag.jpg)
Reference: https://chatgpt.com/share/6855b085-1d08-800e-8099-ce288b114ac5

Render : ![raw.githubusercontent.com/afclogistics/imgs/refs/heads/main/render.png](http://raw.githubusercontent.com/afclogistics/imgs/refs/heads/main/render.png)


The “Monster Building” consists of five connecting buildings, namely Oceanic Mansion, Fook Cheong Building, Montane Mansion, Yick Cheong Building and Yick Fat Building, which form an E-shaped architecture complex.

Hong Kong Monster building Modular Low Poly LOD

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

[Original scan](https://skfb.ly/6suDz) from @ariosgeo, and inspiration from [Il Cristo degli Abissi](https://goo.gl/RU5PtJ), a submerged statue of Jesus in Italy.

**Modeling**:

* The scan was remeshed with [mmgs](http://mmgtools.org) 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

Christ of the Abyss

The giant oceanic manta ray is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae, and the largest type of ray in the world. They are circumglobal and are typically found in tropical and subtropical waters, but can also be found in temperate waters.

MANTA

Here is an [animated ocean scene](https://3dhaupt.com/3d-model-vehicle-military-hovercraft-animated-ocean-high-poly-blender-animation/) made with 40 shape keys in  [Blender](https://www.blender.org/download/) :D

![](https://3dartdh.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/ocean-scene.jpg?w=600)

If someone want to make something like this, here is a link to my tutorial where I will explain the basics: 

http://blog.sketchfab.com/post/140804619644/tutorial-creating-an-animated-ocean-scene-in

![](https://3dartdh.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/ocean-scene_2.jpg?w=600)


The animation loop is not perfect this can be done better but I am relatively happy with the result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaDLjF75KLc&feature=youtu.be

![](https://3dartdh.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/ocean-scene_3.jpg?w=600)
![](https://3dartdh.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/ocean-scene_4.jpg?w=600)

Animated Ocean Scene

The paleogeographic maps in the PaleoAtlas illustrate the ancient configuration of the ocean basins and continents, as well as important topographic and bathymetric features such as mountains, lowlands, shallow sea, continental shelves, and deep oceans.
The paleoatlas consists of 91 paleogeographic maps spanning the late Neoproterozoic (~750 Ma) and Phanerozoic (present-day, 0 Ma).

Data from: Scotese, C.R., 2016. PALEOMAP PaleoAtlas for GPlates and the PaleoData Plotter Program, PALEOMAP Project.

Website: http://geology.uaic.ro/muzee/mineralogie/

Concept & 3D-modelling by dr. Andrei Ionut APOPEI

PaleoMap - Paleogeographic Maps

Nothing more refreshing than a nap on the beach listening to the tunes. 

Modeled in blender, textured in substance.

Added more sims than water becasue why not.

 If you like downloading my models then consider suporting me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/Nul_Del

ocean sound byte used [http://soundbible.com/1935-Ocean-Waves.html](http://)

Shiba inu beach time (now with sound)

Jellyfish are gelatinous, free-swimming creatures commonly found throughout all oceans of the world. They first appear in the episode "Tea at the Treedome." Catching them is a sport to SpongeBob and Patrick, first seen in “Tea at the Treedome.”

I have a Patreon Join now! :https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14434838

Jelly Fish (Spongebob)

My attempt at making something close to OceanGate Titan Submersible, which was tragically lost after it went missing on the 18th June 2023. The US Coast Guard's findings explained that it had imploded and the crew had been instantly killed. The Titan was doomed from the beginning, with unusual practise during its construction and made with crude materials. The Titan was an experimental submersible, and was not officially certified. 

A doomed submersible from the very beginning of its existence. May the crew rest in peace.

OceanGate Titan Submersible

The giant isopod (*Bathynomus giganteus*) is a species of aquatic crustacean and a cousin to terrestrial "pill bugs" or "roly polies" that are commonly found under logs. These animals are found in cold waters with a depth between 310 to 2140 meters (1,020–7,020 ft) in the West Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. The unusually large size of these isopods has been attributed to an effect called deep-sea gigantism, where invertebrates living in cold deep waters tend to grow larger and have longer lifespans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod).

More info here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/giant-isopods-curious-crustaceans-on-the-ocean-floor.html

Accession #: 93.16

Captured with Artec Spider 3D Scanner
https://www.artec3d.com/portable-3d-scanners/artec-spider-v2

Giant Isopod

The Bloop was an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997.

Bloop

This is a 3D animation of a subadult Shortfin Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus). This is a composite shark model that was reconstructed using a combination of photographs and video from Joe Romeiro, and also referenced against a 3D photogrammetry scan of a subadult Mako shark (provided by Joshua Moyer).

We thank the Atlantic Shark Institute (Jon Dodd) and the Cape Eleuthera Institute (Nathan Robinson and Edd Brooks) for supporting and facilitating creation of the model.  Nathan Robinson is now at Oceanogràfic.

CG artist Robert Gutierrez reconstructed this shark from photographs and other information using the open-access software Blender.  As this model was recreated from photos and other data, we make no claim that it perfectly reflects an actual shark, but we have strived to be as anatomically correct as possible.

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

Model 62A - Shortfin Mako

Visualization of global oceanic currents, averaged on the month of September 2019.

* Created in Python (using Matplotlib, NetCDF4, Scipy and Numpy modules)
* Public ocean data from the [NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS)](https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.godas.html)
* Particles colored according to speed (using the “bone” colormap in Matplotlib)

If you are curious, [here](https://skfb.ly/6OGwB) is a similar model made by using similar tools and data, showing an animation of the winds and precipitation on September 1st, 2019.

Oceanic Currents

Carranque is the site of a 4th century Roman villa that is protected as an archeological park by the Castile-La Mancha government. This villa contains some of the best preserved moasics in Spain. Across the floors of the villa are mosaics depicting the death of Adonis, two dogs named Leander and Titurus, and most recognized,  the god Oceanus, featuring crab antennas and claws and a wavy beard. 

This model was created in ReaityCapture using 4725 combined laser scans and images

Roman Villa of Carranque

As it appears to be a trend, a small WIP diorama ([Nice one here!](https://skfb.ly/6xvV6)) just to try out some lighting technique for an incoming model (not a WIP I hope).

The refractive "box" around the model is just eye-candy, what was really of interest to me was to get an idea about bubbles (spheres with an emissive material coupled with dithering transparency), sun rays (elongated planes with blending opacity and a light emission to them) and the ground lights (not done well here, but basically voronoi textures to simulate the effect of waves on the light, baked on the ground model).

The ground is a quick and ugly dyntopo sculpt done in blender, while the little fish are just a particle system set with a lowpoly mesh as render object.

A nice point to spend time on will be the ocean surface, to do with the appropriate modifier in blender, and a refractive/small-scale-roughness/foamy-at-the-edges material.

Plus, I should try to animate rays, bubbles and fish (as boids) to give it a living touch.

Abstract aquarium

RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province in Western Europe corresponding to modern Portugal) was a British ocean liner that was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and that held the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. It was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later. She was sunk on her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing, on 7 May 1915, by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew

RMS Lusitania 1907

3D scan of two giant spider crabs (*Macrocheira kaempferi*). These large specimens where a gift from the Japanese Emperor Meiji to Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1882. With a leg span of up to 4 meters, these crabs are the largest living crustaceans in the world. They can weight up to 20 kilograms and are only found in the Pacific Ocean around the Japanese Islands. 

The Japanese giant spider crabs are Number 48 of the NHM Top 100 and can be found in Hall 23 of the NHM Vienna, right behind the [giant clam](https://skfb.ly/onAWG). 

**Specimen**: *Macrocheira kaempferi* (Temminck, 1836)

**Inventory number**: NHMW-ZOO-CR-4381

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, 3rd Zoological Dept., Crustacean Coll. (curator: Martin Schwentner)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Japanese Giant Spider Crabs (NHMW-ZOO-CR-4381)

This is free to use Ocean/Water surface for my other project. I made

Software: Blender, Substance Painter

Ocean - Surface

Messing around with a parallax effect while rediscovering my love for pastel colors. A Switch skin with an ocean/frog type vibe to it :)

Gorgeous concept art by @math.lis
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPZAuTPl5Td/

Nintendo Switch Diorama

A classic tileable ocean model (including spray geometry), created using Blender's ocean modifier, shader editor and geometry nodes.

I was a little disappointed by some of the existing ocean models on Sketchfab, so here you go.

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