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I've spent a lot of time with the shard fish lately. To be precise, I turned him into 3D printed jewelry via Shapeways, I smoothed the old low-resolution image in order to upload him here, and I also have plans to paint him onto a shopping bag.
So after submitting the old image of him as my first deviation, I started to think about redoing the stained-glass idea in Blender. Properly this time.

I already had the 3D model, so it was rather easy to set up a back-lit stained glass fish.
The time-consuming part was fine-tuning the glass shaders and lighting - somehow, it never turned out quite the way that I wanted. Either the shards swallowed too much of the light, or they ended up so bright that the striped texture didn't show, or the colors came out wrong... But now I've arrived at a configuration that's good enough in my eyes.

The rock texture comes from a texture package by PSD-Tutorials.de: German product page
The textures for the glass shards were drawn by me in GIMP.
The final image was rendered in Blender, using the Cycles renderer.

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By the way, if you like this artwork, you can also buy it as 3D printed jewelry via Shapeways.
They offer a wide range of materials, so you should be able to find something for every taste and budget!
Shard Fish Pendant | Shard Fish Earrings | Shard Fish Earrings (inverted)

If you prefer clothing, a bag, a phone case or some other product, you can find that on Threadless:
Product Page

Description
I've spent a lot of time with the shard fish lately. To be precise, I turned him into 3D printed jewelry via Shapeways, I smoothed the old low-resolution image in order to upload him here, and I also have plans to paint him onto a shopping bag.
So after submitting the old image of him as my first deviation, I started to think about redoing the stained-glass idea in Blender. Properly this time.

I already had the 3D model, so it was rather easy to set up a back-lit stained glass fish.
The time-consuming part was fine-tuning the glass shaders and lighting - somehow, it never turned out quite the way that I wanted. Either the shards swallowed too much of the light, or they ended up so bright that the striped texture didn't show, or the colors came out wrong... But now I've arrived at a configuration that's good enough in my eyes.

The rock texture comes from a texture package by PSD-Tutorials.de: German product page
The textures for the glass shards were drawn by me in GIMP.
The final image was rendered in Blender, using the Cycles renderer.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

By the way, if you like this artwork, you can also buy it as 3D printed jewelry via Shapeways.
They offer a wide range of materials, so you should be able to find something for every taste and budget!
Shard Fish Pendant | Shard Fish Earrings | Shard Fish Earrings (inverted)

If you prefer clothing, a bag, a phone case or some other product, you can find that on Threadless:
Product Page