How to make a Manta Ray head?

Hello! I have a huge problem with creating the mouth and cephalic lobe (the weird things infront of the mouth). It just feel impossible and i’ve sat for at least 8 hours in total just trying and failing and i am getting nowhere.

I dont understand how the anatomy works and how i should model it, where i should extrude and so on, even with live sketchfab models as refference…:confused:
There are also no free of charge models out there.


Can’t really help without knowing what you have so far.

Try and get more references, the mouth is not that complicated.




do you need to do some animation too ?

happy cl

Hi Skol,

here are two images from a model I did a while ago. This Topo is quite good and makes it possible to create a rig that also allows you to animate the “horns”:wink:

good luck and happy blending!

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btw. I used a environment map for test renderings from…

https://www.boxfish-research.com/360

that`s cool stuff.