A hungry Piranha Plant

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I wanted to play around with Blender 4 a bit, so I loaded up a project that I have been tinkering with for a long time: my Piranha Plant.

I re-worked materials (again), rigged the plant, and made some adjustments to the lighting to look better with AgX, and this is the result!

I rendered a second 360-degree version of the same idle loop here:

As mentioned above, this model/scene was created over the course of many versions of Blender, but I touched things up and rendered this version in Blender 4, with Cycles. No post processing, outside of assembling the frames in Adobe Media Encoder.

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If Mario games were 3D and Photorealistic, a realistic Pirahna plant chewing and eating a photoreal Mario might strip the game of its E-rating.

It looks horrific without being gruesome, the animation especially shows this has been executed well.

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Thanks! That’s what I was going for, with attention to the rounded teeth/lips and overall still-cartoonish look. I wanted the materials to have a somewhat realistic appearance without looking grotesque.

Maybe I’ll put it in a pipe someday and have it eating a Goomba. :laughing: