Flippy the Flappy Fish
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Articulated fish which was half-way to being a sucker-fish when he took on a personality and became flippy.
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A flippy flappy fish.
Vaguely sculpted towards the look of a sucker fish but refined by the school of hard-knock toys / destructive testing.
Further versions may arise depending on interest/survival.
Update V2:
Added flappy Tail. So… Flippy is now 25% more flappy! (also improved joint structure)
Technical Aside:
This was done in Blender E2E (which I enjoy), I have done a handful of articulated / PiP setups in Fusion, but never in Blender and this was a first cut from idea to toy. I learned a lot. You'll see 3 distinct types of joint with slightly different design choices. This was deliberate and I was pushing for minimum print size at max strength. I didn't love any of the joints, but it's time to move on.
Method:
Take a torus, cut it, grab the edge loop, scale it (with linear fall-off area effect) to make it ramped for printability. I think if you counted triangles on the edge loop you could make a precisely compatible torus so default bridge edge loops would work well. I did not count polygons and relied and scripts and sculpting.