The ocean uses the corrected, textured humpback and 24-control armature from the Humpback project. The complete mesh, UVs, skin weights and leveled tail flukes are retained. Skin, normal and roughness textures are supplied at 2048 pixels for web delivery.
The rig's demonstration action is a deformation test. Here, a separate swimming cycle drives the spine, tail and pectoral controls, with slower strokes and glide intervals.
Two whales surface and exhale at different intervals. A third follows a slow circuit beneath the waves. The animals and their spouts share the ocean's clock.
This is an artistic ocean study. The skin and control regions are generated approximations, and the motion is animated rather than a validated biomechanical simulation. Water extinction and refraction use efficient rendering approximations.