Bee Tamagotchi
An artist I’ve been following on Bluesky (@berrycutepixels.com) has this amazing series of fan-made, pixel art concepts for Tamagotchi and the designs are so appealing I couldn’t resist modeling one (with her permission, of course!). With this model I also wanted to attempt adding in some flipbook animation to the screen to show the little bee in motion, to further mimic a real Tamagotchi. The final model uses two materials - a standard PBR material for the body of the egg, and a separate material for the screen that LERPs together the background and the pixel art bee. Lit, rendered, and displayed in Unreal 5.
Bee Tamagotchi model with final textures and materials. Screenshot taken from Unreal Engine 5.
A render of a model of a bee-themed Tamagotchi, shown in Unreal Engine 5.
Additional views of the model. Screenshot taken from Unreal Engine 5.
Low poly model with and without baked normals and AO applied.
Screenshots of the high poly sculpt from Zbrush.
The material graph for the Tamagotchi screen. The sprite sheet for the bee is animated with a flipbook, then combined over top the background.