Coral Terrain Collection (DND / TTRPG)

A trend I've seen is that high performing models I've made are collections of things - thinking of the mushrooms, books, mimics, animated weapons and tentacles. For science I decided to make another collection this time for Coral reef. For science I'm trying the same kind of cover photo (except using like a water blue - maybe only green works idk edit: changed the color to white, let's see if this helps #science) - the theory is that people will go "Oh neat Coral" and then like the models and then follow me on Patreon, then ???, and then I can retire to just making random models forever (the dream).

These could be fun for underwater campaigns or sessions instead and add some variety over standard tree decor. They could also work nicely for dioramas or maybe even fish tank decorations. That said - there is a TON of surface variation / detail on these so FDM print times will be really slow and you probably don't want to put resin coral into a fish tank.

To create these models looked at images from here as reference: https://marinesavers.com/corals/acropora-millepora/ and then played around with geometry nodes to create some coral structures. I leaned on geometry nodes from my spiral staircases (dice towers) and riffs on that to randomize rotations and positioning.

There are about seven types of coral in this collection and then variants of many of those within - some grouped up and some just with a bend deform. I've also added 20mm circular baseplates to most of these as they won't stand on their own without that. Most of these are about 32mm tall. I think some of these might look quite a bit better at 2x the size or larger but I didn't create those sizing variants but could be something to keep in mind when printing.

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