Mosquito in Amber 3D model

A real 3D-scanned mosquito set inside a smooth, glowing lump of amber, a nod to a certain dinosaur film. The amber uses a refractive material, so the insect inside shifts as you rotate it.

Download GLB (1.57 MB)Original source

Triangles: 14,349
Vertices: 10,140
File: GLB · 1.57 MB · 1024 px WebP textures
Budget: Light
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Loïc Norgeot

What you can do with it

A museum exhibit, collector's case or lab prop
A paleontology or natural-history lesson
A test scene for transmission and refraction in your renderer

Performance: is 14,349 triangles a lot?

Light. Comfortable for desktop and console games and most web viewers. Use a few at a time on mobile. It has fewer triangles than 51% of the 52 models in this library, and it is the lightest of the 7 museum & real-world scans. Read more about polygon budgets, or how to reduce a model's polygon count.

Before you use it

Refraction isn't supported the same way everywhere. Some real-time engines will show the amber as plain orange.

Free to use, change and sell under CC BY 4.0, as long as you credit the creator. A ready-made credit:

"Mosquito in amber" by Loïc Norgeot (https://sketchfab.com/norgeotloic), https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/53a61d58c09b4d2ab30e269aa3e22078, via Objaverse on Hugging Face. CC BY 4.0. Textures re-encoded to 1024 px WebP.