Reproductive Cycle of the Seahorse

Project Type: 3D Illustration

Media: Pixologic ZBrush, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Final Presentation Format: Printed Poster

Seahorses are small marine fish that reproduce through a process of courtship, mating, pregnancy, and birth. What makes this process interesting is that during mating, the female seahorse transfers her eggs into the male brood pouch, where he fertilizes the eggs with his sperm. The male then carries and supplies nutrients to the fetal seahorse until birth. This informational poster summarizes and illustrates this process and what occurs at different points in this cycle using the spiny seahorse (hippocampus histrix) as a model.