Alien Plants

Moodboards:

First moodboard is of carnivorous plants and the second are fungi, chose these plant groups as I think they look the most alien and are pretty weird.

Sketches:

Studies of some plants from my moodboards

Ideas: First one is like a reverse normal plant the roots being green and more like a normal plant while the actual plant is like roots sprawling, it would live on a planet with no gravity. The second is based on red cage fungus and somewhat a weeping willow, doesn't look very plant like. Third is based off a cobra lily but with a group of them combining into a single plant which makes it look hydra-like.

WIP:

Started off using mudbox but it seemed impossible to make anything so I attempted making it in scupltris and then exporting it.

Rough scupltris model, couldn't get it to import due to problems with the mesh. Going to attempt one of the other designs in Mudbox

Started with a tree trunk and edited it. Tried to make it tree like but ended up making a blobby brainish coral thing.

Sending to Maya and exporting to FBX then opening in Maya didn't work so I had to make do with the default directional lighting in Mudbox.

Looks nothing like a plant and is really awful, hate it. Hopefully it looks alienish at least.

 Made a new model in Sculptris and exported to Maya and then rearranged into a scene, lit and rendered

So, so, so much better than my previous one. Painted over the render, added a gradient for the sky background then used a Photoshop brush to get the background nebula, added some dust to give the impression of a desert-like planet with the plants being cacti based. Used levels to get the right amounts of light, midtones and shadow; hue-saturation, colour balance and a blur filter so one plant was in focus.