Quick sculpt 12.21.2012

Well, seeing as I've been informed that the world is about to be covered in lava made from aliens and eaten by the mayan god of eating stuff, I figured I'd sketch a quick alien dude.

Concept / paintover

What little spare time I've had these past 6 months have mostly gone into getting on top of things as far as the full creature pipeline goes. This has entailed a lot of time trying to learn about vray, proxies, displacement maps, SSS shaders, comping render passes in Nuke and that whole bag of fun. As a part of this I've been playing around with a giant turtle scene, where the idea was to have a city under a glass dome on top of its back.
However, after trying for a long time to get it to look right, I've decided I did not much care for how the city itself came out looking. So, back to the drawing board. The turtle itself is pretty much done. I did a quick render and painted over it to come up with some new ideas. Those tiny submarine thingies are also built already, just need to redo the city and build a mountain. Sounds easy enough, right?

The sketch was done in 5 minutes and looks like it as well. But hopefuly you get the idea.