Parasite alien from Cosmic Encounter

An alien from my favorite board game, Cosmic Encounter.
This alien is in the cover box art of the game and I’ve always been a fan of the art, so I decided to give it a go and try to sculpt it in blender. I am really happy with how it came out!

I manually modeled the alien first to have a solid blockout, then sculpted all the details in. ALl the materials are created by me using procedural texture nodes in blender and some hand painting for the different color variations on the skin.

This was a good practice of modeling, sculpting, UV unwrapping, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing and a bit of animating.

It took me about 30 hours to do from start to finish, everything made completely from scratch.