February 2018: Alien Skull

[The Gnomon Workshop]

As part of a clandestine recovery team, you've been sent on a classified mission to excavate an alien gravesite on a recently discovered planet. During the excavation, you uncovered cadavers of many species of unidentified aliens. This month's challenge is to create an alien skull from one of your findings. Will it be made from bone, cartilage, alloy, a flesh like substance or some form of unknown composite material? The choice is yours!

Winners announced!

[SergeMelyu]

Hi All !
This is my entry of the month:

[Agrantart]

This one was really interesting for me, Usually I do hard surface but lately, I have been sculpting some organics for fun. This came out much better than I had hoped! This alien race is a hunter/ warrior race. Research has shown that they ritualistically replace their bone fangs with metal when they become adults. This has been found to better take down their prey and enemies with a bone-crushing bite and can pierce practically any hide.

[brenoooxd]

Hello! This is my 3D Alien Skull. Hope you like it =)

[Agrantart]

Originally Posted by brenoooxd

Hello! This is my 3D Alien Skull. Hope you like it =)

This is sweet!
Make sure you go back and edit your post. Right click the image link -> copy link address. Then hit the yellow square with the mountains and paste the link address there to post the image in the thread so it shows up without having to click on it!

As a newcomer, I don’t want your awesome work not be considered because it wasn’t posted properly!

[Senso]

Good luck everyone!

[Nagash]

Hello ,wow this time are really nice pictures here .
My Skull material should be a kind of leather muscle, so flexible.
Good luck to all .

[TheKen]

I thought I'd try two different things with my submission this month, first was telling a bit of a story in the image. The second thing was subverting expectations by making the skull really small. Not every alien species has to be a huge monster!
I enjoyed the time I spent working on this though, I modeled everything in ZBrush and then rendered it out in Keyshot. Enjoy!

[crashtestpro]

I created everything from scratch in Blender 2.79, textured in substance painter, then finished in lightroom and photoshop.

[crashtestpro]

I created everything from scratch in Blender 2.79, textured in Substance Painter, then finished up in lightroom and photoshop.