I'm helping my good friend Alp Altiner ( www.alpaltiner.com ) with his personal project called The Unknown ( www.unknownproject.net ). The book will be out in September with lots of great concept paintings. This creature will be featured in his book in the 'making of' section. He gave me a rough concept for a creature and I modeled it out for him. Through his art direction and some back and forth we went from the rough original concept to this final sculpted and textured character. The base mesh was created and posed in maya and sculpted in mudbox. Textures were done in Photoshop with final rendering in mental ray.