A story behind the character's visit to Earth:

Stepping up to the microphone before the assembly of whispers and awe-struck eyes, the Andromedan Ambassador addressed the planet. "On behalf of all Andromedans, I wish you endless peace and blessings, my sisters and brothers. While we may differ vastly in appearance, you will be surprised to discover just how much we have in common. My journey to your beautiful world has been what you might call 'bittersweet,' for I fear I bring most unexpected news to your hallowed halls. I will get right to the point. Our galaxies will collide much sooner than you think. How, you will wonder, having studied the universe in such painstaking detail as you have. Gladly I will explain. In short, technology that should have never come to life did, and now control of the very fabric of what you consider time and space may in fact be in hands our mutual enemy, ruthless beings we believe some of your people encountered eons ago. We have much to discuss, much to learn from each other! We must work together for the good of all our people. With that, let us begin."


About the image:

This was created in Blender 2.43 RC4 using traditional modeling techniques along with the new Blender sculpt mode. The background was also created in Blender using particles with halo materials.

Photoshop was used to combine the separate renders (alien render with alpha channel + galaxy render) since the galaxy was done on my desktop computer while the laptop rendered the alien at print resolution. Some blur and contrasting was performed in post. Main color adjustments and slight DOF on the alien were handled via Blender's internal render nodes.

The alien consists of just over 600k verts.

Thank you very much for viewing my work,

RobertT