Alien Tree

karynatrychyk

Hi everyone!
Here is my latest project I made between other projects just because the idea suddenly occured to me . The idea was to make a kind of alien tree with rigid outer bark skin, that protects its burning "heart". So here is what I finally came up with.

Mossbros

Very abstracted, looks really nice

thepapercut

If it has a burning heart, I would see if you could get some light to emit from the tree center. None the less it's well done and looks cool.

theDEAD

Looks cool man!

I also agree with papercut's suggestion, it would bring it to life more.

karynatrychyk

Thank you for comments! I followed your advice and increased the burning effect. Hope you like it

tonysladky

I think you could stand to touch up/hide the transitional edges a bit. The trunk and that short root on the right just sorta hit the ground and end in a very clean edge. I don't really know what you wanna do about that, but it's really jarring.

Quickest and easiest might just be hiding the edges behind some small rocks, or building up a bit of piled dirt that can be alpha-ed a bit. Some scrubby grass would probably be a bit more visually appealing, but also a bit more work-intensive. Could also be cool to check out lifting up parts of it to try and get some space underneath to let that glow show through a bit more.

http://dailyinspires.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Namib-Naukluft-Park_-Namib-Desert_-Namibia_-Africa-Wallpaper.jpg

karynatrychyk

tonysladky wrote: »

I think you could stand to touch up/hide the transitional edges a bit. The trunk and that short root on the right just sorta hit the ground and end in a very clean edge. I don't really know what you wanna do about that, but it's really jarring.

Quickest and easiest might just be hiding the edges behind some small rocks, or building up a bit of piled dirt that can be alpha-ed a bit. Some scrubby grass would probably be a bit more visually appealing, but also a bit more work-intensive. Could also be cool to check out lifting up parts of it to try and get some space underneath to let that glow show through a bit more.

Thank you for the idea, I really appreciate. I'll see what I can do with it.

karynatrychyk

Here there are some textures, if anyone is interested:)