Personal project Alien Queen from Aliens, my all time favorite movie. Wanted to push myself for Finishing a Creature for a change, as I have mostly modeled humans. She being the badass movie characters ever created(Stan Winston & Jim Cameron), especially when back in the day she was all a suit/miniature in the movie. My love for movies and a modeling comp at Cgtantra gave me good enough reason to recreate her in CG.

Idea was to capture the creepy mood, with strong lighting, as she covertly appeared in the movie, with a new style. Was going to model the Facehugger too, but as I tend to get bored of my personal projects soon, thought will call this final for now.

Base model and Rigging done in Maya, detailed modeling and texturing in Mudbox, Shading and Lighting in Mental Ray. Post effects in Photoshop.

Would love to know what you all think