Alien Bouquet

This image was created using 3D Studio Max 2.5 and Cebas Optic Suite (for the flares). It was created as part of a tutorial article for Serious 3D magazine.

©1998 Eni Oken

Tip:
Every single object you see in this image was created using the 'box method', which consists of the following: create a box with 3 to 5 segments and modify its vertices and faces until it resembles roughly the format you want. Then apply the command MeshSmooth, which makes it look nice and smooth, with a very organic look. All the textures were hand painted especially for each model.

The branches can be created by extruding the faces out individually, and then rotating and scaling them.