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Ocean Invasion #1: Octopus arborealus

This is the first in a series of pieces I'm doing.

"Ocean Invasion #1: Octopus arborealus"

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"Ocean Invasion #1: Octopus arborealus"

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Modeled & Rendered in Blender2.52. Post-processing in GIMP 2.6.

I was asked by another artist whether my inspiration was the "Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus" campaign. Honestly,  I actually had never heard of such a thing, and was a wee bit disappointed to learn of it's existence Then again, a tree octopus is too cool an idea for to have not already been thought of.