Infiltrating Earth - Octoputavia | nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for : ALIEN Theme No. 4

For my Alien design No. 4, I envisioned a scenario whereby an alien poses as a human. I share with you my fourth collage design for the theme depicting an ALIEN in response to the partnership of NFTShowroom with @alienarthive for a August Alien Art Challenge.

According to the challenge post, NFTShowroom will feature all the month's four elements themed Art minted on the NFT Showroom home page / twitter and Alien Art Hive will be curating participants' blog posts. The challenge is for the full month of August. If you'd like to join, check out NFTShowroom's challenge post here: nftshowroom X alienarthive challenge for August: ALIENS.

To participate:

• make art incorporating an Alien theme
• mint it on https://nftshowroom.com/
• make a blog post about it in Alien Art Hive
• use #nftshowroom in your tags

Below are my steps in creating the Alien angel.

The design is titled Octoputavia. By day, she poses as a human. But by night, she sheds her headdress. Complex in nature, her species evolved over millions of years, spiraling deeper into the ocean.

With her shapeshifting ability, she transforms herself into her true form. Standing over seven feet in height, her massive body expands. Two large eyes rest upon her forehead. Her long, gray arms are adorned with numerous suction cups. Multiple limbs fling in all directions as though uncontrollable. Moss from the seabed embeds itself into her backside. It absorbs the nutrients she consumes from the marine animals while she is living out of her ocean domain..

She can then relax in her home filled with several huge aquariums. In each temporarily resides various crustaceans from her home in the sea's abyss. Her agenda is simple.

Under no circumstances is she allowed to expose her true self to any human. Only her trust companion that accompanied her from the depths of the ocean floor knows their mission. He supplies the marine animals held in the aquariums for her daily feed.

Octoputavis beckons him to join her for their last meal of the day. He refuses, as he's already feed while diving to refill the tanks.

"I must travel farther out each day, your Majesty. Humans love the water. They engage professionals to search the water's depths." A smirk crossed his lips.

"What is it, Sharkus?" Octoputavia answers with an annoyed glance.

"Humans must wear a device over their heads and covering on their body to go venture deep. But no worries. I hid inside a cavern. Once clear, I raced downward into the dark where they couldn't follow." Sharkus lowered his head.

"Good. We can't compromise our mission. All will be revealed in due time."

Sharkus served his Majesty her meal, then left to document the evidence he retrieved that day of human devastation to their watery homeland.

The information for my design minted on NFTShowroom.

Creation Process:

I completed the still version in Canva, blending the various images. The image of the octopus fit perfectly on the female's head. For the background, I envisioned a bed of seaweed as though it engulfs her body.

I also included a stable diffusion abstract image retrieved from StarryAI and another abstract image I designed in Bomomo. The design from Bomomo provided the tan background inside the brain.

To create the video, I uploaded the still image into Deep Dream Generator. I noticed this program has changed their credit allotment. It cost me 70 credits to produce the video. I was completed surprised by the female lifting her arms as she didn't have any arms in the original image. Excellent video production.

I included the following images in my design:

^{Black octopus ~ Orange and white watercolor background ~ Brain on gold strings background ~ Female model dressed in black ~ Light painting effect ~ Bomomo pink and brown abstract image ~ Abstract stable diffusion image ~ Bomomo blue abstract image}

Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my fourth mixed media project for the Alien theme.