LDR3 SWARM: FungI design

I was fortunate enough to art direct Swarm and Bad Travelling episodes for Love Death and Robots Vol.3
Early in the process Tim Miller(director) came up with the idea of bioluminescent fungi being the main source of light as well as the main resource for the insectoid alien race featured in Swarm. This made this fungus quite important as it served both as a lighting device and set dressing element for us. 
It was the first thing I tackled for the project. I designed 20 different species of fungus and we chose around 10 to be featured in the final product. I used different techniques to design these. Some were done in Houdini with procedural modelling techniques, other we painted in photoshop. A lot of it inspired by the awesome preproduction work done by Tianhua (https://www.artstation.com/tianhuaxu)
Done at Blur studio and wouldn't be what it is without awesome talented people around me. 

No AI involved in making these images, only oldschool blood, sweat and sleepless nights :)