Alien Art Contest Winner! Myhlo from Venus by Florian Barthe

Alien Art Contest Grand Prize Winner, Myhlo by Floriab Barthe

If the Stan Winston School team ever had any doubt about the existence of alien life in the universe, it has forever disappeared as a result of our Alien Contest. Your entries were so stellar that we're convinced a few of them had to be inspired by your own close encounters of the third kind. In the end, we had to select a single extraterrestrial to rule the stars (at least until our next alien contest), and the Grand Prize goes to...

Florian Barthe and his clay maquette "Myhlo, alien from Venus!"

See more: http://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2454/myhlo-alien-from-venus

 

Florian created this multi-limbed ET with sculpting clay, air-hardened, and then painted. We think there's something super cool and unsettling about how he combined the familiar (human-like hands) with something completely alien (that face!!). Thanks again to all of you who submitted so many out-of-this-world creations!

The Rest of the Alien Art Contest Top 10 

(in no particular order)