I did this picture to enter a challenge created by the BlenderPT community. Unfortunately I couldn't finish it in time!
Everything was created using only blender, all the textures where hand painted using the blender painting tools (that was one of the requirements of the challenge).
I tried to capture all the making process, but at some point it was impossible to work and record at the same time, my old laptop couldn't handle the job :(
In the download file there are 3 blend files. One for the animal, well only one animal (animais.blend), another for the background (fundo.blend) and the main file (natureza_inter-planetaria.blend), also a folder with all the textures.
wow!