Very cool! I love how you framed the rendering.

Model from sketchup, about 1 hour, with 3/4 of the time spent on reference searching for the aliens! Got sidetracked a lot because you come across all types of old school gaming things, brought back alot of good memories 😉
Imported in Vue as separate objects and created 4 layers of eco-systems with aliens. Most of the time spent on trying out different camera angles and lighting.
Final render took a few hours (Vue is a bit slooooow)
After that the framing and title (font was 'Friday the 13th' I think, found somewhere on the web)

I could post the separate aliens in the component section if someone wants to use them?

Great image Holgster, and nice to see my birds
in action.

I'm still running an old ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB in my PC (yes, its old and AGP) with my 22" widescreen at 1680 x 1050 - no problems. SU suffer a bit though...