Cross-Product Creative Challenge #6: Galactic Wildlife!

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July 16, 2025
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This is the Cross-Product Challenge. An image from a prompt is definitely not enough! This is for anyone at any skill level, but the whole idea is to use different tools to build your Firefly image into a complete work.

Pick a style for this project: graphic novel, movie, 1950s TV show, manga, documentary. The choice is yours.

Generate an extraterrestrial Sci-Fi creature using text-to-image in Firefly, Photoshop, or Illustrator in your chosen style, then complete the picture. What kind of world does it live in? What other critters or plants or alien natives are there? Using any tools you like, build an environment for your critter to show it in its natural habitat.

fbeaume

Community Expert

I started in Photoshop to create an alien main character from an archive image.
I then switched to Illustrator to draw a logo that fit the theme and placed it on the alien's T-shirt.
I used the main character to create a rough reference image to use in Firefly to generate an army of Zen aliens.
Finally, I put everything back into Photoshop to create the final scene with some color grading and dramatic lighting.

AlanGilbertson

Author

Community Expert

Magnificent! That's what this challenge is all about. Thanks for the breakdown and the "behind the scenes" look at your process.

fbeaume

Community Expert

Thanks Alan!

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bluebrad

Community Expert

An alien predator from a low-gravity moon, with translucent crystalline armor, six elongated legs adapted for leaping great distances, and glowing bioluminescent patterns that pulse when communicating. The creature’s head has fractal-shaped antennae that detect radiation waves, and its eyes shimmer like molten metal. The background shows a jagged asteroid canyon under a massive ringed gas giant in the sky, with faint cosmic dust clouds. Highly detailed, cinematic lighting, ultra-realistic textures, 8K.

Illustrator is open almost 24/7 and just about the same for Bridge and Photoshop

AlanGilbertson

Author

Community Expert

Hi Brad! That thing looks like it could give you a nasty chomp if you got too near. What was your process (besides the prompt)?

MicahBurke

Community Expert

The Expedition

AlanGilbertson

Author

Community Expert

Hi Micah. Which is the alien and which the native habitat becomes a question of viewpoint, doesn't it? Composited in Photoshop, I presume.

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Michele Weisbart

Inspiring

So fun! Galaxy fashion show. Butterfly aliens and flower aliens created with different prompts, composited in Photoshop, lighting corrected for composite and color changes for a little more drama.