27 CG Works Of Fantasy And Surrealism To Make Your Mind Go 'Bwuh?'

Imagination lets us create stuff that couldn't exist in real life. And 3D artists have an even easier time creating something fantastical and surreal. Well look at this, a list of 27 mind-blowing CG artworks that fit those criteria! Would you look at that!

The Creator by Soren Zaragoza
Software used: Zbrush, Keyshot, Photoshop

Everything they told you about where babies come from is a lie. In truth, all babies are created by this guy. He's quite busy.

Mechanical Silence by Kazuhiko Nakamura
Software used: Shade, Photoshop

What crazy clockwork mind have birth to this silent cavalryman?

Battlefield by Soren Zaragoza
Software used: Zbrush, Keyshot, Photoshop, Lightroom

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with skeletal robot troopers adorned with bones.

Muse and Her Artist by Andrzej Kuziola
Software used: Zbrush, Painter, Photoshop

A muse can a burden as it weights you down with the responsibility to make your vision a reality. Also, you're constantly surrounded by misshapen rage demons.

ZYGOSIS - Anatomical Architecture By Kazuhiko Nakamura

If your brain is a computer, but an old one, like something Babbage would have built...

INFINITELY SUBTLE / exploration II by Adam Torczynski

Their confusion lies in the fact that in each of their element lurks something you can not see at first glance.

Soul Eater by Soren Zaragoza
Software used:Zbrush, Keyshot, Photoshop

It looks like it jumped straight out of Pan's Labyrinth and IT'S ABOUT TO EAT YOUR SOUL!

The Warden by Mark Van Haitsma
Software used:3Ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Keyshot

Looks like someone turned one of the Resistance's Chimera aliens into a servo-skull!

Giant Samurai Rampages by Jesse Amiel Gayanilo
Software used: Blender, Gim

Giant samurai tend to be a problem wherever they appear.

Smoke portraits by Matthieu Chauvirey

Can your face be smoke if your eyes are just holograms?

IRRATIONAL NATURE III by Adam Torczynski

Ah yes, here we see the well known apple-core ants, named for obvious reasons.

Walkway by Dindul Dadi
Software used: SketchUp, Photoshop

Sometimes, architectural plans just don't make any sense.

Triceratops by Mark Van Haitsma
Software used: 3Ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Keyshot

Robot dinosaurs, as discovered by android archaeologists!

The Cliff Tower by Pierrick Picaut
Software used: Blender

Would not want to live here! I mean, how can the postman reach you?

01 DIGITAL RENDER | CINEMA 4D by Metod Kulcar
Software used: Cinema4D, Photoshop

If you have any idea what this is, please tell us in the comments.

The Flower by Artur Rosa

It reminds me of the Solaris book by Stanislaw Lem.

Ancient fish by equinoz
Software used: Zbrush, Keyshot

As we all know, Earth's ancient history is full of mechanical fish!

The Prisoner by Mark Van Haitsma
Software used: Zbrush, 3Ds Max, Keyshot, Photoshop

You will serve your multiple-life sentences even if we have to turn you into a cyborg monstrosity! Just don't ask us how we know when one lifetime sentence end and another begins.

Ship in a bottle by Manuel Peter
Software used: Blender

Some people are really serious about making ships in bottles.

Light by Jacques Pena
Software used: 3Ds Max, Vray, Photoshop

Light fixtures to run away from really fast!

The Birth of the Third by Artur Rosa
Software used: Vue

That mountain is begging to be mined for crystals!

Hunters Village by Alexandr Melentiev
Software used: 3Ds Max, Photoshop, After Effects

In Soviet Russia, the house flies you! Wait, that doesn't make any sense...

The lost catcher by Jie Ma
Software used: 3Ds Max, Vray, Zbrush, MARI, Photoshop

You are a lot less likely to get shot by arrows when you are in space, really.

Digita Concerto by Jacques Pena
Software used: 3Ds Max, Vray, Photoshop

Robots are really serious about their classical music concerts.

Kaiju by Rodrigo Soria
Software used: 3Ds Max, Modo, After Effects, Keyshot, Photoshop

Well, I can see the weak spot on this monster!

On the tramp by Manuel Peter
Software used: Blender

My other RV is a hermit crab!

RISE by Jacques Pena
Software used: 3Ds Max, Vray

Somewhere, a Final Fantasy artist suddenly feels inspired.