If you are into organic modeling or alien textures, check out these photos of bizarre deep-sea animals from Claire Nouvian’s photographic collection, The Deep. There’s some great textures and body shapes in the abyss.
http://discovermagazine.com/photos/deep-sea
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/nouvian/nouvian_gallery.html
I like the vampire squid. Also in the book but not pictured on the web is the Pigbutt Worm.