Created in Blender, rendered using Cycles.
Concept: Sébastien Le Divenah.
Hope you like it! 
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Noooooooooo… get away, bad ball, bad ball 
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A bit of motion blur on the ball maybe in need ?
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How did you add the glow on the edge of the ball?
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At your service. 
Updated the original post’s image.
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In the Blender Compositor, with a Glare node.
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thanks, the reason I asked was because I wanted a method to add an outer glow for a plasma/lightsaber animation.
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This look awesome, great work!
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Oh NO!!! Not the sand castle!!! Love it, amazing!
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Like it a lot. Great title!
One thing I feel is the eyes merging with the body material in a way when they could stand out more. Maybe some way to make the pupils more pure black and the eyeballs maybe have subsurface scattering right now?
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Thanks for the feedback. I’m afraid the eyes would pop out too much if I’d change them. Now they’re in a certain balance with the skin material inside the shadow.
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Ah, yes. It can make sense to have that cohesiveness, like the sand is all made from one material, the creature is made from one material, and the ball has a ball material. I’m guessing you want the focus on the ball rather than the face (something like ball -> face -> whole scene for what to look at).
It’s more that I want the complete octopus to clearly be inside the shadow cast by the beach ball, to emphasize the ominous situation. 
You obviously put a lot of thought into it, that’s why it feels so complete. I see, if the eyes popped, then the shadow effect might be lost somewhat.
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I REALLY like this.
Very cool, and super cute. 
I hope the ball misses our little friends sandcastle. 
Brilliant job!
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Thank you very much, appreciated! 
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
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Merci beaucoup!
Have a great, snowy weekend! 
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