Quoting Joe Ong
Impressive!... though i think it looked a little like the sand creature in star wars... xD.. very impressive work though... not many people have the patience to build something like that.. xD
the sarlac was definitely the inspiration plus a little dollop of the creatures from Eternal Darkness on the Game Cube. Doing the tentacles was very time consuming, but using the template tool you can speed things up a bit by just copying the same limb and adding it over and over.
The real chore was posing it, for some reason I seem to have problems getting ldd to select the correct joints sometimes.