Best way to create something like this?

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As an exercise I’m trying to model something like the picture below:

And this is my attempt:

 have used a sphere at the top (I could use a latice or proportional editing to give it that not homogenous lookl), and then have used some curves with different thickness at the start and end and a bit ob beveling. Each curve is a standalone object as it is the sphere. 

I think I could use this method but the joins are very visible. I guess if I join the meshes and bridge each filament into the one it connects (and fix the topology) I could get a much better result. 

but this could take a lot of time and I’m not sure it is the best way to do it.

How would you go about modeling it? Could this be a better fit for geometry nodes? Perhaps better to start with sculpting and then retopologize the result (I need it for an asset for my game).

Thanks in

[Martin Bergwerf]

Maybe not use Curves, but Subdivided, stretched Planes with (Displacement Modifier and) a Cloth Sim?

A bit like in the Jellyfish Course, but without the ‘crumpling’:

https://cgcookie.com/lessons/modeling-tentacle-arms 

[Omar Domenech]

The last option would be my bet. Organic shapes like that is better to start with sculpting in my opinion. It’s not mandatory, it’s not like if you take a different approach you’re doing it wrong, it’s just a preference thing. You sculpt it with the freedom digital clay gives you, when you have what you want you retopo it.

[hexdump]

Thanks guys, really helpful insights.

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