I had a look at this artist again, because he also had some awesome, unique creature designs.
https://www.artstation.com/artist/fightpunch
http://fightpunch.deviantart.com/
I particularly love this style of designs. It’s a lot more organic and would be good to create in ZBrush:
I loved these three creatures. Christian eventually chose the one to model on the far right:
Darren Bartley also does a lot of 3D modelling, so it will be hard to compete if i end up modelling any of his designs: