Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm sure I'll end up sculpting a plane if I can't figure out a better way. Oh and Mike: Can I have more than 1 final image? Because I want to show the boat being entangled by the tentacles as well as like a view frum underneath. I've been playing with the camera trying to get it to do both in one shot and I don't think it's gonna work without one or the other being out of focus. Thanks.

Here's a printscreen of the polycount I'm working with