Fantastic job.

Well done!

Thankies very much! :)

Wow! I can see why this took so long the detail work is intense and the underlying mesh is so smooth you must have agonized over the shape.

Yes, the shape took a long time to work out. I went through two rough models and near the end spent four hours on it with a brush tool. This model certainly taught me a lot about modeling in maya.

That is just some amazing texture work, what resolution did you use for the texture map?

my texture map resolution was 1024x1024. I didn't cram all of my UV's into one square though. For example the body, which is one solid mesh, I laid out in seperate UV sets. To have tried to fit all of the UV's into on 1024x1024 square would have limited he detail I could get with the textures.

Holy crap this is awesome!

You should work for bioware or obsidian, they need more fantasy creatures to be modeled for their RPGs, and they certainly would consider someone like you.

sweet! Where are their companies located? I've never heeard of them, what games do they do?

They do fantasy roleplaying games such as NevewinterNights, NeverwinterNights2, the FPS games Bioshock and Mass Effect, and the MMORPGs Jade Empire and StarWars Knights of the Old Republic.

Dungeons and Dragons and Science Fiction is a specialty for both companies.

You should check out the older, wealthier, better established company at http://www.bioware.com/

Obsidian entertainment while new and becoming well known has many problems and it would be a shame for your career to be cut short there.

Bioware has locations in the USA, Canada, and Austria.

Very cool. Thanx for the tips. I've seen some of bioshock and was very impressed with it's graphics. I'll deffinately add these guys to my list of demo reel recipients. :)

He looks like he should be working for the Narnia Gay Centaur Bondage club.


LAWLS.

You know I love it!

It's not bondage it's tack!! Real horses actually wear this stuff!! Well, minus the swords...

It would be cool though if all horses came with swords, or wore them on a daily basis.