'Shortness' I find to be very much in the proportions of head contra body, small head feels like a tall character, larger head feels shorter. my $.02

Looks great.
A few tips:
Do the wire and smooth shaded in hardware (for example in a playblast at double res) then comp it. Also make sure the place3d nodes are parented to the object if it moves.

Most likely modeled one section and duplicated+rotated. At least thats how he described it in another thread. Very nice as always Brian. Like the conv. idea. It looks like there is about 1/2" of...

You know what I think K-man.

Far Cry is great, up until the last level...

I'd wager a guess here, it probably throws a memory exception during render startup. Try rendering from the commandline:
render -s 0 -e 0 -im <image> <filename>

or just hit
render
and it will...

NitroLiq, there's a "disable smileys in this post" tickbox in the post reply page. :)

Coolness, it looks like something straight out of a Sony ad.

You can try turning on 'pre filtering' on the file texture. That will blur the image slightly making it more smooth.

BTW: To get another image into a thread, hit the 'post reply' button rather...

Both TGA and TIFF are lossless, that is they should look identical in quality unless something is wrong. TGA alpha support was broken in Photoshop 7, but was later fixed in a patch. Use whatever...