F-ing sweet! The new armor look doesn't look futuristic, but its totally awesome for a ninja princess theme. Its hard coming up with something new.
why not make the armor toon shaded as well?

heh, I was only kidding about the dust. this is an impressive render. I know I have maxwell somewhere in my files. Makes me want to take the time to go find it.

thanks. I'll look into it

i'm actually just using a toon shader and rendering in maya software. the only problem with that is you have less freedom with texturing, like bump.
I should rig this guy, but I'm pretty bad at...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a261/plaski/hangingcopy.jpg

meant to be a band flyer with show information going in the empty space to the right.

Hey, I think it looks really good. I think we're just not used to seeing a normal woman instead of a super hot fantasy girl, so our brains won't accept it. lol
I especially like the arms. There...

thanks guys. This particular job was done for a band to make some type of flyer. The reference was a drawing but not that great so I had to use anatomy images and then deform the model to match...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a261/plaski/wire.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a261/plaski/close.jpg

looks good. the bellybutton was mentioned earlier, but to me, he looks like a big mouse. I came across a similar problem when I tried to make a spider, but it just looked like an ant.
I think if...

Obviously, he's missing his hands and feet, but I'll finish those later. Any comments are welcome.