Thanks orgeeizm :)

Thanks rich aswell, i'll have to give that lighting setup a go and see if it helps any better than using GI Joe.

Rebuilt the house today and added some finer detail to the building, also fixed the lightning (took me hours :/) and heres what it looks like so far (hardly any change, building is different in...

Heh, the smaller image got rid of the little guy (blurred him out) becaused of the reduction in quality from a bitmap :)

Decided to give this months challenge a go. Entering at "noob" level, because that's what I am when it comes to Maya. The scene i'm making isn't a real place, still working on what the environment...

Glad you decided to add the rest and finish it and it's is coming along great, the body there with the leg looks excellent. About the arm it might just look a bit silly now but it'll look more in...

Hmm, strange .. I checked the codec's and I had a couple installed, for xvid / divx and for mpeg4... so I decided to delete them all and start again and install only one to cover them all, so I...

Good effort so far!

Regarding the model itself, bear's ears are generaly shorter that and more wider. Also the face comes to too much of a point and the nose looks a bit odd.

Nice work :)

I think it'll be because you haven't dragged the vertex point that comes from the corner of the eye back a little and it's too far away along the z axis from the point next to it, so it's stretching...

Having a little trouble watching this video, the video itself is running at about 4x normal speed where as the audio is normal so it's hard to follow it (even though it's only 5 mins~ long).

Tried...

Excellent progress :)