Thanks for the positive support Dave Rave!

I'm looking to take this character all the way from Base/to detailing/ Mapping/ to texturing as well as rigging and using him for learning animation so this project is going to be a long process. This guy is a character concept I've been playing around with for some time tentatively named Darian Raven.

I have a couple of questions for the board members (sort of a look and plan ahead)

Since the characters head is attached to the whole body, when I start doing blendshapes for the head do I have to copy the entire body or can I duplicate the character then delete all but the head and reshape it to do the blendshape?

Does anyone know of any good tutorials for hand painting textures in photoshop for skin. (I currently don't have enough skin texture references to make a photoreal version yet)

Finally when it comes to using motionbuilder do you have to complete the rig and bind and paint weights before you import it in?

Any info to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again for the positive feedback!