looks good, I like the pose already! What i would do for hair is what they did on Ice Age for the sabre toothed tiger. They used a whole bunch of planes and mapped images onto them to give the appearance of fur. IT would work pretty well I think. You might need to do some funky stuff to get them working properly but it would be a good challenge. If it was a still it wouldnt be hard though.
Alan
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