Looks absolutely smashing, nice render too.!

Just waiting for Arewen :)

Textures are looking much better Pony!
Also nice that you managed to break up the evenness without adding more spots.

Excellent!

Great job Pony!
The hair is really working now, looks great!
The textures are looking much better too.
Just a personal preference, but I'd be tempted to dot a few more of those dapple spots around...

Hey Pony,

Just had a thought about the ailiasing on the hair. Sometimes when you produce something on screen that is less than a pixel in size it can produce a moire effect and can kind of strobe....

Really coming on nicely Pony!

I'm not sure weather it's the lighting or too much detail in the texture ( or even my eyes, been at the screen too long) but it looks a little statuesque to me at the...

The paint fx for hair can be really good but take a lot of working with to achieve the look you want. I've dabled with it Gollums hair. You can attach a brush description to a curve for more control...

Just a quick thought Pony,
have you tried using your bump map as a displacement map? takes a little longer to render, but those highlights would then react naturaly with the lights and give the...

With the diffuse map I'd be tempted to use a combination of the bump (due to less colour leaving the deeper recesses) and a desaturated version of your colour map. I'd experiment with either the...

Hey Pony,
my last post was perhaps a bit lame, just looking for anything that may help :)
One thought I did have was (you probably thought of this allready) to use your bump map as a base for the...

WOW!
Hard to fault really, very nice.
The only thing I could say is watch out for the sparse gaps, like in the centre of the face between the nose and the eyes, and it just seems to blur out around...