Painted the body - I think it's starting to come together. A little (lot of) weirdness going on with GI in mental ray. I haven't turned caustics on yet, maybe that'll fix it. Who knows.

Bump map is next, then a specular map, then I'll think about rigging. I HATE rigging, all my non-tutorial attempts so far have been horrible failures.

As for a final scene, I'm thinking of putting him in a kelp forest, with light filtering down from the surface.