Here is another concept by my friend Lane Garrison. When we met up at CTN, he liked my sculpt of his tree house and so he asked me what I wanted to model of his next. He drew a pretty sweet buck and clearly this isn't it. Don't worry Lane, it's on the way, I just did things a but out of order.

To model this uptight aristocrat, I used Maya for the base and then added details to the fabric with Mudbox. You can watch how I did it in the Making Of below.

So the Making Of is sped up pretty fast, but most of the project is on display. I did however, spare you about ten hours of weight shifting during the last 1% of the production. It would probably be interesting, but I didn't record it since the footage would just be me shifting chunks of vertices pixel by pixel so that the pose is as interesting as possible.

I am glad I make these because for every model I create, the first 60% of the process shreds my confidence and makes me want to sell my computer and live in the woods like a crazy mountain man. Fortunately around the last 40%, I start to see the character and gradually believe I am doing good work. I have to remind myself sometimes that I am in charge of literally thousands of little dots that when connected in a certain order, make a brilliant character. Arranging those vertices takes a long time and these 'Making Of' videos are evidence; the final result is always worth every second spent doing what I love.