Hello all! This is a gift picture for a kewl fur named  zinemerald here on FA. Seems Zin here has been doing a lot of art for other folks and no one had ever drawn his character so I decided to one up the whole darn fandom!

This is a custom 3D model made in Zin's image based on his own picture of his character. Zin gets the honer of being the very first person I have ever made a model of their character for.

The concept of this image of course is based entirely on Zin's work so I'm waiting for some block head to say I stole the idea from him. Of course I did! I thought his character was kewl so I thought I would see what kind of a pain it would be to make it for him.

For those who are geek minded, this scene has 27835 polys, take up 33.59M on the hard drive (including all the texture, transparency and the normal displacement maps.) The model isn't complete (he has no hands or feet) but he is completely articulated (meaning you can pose him.. hehe) Even his ears bend and rotate. Their are 16 lights in this scene, 12 of which use volumetric lighting, one that just casts a shadow and 3 that are just plain lights that only cast shadows. Only two lights are 'white' lights, both of which illuminate Zin's face and body. The scene uses Z texture transparencies, ray tracing, volumetric shadow buffers and ray mirroring. The over all effect is that it takes about 20 minutes to render this baby at 1600x1200. Only Zin get's that copy thou, you all have to suffer with the half res version. };8p

Of course everything was done in Blender with the exception of the text and a little touch up in Gimp. Over all project time, approximately 35 to 40 hours from start to finish. NOT HALF BAD AT ALL! :)

If you don't know zinemerald you should go check out his gallery, he's just learning but he has some totally spiffy stuff.

Anyway hope you enjoy the sh*t out of it bud, and Rave on Zin... !

PG };8>