Been a little while. Took a little playing around to remember where I was and what I was doing.

I lopped out her body and yanked out the armature and other additions simply so I could decrease rendering time while I was tweaking her fur. At this point I think I've got enough of a clue to do decent fur, or at least fake it adequately.

This isn't a bad render at all, and this was with very little grooming and tweaking of the lighting. Mostly what I tweaked was the weight paint controlling the group that set the length of her fur. It seems to give better results than trying to tweak the density, which is the default.

This is with ztransp, some SSS (though I'll probably take that out because it doesn't seem to have that much of an effect when you're dealing with hair particles), and osa up at 11.

I'm thinking at this point I need to stop playing around with the fur and the materials. Both the fur and the materials are going to depend heavily on lighting and the angle of view, and until I've decided on a particular pose, there's no way to "generically" set that up. So I'll probably move on to rigging facial expressions and doing some more detailing. I might do genitals too... haven't decided yet.

Oh hell, who am I kidding? Of COURSE I'll do genitals, durrr.