Nice! I take it you're using a symmetry modifier after either a fine mesh or a turbosmooth modifier. You might want to smooth after the symmetry to avoid the kind of seams you see on the spine and back of head.

Oh its turbosmoothed. But the reason you see the seam is cause I didn't weld to the two halves yet. And yup, working with an instanced clone so I only need to focus on 1 side of the model. ^^

Yeah, I do mine the same way, except with a modifier instead of a clone so I don't have to worry about welding it. You're much better at this than I am though.

I dunno about that. You have done a lot more posing and even gotten into expressions with the face n stuff. I have yet to try and of that x.x

Right, but I built my dragoness model kinda wierdly, so now I'm probably going to have to go back in and redo the breasts, possably scrapping the texture data.

If you're new to posing and expressons, my advice is to avoid specialized bones, especially in facial features. Use one bone for the jaw, and do the rest of the face with morph targets, with the morpher modifier BEFORE THE RIGGING MODIFIER. I learned the hard way on my gryphon model.

Actually, since you're using 3ds max, would you be interested in some of the figures I'vee done recently? I can send them to you if you want (although if you want the gryphon file, you're going to have to re-link the texture files manually, as I did it before I started keeping all of a models data in the same folder as the model.

Iv run through a few rigging tutorials with my last fox model. So i did manage to figure out how to pose them and what not. But not the face. What is that you were saying about doing the morph targets before rigging? can you explain that more?

The jaw, modeled open, can be moved with a bone, but for finer things like lips, eyelids, and non-facial features such as tweaking the shape of somehting, you can use a 'morpher' modifier before whatever modifier you're using for rigging (skin, phisique, ect.). To use the morph target thing, you add an 'edit poly' or depending on how oyu modeled it, 'edit mesh' modifier before the morpher modifier (with it deactivated), and then activate it, select a morph slot, and hit 'capture current state'. Name it, and than delete the editing modifier. The model will revert to what it was before the edit, but the value in the morpher modifier will switch between the origonal and saved (edited) state based on percentage. It works for any non-rigging shape change you need. I can give you an example if you want.

Ah! Interesting that actually kinda made sense. Well, when I get around to needing to do that, and I will probably texture it first using a UV unwrap method, I may have more questions. I will probably follow a tutorial on it first to get a better grasp of it. ^^

Meh, usually just testing stuff like that on a cube works to get a grasp for how it reacts. Texturing it before any kind of rigging is a given.

Whoo, cute butt. :D Nice job on the back too I think.

*blush* hehe. I think the rear needs a bit of work as does the tail still, but thankies!! And you like the back? I was thinking about toning the detail down a tad. I actually don't want my foxy self to be too muscular.

Oh up to you on that one. Hehe. Doesn't look too muscular to me, just toned. I like how you fit the shoulder blades in there though, those can be tricky, at least for me when I draw.

Ya heh, i had to use a lot of references to get that look. Still lots of work to do. xD

*cracks the whip* You and me both. I've been trying to set aside 30 mins a day EVERY day lately to just draw something. I'd let you know how that is going but it's only day 2. ;D

Eeep wip! Hehe, silly foxy. But I like your drawing. I may try and work on the hand tonight heh. ^^

But, I am looking forward to seeing more stuff from you!