Very Natural Looking Render. You sir are a guru!
As a newbie, this inspires me so much! Fantastic! Such renders add up to Blender’s reputation so that its spoken of in the same vein as industry standards softwares like Maya etc
Great job here. Loving this emu Christmas character and the setup.
Respect. Blender just rocks now!
speechless work!
wow amazing work , I love emu 
wow raaly amazing 5*
Saw this on /3/ as well, looking nice!
Simply beautiful! 
solid. no crits!
Beautiful, how did you put the snow flakes in the fur?
Incredible!!!, awesome!!!, wonderfull!!!.. great work!
Thanks a lot everyone! I am pretty excited to see my emu on the top banner :D.
Nico_ To put the snow on the fur I modeled three flakes from icospheres and used the particle system and some careful weight painting to distribute them. I used the brownian force to lift them off of the surface of the mesh.
Nice! This is a clever one.
Hilarious render. Very impressive.
Outstanding! Great character, very cute.
Thank you for sharing your techniques.
Very nicely done!
wow wow… just perfect!
Amazing look!
Good strand rendering which nicely done with Cycles,
Warm lighting in Cold!
Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful. Thank you for this!