lighting, more textures and a new head 
posed the character, started adding fathers to body.
looking good! 
hope to see more soon.
most of the modeling completed, tail could be better.
Nice. Mabey some glowlines line the ones in Andyâs âCreature Factoryâ?
texturing finished
Now heâs casting a huge shadow on the earth! Is that what you want? It makes the earth not look as real IMO.
yep, thatâs deliberate, I was trying to give the image a seance of scale.
Maybe itâs the DOF then. Something about it makes it all look very small. When youâre dealing with objects at this size, would there be an appreciable DOF blur? I mean, if that bird is that big, then the camera could not be very close to it, meaning that the DOF range is going to be in the thousands of miles. Try doing a render with all of the objects in focus and see if it doesnât just look naturally bigger.
actually, the original reason for adding the dof was to draw your eye towards the tallons and head, as i found that my eye âwanderdâ raerrther alot. anyway Ive turned down the DOF, the blur on the wings is motion blur.
shadow
or no shadow
I like the second one better, but you probably knew that.
That is so cool!