Hi all. I’m a new member, but I’ve been lurking about since I downloaded Blender about a month ago. Long story short, I “stumbled upon” Sintel… couldn’t believe it was made with free program. Decided that I had to try! And I’m glad I did, I’m having a lot of fun. I’m a photographer, so when I get a lot better, I plan on doing a lot of compositing and fun things mixing the two. But I also want to use it to create animations as well. I have been fooling around with stop motion for the longest time, so it’ll be fun when I get to that as well. But right now… I just need to get the modeling down. 
Here is my first model, it’s a little Alien and I plan on doing a really short Short with him. He’s not textured yet… I need to learn how to do that (so any tips or tutorials you guys know, would really help). I just applied a green material and messed around with the ramp, the texture probably won’t be the same at all. Tell me what you think please! I feel like his legs are a bit square and I can’t figure out how to fix it… His mouth is weird (pinched?). Um, I’m not sure in my topology is right at all. I’m not even really sure what right topology is… something about keeping as many right angles as possible? Just anything that you guys see I should probably fix, or know… Thank you!!
I have a whole scene planned for the little guy. I just “finished” him, and got excited and wanted to show everyone!