The last hippopotamus

Time for another update, perhaps the last in this small adventure.

The competition has finished and i was able to barely submit my entry in time :

You can see all other entries and winner here.

I was expecting to be able to work a little more on the lighting, textures and background but the deadline of the Christmas contest caught up on me, so at least i was able to post it on time at 21st December.I knew about this contest a week before it ended and used the contest as motivation to finish something.

This was actually my first serious attempt at sculpting and texture painting in Blender so, apart from the little hippo with cloth, the male head and female sculpt, everything was prepped in approximately  4 hours, and included in that was :
- Posing ; Texture Painting ; Sculpting adjustments for the female.
- Rebuilt the body for the male (the body and the feet/legs were modeled with a subdivision modifier) ; Texture Painting the body /Adjusted texture for the head
- Modeled / textured the star - did not finish this one
- Texture Painting the little hippo
- Started modelling the moon but had not enough time to finish it.

Although unfinished i will have to call this one done after spending almost every bit of free time in this project since August or so working on hippo variants, as you can check through the work-log.Time for me to move on to another project.

I also decided to release the related blender file and variants in which i have been working on these months through my blog, under this Creative Commons License :

This file contains the first model attempt (one more cartoon like, and  variants sculpted, it also has the "stork" and props (saddle ,staff etc..) dispersed over the blender file layers -3.6 Mb size.

This file contains only an intermediate version, the sculpted head and body with props - 2.2 Mb size.

The " Nativity Scene " - Careful ! High resolution Models ! 30 Mb total size !

I´ll be happy if anyone gets to use this work  that would be gathering dust otherwise - but do credit me if you use it, and keep me noticed of your efforts. :)

Cheers everyone ! keep on Blending :)