animals of the serengetti- progress so far-digital models

This is the fisrt animal I completed. I bombed down to the early learning center in bromley and bought a load of very good realistic looking plastic animals which were very helpfull. i was really unsudre about doing an elephant at first but i think its turned out well for somone who only just started digitally modeling a few weeks ago!!

Im particularly pleased with this rhino

iev just started cracking on the wilderbeast.

I think the lioness has been the most troublesome so far because it has a very rounded face structure. I cant quite find it in my head how im going to produce such detail without going mad on subdivisions. This is by far not a finished model.I have been told by Jared about useing the point cloud information scanner to scan the face of the lioness in but i have a feeking it might be too small.

This is the first model I attempted. it was all going well. Until I suddenly discoverd how to add subdivsions and without knowing I went a bit mad and ended up adding hundreds of divisions thinking that it would make the mesh smoother but instead all that happend was I ended up with 5 times more detail but the model still stayed square and for some very irritating reason I can no longer find the lower polymesh version. So I might have to start again on this model. Lucky iev discoverd the smooth mesh option now which means I can render the model in smoth mode.