3D Maya Model- Sackboy- FINISHED!

 Hi everyone! 
   
Finally, with so much going on, I managed to finish the Sackboy model. I'll probably add some normal and bump maps and other stuff once I learn about them =)   
 
Without further ado- here's  my baby:       

The Zipper

Hands

• which direction this blog should go in (what to change, format, more picture, less pictures, more video etc.)
• what would you like to see me do next (in this case rigging and animating or detailing and texturing)
• tips and tricks from you guys who do this better then me

 Hi everyone! 
   
Finally, with so much going on, I managed to finish the Sackboy model. I'll probably add some normal and bump maps and other stuff once I learn about them =)   
 
Without further ado- here's  my baby:       

The Zipper

Hands

• which direction this blog should go in (what to change, format, more picture, less pictures, more video etc.)
• what would you like to see me do next (in this case rigging and animating or detailing and texturing)
• tips and tricks from you guys who do this better then me

I had a bash at 3D stuff a while ago and it was a blast. I totally understand about staring at a hand for days (or an ear!) but I found plenty of tutorials online for simplifying the process and that helped dramatically. 
  
The only thing I can suggest is to keep the topology as simple as possible before applying subsurfacing, etc: it helps to keep nasty creases and anomalies during animation, etc. 
 
Sorry I can't be of more help, but so far Sackboy is looking good!

Great work! good going!

Awesome work! I'm gonna try my hand at this someday, but the part about staring at a hand for days scares me!

Wait, why are triangles bad? What do you have against Pythagoras, you bastard!?

Very nice, I'm also into the 3D making lately. Been working on 3D max for 3 months or so, I hear Maya is pretty similar 
Some of my stuff:  

" Wait, why are triangles bad? What do you have against Pythagoras, you bastard!? "

Dope dude, looks a lot better than when you first started.

" @Kjellm87: Hey, those are great! It looks so much better when you render everything. Is that the Zelda: Spirit Tracks train? I think I see a triforce in there.  
 Those aren't textured, only colored, right? Did you mess around with texturing and rigging yet?
Check some of the other stuff I did l on my youtube channel if you like.  "

  @Choi:  
It's pretty good I like what you did with it.   
 
The stuff that does stick out to me is that there seems to be a lot of wasted geometry especially on the zipper parts.  And if your going to use a normal map then you could definitely reduce everything to about the density of the legs.   
 
The arms are definitely off too, you should try adjusting them to look more like your reference image.   
 
Zshperes would have done pretty good for the hands but that's more advanced I guess.   
 
Since you have zbrush are you going to be sculpting a hi-res version of your model in zbrush and transfering maps in maya?  A great program to use for normal and spec maps is crazy bump, its free so and very easy to use.   
 
And as for tris they're perfectly fine for modeling, depends though if your making a game model or a cinematic model, whenever a model gets into a game engine it gets triangulated anyway.  But for what your doing quads are probably best.   
 
Well those are some critiques, great job so far I can't wait to see it finished!

Good job!
 
Hands are a lot less complicated then one might think. 
 
You get the poles (Five or more edges on one vertice) in the palms if you use zspheres2. If you use the original zspheres, it'll give you much better topology. They put zspheres2 in 3.5 so it's easier to visualize the shape, but the topology it gives you is crap.

The stuff that does stick out to me is that there seems to be a lot of wasted geometry especially on the zipper parts.  And if your going to use a normal map then you could definitely reduce everything to about the  density of the legs.  

 Since you have zbrush are you going to be sculpting a hi-res version of your model in zbrush and transfering maps in maya?  A great program to use for normal and spec maps is crazy bump, its free so and very easy to use.   

Just realised I can get 3DS Max for free because I'm at uni :3

that is pretty cool man. pretty cool stuff in there.

Awesome work man! Now you have to give it the final touches and present your masterpiece. Well done sir!

" @blackbird415: NICE! Now I know you're the person to ask when I come some texturing photoshop problems! 
 
@Jeust: Thx my man! "

I'm so out of practice at this point. Congrats bro, that takes dedication.

Very cool, dude. Good job. I'm impressed.

Nice job!
 
I am into 3D Modeling too (been using Maya lately, but I've tried my hand at Max before). It hasn't been long since I started seriously (A year or two), so most of the stuff I've done has been focused on inorganic modeling for video games (low-poly, high-poly and stuff).
 
I would like to see you texture the model next. I have always found it amazing how textures can make a model come alive :P

Man I really want to get into 3D modeling but I'm afraid that staring at all of these lines, squares, triangles, rectangles, etc. will make me go mad.
 
Good job!

@TheGreatGuero:

@artofwar420:

@blackbird415:

That looks fantastic. You should definitely rig the model.