Hi, I've been a lurker here for quite a while now, and after seeing this contest I finally decided to register

I'm still pretty much a 'n00b' when it comes to 3d modelling, but I hope that with this contest I can finally finish something without abandoning it halfway through

this is my inspiration:
(note that I didn't draw it, I suck at drawing

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and this is what I got after half an hour modelling

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wireframe:
and smoothed:
and no rendering on pure black. -50 acme crime bucks for you.
its at about 720 triangles right now, so I still have some 280 triangles to play around with.
I'm planning on making him more asymmetrical, just going to add some mutations on him.
Ahh well, I really like the concepts, great stuff.
I'll try scaling down the body later today...
I want to zbrush him now for a normal map, but I have no clue how zbrush works...
I tried to zbrush it today, and I only found an 'add' and 'remove' brush, is it also possible to choose different shapes of brushes like in photoshop? (smooth, sharpen, star-shaped stuff, etc.)