Yeh for 3a you can do select face centers like claydough says, or what I do is marquee select all of them and subtract select (Hold Control) the other faces.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.softimage.jp%2Fuser_case%2Fmgs4%2Findex.html&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Sorry for the machine translation, softimage says an English translation is on the way. It's a two-parter, hit that link at the bottom.
found this today: http://www.blendernation.com/2011/06/14/new-blender-quickstart-in-catalanenglish/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29 PDF: http://www.imatgedart.com/wiki/_media/serveis:formacio:blender:doc:quickstart_blender25x_english.pdf
There's a case study on Resident Evil 5 at the japanese Softimage website http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.softimage.jp/user_case/biohazard5/index.html&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=Shift_JIS
Sorry:( I think there is no English version of the web site. Using the Google Translator http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ja&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metaseq.net%2Fmetaseq%2F :thumbup:
The front sight is too big and the rear sight is too small: http://www.google.nl/imgres?imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Farmyoftwo.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AMp5k.jpg&tbnid=FnnwjhbaHlnvdM:&docid=eA1w8shxLijvpM&h=600&w=800
HI maybe you already see it, but i think there is a a couple of paid offers for UI in reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/gameDevClassifieds/?f=flair_name%3A%22PAID%20-%202D%20Art%20%7C%20Animation%22
Heres a War Cheif bust I have been working on based on the concept below, had tons of fun and learned a lot on this guy. http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/21/3a/d4/213ad419c0ab2ef2a715e1c2fe3ac1ca.jpg
interesting article on Gamasutra that talks about Leadership in the industry. Good read. http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/OliverFranzke/20140926/226504/So_they_made_you_a_lead_now_what.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+%28Gamasutra+News%29