I looked for Velvet on Flay... apparently its not available anymore.
Not to give up hope, I ve been playing with the presets in lightwave. this is what I came up with so far.

that looks kool :) nice work

thanks, well it took a bit of doing, and the model has started to really bog down my computer (I really need more RAM). But I basiclly finished modeling, I think I may work out a endomorph or two, I was thinking about building a skeleton for it. I may not, just because my system is not liking the stress too much.

Here is the latest. think there is anything that I could improve?

Yep - a long, lolling tongue to add to the 'cute' cerberus effect ;)

I remembered the site

www.happy-digital.com

thanks for the address. Ill try it out.
Till then...update;)

From what we can see it looks awesome but can you show us the back of it? Maybe add a few lights?

Maybe building a small scene for him as well would be nice. Is that a chu toy you have in his mouth there?

Here is a scene I cooked up tonite. Think Clifford the big red dog/cerberus.:p

note this is with the velvet plugin.

I love it! Nice composite. Never thought of him being that big, but ah well!

A little overcaster would make it better.

LOL! i dig it!!! some hdri rendering would do wonders.

oops

Thanks for all the support. One thing I didnt model very well was the dogs butt. I didnt have any reference pics and of course I dont generally look at dog butts. I thought about looking on the internet for pics, but then I realized that If there is a web cite out there, that has pics of animal butts, I dont want to know about it.

I was playing with SasLight and I was able to get it too work(Reduce pollys by lots) If I ever rebuild this, or the next time I need hair or fur, Ill keep the poly counts low. In the immage you can see there are a few holes in the mesh (and your looking at the good side) Thuoght Id post it anyway for th e entertainment value.

HDRI?

Cerberus' Clues:p

time to get some of the contest requirements out of the way.
Link: www.mythicalrealm.com

I actually dont have any concept art. I usually think about what I want to do for a long time (acouple of days -- I dont need to think at my day job) and then I gather as many reference pics as I can and then off to modeling.

Here is a wireframe, did I forget anything?

I was thiking of using the Schoolbus scene for my final, any comments?