Looking great John, when i saw this i thought u could add a nice bump map to the ground and show other creatures coming throu, i threw this we example 2gether, u could spend more time on it and get the skull sorta poping out and a claw or tooth sticking out, might make the ground plane more exciting, u could uses bump maps which wouldnt mean alot of modelling.
Great work thou, keep it comin
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