First Blender work

BlenderGuru Christmas 2013 competition entry

Done entirely in Blender, even post process composition

partial texture manipulation in Gimp and Photoshop

Cycles render 4h 23 min (1500 samples)

Oops I forgot to credit Debaleena G. for the character design

Sorry  DG, and thanks for the design :)

Mental Ray Render (Maya)

Done the texturing(material), lighting, rendering in Maya Mental Ray, and composited in Photoshop

model downloaded from: http://www.3dmodelfree.com/, the textures were provided

Attempt at speed painting :P

First attempt at speed painting with a wacom bamboo tablet..... yikessss...
Roughly 5 hours.... 

As yet this is the only (certified) accomplishment of 2013 :P

Yet to post some work  this year (2013) ..... hopefully should have something ready in another month or two....