well here it is the final image:) I love how it turend out hope every one likes it:)

The Story
The man and his loyal animial work the feilds, and keep the farm running. They both care for each other because with out each other they would not be able to function as well as they can if they help each other. The farmer cares for his animial in every way he can. You see him here fileing the toenails of the creature. He does this with great respect for the great animial. The creature looks on at the farmer with thanks for takeing care of him with such care and love. For they both relize they are stronger togther then apart.

Inspiration
I grew up around horses and have a great respect for animials. So I wanted to make a scene that convayed this. I also really like fantasy themes and creature's so I blended my life experences with some fantasy aspects and I got this scene.

Tech Stuff
I used Maya 6 and photoshop to create this scene. In Maya I modeled with polygons, I did this because polygons I have the most experince with and I was comfterbal with creating imagery using polygons. I textured most surfaces using textures I created in Photoshop. I rendered the final image as a hole because I was confident my computer could handle the scene. The final render took eight and a half hours. Then I did some colour balance and touch up's in Photoshop.

I really love how the scene turned out, I hope you like it to.

here is the comparison before and after colour balance. I really like how it turned out!

here is the scene right from maya. I rendered with just maya software render. hope you like it:)

here is my latest render test I am getting really exited now about how this is turing out. hope you like it. agian any comments would be great, I have to turn down the reflictivity on some stuff but other then that I really like how it's coming:)

geting close i like the feel of the lights and how the scene is coming toghther. any comments would be great:)

here's the start of lighting still need more lights.

this is what the foot of the creature will rest on.

here's the finished leg model. unless I think of more to add. now to finish his chest then texture him up. lot's to do so little time:)

here's what i've got so far on the body still need to do lot's, but it's coming along nicley I think:) I'm pretty proud of this modle sense it is pretty much my frist serious attempet at a human. the only other human I ever did was just a head and it looked not good at all. Not like this guy:) his turning out great can't wait to place him in the scene.so ya! any comments would be great.

here is the rendered version so you can see how it really looks. Still have to do some minor changes here and there but pretty close. hope you like it, any comments would be great.