Here's what I've been doing the last couple hours...
For my advance Maya class (129A), we are creating the cave troll from "Lord of the Rings" start to finish according to the industry-standard pipeline for creating characters. Our first assignment is to do a little visdev piece of the troll in Balin's tomb (or somewhere in Moria). What Courtney calls "the juice," Dave calls a "glory shot." This is what I've come up with so far. I'll finish the thing off tomorrow, and hopefully it'll be some kind of awesome... --L