Have you always liked mystical creatures? The centaur tutorial covers all the aspects of modeling a realistic looking creature from start to finish. The tutorial is great for intermediate to advanced users and covers modeling the head, eyes, mouth, body and even his armour. It also shows how to build and maintain proper topology of your models geometry.

You will begin this tutorial by setting up Image planes to aid you in creating the correct size and proportion of the model in nurbs. Once you have roughed out the size of your creature you will dive into the world of converting geometry from nurbs to polygons and then polygons to sub-ds, as well as adding detail using many different modeling tools to achieve a very realistic look. This tutorial will definatly give you a good understanding of how to start creating your own high res models.