if thats your opinion, i respect that.  Enough of the talks start posting, if your skills is your rep, post something. 

Website, cost, software and demo reel or certification

I was not competing with anybody I really do not have the time for that right now but would have loved to if it was necessary, 
I am tied down with animation and technicals(coding and expressions) which is my main interest, I just wanted to give it a try, dont judge my rough work that fast my friend hopefully when the time comes i will give you so much to jugde, so good luck guys and i will be back to vote for the best. 

before I leave your competition thread alone, I am new to nairaland so I took some time to go thru the video and graphics section and I am impressed with grafidon for his comitment and support to other members, which is what we really need and not just the show offs and come to think of the fact you do this alone, you are really good and i know you will get there I just hope foreigners will not take you away from us.
I am  also impressed with resichild for his effort in trying to bring people together, which is a very difficult task but hopefully I believe you can do it and I really would like to work with you someday,  I  love your work sojigun the video on facebook is wow, and zpixel and so many other guys I cannot mention, also why is everyone hiting at kemjisuper,  please kemji pick up there software packages and prove them wrong or another way to go, if not modelling is to  look for motionbuilder or maya  and teach us real animation with maybe poser characters or stick characters(by the way that is what they do in schools such as animationmentor.com) you do not have to be good at everything my friend you can always collab with people from here or with people around the world depending on how good you are in what you do. who knows we might be seeing a more compilated ekwe dance with the moonwalk.   goodluck guys. Now let the competition continue before my head gets chopped off.

Did this today,

Saw this thread this morning and decided to give it a try, This is my attempt, it took me 5 long hours before giving up and i could not finish up on detailing and texturing  because I had a freelance stuff to finish for someone and besides there is no reward involved and I really have nothing to brag about,

work

I am yet to texture the eyes and body,  just rushed the eye so i can post,  i have not really had time still working on the rig of the previous character,

Yes, I used maya 08 for everything, i needed somethng simple and fast, i will start rigging and animation tomorrow or next, that is my specialisation cause i love scripting in MEL.

I am back been busy with some programmng classes and starting my new website www.spyemy.com , so where did I stop,

latest design

nice

skin attached

test render of the new skin shader in maya using mental ray vs a textured lambert render time 3 secs,   the lighting consists of 2 directional light,   I am actually working on the textures for the female character I posted above, so I am doing a lot of test renders for skin,hair etc,  check out the new maya skin shader passes,  this render is without the mental ray passes feature. it is mind blowing, just plain,  \. and the lighting i used is not even a 3-type fill, rim and object light technique  it is just 2 directional lights,  I will post the complete image and lip sync animation when I finish choa,

work in progress

my works in progress, I just rushed the leg so I can post it, hope to add more details, I am more of an animator than artist, render time 8 secs

Show case your 3d works here and tools you used

hi