Try starting with a sphere and use the brush system in max to sculpt it into place, worry about the topology later on

Sketchup is handsdown the easiest program in my opinion.

I always use edge extrusion but that's just because I find it easier to control, normally I would start at the feet.
This is only possible if you use reference, drawing or photograph, atleast in my c ...

Zbrush is nice.
I don't know much about the current development of mudbox.

Reminds me of the Teddy program from Takeo Igarashi
Looks cool

Seems to me that you are fighting with the technical side and not really "feeling the flow" using NURBS, I suggest you use polygon modeling for a start

I believe it's a Japanese program tall Teddy.
I can't post URLs so look for the name Takeo Igarashi.

I believe you are looking at Zbrush here

Sketchup ?

The Greeble plugin is almost synonymous with max.
Thanks Klankster

Thanks Andyba, that was quite a while ago back in 2007

Yes Andyba, but I wear specs in real life.
You can see more of my work [url=http://www.bracercom.com]here.

This project is complete.

These last few images conclude Project Evangelion:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g29/Bracerjack/08-Eva-02-Modeling-Step.jpg

http://www.bracercom.com/gallery/offici ...

This Work in Progress project of mine had been going on for a while now but I found this thread and decided to put it here also, comments are very welcome.

This project was created to pay tribute t ...