Orrery Progress Part1

Close-up on Mercator Atlas model:

Organic Modeling Exercise

Toon shaded:

Strange nut/seed pod thing.

Image composite

I made a bedside clock for the image composite based on the '80s animated movie Heavy Metal.

I still haven't figured out some of the nuances of setting the shadows on the invisible ground plane, but it turned out pretty well.
EDIT: After fiddling with different settings...I arrived at a final composition that works best for the surface presented in the background image.

Mantis Mirror Exercise

I ended up doing my own reference drawing for the mantis an kind of went on my own once I got the gist of most of the tut, so mine turned out a bit different from the one shown in the tutorial.

Quick animation of a half sculpted head.

Acorns.

I elected to use a UV sphere instead of an icosphere in order to ease unwrapping and texturing of the acorn body. There were still some seams present, but all in all it turned relatively well.

Bananarama