Hi there,

now I finally finished the background for Captain Lysander.
His name is captain Darnath Lysander and he is he prior captain of the Imperial Fists, settled in the universe of Warhammer 40K. He became a great legend to all members of the IFs, as he survived over 1000 years lost in the warp - which basically was seen as impossible as he came back again Their greatest enemy is the clan of the Iron Warriors - traitors ruled by chaos.
My idea was to show Lysander as a noble, high class space marine smiling a bit about the trophy in his hands, a helmet of their hated foe. If one looks closely, you can depict the sign of the iron warrior clan on the helmet crossed with an X.

Lysander himself is made in an entire pipeline using 3ds max and mudbox which ended up in 5 mio polys. He is completely rigged, got some facial animations already and I am going to make some short scenes for my demo reel with him. For more info visit the Wip thread :
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=43&t=827230

The image is rendered in Mental Ray using Irradiance Particles and Importons, so no typical Gi/FG solution.
As promised in Wip section, I am now going to write a short maling of showing my workflow for this piece. I really hope you like it, it was a huge amount of work, but I finally hope to show Captain Lysander in a way that deserves him right.

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Just some additional images: