We had to make a character of some sort for my 3D animation class using Maya, and even though I never modeled before, I wanted to attempt to make the head of my favorite Gundam, the Burning/God Gundam. I then decided to just make the entire body and use it for the class. Yeah I could have made an original character, but I have a Burning Gundam model and I thought it would be interesting to transfer that in to 3D. This is based on the 1/100 Master Grade model and his shoulder cannons, chest, Burning Slashers, wings/corelander, and back calfs move so he can turn in to Hyper Mode
3D modeling is very intriguing to me...It's like a puzzle, trying to fit primitive objects to look like reference images without having awkward polygons. I love the special effect/lighting/reflectio ns, but all that prettiness is mostly thanks to the coders of the simulation :/. I enjoyed making this though and plan to make a human next.

Modeled and Rigged in Maya
Textured in Photoshop