why haven’t I noticed your post before? 0_o… I love it 
'nuff said
Ah the missing link!
this should join the other great work on top row, it’s amazing! Great stuff man!
cheers!
good luck on the contest, this is truly inspiring.
really nice work brettSinclair, the photo texture just adds to the realism
are you gonna finish it with a nice textured render?
this is amazing, really cool expressions, and the detail is awesome!
Hello Brett, great work. Much life in the expressions.
I hope this becomes also top-row.
Cheers
Ralf Stumpf
Amazing work :eek:
Really amazing work Brett… some of the best stuff I’ve seen. Everything looks very natural.
It’s my favorite entry from the contest and I don’t know why it’s not on the top row yet
All your facial expression so fantastic work small_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond really coolsmall_orange_diamond:D
You know what I think man - are you gonna texture and render him all up you mental bastard?
“Lord McGoat You know what I think man - are you gonna texture and render him all up you mental bastard? :)”
LOL you are awesome and so is your young bale!!
This bad boy Shia really deserves to be on top row along with the other amazing Z Brush works !!! :D:D
Man this site is full of great artists!
- Ty
I saw this a while on cg society and wanted to comment. This is a perfect example how the image references aren’t enough when making a portrait. You don’t ever have a real side photo or front for that matter, it’s always but for a milimeter at least to one side or the other, so you can’t ever grasp the pproportions and relations. I was all hiped up about image plane zpluging, and now I never use it. Instead, I get a LOT of reference, movies, photos ets., and observe them whil sculpting, not even the base mesh over a reference. Hope this helps, good work though overall ;)
cr
Very nice expressions! Love the feeling, kind of right inbetween realistic and exaggerated! How did you create the hair? Is it Maya hair?
The results are in 
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=773595&utm_medium=plugblock&utm_source=cgtalk.
Thanks everyone for the support and votes. Its really appreciated. It was a lot of fun taking part in the challenge. It was also my 1st one :D.
wizz: Thanks man. I hope to get back to finishing Shia with textures soon.
Intervain: Thank you Miss Dadela 
I loved Meph too. I feel theres a lot of life in him. I don’t know why but I like his flirty emotion best. hahaha.
Ville: Haha. Thanks man
aesis412: Thank you!
euge: Hey man. thanks for the kind words. Yup. I’m hoping to add a texture and nice render for him.
manzarek123: Thank you so much!
stumpf: Hi Sir, Thank you for the kind words. Your creations always put a smile on my face. I really like the minotaur you did recently.
Ducard: Thanks man
undoz: Thanks Andrei. Your new girl is friggin hot man. hahaha.
tokio: Thank you! It was a real challenge to do them. Thinking about how muscle stretches over bone or wrinkles up. Was really fun to do.
Lord McGoat: HAhaha. You crazy man. Next up: anatomy challenge. I’m up for some ass kicking from you. haha. Young Bale is an awesome awesome entry man. Well done. It deserves more attention.
Tyrone M: Lol!
Disco Stu: Hahaha. Thanks buddy
cherub_rock: Thanks for the crits and comments. I agree with what you say. Its really tough to get the ref you need from any arb pics off the net. Though I still find the imageplane really useful. Its also my 1st time using it. I wanted to try a different method this time round. I ended up screen capping a lot from transformers. My biggest problem was relating an expression with an emotion. on a still image an expression can read many things. But in live footage or animation the emotion comes accross clearer.
Gaarder: hehe. Thanks man. The hair was created using shave and a haircut and rendered as hairprims in mental ray. Nothing fancy.
fantastic work indeed!
Congrats on the win Brett, this was in a class of it’s own.
congrats again - well Top Row already? give the man a medal
btw. Flirty because it makes him irresistable
yeah ! congrats on the front page Brett
as i all ready say : " you are the MAN ! " 
Congrats Brett, well deserved win! Time to put this sucker on the top row! Happy for ya bud!