It's a wonder what a break can do!!!

After getting so stressed with the 3D stuff I took a couple of days off to unwind and it has done wonders to my work, I have gone back to the female model now that the muscle system is finished and I am flying through it. I went back to Maya and changed a couple of things briefly and then took the mesh into Mud. The below is the first pass shots and I will be doing the detail pass next, there are areas which need more attention such as around the eyes but that is no worry but I will use the freeze selection to keep areas i am happy with lower poly in order to give my poor PC a rest!!
So whats different from earlier attempts? Well the face is now far more delicate with a far better attention to structure than before, whilst I do want a fairly detailed model I do not want to head down the overly realistic look so some proportions have been exadurated such as the lips and eyes but this is a design decision to avoid the uncanny valley as this will raise more issues than I have time to deal with. Plus I do prefer a more stylised look :)