Made to the specifications of the GameArtisans.com 'Mini Judges' competition, this model is a 'chibified' character model based on the Judges fom Final Fantasy XII. The brief was to design a character based on the Judges, but with 'chibi' proportions - short and stubby with a large head and short limbs. The models were to be made to a maximum of 700 triangles and be textured with a single 512x512 diffuse texture and nothing more; roughly the limit for a model in a handheld game. My character model comes to 696 tris and took around 4-5 hours from concept to completion; the 512x512 texture was entirely hand-painted in Photoshop and took another 7-10 hours to complete to my satisfaction.
A turnaround video file(AVI, 4.2MB) was rendered after finishing, with texture filtering and antialiasing turned off to simulate a handheld console's 3D engine.