Valkyrie girl - test pose

This is a render of a quick test pose I threw together of my "valkyrie-in-training" character model. It's part of an assessment task requiring a fully rigged, textured and animated 3d character. The limit for the assessment was 4000 triangles, and my model is at 3990.

Model sheet: [link]
Mesh without textures: [link]
T pose renders: [link]

This is the first time I've attempted to make a 3d character model from scratch. I used Autodesk Maya 2009 to do this. I kind of rushed through everything as I had many assessments due, so I intend to go back and redo some parts of it later.

The mesh took about 4 days to do, as I got stuck a few times on how to go about modelling parts, like the face. Rigging and fixing the weights took me about 2 - 3 days. Maya froze, crashed or magically reverted or mixed weights several times, but I found some scripts that really saved me.

The texture is rather simple and only took a day or two. I wanted to apply cel/toon shading but couldn't find any solid information on how to do it in Maya, so I just removed the lighting and maxed out ambience instead. There are specular and bump maps, but they aren't visible because there's no lighting.

I've still yet to name the character.