Portfolio and Joining a Team

Hey all! Once again, I think it has been a while since last I posted anything on here. Just wanted to give a quick little update on what I've been up to.

Well, I have continued to work on that same goblin character I've shared with you guys the past couple posts on here. Mostly right now I've just been creating a low resolution model for the character, so that it would actually be usable in a game.

Here are a couple pics so you can see what I have modeled thus far. The boots still have yet to be optimized and cleaned up, and I still have to model the backpack, claw, goggles, and stuff, but he is coming along pretty nicely I'd say.

Front View

Rear View

I will probably go and optimize him a bit more, but like I said, he's coming along. :)
In other news, the video of the level I made a few months back, Windy Village, has officially past 3,000 views!! Woohoo! Here's a link if you haven't seen it already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS3ouX11Rzc

Now for some even more awesome news. Within the past couple weeks I have officially joined a mod team! What's a mod you ask? Well, basically you take an existing game on the PC; in our case it's a game called Crysis, and you and others will create your own content, modify (see where the mod part comes from??) it, and you can basically create your own game if you and the team work at it enough.
Before I say anymore, take a look at this trailer they put together a while back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNFeE8mIlxQ

Pretty cool huh? That was released in 2009, but they have made it even cooler, revising on it, adding new stuff, yada yada yada.
So the team has been working on this mod for a long time, like 3 years now, and they have done an outstanding job thus far. Very impressive work they have done. The role I will play in all this, is I will be creating, at first, some missile pods, with varrying sizes and such, then I will create something really cool. It's called battlearmor. Here is a link of a couple examples of some variations.
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Gray_Death_Scout
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Gnome

But yeah, so I'm going to be modeling out a set of battlearmor, that the player will use, while they are outside of the mechs (the giant robotic walking tanks). In fact, you see examples of a certain type of battlearmor in the very beginning and end of the video. Those little short guys (or short compared to the huge mechs!). And just to clarify, this isn't an actual job. I'm just volunteering for all this, as is everyone else on the team.
So yeah, that's mostly what's going on right now. I could share on some other stuff, but it would probably go on for a while. And... nobody would want to read something that long. Haha.
Hope you guys enjoyed this one, and check back for more, and I plan on sharing my thoughts on E3 (electronic entertainment expo), which is coming up this next Monday! It's where people in the game industry show the new shiny games that will be coming out, and where companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo announce new hardware and such. Phew. Ok. Done!