Andrew did some concept artwork to get the look down. The supporting "characters" are the street light and the background, grandfather-like tree.

Set up the eye rig yesterday. The eyeball needs to be recreated, obviously, I just put something in for now...

Finally the whole rig (except for eyes) are finished, I have to say this is the hardest tutorial I ever follow, it just has so many steps and details, plus the use of MEL script, any small mislabeling or wrong order, took hours and hours to debug. I took note on every step, hopefully the next rigging task will be much smoother and faster.

I happen to see the some production photo of Kung Fu Panda, it seems to me the rigging method of the Panda is similar with our main character (with sliced geo pieces parented to the bone), :)

No surprise though, because I've been following the lengthy rigging tutorial from author Jason Schleifer, who is recently promoted to the Head of character animation or the next film to be produced by Dreamworks, who produce Kung Fu Panda! Yay!

Shun