Elephant sculpture (work-in-progress)

I've been working on this elephant sculpture off-and-on for a while now. And while it still has a ways to go, It's resolved enough to start showing to people. I still have to rig it and get some proper textures on, but then...

Just think of all of the awesome things you could do with an elephant!
You could build a house on it, you could paint it with a Sean Scully abstraction, trees could grow out of it's back, or a bed with sleeping housewives.
You could band it , or drape it in fabric, you could dip it in wax or gild it with golden polka dots or turn it into a sailboat, and those are just the obvious things!

But in the meantime, this is as far as I've gotten.

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I have eleven times as many ideas for things to do as I have time to work on them.
Sigh.

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