all challenges ends thursday night right? and since this is the rebels, agree with xhastex ther, why not adjust and do deadline every friday night instead so it wont conflict with the weekly, for those who are participating here too. and since the is a topic already set in, and no need to wait for the winner to set it up, the next challenge be started, thursday midnight and to give everybody ample time to think and participate, and inviting more to join. so by friday morning, giving everybody a head start. just a suggestion.
eaglecaslte - thanks
xhastex - thanks too and yup, im adding the background. great update ther, good to see you;ve added depth to you image.could use a tiny-winy bit more addring contrast to the foreground beast.
thegurch - thanks. its a goodthing in zbrush, there are load of ways to rig or to pose them without importing them to another software. if your intentions are just to re-pose them. but rigging for animation, with my little knowledge is concerned, i think not. you could your ure zspheres created for the model to act as its bone and rig it, or the zspheres again as topology method then be as the rig and lastly, just masking method to move each parts. loads of ways.
here is my last WIP

added my bg, imported to photoshop it. painted the ground using custom brushes as added textures and will continue with the rest. hope i get this done in time.
crits and comment welcome!