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I've been doing the Modelling Bongo tutorial over at Enrico Valenza's site. As far as Blender tutorials go [the limited number I've seen so far anyways], it's pretty good. The images relate well to the instructions. There are some things that didin't seem to work for me, but all in all my Bongo turned out pretty well.

It took me about 10 hours to complete the model and I had a few difficulties along the way, particularly with the mouth. By the time I got to the section on making the inside of Bongo's mouth, I realised Enrico's model had more vertices around the mouth than mine did, and therefore building a tongue was kindof hard. But it's all experience right?

What I got out of the tutorial was mainly much needed practice and usage of Blender. There are now a few shortcut keys [Extrude - E, Merge Vertices - Alt + M, Joint - Ctrl + J] set in my brain. And moving around a model, quickly switching between object and edit mode and selecting vertices is all really easy now. The Blender interface is becoming second nature, and it feels good.