Been gaming since i was a little kid, and I've always wanted to make them. I'm from the USA, but I'm Canada right now in film school for 3D.
I was just recently reminded of this model that I did quite some time ago. The model was based on the beautiful actress Summer Glau, star of Firefly, Serenity, and more recently The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The original base mesh was done in Maya, then it was imported to ZBrush so I could test all the new ZBrush 3.1 tools and brushes. I did a bunch of things with it, poly-painting, HD Geometry, etc. I don't remember the poly-count, I'd have to check but I don't want to dig up the model again.