1. Original sketch, made at about 2am.

2. First wing design, abandoned.

3. Second wing design, also abandoned.

4. A whole bunch of further wing designs, all abandoned though the final was based on a simplified version of them.

5. Segment of the caterpillar, almost the entire model consists of altered version of these.

6. Body of the caterpillar.

7. Shaped body of the caterpillar with head.

8. Caterpillar divided into pieces for unwrapping.

9. Smoothed caterpillar

10. First design of the harness

11. A skeleton for the caterpillar. It was dropped in favor of using deformers

12. A shot of the whole scene with all the junk turned on. I tend too keep everything, even the bits I no longer need. I also make duplicates at various stages of the modeling process for safe keeping. It all goes into a ‘junk layer’ which is usual turned off to keep all that out of the way.

13. Shots of the finished model

14. Initial render before showed me a better way to light it.

Finished product [link]