Snow Leopard

Render of a Snow Leopard (2010) Modelled in Maya, sculpted and textured in Mudbox.
Rendered using Mental Ray, but used an old school light dome + a few fake 'bounce' lights rather than Final Gather as it was so much quicker. Standard Maya Fur for the fur. DOF was achieved in post with a depth map and lens blur in Photoshop.
More recently I've also used this model to create a 'lightfield image' shown in the video. This uses a hexagonal (or fly-eye) lens array on top of a specially prepared printed image to give a full parallax 3D image with thousands of potential viewpoints, with no glasses or special lighting needed.