This set of tutorials should give you a overall idea of the process of character creation.
It does not go into technical details of the sofware that is being used, but should give you ideas and suggestions of different tools and methods in the process.
This is the process I used to make characters during 2009, this means most tools have been updated and Zbrush now has Decimation Master or GoZbrush, while max has an improved UVWUnwrap process.

Paper model - VW-82 Volkswagen
Scale: 1:18

Paper model - Hispano Suiza Coupre 1934
Scale: 1:24

There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and javascript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. This book is about the latter of the three.

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