For the past few months I've been doing very regular live streams on the Blender Studio channel and I am enjoying it a lot!
So here's a little update on the creation process of "Snow". Tomorrow there's the next live stream at 16pm CET, like every week :)

Before the shading I wrapped up the retopology live. Here I tried to keep the topology as low as needed, making an efficient polycount as opposed to a generically safe one like I did with other characters.
Here are the results of that:

There have also been a few UV unwrapping live streams in preparation to the shading.

The character will be made freely available when finished under the CC-BY licence for anyone to use.
Until then I hope you will join me in creating this character :D
  

Forgot to post an update on Rain last week!
I continued to upload the individual project files of the character creation onto the Blender Cloud until the first batch of tutorials is ready.
I'm almost done now and will release them real soon! :D
Here's a look at the new stuff. More on the Blender Cloud!

First off I uploaded the .blend file for the individual steps of creating the body sculpt and all existing cloth layers and the mix between them to find the best outfit.

After that I cleaned up the expression tests a bit more. Here are all the final ones side by side:

You can find the .blend file on the Cloud as well with the original, refined & final (asymmetrical) sculpts. I also included some annotation layers for guide-lines on what I did for each expression and simplified versions of the important facial muscles.

Next up I'll hopefully post about the first chapter of tutorials being released!
See ya soon :D

In the following weeks while finishing the Blender 2.8 Character Course I will upload the individual stages of the character creation.
Here's the first one with the original head sculpt of Rain:

I also went ahead and uploaded screenshots of the original variations of the head sculpt to find the final design, as well as the .blend file containing all the sculpted meshes.

Check them out on the Blender Cloud if you are interested:

More on the body sculpt and the original outfits soon!
Cheers!