Hello All! 
I am looking forward to this contest and seeing all of the great work my fellow creatives will produce.
I'll be posting my WIP pics shortly. 

Good Luck!
--DRLarkin

OK. My goal is to have a submission for each of the 5 categories.  That may not be realistic so I have set these priorities:
Stylized - Animation
Realistic - Animation (hoping to compete for the best digital double with this one)
Stylized - Design
Realistic - Design (hoping to compete for the best digital double with this one)
AccuRig

Stylized - Animated

This character is based on a real life person that I had the privilege of working with many years ago.
Linda was a fun, fiery, Italian and a joy to work with.  At 75 years old, she saw herself as the sexy 25 year old flirt she once was.  She often said things that would make any Human Resources manager blush!
She didn't ride a Harley or have tattoos (that I know of) but they very much fit her personality. 
I went with the stylized look to reflect her fun and playful personality.
We miss you Linda!!
Where I started: 

My first take:


Added tattoos and stylized hair:

I almost went with a Barbie style for Linda.  No idea why because she is so unlike Barbie!  If they had lunch together Barbie would leave in tears feeling she wasn't a real woman.
I settled on the Harley ("Harley Davidson Motorcycle "EL OHV V-TWIN"" (https://skfb.ly/oHLTJ) by matias_romero is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Decisions, decisions...

For my Realistic Animation submission I am playing around with shadows. 
 Nothing like this but here is a sample from my testing...
This screen shot is from UE5 but I have achieved the same effect in iClone8.
The foot shadows don't line up with my actor because I used a static mesh for the shadow (and therefore can't change the pose).  This was a proof-of-concept exercise not a how-pretty-can-I-get-it exercise.
--DRLarkin

Poses I am working on.  Lots to do still.  I haven't even touched lighting.

I've been absent from the forum for too long!! 
I had a personal goal of submitting to all 5 categories - knowing it would be a stretch.  As of this morning, I'm down to 3 categories and starting to feel behind on those (technical issues). 

• Stylized Render
• Stylized Animation (really enjoying working on this one)
• Realistic Animation

The learning curve has been a bit more than I anticipated. 

• iClone 8
• Live Link
• AccufFACE
  
• Crowd Sim
• Building Gen
• KeenTools FaceBuilder
  

For Building Gen I spent a full day on this thinking I could use it for some of my work but the setup / configuration appears to be time consuming.  Once setup it looks easy to use but I decided not to spend the time on the setup.  Hopefully, I can get reset on the trial version for later.
I am impressed with KeenTools and am hoping to leverage it in order to compete for the Digital Double prize.  However, my Blender skills are pretty weak so that may be a hindrance. 

• ZBrush
• Substance Painter
• Marvelous Designer

--DRLarkin