Finalizing

Due to the time I had to leave idea of exploring the fur shading and rendering features of the Maya. Each of those aspects requires much more time for investigation and could be taken as a separate brief.
I am still trying to make this picture look more aesthetic by retouching it in photoshop (adding some reflection, correcting the colors and etc.)

Ambient occlusion render

color render

combination of both

retouching in photoshop

Later on I want to paint some hairs as well :)