you can see the complete turntable with close up, distance shot and wire on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32HC2gYH95o
The new cycles strand patch was used for the fleece hair.
for the wool texture I used partly the same technique that Joshua Maule used in his elephant tutorial, and will upload it later on to blendswap
The character is part of a pilot project I'm currently working on