As a part of our Animation class, we were tasked with coming up with a beast and a rider - with a backstory for both to inform our designs. This had to be completed in Maya and ZBrush, using Photoshop and other programs (like Mudbox) to create our textures.
My beast was a large, Komodo Dragon creature, with an elf-like, lizard warrior rider. This is what I came up with.