The dynamism, colour choices and all are so cool 
Against what is the ice thunder giant fighting ?
Oh! The brief asked for an attack or defend but didn't specify if it had to attack something, So I chose to show that emotional climactic moment when the giant is unleashing his full might and attacking.
I imagined the scene starting off with the camera focused on his face, and rain droplets landing on his face and helmet which works to set the weather and scale of his face in this scene. His mouth would be moving rather slow to a frown or a growl and then the camera rapidly zooms back to show his enormous size, with lightning strikes going everywhere and some lightning getting attracted to his antlers and helmet. In the background you can see lightning striking the sea etc. etc.
I'm also planning on placing a gate of sorts that he's defending as he doesn't want his faction to be attacked!
So I guess He'll be attacking to defend a gate, and his enemies are the other faction entries-- it's war!
In my headcannon this war is the result of a bored God summoning legendary creatures, heroes and heroines from any time, place or reality and pitting them against each other based on their elemental powers just to satisfy his curiosity of knowing which would be the best one! Bored Gods are dangerous beings as you never know what they might do next on a whim.
I will also soon give my champion the Lightning emblem to show his current faction!
So those are my current thoughts and plans.
The scene is so intense !
It's even better with that description you're making of it 
Why did I pick sea and a scene with endless clouds this is so much work lol
I'm also pretty terrible when it comes to painting scenes so I just hope I have enough days to try to keep fixing the mistakes I make.
Super epic !
Can't wait to see the finishes !
(and thank you so much for all the explanations before)
Wow! That's really cool!
Looks like the cover of an epic D&D adventure book already 
Looks cool and dynamic, good luck with the polishing ^^
You're doing great dude! Don't worry you can do this!! 
It's so epic!!
Dude, it already looks amazing !
You can do this !
Looking fantastic! That pose holds a lot of weight and power, it's really nicely grounded
thanks for the encouragement guys, I'm definitely hitting that exhaustion point, but i'm going to give it my best for the remaining time, add the vikings in the ships, and render out everything i change the sky and pretty much everything since last time. but I like it a lot more now, almost there!
I might change the position of his weapon so that maybe we can see the details more and make it so that he is instead getting ready to throw one of his axes.
But I've been feeling really sick this week and been busy with life but we'll see how it goes!
Amazing progress on this!!! 
SO I changed my character's pose slightly.
I'm gob smacked and wide eyed with every update, this looks so absolutely incredible
thanks! I didnt feel like the original pose worked well enough so today I changed it I think I got time!
Better get a shifty on, only three days left xD I'm really excited to see yours finished! Get so many epic feelings from it!!
That's a pretty massive jump in "slight change." But it's definitely an improvement. Good call.
Love the overall blue colour scheme. The mix of bright energetic blues and cold moody blues surrounding the champion adds nice variety. Hope you can catch up.
more updates, gona catch up soon and then i imagine on last day i'll do the final touches it was important for me to change the pose since i didnt feel like the other one was the right one and that's why i couldnt finish.
