Mmm... What I did with this one was.. found a nice side shot of a giraffe and used it as a blue print for my model.    I also used the same photo for my texture map.  I did it backwards from normal I guess.... I loaded the image into Blender.. and then UVmapped my model to the photo.   I had to "cut and paste" on some of the front and back faces (ie the chest  with the visible seem, also the face with turned out ok.  )

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