Research | Inspiration| Animal texture typography

Here I have found a tutorial how to make 3D animal texture typography.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/animal-textured-typography/

Final outcome:

I quite like this. I wouldn't have the 3D as emphatic as in this image, but the same similar style.

Here is another image I have found which is the style I would like to portray.

It is a 3D look effect. Im not sure who the artist is, I think it was made from a student actually.