Made cylinder,covert to edit poly and scaled down.
step 2 of 7
Made sphere and lined it up with base, delete the part you don't need
step 3 of 7
Made 3 spheres and adjust size to suit. arms are lines and nose was made with cylinder conver to edit poly and scale vertices to shape. Hat was made with cylinder con vert edit poly select top poly and scale then extrude. buttons eyes with cylinder
step 4 of 7
make sphere conver edit poly then use soft selection tool to pull it about
step 5 of 7
Make box then text and join together
step 6 of 7
place everthing in scene added camera and direct omni light and on omni light. adde snow system
step 7 of 7
Added materials. made plane for ground and background. rendered in mental ray