Hey Folks... I'm a UI artist in the game industry. I've been really interested creating medal icons in 3D for some time. I've used a couple of techniques trying to achieve this, but in the end it's really arduous and time consuming to do. In a production environment, I usually time out have to hand render them all. Daniel Theiger uses substance to make these kinds of medals and as a production solution, it seems like a viable technique.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oEO6wAre there any tutorials our there for this technique specifially? There a lot of traditional type of tutorials, but I haven't found anything specific on this topic.