Sci fi Panels with Photoshop

Maxim

Hey was wondering if anyone could direct me to some good tutorials or techniques that I could use to help get these types of results. With my current workflow I would model all of this to a plane and bake out all the maps. I feel like photoshop would be a lot quicker in getting some quick techy type stuff into my scene. The best thing I have found so far is to use NDO to do my normal map first. Then use Xnormal to produce my AO and the complete the diffuse off of the AO.

Oniram

unless you want to model it instead of using photoshop, nDo is the way to go. not sure if this is the source you've found nDo from, but he's got a lot of great tutorials.

http://www.philipk.net/tutorials.html

J.D.*

Dawid Michalczyk, one of my favorites! Very inspiring artist and his detail work is incredible. 99 percent of his texture work is hand painted . Amazing stuff. The top image was started off as a model and you can read up on it here : http://www.art.eonworks.com/gallery/texture/3D_game_textures-200037.html#img