Your normal is looking pretty good! Take a copy of it into Crazy Bump and paste the normal in. Now, take the default Diffuse that is generated, and paste it in a new layer set to overlay at around 50% opacity. Now, fiddle with the Ambient Occlusion sliders (usually 100% power, 10% lighten, and mid 90's% detail) and…
Neglected posting here for a while but here is some of the progress on the BNI project and I'll also dump some wip stuff on a concept vehicle. I seem to have lost a lot of confidence in pushing past block-out stages lately, mostly from lack of real understanding of 'what to do next', just need more practice really, I have…
Looks nice, but indeed you're not quite there in terms of nailing the 3S style. Things that stick out to me: -Outlines look pretty unrefined. It looks like you've attempted some anti-aliasing, but for the most part those attempts ended up turning into pillow shading and a layer of banding inside your outlines. The bottom…