[ QUOTE ] There is almost no contrast on the thing. Everything almost appears to be made of the exact same material. It also seems to lack some Ambient Occlusion. And the normals don't seem to be popping as good as they could be (which makes the AO that much more important in this case). It also looks like you have…
I modeled it in Max using Powernurbs. Ashley got emails every once in a while to make suggestions, and I could easily work his tweaks into the geometry. The factory used the nurbs data to output 3 prototypes, all collections of those small bits in the screengrab. They assembled the prototypes and Ashley handpainted one of…