Wow, been ages since I posted on here, but still. The diffuse albedo for metal when using a PBR workflow is black. Always black, but the crap that builds up on it may not be. That said, certain types of tarnish (metal dependent) are still basically just metal that's been tinted - The tarnish or patina is generally too thin…
Voting with your feet. If you don't like it, then leave. Those are conservative views, not liberal, hope that helps. It presupposes that a person can leave at any time and no outside factors could come into play which is demonstrably false. You're making it sound like the boss asked him to make stylized characters when he…