thanks Duncan! there's a side by side picture showing the zbrush render and the photoshop paintover here: also some wips of it too. http://www.ericspitler.blogspot.com/
Based on the Velocity splash screen. 3000 ish triangles at the moment, diffuse texture is 1024x1024 is made using photoshop vectors but outputted as a bitmap.
Looks great, but it's pretty monotone in terms of lighting. Maybe you could add in a few gradients in photoshop and play with different colours/blending modes?