awesome 7 minute animated short by Pixar for the release of Wall-E on blu-ray/DVD http://www.filmofilia.com/2008/11/17/wall-e-concept-art-and-burn-e-short-film/
Just saw this on PCGamer http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/04/17/what-is-league-of-legends-supremacy/ I love the second idea of making it a dungeon crawler! would be awesome!
His "math" is ....er... interesting. 5 = atonement 10 = completeness 17 = heaven. OF COURSE!!! Seriously though...his math reminds me of Jim Carrey in The Number 23.
You can load mipmapped TIF and EXR Files with mentalray. They can be created with commandline tools. https://elementalray.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/texture-publishing-to-mental-ray/
Animation Mentor is holding an hour long webinar with Riot Games animator Skylar Surra on May 17: http://www.animationmentor.com/resources/webinars/animation-webinar-sign-up/
Also depending on the surface shape, you might try SlideKnit. https://simonfuchs.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/tutorial-adding-detail-to-your-highpoly-objects-using-the-slideknit-script/
This would be a good topic for Tech-Artists.org. A good amount of riggers there. A search should also net you some gems. http://tech-artists.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=17
Of course. I ordered from http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ and to link to the exact model which I modified http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexIV-17/ About the brand I cant say.