Cheap: It's certainly not going to be just grey, I'm just sketching in shapes and volumes for the armour at the moment. Vassago: Nah, bits of photosourcing in there as a base, but the majority is painted. I did a 100% painted one yesterday night but I didn't like where it was going so I reworked it this evening.
i guess it's the bevel and emboss you used, not a dropshadow, my bad. but it's too much... makes the color material look way too thick, more like hide than paint. let some of the wood-grain show through the paint. make the scratches go into the wood - showing the brighter inside of the wood, not just the outer wood…
hi man, that last one I took a shortcut- I mudboxed bits of him and baked out some lighting as a base, but still I painted a lot of bits by hand. I'm really liking it, infact it makes my ambition to do a short animation come back to life.. one thing I liked was making the entire texture look like one material in photoshop,…