After zbrush drove me nuts I returned to a hand painted style for the shield. The idea was to create a Aldori Legacy Defender 2.0 (link) (2048 Diffuse only, rendered in 3Do) Next will be the gems and make it a little more "metal" as well as the other textures. (If some one has a nice texture for hand painted gems, feel…
Damn, that was fast. Looking good FairyDuck. One thing you might want to consider changing though is the red painted part, I actually didn't notice it at first (although I did just wake up a few minutes ago and my eyes are getting their shit together). Even so, on the concept there is a tremendous contrast between the…