Great the advice you've all shared here, its all been a great help! Last night I had an artist message me, asking for a bit of an update on this stuff. I'm far from the expert of any of this, but I ended up going in enough depth in my reply that I figured I'd post here also, for any new artists stumbling upon the thread.…
Haha, add me to that club aswell! What you'll notice when you compare the old and new works of Orb, is that the style has changed quite a bit. Whereas your wall looks more similar to his earlier work. It's very sharp and crisp. If you look at the Throne it's much softer and it doesn't look as overworked when it comes to…
It's tricky, definitely. When I did that one, I had no idea
how to go about it. My strategy was just to bake out every kind of map from
xNormal and a lot of ZBrush matcaps and fiddle around with blending modes until
I found something I like. It took a lot of trial and error just to get to that,
and the final result is an…