http://area.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/details/4886/ Most of you might remember the amazingly nice piece MoP linked a few months ago, well the artist Marek Denko, posted a "making of" tutorial and it was a great read so I thought I would share. The only downer is that you need to log into Autodesk's Area site to view…
Damn, that guy loves to model. I was flipping through some of his other tutorials, and some of the buildings in the far-off background have every roof shingle modeled. For that matter, every miniscule crack in every shingle is modeled. Bump and normal maps are your friend. They'd also decrease his rendering times by 3000%.