Misterboogie: I thought that was done..? Just cleaning it up a bit? I don't like how realistic that stone texture is in contrast to the cool stylized-ness heart/brain/thing centerpiece.
Just messin' around with making trees of metal..painted stylized...hopefully its noticable Im not trying to go anything near realistic. Im planning on adding leaves and a bush...then go from there...not sure yet.
In my limited experience w/ Maya it became necessary to start thinking in nodes the more complex a scene got. That's all a scene is in Maya is a bunch of nodes. They think they're so cool those fucking nodes. Paint job on a stylized head:
Davidson, thats awesome dude, is that captured from unreal ed? the slight stylization looks pretty neat. would you mind showing your material setup if it is unreal, looks like you have some cool fresnel action going on somewhere in there for the spec.