Haha, it's both inspiring and a kick in the ass to look at this caliber of stuff. Beautiful and technically incredible. Amazing use of texture space man, and flora, and color, and, well, everything. Hope you get a job soon or the rest of us are doomed ;)
Eek! A lot of replies =), thanks everyone! I've been trying a variety of techniques, it depends on what kind of rocks you want of course. Usually I create a tiling texture by baking out a sculpted mesh or even use crazybump for it, combined with a normal map painted by hand to get better geometry feeling and less…