This may be a dumb question but you said it's unlit? So the lighting in the diffuse is only for that particular shot? It seems almost like a 3D painting.
This scene looks fantastic. There's just something about hand painted art that just looks great. I love the painterly look and I think more games should be like this.
Very nice. I too thought it was the concept art. I noticed a couple of things: The angle/shape of her hand holding the lantern looks a little strange (it might be the same on the other one, but I can't tell from the angle) and I don't really like the colored circles on the lantern. It is a lantern, right? The lighting…
Gorgeous work man. I really like the painterly feel to it, it's a bit different from most handpainted texture work. :) But did you really need the 2k tex for the character? Also, that delish shadow on the girl, is that painted in/baked or from a render?
Yeah, I figured that would make most sense. Oh, I had hoped nobody would notice... :P I should've probably messed with the light a bit more to interpret it better from the ref. There's a small sliver of light hitting the left side of the face as well, you can barely notice... don't know if that's enough for it to be…