thought i would try out zbrush

after it freezing and crashing and me not knowing how to save progress i got some displacement maps...

displacement maps applied to the left wing and all the bits and bobs
the resizing from facebook made the darker blue spiky parts not show up the same as they do on the full sized picture
this took an amazingly long 2 minutes and 18 seconds...
https://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...36_5753538.jpg


i refuse to believe it took 14 minutes and 53 seconds to get this far...
https://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...35_8020599.jpg
there were problems with the colour map being out of whack and i remembered arran having that problem with a boot, so i found his thread and disabled the catmull clarke surface and BAM render time shot up with a very very large preprocessing stage...

i don't suppose i could use render layers to get the displacements on their own and then shove a diffuse pass over it could i..?