As part of my application to a studio on the East Coast, I was asked to complete a terrain art test. The requirements of the test were to make a non-tileable cliff face with a projected normal map and a hand-painted texture.

I began by modeling the initial low-polygon mesh, then imported the mesh into Mudbox and completed a high-polygon sculpt. I then projected the high-poly mesh onto the low-poly in 3DS Max. I used the resulting normal map as a guide to paint the color map.